Multi-Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud: Which Do You Need in Your IT Strategy?

By now, every business should be using cloud computing. This technology is no longer an emerging option limited only to adventurous early adopters - it's an everyday part of the IT landscape. Indeed, Flexera's 2022 State of the Cloud report revealed over half of organizations surveyed are planning to migrate even more workloads to cloud infrastructure.

This should mean that most businesses will be familiar and comfortable with the basics of cloud computing, such as the difference between public and private clouds and the pros and cons of each. But as more services shift to the cloud, the environment is becoming more complicated, and this may mean enterprises have to rethink their approach, move away from ad-hoc deployments and develop a more coherent cloud strategy.

What is hybrid cloud infrastructure?

Hybrid cloud, as has been traditionally defined, refers to cloud environments that use more than one deployment method. In other words, it consists of both public and private clouds in the same ecosystem, but delivered by the same provider.

Organizations with hybrid clouds are empowered to synchronize workloads between connected environments, manage processes over various applications and exert a higher level of control over resources and IT systems.