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

Research and conversations have shown that the disparate nature of operations across multiple clouds creates significant challenges for organizations. Securing and deploying apps, data portability, operational silos and other barriers create impediments when implementing a cohesive multicloud estate.All of that complexity creates some frustrating and unproductive experience for IT professionals. The reality is that it is now a multicloud world with exponentially growing data and a dispersed nature, according to Shannon Champion (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Dell Technologies Inc