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Q1 yes, those who have adopted multi-cloud (let us call public cloud providers, are seeing the gains. However, i would not it at maturity yet.

A1. "Chaotic". Enterprises are grappling with choices. Choices seem to be (a) choose the right cloud for the right workload - great for apps, not so much for infrastructure or operations

(b) go dominantly on one cloud and build apps, infra, tooling for that ... the secondary cloud suffers ... and a few other choices in between.

@ramsba That's what I hear!

A1: Taking a ‘horses for courses’ approach to deploy workloads across multiple clouds is a reality today. The multi-cloud market has grown out of infancy but is not fully mature yet in terms of consistency of security, cost and an overall cloud experience with interoperability.

Q1, its a work in progress, challenge to keep up with so many services moving to IAAS, PAAS and SAAS, requires multicloud arch

A1: For the most part, I think organizations are pleased with their #cloud adoption. With the competitive pressure orgs of all types are under, delivering services with speed, efficiency & now cost is even more important. There is a greater need for cost optimization.

A1: I think overall we are making progress on this as an industry and weve learned a lot. Multi-cloud doesnt mean move things between clouds daily. But the right cloud/service for the use case, while also derisking cloud choice with 3rd party services being available consistently

@codyhosterman In fact things are not moved between clouds, true? Or not much.

@GaneshJKRam Good one. Interesting times - with some still dipping their toes, while some have embraced whole heartedly (and admittedly seeing the pains associated)

Q1: Multi-cloud includes an extension of ecosystem with Devtooling to build / deploy applications that works across all clouds , that is an area that still needs a lot of work

A1: There is a shift in mindset from annual and periodic #capex optimization to one of continuous #opex optimization – the cloud providers have the resources you need,  there is a minor issue of having to pay for it!! :)

@ramsba Agree, different cloud providers are chosen for specific use cases. and hence companies that help with multi-cloud deployments and also standards or frameworks such as Infra as a Code through Terraform and software that can deploy that simply / faster are important

A1: We're seeing some interesting multi-cloud deployments where latency is a major concern and workloads are running across both large central data centers and more dispersed regional runs, operating by different cloud providers

I think there's a definition of multi-cloud thats important to articulate here. Is it independent parallel clouds (with diff workloads in each and not inter-related) or is it different workloads all talking to each other across clouds. The former is manageable but latter is mess

@jwittich Seems like latency will be a nagging problem for multicloud

It happens of course (migrations, DR, etc) but the concept of things truly bouncing around regularly is just not a reality.

A1: Customers want to consolidate but flexibility is needed depending on the application and use case moving to the cloud

@BMCSoftware agree, it is not more a CAPEX versus OPEX.. Enterprises who have adopted cloud , are now asking for price compression in common features and capabilities that are core across cloud providers.

@iLakshmiS Absolutely - this is the right way to go about it if you think apps and app services. But the minute you bring infra or shared services it becomes a tough choice

@jwittich - latency is definitely a factor. We need to be in a cloud closer to where the customers are.

@codyhosterman good point Cody on de-risking cloud choice.  As a #SaaS Provider, we deliver our service across multiple #cloud platforms worldwide for that reason - and it gives us flexibility as well.

@jwittich Yes - but latency is often under-estimated in terms of impact though. Its only after things come together that most realize they have screwed up on app experience

@codyhosterman We do the same, keep the service close to the user for best experience

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