Inexorably, the world has become a multicloud one, and it’s now widely accepted that any organisation actively pursuing a cloud journey – and that’s the vast majority – will have a strategy for deploying their workloads into multiple clouds. But there still could be some lingering confusion around this, so to clear this up from the outset, you’re a multicloud organisation if you’re using more than one cloud for similar IT solutions.

There are a number of contributing factors to multicloud adoption. Eugene de Souza, regional cloud and service providers lead, Sub-Saharan Africa, Red Hat, says multicloud in, for example, financial services, will probably be driven by regulatory concerns, as well as business continuity, risk mitigation and the need for high availability.