The document discusses the concept of multi-cloud, which involves using services from multiple cloud providers for enhanced flexibility and innovation. It highlights the evolution, advantages, and challenges of adopting multi-cloud strategies, emphasizing the need for effective management and security measures. The document concludes with key takeaways for organizations to consider when implementing a multi-cloud approach.

1. The Promise of Multi Cloud
Retain the flexibility to innovate

2. Plan of the talk
▪ Introduction
▪ Multi Cloud Vs Hybrid Cloud
▪ Evolution of Multi Cloud
▪ Multi Cloud as Modern Enterprise Foundation
▪ Multi Cloud Platforms
▪ Multi Cloud Challenges
▪ Considerations for Multi Cloud
▪ Takeaways

3. What is Multi Cloud?
Multi Cloud is the use of cloud services from
multiple cloud providers either through direct
consumption or through an abstraction layer
across various providers

4. Is It Hybrid Cloud?

5. Evolution to Multi Cloud
Federated Clouds Multi Cloud

6. Federated Clouds
• Federated clouds offered
promise circa 2010
• Few hyperscale
providers & many
regional providers
• Lack of reliable platform
& cloud economics
• Wrong use cases (one
application running on
multiple clouds)

7. Oligarchy of Cloud Providers

8. Towards Multi Cloud Future
▪ By 2020, most organizations will use more
than one provider - Rishidot Research
▪ A third of organizations work with four or
more cloud vendors - 451 Research
▪ Organizations already use multiple clouds,
they will do so even more in 2017 - Forrester
▪ 1,000 IT professionals found 85% of
enterprises now have a multi-cloud strategy,
up from 82% in 2016 - Rightscale Survey

9. Drivers For Multi Cloud
▪ Flexibility to innovate
▪ Shadow IT to mainstream adoption
▪ Better application platform abstractions
▪ Reducing lock-in risks
▪ Enhanced portability and application
lifecycle with containers

10. Modern Enterprise Foundation

11. Multi Cloud Advantages
▪ Flexibility to innovate rapidly with
right services
▪ Right platform for your workloads
▪ Geographic performance advantage
▪ Data sovereignty and compliance
▪ Price flexibility
▪ Risk mitigation and redundancy*
* This use case may not be cost effective

12. Multi Cloud Platforms
Platforms
Container Orchestration
Multi Cloud Management
Portable APIs

13. Multi Cloud Challenges
▪ Complexity in management
▪ Need to rethink security
▪ Difficulty in governance
▪ Cost risks in certain use cases

14. Multi Cloud Management
• Multiple providers +
multiple services =
Complexity
• Need for seamless
deployment across
clouds
• Programmatic
deployment options

15. Security & Governance
• Control over
security perimeter
across cloud
providers
• Single pane of glass
across multiple
services & multiple
providers

16. The Cost Factor
• Keeping control
over costs with
regular pricing
changes is tough
• Certain use cases
like HA across
providers are not
cost effective

17. Considerations For CIO
▪ Multi cloud as modern enterprise strategy
▪ Fostering a cultural change with focus on
rapid innovation
▪ Focus on controlling complexity and
managing security
▪ Cost control should be built into the multi
cloud strategy
▪ Plan for the skills shortage
▪ Playbook for multi cloud strategy

18. Considerations For Operations
▪ Single pane of glass across cloud providers
▪ Allowing developers to use cloud specific
templates for services
▪ Monitoring across cloud providers is complex
▪ Access control, bug patches, security
updates, etc. are complex and automation is
critical
▪ Establishing a programmatic provisioning and
deployment model simplifies complexity

19. Considerations For Developers
▪ Pick the right cloud for your application
needs
▪ Pick the right services for your application
needs
▪ Pick the right architecture to handle the
complexity of Multi Cloud deployments
▪ Abstraction is key but there is no platform
that can fit all your needs
▪ Take advantage of portable APIs

20. Takeaways
▪ Multi cloud is the foundation of modern
enterprises
▪ Multi cloud adds complexity and poses some
unique challenges in security and cost
▪ With right tools and abstractions, it is easy to
overcome the challenges and maintain the
flexibility to innovate rapidly
▪ Pick the right playbook for your
organizational needs

21. Coordinates
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