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Multicloud Strategies Must Evolve to Meet the Needs of Global IT Leaders

Mike Maney is a Cloud and Developer Strategist at Akamai.

Are your applications and workloads as globally distributed as the customers and employees who use them? Can you meet data sovereignty requirements if you still rely on a geographically static, centralized cloud platform? Forrester posed questions like these, and many others, to hundreds of IT leaders from around the world in their latest study, commissioned by Akamai, called The Great Cloud Reset.

The centralized cloud of the past cannot support how applications are being built now and will be built in the future.

An evolving cloud for evolving needs

\r\n For this study, Forrester Consulting asked more than 400 global IT leaders how their multicloud strategies are evolving to meet the needs of a more widely distributed and mobile society, and the top takeaway was clear:  The centralized cloud of the past cannot support how applications are being built now…