Businesses turn to alternative cloud providers

Over half of organizations are considering adding one or more cloud infrastructure providers in 2021, and the extra supplier will be drawn from an alternative cloud vendor. A new report by Accelerated Strategies and Linode shows that for small and midsized companies usage of alternative providers -- such as OVH, Linode, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, UpCloud and Equinix -- is on par with Google Cloud. 'The greatest takeaway from the survey is collectively the alternative cloud providers are popular,' Charles Kolodgy of Accelerated Strategies says. 'We asked people who they are using and a majority of companies are working with the Hyperscale… [Continue Reading]