{"id":7704,"date":"2020-08-20T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/blogs\/the-art-of-decision-management-for-multicloud-strategies-part-one\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:28:59","slug":"the-art-of-decision-management-for-multicloud-strategies-part-one","status":"publish","type":"blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/blogs\/the-art-of-decision-management-for-multicloud-strategies-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of decision management for multicloud strategies – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This series introduces you to the art of managing the many necessary decisions for managing your multicloud environment.<\/p>\n

Why multicloud strategies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent years, cloud computing has become instrumental for companies of various sizes who want to undertake a major business transformation. Its flexibility, scalability, and high availability offer clear advantages for businesses to save costs, experiment with new ideas, and pursue business innovation.<\/p>\n

Certainly, individual global and mature cloud computing platform providers, such as AWS\u00ae Azure\u00ae and Google\u00ae can fulfill all common service requirements for any businesses around the world. However, the multicloud strategy is increasingly gaining traction from sizeable businesses across all major industries. A multicloud strategy can simply refer to the deployment of
\ndifferent cloud offerings encompassing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). These offerings could well be offered collectively by more than one cloud platform
\nprovider.<\/p>\n

Businesses that opt-in for a multicloud strategy usually lean on a handful of reasons—;the more popular ones being data sovereignty, user proximity, considerations for performance, reliability, and availability. For some other companies, it might just be a policy to avoid vendor lock-in. Regardless of which drivers prevail, businesses have to make many important decisions,
\nand in many cases, these decisions are not intuitive and straight-forward.<\/p>\n

 Decision management is instrumental to an effective multicloud strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The decisions associated with executing a multicloud strategy might center around target platforms, technologies, governance, skills, security, compliance, migration, and operations costs. While every company has its own unique context, the resulting multicloud strategy must address an overarching question for the entire organization: What viable options does the company have for cloud computing, and how should its pre-existing data center workloads be managed up against these options?<\/p>\n

Many different factors can influence the complication of addressing the overarching question for a sizeable company. The most common ones include:<\/p>\n