IDG Contributor Network: How to get the most out of data, services in a multi-cloud world

There’s no doubt that we’re quickly moving toward a multi-cloud-dominated world. By the end of 2018, over half of enterprise-class businesses will subscribe to more than five different public cloud services.1 The pragmatic reality for the vast majority of enterprises is that their IT, and thus their data and services, will span multiple data centers and computing clouds. This will accelerate fragmentation of data and systems that have to be seamlessly integrated to yield their full potential.Despite the benefits promised by public cloud, most enterprises can’t realistically move all their data off premises for various reasons—because data sets are too large to move in bulk or because of other preventative regulatory, privacy or security requirements, for example.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here