The idea of running a multicloud environment is pretty daunting for a lot of enterprises. Businesses may wonder how they go about choosing where to put things and how they should actually move things around. The network plays a key part in all of this — a complex part that is hard to navigate but is crucial for success.

Bob Ghaffari (pictured, right), director of enterprise and appliances at Intel Corp., and Mark Vaughn (pictured, left), director of the strategic technology group, data center, at information technology solutions provider Presidio Inc., both have firsthand experience navigating the complexities involved in implementing multicloud and building a reliable network.

“We’re realizing that what you’ve moved to the cloud a year ago … may not make sense to be in the cloud today, and what you chose to leave on-prem last year may not make sense to be on-prem anymore,” Vaughn said. “So we see that fluidity and that hybrid world becoming much more important. And we need a networking infrastructure that can really keep up with those workloads as they move back and forth and become more mobile.”

Ghaffari and Vaughn spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the importance of the network and key qualities that help achieve operational success around the clock. (* Disclosure below.)

Consistency crucial for networking with multicloud

In order to run a solid network for multicloud environments, consistency is one of the main concerns, according to Ghaffari. How a business extends its on-prem environment to be able to have flexibility is vital — especially in disaster recovery situations.

“We work really closely with VMware to be able to help provide that consistency, no matter if you’re really talking about the edge or you’re actually talking about on-prem cloud or public cloud,” Ghaffari said.

Part of being consistent is being able to stay on top of today’s fast-paced world. This is why VMware Cloud on AWS is important — it is a cloud offering jointly developed by Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware that delivers a scalable service to help companies extend their on-prem VMware vSphere-based environments to the cloud. This provides flexibility for automation along with the agility needed to change the network when needed, according to Vaughn.

“Now we live in a world where the entire server can be stood up in 10 minutes,” said Vaughn. “So VMware Cloud on AWS is really the first opportunity we’ve been able to present to customers where you can make a bold move in a very short period of time with very little change.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: Presidio Inc. sponsored this segment, with additional broadcast sponsorship from VMware Inc. Presidio, VMware, and other sponsors do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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