“ The question now isn’ t whether to adopt a multi-cloud strategy but how to do it effectively.”
The challenges of multicloud management The power of multi-cloud is not without cost. Complexity increases as each platform adds its own tools, interfaces, security models and compliance frameworks. Governance can become fragmented and costs are hard to track when not managed holistically.
Ed Baichtal, Principal Product Manager, and Tobias Schaub, Principal Solution Manager at Equinix, explain:“ As multicloud environments became the standard enterprise architecture, many organisations adopted a hodgepodge of networking tools and cloud-native solutions to connect their public cloud environments and private infrastructure and other services. These combinations of what are often vendorspecific networking solutions tend to overly rely on the public internet, and taking this approach can lead to a fragmented mess of different protocols, security policies and monitoring tools.
“ Unfortunately, this haphazard approach to multicloud networking has led to a lot of network management complexity. IT teams lack unified control and visibility into their networks.
142 October 2025