Multi-cloud describes an environment that relies on multiple clouds - such as OpenStack, Microsoft Azure or AWS.

For instance, you may be running a workload that requires large pools of storage and networking resources on a private cloud, such as OpenStack.

At the same time, you may have a workload that needs to scale up or down quickly on a public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or AWS. Each workload is running on the ideal cloud, but now you have multiple clouds to manage.

Unique Needs

You can run each workload where it performs best, for the lowest cost.

Legacy Apps

You can avoid the pain of migrating legacy apps to a new platform.

Desire to Diversify

You can avoid vendor lock-in and latency while creating redundancy.