Broader horizons with a multi-cloud strategy

Cloud is not right for every computing scenario, but a multi-cloud set-up can help to square the circle in the dash to a consumption-based model for business IT services, writes Jason Walsh

Simon Sharkey, cloud and hybrid IT practice lead at Logicalis Ireland

Cloud computing, first viewed with a certain scepticism, rapidly became a mainstay of enterprise IT, but with costs rising with consumption, many businesses soon found that the public ‘hyper-scaler’ cloud, Azure, AWS and Google, were not always the right environment for every task.

And yet, who would willingly give up the flexibility and simplicity that the cloud offers? Infrastructure and service provider Logicalis Ireland proposes a solution: multi-cloud.

“When public cloud started to ...