<p>The changes wrought in business by the impact of the pandemic make business agility and flexibility the leading necessities in your digital transformation process. A single solution just cannot offer the required flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.</p><p><em>This article article also appears in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/reports/the-new-it-playbook-2006.html">The new IT playbook</a>, a report that explores what it means to be resilient and adaptable in the face of disruption.</em></p><p>If they were not already headed that way, many IT departments are now finding it necessary to accelerate their migration to multicloud architectures because of the novel coronavirus.</p><p>In fact, IDC says that by 2022, more than 90 percent of enterprises worldwide will rely on a mix of on-premises or dedicated private clouds, multiple public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs. It even predicts that a rising desire by companies to mitigate future disruptions by being more flexible, agile, and resilient could make 2021 &quot;the year of multicloud.&quot;</p><p>&quot;We are seeing the coronavirus situation accelerating enterprise interest and adoption of cloud,&quot; says Deepak Mohan, research director at IDC. &quot;The term we&#39;re hearing most often in this context is&nbsp;<em>resilience</em>. IT organizations leveraging cloud environments are able to adapt better to the current crisis because they can easily scale or shift and continue to deliver services. Those that have taken more constrained approaches have had challenges.&quot;</p>