Figure 1: What is the Cloud Continuum? Private Compliance Privacy Efficiency Hybrid Multi Distributed Private Data Public CLOUD Computing Center Cloud CONTINUUM Innovation Latency Scale Latency Compliance Innovation Experience Elasticity Untethered Privacy Scale Public Legacy Elasticity Edge Distributed Centralized SDN Centralized & Distributed From To Historically, cloud meant public cloud and shared data centers. Today, most The Cloud Continuum includes a spectrum of capabilities and services from public organizations deploy some mix of public, private and edge clouds based on their through edge and everything in between, seamlessly connected by cloud-昀椀rst networks, needs – with very little integration among them. As a result, innovation, data and and supported by advanced, Cloud Continuum practices. The array of technologies best practices realized in one part of the organization doesn’t bene昀椀t others, that makes up the Cloud Continuum varies by ownership and location, from close to the impeding value. enterprise to completely off-premise. Cloud-昀椀rst 5G and software-de昀椀ned networks unify the Continuum, allowing access to the cloud from virtually anywhere and ensuring that Note: Bubble sizes are illustrative only and do not indicate degree of adoption there are no silos among private, public, hybrid, edge or multi-clouds. Ever–ready for every opportunity 6