85% of firms use multi-cloud solutions, in Poland hybrid cloud prevails - experts

As many as 85% of businesses use two or more cloud platforms, and 25% use at least five different cloud providers, according to a recent “Tech Trends” report published by Deloitte. 

The main reasons why companies choose multiple cloud providers are: gaining access to different services offered by different cloud vendors and shopping for better terms of service. According to Deloitte, many companies have found themselves in a multi-cloud situation inadvertently, by acquiring services from different vendors without an overarching strategy for redundancy and security issues. 

In Poland, the majority of companies prefer hybrid cloud, with key systems still kept within on-premise infrastructure.

“Companies looking to utilize novel applications in the cloud fear mostly a failed implementation and insufficient tech support,” said Piotr Wieczorek, CEO of FOTC, partner and organizer of Google Cloud Days on April 4-5 in Warsaw. “During the covid pandemic, companies utilized cloud potential in hybrid work. ... In Google Cloud Platform, we can see the strongest demand from healthcare, digital native and gaming industries,” Wieczorek added.