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STEPHAN FABEL,
DIRECTOR OF
PRODUCT –
CANONICAL
he use of multiple cloud
vendors and providers
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within an enterprise IT
infrastructure, across
public and private
platforms, has reached
a fever pitch in the EMEA region. Made
up of one private cloud, which is either
operated by the business or managed by a
third party, and at least two public clouds,
a multi-cloud environment drives many
benefits for businesses in terms of cost,
innovation and reliability.
Cost efficiency is one of the biggest
draws of a multi-cloud approach, with
more and more organisations focusing
on balancing the economics of their
cloud environments. With multi-cloud,
businesses are no longer at the mercy of a
With the ability to ‘fail
test and incrementally
services – multi-cloud
businesses to rapidly ro
to customers, keep pac
and gain a healthy com
A multi-cloud strategy
and reliable application
principal cloud should f
can provide the flexibil
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