A key narrative dominating enterprise tech discourse in 2024 is the rapid evolution of multicloud strategies.
What started as an experimental approach to distributed computing has matured into a critical business necessity, unlocking new opportunities while presenting unique challenges for enterprises navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape, according to Sid Nag (pictured, right), vice president of cloud and AI services and technologies, Gartner Research, at Gartner Inc.
“We are seeing an explosion in the adoption of multicloud — it’s been happening over time,” said Nag. “Two years ago it was 75% of organizations that were multicloud and we are predicting 90% at the end of this year. That begs the question: why are people going multi-cloud? Because workloads are getting more complex. The ones being moved into the cloud and the primary cloud provider, although they may have all the capabilities to service that workload, may not be best in the cloud.”
Nag and Dmitry Panenkov…