VMTURBO has published the State of Multi-Cloud Architecture survey report. Here is an excerpt from the survey report.
Executive Summary
Over the past decade, Information Technology has evolved at an unprecedented rate. Virtualization,
in all its various forms and schools of thought, is in many ways the keystone enabling this evolution.
Loosely defined, virtualization is the act of decoupling one entity from another entity. In our context,
it is the practice of decoupling logic from infrastructure and defining infrastructure behavior entirely
in software. Virtualization has introduced incredible efficiencies and economies of scale to the
data center, and created a platform for automation and workload mobility.
Over the past decade, Information Technology has evolved at an unprecedented rate. Virtualization,
in all its various forms and schools of thought, is in many ways the keystone enabling this evolution.
Loosely defined, virtualization is the act of decoupling one entity from another entity. In our context,
it is the practice of decoupling logic from infrastructure and defining infrastructure behavior entirely
in software. Virtualization has introduced incredible efficiencies and economies of scale to the
data center, and created a platform for automation and workload mobility.
Each wave heralds a new vernacular, which more often than not, takes root and spreads before the
field agrees upon a singular notion of its meaning.
Convergence, hyper-convergence, SDx, the list goes on - but perhaps no wave has engendered
and propagated more butchering than “cloud”: a word so nebulously vague and universally applicable
that any IT newcomer can apply it as a noun (the cloud), verb (cloudify), or adjective (cloud-built/
native/ready) with a high probability of passable usage.
and propagated more butchering than “cloud”: a word so nebulously vague and universally applicable
that any IT newcomer can apply it as a noun (the cloud), verb (cloudify), or adjective (cloud-built/
native/ready) with a high probability of passable usage.
The purpose of this report, The State of Multi-Cloud Architecture, Part One, is to establish a
baseline understanding of the present and anticipated adoption of various cloud formats, and to
explore both the approach and challenges organizations have faced in the endeavor. Analysts and
pundits contend that IT, as a whole, is en route to a construct called hybrid cloud. Though these
sources disagree in some aspects of the path to hybrid cloud - namely the rate of adoption and the
characteristics of adopters - they agree that it is an inevitable wave.
What this and subsequent surveys will strive to answer is, what is the truth? How are organizations
pursuing the path to hybrid cloud, how long will it take them and how much will it cost them? As a
starting point, we assume a bridge to hybrid cloud is a construct called multi-cloud.
To delineate between these models, a set of definitions is in order to ensure consistent and universal
interpretation of the data herein.
...download the full report from VMTURBO.com.
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