Geoff Soon , Managing Director of South Asia , Snowflake , tells us about the major challenges businesses might face when implementing a multi-cloud strategy and the importance of delivering cross-cloud capability .

excluding Japanese enterprises will deploy multi-cloud management processes and tools , and unified virtual machines ( VMs ) Kubernetes to support robust multi-cloud management and governance across on-premises and public cloud .

A multi-cloud strategy enables companies to avoid vendor lock-in while capitalizing on the differing services that the major cloud providers offer , especially around security , application migration , and analytics and application development services . Other benefits of implementing a multi-cloud strategy include :

• Negotiating rates with cloud providers and maintaining cost management through choice and flexibility

The true benefits of a multi-cloud strategy will not materialize until data can be shared and replicated across clouds and regions .

• Enabling different business units to use a public cloud that best matches their needs and promotes productivity

• Capitalizing on regional footprints to leverage the best cloud provider by region based on presence , capacity and services for local teams

• Protecting against a single cloud provider ’ s multi-region outage , ensuring uptime and SLA adherence

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