Multicloud Adoption and Partner Opportunities

Depending on the source, “multicloud” could be a mix of public clouds, or a combination of the elements we described in the introduction. Over at Cisco, “multicloud” means the adoption of more than one public cloud. And the company’s new report, 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends, finds that nearly half (47%) of organizations polled use between two and three public clouds.

(Hint for channel partners: The more clouds, the more opportunity for you to intervene. More than one-third (37%) of Cisco respondents are concerned about security in their multicloud environments. Thirty-five percent are worried about increased operational complexity. And a full third are fretting cloud cost management.)