A multi-cloud strategy offers hardware, software, and infrastructure redundancy that optimizes fault tolerance and allows traffic to be steered through the fastest parts of the network. Different clouds perform better for different tasks, such as handling many small requests or fewer large requests. A multi-cloud approach prevents failures from causing significant service disruption by distributing services across multiple cloud providers. While storage is fragmented across providers, segregating file types to specific clouds makes files easily findable.

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May 5, 2015
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MULTI-CLOUDS?
Some people are debating whether to use a cloud service; others are debating how many to
use.A multi-cloud approach can offer not only the hardware, software and infrastructure
redundancy necessary to optimize fault tolerance, but it can also steer traffic from different
customer bases or partners through the fastest possible parts of the network.
CLOUD MIX :

2. Some clouds are better suited than others for a particular task. For example, a certain cloud
might handle large numbers of requests per unit time requiring small data transfers on the
average, but a different cloud might perform better for smaller numbers of requests per unit time
involving large data transfers on the average. Some organizations use a public cloud to make
resources available to consumers over the Internet and a private cloud to provide hosted services
to a limited number of people behind a firewall. A third type of cloud, called a hybrid cloud,
may also be used to manage miscellaneous internal and external services.
CLOUD FAILURES :
Catastrophic or widespread failures of cloud-based systems are not mere hypothetical
events. On August 7, 2011, Amazon experienced an outage at its cloud computing hub located in
Dublin, Ireland, apparently caused by an electrical transformer malfunction. On February 29,
2012, Microsoft's Azure cloud management system experienced an outage that adversely
affected users in parts of the United States and Europe for several hours. In either case, a multi-
cloud strategy might have prevented the failures from causing significant service
disruption.

3. The downside to using a bunch of services is, obviously, that your storage is fragmented,
but I'd argue that there's a benefit in that as well. If you segregate the types of files you back up
(and sync) with each service, you know exactly where to find them. For example, you'll know
your photos are on SugarSync and your music is on Amazon Cloud Drive. The other downside
is that you'll have a few apps running processes on your system all at once. For the most part
this should work just fine so long as you don't try to alter, say, your photos and your primary
work files at the same time. If multiple backup and sync apps are competing for resources, that'll
slow things down a bit, but this is a problem you should run into pretty rarely if your files
are truly segregated by type.
To conclude : From the operation stability stand point , multi-cloud strategy will certainly work
as redundancy and back-up plan for the business.