A reference architecture for multicloud

 

Data-focused multicloud deals with everything that’s stored inside and outside of the public clouds. Cloud-native databases exist here, as do legacy databases that still remain on-premises. The idea is to manage these systems using common layers, such as management and monitoring, security, and abstraction. 

Service-focused multicloud means that we deal with behavior/services and the data bound to those services from the lower layers of the architecture. It’s pretty much the same general idea as data-focused multicloud, in that we develop and manage services using common layers of technology that span from the clouds back to the enterprise data center.