What’s the definition of Hybrid Cloud and Multi Cloud?

I completely agree with that. In fact, I actually helped a company in San Francisco, where the man who was running IT at the time did the equivalent of bursting. We were using bursting at the time. I think that that can work in a hybrid model. But I think that's almost the only time I would ever consider the idea of hybrid cloud as a reality. Otherwise, you're talking about what it sounds like Tim is saying, which is the idea that multi-cloud is actually one application spanning multiple clouds.  Not one application, but an environment of applications, may be spread across multiple clouds as each cloud provides some level of benefit, unique to that application for the customer.  But not that you're taking your ERP system as a unit, and splitting its parts across multiple clouds, or writing code for your own applications and running it in multiple clouds. Simply put, hybrid cloud is having some form of automated infrastructure, cloud-like or not, internal or in a hosted environment somewhere, co-location facility or something, that is allowed to, or capable of, bursting out some level of demand, normally just compute to nearby cloud resources.  So if you don't have the latency covered in your compute, then what's the good of sending it out there and killing your application? So those are my simple takes on multi-cloud and hybrid cloud.

So I'll just maybe augment that a little bit, Mike, and say that the multi-cloud, I agree with you, there's a specific reason why you might choose a second, or third, or fourth cloud provider, but there's an advantage to focusing on one. And most enterprises that I work with focus on one, and then come back, second or third for specific reasons. But getting to that hybrid cloud, I actually don't see a single-use case in production today that I'm aware of, for cloud bursting specifically. And I haven't seen that play out in the enterprise. What I have seen play out is where things like regulatory and compliance and privacy requirements start to come into play, sometimes cultural issues. We've all faced the cultural norms that fly in the face of what we can do versus what we want to do. I would love to be able to use public cloud for a given application or given data set, but I can't, for a specific reason, and so then it's pulled back locally. Whether that reason is valid or not, we can argue until the cows come home.