High level and summarized view of Multi Cloud management.

1. Multi Cloud
management
Chief architect, Consultant and Technology speaker
Kai Viljanen

2. Goals
• Understand what Multi Cloud means for you
• What are Multi Cloud management challenges
• How to approach Multi Cloud management
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3. What is Multi Cloud
management
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Multi Cloud Management is the process of managing multiple
cloud environments, and optimizing cloud deployments
Multi Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud
Clouds within Multi Cloud
• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Enterprise own Public Cloud
• IT Cloud
• Telco Cloud
• Sovereign Cloud
Enterprises have different Cloud landscape

4. Multi Cloud defintion
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• Multi cloud consists of several private and public clouds which
are connected together
• Hybrid Cloud is one Private Cloud and one Public Cloud
connected and orchestrated together
• Hybrid IT consists of Private Cloud, Public cloud and traditional
IT infrastructure
• Usually large enterprises IT landscape is hybrid IT

5. Multi Cloud management key
components
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• Financial: Selecting right clouds
• Resource: Services, infrastructure, FTE´s
• Security & Compliance: Securing cloud resources, data and access
• Cloud Observability: Monitoring and reporting with full visibility and transparency
(Enterprise observability of data & infra)
• Cloud Orchestration: Tools, software, platform, infrastructure
IT
Telco
Sovereign

6. Hybrid Cloud architectures
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7. Multi Cloud management use cases
• Application deployment
• Availability & recovery: High availability and business continuity in case of a
disaster. Deploy workloads across multiple clouds
• Cloud Bursting: Handle peak demand periods by scaling within or between
Clouds
• Automating the deployment process and applications are deployed across
different clouds.
• Cost Optimization: Choose the most cost-effective Cloud for a particular
workload and move workloads between clouds
• Compliance and Security: Security policies and controls across multiple clouds.
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8. Recommendations
• Implementations
• Services are offered within cloud, not between clouds.
• Use of multiple distinct clouds independent of each other
• Build Hybrid Clouds only via business case
• Build hybrids in upper layers of IT stack
• Standardize your hybrid implementations
• Why
• Keep your infrastructure as simple as you can to avoid operational burden and
license costs
• Decouple hw and sw to have flexibility
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9. Multi Cloud approach
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10. Key takeaways
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• Multi Cloud management is not only technical journey, it’s
about physical organization, ways of working, processes,
operating models, fulfilling laws & regulations,
• Create Multi Cloud strategy and involve all parties from day 1
• Define everything simple, clear and unambiguous way
• Standardize & simplify
• Communicate, communicate and communicate

11. Want to hear more about Multi
Cloud management?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kai-viljanen-2a65433/