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Customers often struggle to achieve the desired levels of innovation that their businesses require, while simultaneously maintaining a competitive edge with traditional IT environments.
Innovating with a complete multicloud to edge approach, combined with existing on-premises IT resources, seems like the perfect plan. However, this approach can quickly lead to a complicated and difficult to manage environment as more elements and different technologies are added.
More than ever, there is a desperate need for a single solution that ties the ecosystems together and bridges gaps including management complexity, limited multicloud visibility, unpredictable cloud costs, skillsets, inconsistent security, and compliance. This platform requires new abstraction, orchestration, automation, and presentation tools that span across these different and separated domains.