Report: 78% of organizations have workloads in more than 3 public clouds

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A new report from Virtana found that 78% of organizations have workloads deployed in more than three public clouds, and 51% of respondents plan to increase the number of public cloud instances by end of 2022. As multicloud adoption grows, it's critical for organizations to understand the impact of migrating workloads to the cloud, create a migration strategy, and effectively manage workloads in a continues to avoid unexpected costs and performance degradation.

For most companies, 2020 was synonymous with the transition to the cloud. While most were already on this path, the overnight shift to "everything remote" has forced companies to accelerate the journey. 2021 unveiled the downsides of the cloud and the repercussions of suboptimal implementations, including skyrocketing costs and performance issues. As organizations continue to look to the future, 2022 is all about reinventing hybrid and multicloud strategies and processes.

Tool proliferation has also been identified as another challenge in managing multicloud environments. Research has shown that organizations use a variety of tools to monitor and manage different aspects of their complex hybrid and multicloud environments. For example, 63% of respondents use more than five tools for migration, cloud cost optimization, IPM, APM, and cloud infrastructure monitoring. This is not necessarily a problem as each of these tools provides a specific important function. However, the challenge is that if organizations can't consolidate data from all of these different tools, they can't get a complete, comprehensive view of their infrastructure. This lack of overall visibility creates gaps that can expose an organization to performance, cost, and other risks.

As the rapid march towards hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures continues, enterprises are addressing the challenges of migrating and managing these complex and dynamic environments. Unified visibility and simplified management are key to implementing and enforcing the cross-functional accountability and formal governance needed to control costs and risk and get the most out of the cloud.

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