Not only is the migration to cloud difficult work for companies, but they are constantly being told they must make the trek not once but multiple times. Many analysts say that companies will have to operate in a multi-cloud environment to stay competitive in the Digital Age. With so much at stake, how do they choose the right cloud combo?

First of all, said Rishi Yadav, president and CEO of InfoObjects Inc., the term “multi-cloud” might exaggerate the situation at most companies. “I call it dual-cloud approach. Most of the companies are going to have just two clouds — maybe they are AWS and Azure, maybe Google cloud,” he told Stu Miniman (@stu), co-host of theCUBE,* from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during AWS re:Invent 2016.

The number one concern in this dual cloud world, he said, is agility — not just in moving the workloads to cloud, but in the preliminaries by which a cloud is chosen.

Yadav claimed that InfoObjects enables companies to predict the future before they put anything at risk. Simulation of the load and its optimizations — “all that you can do on your desktop, and then […] you choose; maybe it’s better to run that load on AWS or maybe on Azure at a given point of time,” he said.

Cloud test dummy

Sudhir Jangir, CTO of InfoObjects, who also joined in on the interview, said they go a step beyond simulation to actual testing, taking guesswork out of the equation. “The next target is local testing where we can simulate the testing what exactly is going to happen on cloud when you move these things to the cloud,” he said.

At the interview’s end, Yadav gave his take on where smaller companies fit into Amazon’s marketplace. “Amazon is providing more and more tools for customers, but customers need solutions, and that is where we fill in the gap,” he said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (*Disclosure: AWS and other companies sponsor some AWS re:Invent segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither AWS nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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