It’s no secret that organizations are constantly seeking new ways to optimize IT strategy in today’s fast-paced business world. Cloud computing has emerged as a powerful tool with its on-demand scaling, quick provisioning and enterprise-class services.But with an ever-expanding range of IT providers, many IT operation teams are turning to a multicloud approach to meet their requirements. While multicloud has its benefits, it also comes with unique challenges, noted theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante

Earlier this year at its annual Dell Technologies World conference, Dell Technologies Inc. debuted broad upgrades to its APEX portfolio. As a part of those upgrades, Dell said it sought to provide flexibility and control over where critical data resides by demonstrating how customers could deploy storage software in public clouds of their choice.To help facilitate that, the company introduced a software-as-a-service application called APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage. One could think of it as an orchestrator that can handle the complexity of cloud that customers may have, according to Magi Kapoor, director of multicloud product management at Dell

Dell Technologies Inc. is continuing to roll out enhancements and new features for its APEX as-a-service portfolio.This week, the company announced general availability of new capabilities for multicloud management along with APEX Block Storage for Amazon Web Services Inc. public cloud users.“Our first set of management and operations capabilities within the Dell APEX Navigator family are going to be generally available with the announcement of Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud,” said Alyson Langon (pictured, right), director of product marketing at Dell