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environments supported by a cross-cloud framework, making the public cloud services market achieve a 21.5 % growth in 2025.”
Gartner refers to the CIPS segment – combined, cloud infrastructure and platform services – as a major force in enterprise cloud spend in 2025 and beyond.
“ Organisations are choosing CIPS because today’ s workloads are complex, and organisations are seeking integrated platforms to simplify development, deployment and operations,” adds Sid.“ Organisations deploying a multicloud adoption model, which is still recording growth, are also driving spend on CIPS.”
The practice: How multi-cloud works today At its core, a multi-cloud strategy harnesses the best features of several cloud platforms – typically, leaders such as Amazon Web Services( AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform( GCP) and others – matched to each application’ s needs.
This diversity enables tailored solutions. For example, a latencycritical customer portal might leverage Azure regions close to home, while data analytics and machine learning models are trained in Google Cloud’ s AI-specialised infrastructure.
Businesses also use multi-cloud architectures to store sensitive or regulated workloads in complianceready regions while exploiting the cost advantages of other clouds elsewhere.
“ Over the last decade and a half, business and IT operations have drastically changed, enabled by innovation and transformation in Cloud and Data Centre technologies,”
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