Concerns about vendor lock-in have given way to multicloud chaos for companies in the aggressive pursuit of modernization.
Consolidation within a single cloud is untenable for most enterprises, with individual business units demanding access to best-in-breed solutions.
“Intelligent decisions in the micro have manifested as a hairball in the macro,” Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting, said. “The winning strategy is starting to move towards moving ‘above’ the cloud by investing in and deploying metacloud or supercloud capabilities.”
Metacloud, supercloud or sky computing places a compatibility layer above various cloud platforms, providing observability, access and governance for storage, compute and application development and deployment, the report said.