Innovation and adaptability are critical for success in today’s digital world. To become more agile and responsive, many organizations are adopting cloud technologies. In fact, 89% of organizations now have a multicloud strategy in place, and 80% have a hybrid cloud strategy.

Even so, cloud environments also bring new operational challenges. Most organizations use a variety of tools to administer their environments, often resulting in inconsistencies and redundancies. The scale of cloud environments—the number of resources in use—can be nearly infinite, making it difficult to manage and understand your organization’s use and costs.

Organizations often adopt container-based and cloud-native technologies with their cloud environments, requiring staff to attain new knowledge and skills. And, due to their distributed architecture, cloud environments necessitate new approaches to security, compliance, and governance.