The growing need for vendor-agnostic solutions in 2025

As we approach 2025, the technology landscape is evolving at unprecedented speed, making vendor-agnostic solutions increasingly vital for business sustainability. With connected devices worldwide expected to surpass 75 billion by 2025 (9), organizations face mounting pressure to adopt flexible technology strategies.

Adapting to fast-changing technologies

The accelerating pace of innovation means no single vendor can meet all the growing needs of organizations in the digital age (10). Vendor-agnostic platforms enable businesses to swiftly adopt new technologies without being constrained by a single provider's development timeline. This adaptability is particularly crucial as grid operations increasingly rely on real-time data, automation, and cyber-resilience (10). Indeed, traditional supervisory control systems are no longer sufficient for today's complex operational demands.

Avoiding long-term infrastructure constraints

A study revealed that 98% of organizations either use or expect to utilize services from at least two cloud infrastructure providers, with 31% relying on four or more (11). This trend reflects growing awareness that vendor-agnostic architectures help organizations optimize workloads and enhance resilience (12). Furthermore, these solutions prevent artificial barriers and excessive fees that providers may impose for cloud migration (11).

Supporting hybrid and multicloud strategies

Approximately 89% of IT decision-makers globally have implemented multicloud adoption strategies, with 73% using hybrid cloud and 16% employing public or private multicloud deployments (3). This shift represents a fundamental recognition that multicloud environments allow businesses to select optimal services from multiple providers (12). Nonetheless, organizations should aim not just to be multicloud but to be truly "cloud agnostic" (3).

Improving disaster recovery and uptime

FEMA reports that 40% of small businesses never reopen after a natural disaster (13). Alarmingly, only 57% of organizations have unified disaster recovery plans spanning their entire operations (13). Vendor-agnostic disaster recovery strategies enable data and application recovery across different environments, bypassing the limitations of single-cloud setups (11). This approach prevents unacceptable data loss while leveraging application portability across platforms.

Table of contents

  1. Why Vendor-Agnostic Solutions Matter More Than Ever in 2025
  2. Vendor-Agnostic Solutions - The hidden risks of vendor lock-in
  3. Vendor-Agnostic Solutions - Why some businesses still choose vendor lock-in
  4. Vendor-Agnostic Solutions - The growing need in 2025
  5. Vendor-Agnostic Solutions - How to build a vendor-agnostic strategy

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