Multi-cloud is a reality for most IT shops today. According to the 2020 IDG Cloud Computing Survey, 55% of organizations currently use multiple public clouds and, for a variety of reasons, that trend will continue unabated. But creating a true multi-cloud architecture goes beyond just spreading workloads across public and private cloud platforms. IT leaders need to wrestle with issues of governance, compliance, workload/ data portability, security, and management, among a host of other challenges.
