No matter what it’s called or how it’s described, it’s a serious problem that’s only
getting worse. As just about any IT team will attest, the days when data lived solely onprem
are long gone and never coming back. Instead, the vast majority of organizations are
adopting a data-dispersing “multicloud” approach.
The strategy makes perfect sense: Running applications and storing data in various clouds
allows organizations to operate with fewer IT resources. You can pick and choose the clouds
you want to use—public, private, or a mix of both—based on what each has to offer for
your business.
But there are also a number of significant challenges with multicloud.
Different clouds use different technologies, and the features found in one cloud environment
may look nothing like those in the next. There are potential management and security
implications as well, and there’s always the issue of data mobility between disparate and
incompatible cloud-based storage systems.