it needs by taking advantage of each of your cloud locations and consolidating your management experience . As a result , you can be more proactive and intentional with your cloud strategy . This is what we call “ multi-cloud by design .”
You might hear public cloud providers suggest that multi-cloud by design can be attained by standardizing in one of the public clouds . But this comes with a number of risks and assumptions . As recent cloud services outages have shown , organizations can be significantly impacted by single points of failure . It also assumes you ’ re comfortable being locked into one particular cloud , which has implications anywhere from ecosystem flexibility to pricing to how frequently a provider deprecates products . Lastly , it assumes you ’ re ready and able to move a lot of your world to the public cloud ( and you ’ re comfortable hosting data there ). For many organizations , a significant migration would be impractical or just plain disruptive .
Multi-cloud by design means that you ’ ve taken a thoughtful look at the scope of your environment , and you ’ re operating exactly where you need to be — whether that ’ s in a private cloud , in multiple public clouds , in a co-location facility or out at the edge ( and , for many customers , a combination of all of these ). No matter where you are , you ’ ve applied a consistent toolset that gives you visibility and consistency across your environments . You don ’ t need to train your teams on multiple systems . You don ’ t need to move your data anywhere you don ’ t want it to be . You can take advantage of best-of-breed technologies and consume them from different providers . You shouldn ’ t have to choose a specific public cloud provider to be multi-cloud by design .
BE IN THE DRIVER ’ S SEAT All of these challenges , which impede organizations from fully embracing multi-cloud by design , are what Dell aimed to address with its APEX portfolio . Dell has recently rolled out a number of new capabilities to help simplify multi-cloud storage and data protection , as well as to boost developer productivity in multi-cloud environments .
Most importantly , only you will know
“ The solution you choose should put you in control , giving you the freedom to run what you want , where you want and the way that you want , with a simple and consistent experience .”
what ’ s best for your organization . The solution you choose should put you in control , giving you the freedom to run what you want , where you want and the way that you want , with a simple and consistent experience . Only then can you take advantage of the full promise of multi-cloud . ■
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