Organizations are increasingly deploying applications across multiple public cloud locations in a meaningful way. This is vastly different from only three years ago when the majority of organizations were using multiple cloud service providers but primarily depending on only one for almost all of their service needs. Today it is common for organizations to deploy production and mission-critical applications across multiple public cloud service (e.g., IaaS) providers. Modern application environments are driving this adoption as organizations seek to optimize performance and quickly and easily set up connections to these cloud providers.

In order to investigate how organizations are connecting to multiple public cloud providers, TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 337 IT and networking professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) familiar with their organization’s entire network environment and responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and/or operating corporate networking solutions, including data center, cloud, campus, branch, edge, WAN, and home office technology.