The other day I was pruning my apps on my phone to delete those that had not been used in a long time. Here are some that gave me pause:

• Business (Adobe, Concur, Dropbox, etc)
• E-commerce (Amazon, Grocery Shopping, Meal Delivery, Starbucks, etc)
• Financial Institutions
• G-Suite Apps
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Home Automation (Amazon Alexa, Home Automation)
• Entertainment (Netflix, Spotify, etc)
• Security (Password Managers, Authenticators, SSO)
• Media (News)
• Multimedia conferencing (Zoom, etc)

I’m sure many of you have a longer lists. Each of these apps has a cloud presence that we often take for granted. We just sit back and assume that the infrastructure is taken care of, and it is for smartphone owners. But for a large company, or enterprise, that infrastructure is far more complex.

Take an enterprise A that uses multiple clouds to leverage their respective strengths:

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