According Gartner, Cloud management platform (CMP) solutions are advisable to support the management of multi cloud deployments and avoid under management.

By 2021, 75% of organizations without Cloud Management tooling to manage their multicloud environments will spend more than they would have had they stayed on-premises, and will also lack needed policy and governance capabilities, increasing the likelihood of security and/or compliance exposures.

Gartner has identified seven capabilities critical to the success of the use cases commonly involved in this endeavor (see Note 1):

• Provisioning and orchestration

• Inventory and classification

• Service requests

• Monitoring and analytics

• Manage costs and optimize resources

• Cloud migration, disaster recovery (DR) and backup

• Identity, security and compliance

The common use cases are:

• Agile applications

• Reliable applications

• Lift-and-shift data center

• Strategic DevOps transformation