The increasing adoption of IoT, AI, and machine learning is changing the distribution of apps and data, which are rapidly being deployed at multi-cloud and edge environments. By 2022, Gartner expects more than 50% of enterprise data will be created and analyzed at locations like multiple clouds and the edge rather than centralized data centers. Multi-cloud and edge deployments are supporting critical new use cases, but organizations are currently facing considerable problems in achieving the transition to these highly distributed environments.
A recent global survey of more than 400 IT decision-makers shines light on the issues facing organizations as they look to support apps and data across multiple clouds and edge environments, while also revealing more about what organizations specifically look to gain from these deployments. Let’s start with multi-cloud.