In some ways, cloud computing has been a victim of its own success. Cloud-based services and infrastructure became so popular and easy to adopt that many organizations ended up adding multiple cloud solutions haphazardly and disjointedly. In fact, much of the so-called “shadow IT’ phenomenon was driven in recent years by business units selecting and deploying cloud services with little or no input from their organizations’ IT departments.
Even as many enterprises – through design or default – have become multicloud users, however, most also continue to run many legacy applications that were never designed for cloud deployment.
