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Are more clouds better than one?

There's a lot of talk about the arrival of hyperscale cloud providers landing datacentres in South Africa. But brand loyalty isn't always top of mind when looking at specific workloads and your cloud architecture. How, then, do you pick the best platform and manage different services across multiple cloud providers?

20 March 2020

The last few years have seen increasing interest among enterprises of all types and sizes towards a multicloud strategy. In every industry, businesses are considering and implementing such strategies, virtualising their infrastructure, and selecting a range of cloud providers, instead of depending on a single vendor. However, multicloud isn’t for every business, and isn’t without its challenges, which need to be overcome in order to reap the benefits.

“Before embarking on a multicloud journey, take a step back and identify the desired business outcomes. Cloud isn’t a panacea to all IT problems. Teams should be making strategic decisions about the appropriate cloud environment to leverage based on the type of data in play, and the applications making use of that data,” says Rupert Brazier, country manager, Pure Storage. “Businesses need to build a holistic, well-integrated data architecture that aligns data storage, VMs and applications encompassing multiple clouds and on-premises to succeed.”

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