Cloud isn’t “an IT decision” anymore – it’s the stage where your customer experience, operations, security, and speed all play out.
Gartner framed it bluntly back in November 10, 2021: cloud will be the centerpiece of new digital experiences — and forecast global cloud revenue at $474B in 2022 (up from $408B in 2021). They also projected that by 2025, 85%+ of orgs will adopt a cloud-first principle, and 95% of new digital workloads will run on cloud-native platforms.
Now fast-forward to 2026: most teams aren’t debating whether to use cloud — they’re dealing with how to run three clouds at once.
That’s where triple cloud comes in.
Triple cloud is a practical strategy, not a vendor buzzword:
Public cloud for scale and speed (new apps, analytics, AI workloads)
Private cloud for control (sensitive systems, predictable performance, regulated data)
Edge / sovereign / distributed cloud for latency + locality (retail stores, factories, branches, country-specific compliance)
Most businesses already have all three — the question is whether they’re connected and governed like one system, or operating like three separate kingdoms.
And yes, this is why your customer-facing experience can feel “modern”… while your backend still feels like 2014.
Gartner’s point wasn’t that cloud is trendy. It was that cloud-native becomes the baseline — and noncloud starts being treated like legacy.
In triple cloud terms:
Public cloud handles innovation velocity
Private cloud protects your “crown jewels”
Edge/distributed cloud makes real-time experiences actually real-time
If branches, stores, and mobile teams are where the work happens, shipping everything back to a central data center is slow, expensive, and risky.
Gartner also highlighted the shift toward SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) to secure “anywhere access,” noting rapid growth and adoption forecasts.
Triple cloud works best when security follows the session, not the building.
You don’t need one vendor. You need:
unified identity and access
consistent policy enforcement
standardized observability (logs, traces, costs)
repeatable deployment patterns
Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework explicitly pushes unified hybrid/multicloud operations with measurable compliance and cost KPIs.
If your integrations are fragile, triple cloud becomes triple chaos. Strong teams standardize:
API gateways
event streaming
data contracts
reusable templates
Let’s make it real.
A territory sales officer walks into a customer site and needs:
the latest pricing + inventory
contract status
personalized recommendations
offline capability if the signal drops
In triple cloud, that experience could look like:
Public cloud: AI recommendations + analytics
Private cloud: customer contracts, billing, compliance data
Edge cloud: offline-first mobile app + local caching for instant load times
The user experience is smooth — but behind the scenes, it’s a coordinated 3-cloud system.
ERP is often the heavyweight holding teams back — not because ERP is bad, but because it’s central to everything.
If you’re tracking ERP news, you’ve likely noticed the heat around ERP ecosystems and customer data access. For example, Reuters reported in Oct 2025 that SAP had to face an antitrust lawsuit tied to allegations around restricting access to customer data and limiting competition.
Whether you’re an SAP shop or not, the takeaway is simple:
Your ERP can’t remain a walled garden in a triple cloud world.
It has to securely connect to public cloud innovation and edge execution — without breaking governance.
To ground the basics: ERP (enterprise resource planning) is software that unifies core business processes (finance, HR, supply chain, procurement, etc.).
What does EDC stand for? In many business and data contexts, EDC commonly refers to Electronic Data Capture — systems that collect data digitally instead of paper-based workflows.
Why it matters for triple cloud:
Your EDC data often needs public cloud analytics
but may require private cloud controls
and sometimes edge capture (field devices, labs, clinics, factories)
Triple cloud is how that pipeline stays fast and compliant.
They chase “multi-cloud” for optionality… and forget operational reality.
Triple cloud only works if you can answer:
Who owns identity across all three layers?
How do we enforce security policy consistently?
Where does the source of truth live (data + ERP)?
How do we control cost across three billing models?
Without those answers, you don’t have triple cloud — you have triple spend.
Is triple cloud the same as multi-cloud?
Not exactly. Multi-cloud usually means multiple public clouds. Triple cloud is more about three operating layers: public + private + edge/sovereign/distributed.
Do I need three vendors?
No. You need three capabilities. Vendor choices come after architecture and governance.
What’s the quickest win?
Unify identity, observability, and security policies first — then modernize workloads.
Gartner’s 2021 message aged well: cloud is the centerpiece of new digital experiences — and cloud-native adoption keeps accelerating.
Triple cloud is what happens when that reality collides with compliance, ERP gravity, and the need for real-time experiences at the edge.
If you can run all three layers like one system, you don’t just “move to the cloud.”
You build a digital experience engine that’s hard to copy.
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