Five Reasons You Absolutely Need Multiple Clouds … Probably

Mark Thiele’s article “There’s no need to be a one-cloud company” in GigaOM last week nicely highlighted a question we often hear from our customers: “Do I need more than one cloud?” To which we nearly always say, “Yes, absolutely!”

Mark refers to the adage “don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” but we prefer Google’s view on this: everything breaks, a.k.a. sh*t happens. Whichever cloud you select, it’s not a matter of “will it break?” but “what will you do when it does?”

Read my full post at the Cloudability blog