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This wasnt the first major tech outage, and nor will it be the last.
In fact, outages occur regularly across the tech landscape, for a huge variety of reasons.
In the last six months alone,GoogleCloud Platform, AWS andMicrosoftAzure have all suffered outages.
Outages are also costly for organizations.
Theyll catch the eye of regulators too.
Regional Vice President Cloud for EMEA & APAC at Cloudera.
Thankfully, these cloud giants are relatively resilient and full-scale outages rarely if ever occur.
But recent history shows us that it’s fairly common for at least some systems to be taken offline.
But a multi cloud strategy comes with its own challenges.
Firstly, each of the hyperscalers platforms has its own nuances.
Its not possible to simply lift and shift data, workloads andapplicationsfrom one cloud to another.
This takes time, resources and specialist skills.
Multi cloud also creates data siloes.
Finally, multi cloud decreases visibility over data.
This amplifies challenges around governance and reporting as a single entity.
But on the other, it creates complex challenges fragmenting data and draining resources.
This enables them to drive value from data, no matter where it resides.
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