After a run of high-profile outages, resilience has climbed the agenda, with more organisations adopting multi-region and even multi-cloud strategies to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket. For the largest enterprises that’s a sensible hedge — but the underlying principle applies at every size.
For most SMEs, full multi-cloud is overkill. The point isn’t complexity for its own sake; it’s knowing your critical dependencies and having a plan when one of them fails.
Why this matters
- Outages keep happening — single-provider reliance is a real risk.
- Multi-cloud isn’t always the answer — for SMEs it can add cost and complexity.
- Know your critical dependencies — what must stay up, and what it relies on.
- Independent backups matter — recoverable copies outside any one platform.
What we’d advise
We help clients design IT that bends rather than breaks — the right balance of simplicity and resilience for a business your size, without over-engineering or overspending.