Understanding Governance in a Multicloud/Intercloud World

The research discusses governance challenges in a multicloud and intercloud world, emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing these implications to prevent failure or loss of control. It covers data management and financial governance issues associated with cloud adoption. Organizations adopting multicloud architectures must transform in IT service brokering, governance, architecture, and operations. The research helps I&O professionals analyze alternatives and highlights the strengths of each approach. Data and analytics leaders using cloud-based solutions often face cost overruns, necessitating a comprehensive approach to predictable budgeting for cloud data management environments. Reinforcing governance is crucial to preserve trust in assets; otherwise, cloud investments will fail. The landscape of cloud adoption is one of hybrid clouds and multiclouds, with product managers at cloud service providers needing to address this trend to ensure their offerings remain competitive. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market challengers are beginning to use cross-cloud standards and multicloud messaging to compete with market share leaders. Cloud management platforms must include cloud service brokerage functionality in their strategy to remain competitive. The definitions of hybrid cloud, multicloud, and intercloud architectures are articulated, providing a full taxonomy for these terms.