The multi-cloud has evolved from other types of IT clouds. Of course, we already have public cloud, private cloud, enterprise cloud and hybrid cloud, but those apparently don’t describe architectures that really embrace the cloud.
Obviously, multi-cloud includes multiple clouds. So does a hybrid cloud. But when it comes to multi-cloud vs. hybrid cloud, there’s a key difference that’s nudging the market to focus more on multi-cloud.
Multi-cloud, by nature, isn’t one thing, but rather a series of entities that must be brought under centralized management.
A multi-cloud, on the other hand, makes no distinction between the kinds of clouds that you operate. Perhaps your multi-cloud doesn’t have a private cloud at all, and you operate everything on AWS and Microsoft Azure with a little bit of G Suite thrown in. That’s a multi-cloud environment.
