From Forbes: Enterprise technology is fragmented. We usually take this foundational truth in the sense of a negative, largely because fragmentation makes applications, data and the network layers in between them tougher to manage. When data resides in multiple locations, on multiple cloud platforms, across multiple geographies and inside multiple brands of database (Oracle, SAP, IBM and the tier-#2 layer of brands etc.), then we typically talk about it being fragmented, disconnected and spread across disparate nodes or datacenters.