Call it multicloud 2.0, call it cross-cloud services or call it supercloud. It’s a way to fix the information technology chaos that companies inadvertently created when they made a headlong, pandemic-rushed move to the cloud.

“What we see is that there’s these different sort of vertical silos; the different public clouds, they’re on-prem, data center, edge,” said Kit Colbert (pictured), chief technology officer of VMware Inc. “What we’re looking at is trying to create a new type of cloud, something that’s more horizontal in architecture.”

Colbert spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed VMware’s cloud strategy and how it addresses the customer’s evolving multicloud needs, as well as VMware’s role in Web3. (* Disclosure below.)

Clearing the cloud chaos requires industrywide alignment

Companies looking for the speed and agility that cloud computing brings have ended up with an out-of-hand environment where technologies, teams and operations are duplicated across clouds. And while speed is great, it mustn’t come at the cost of security or regulatory compliance.

“That’s the realization; that’s the sort of chaos that we’re hitting on,” Colbert said. “These are enterprise requirements that are getting left out.”

The recently published whitepaper “The Era of Multicloud Services Has Arrived” laid out VMware’s vision for the future of cloud computing. It’s a vision the company can’t achieve alone.

“We can’t possibly do everything. This has to be an industrywide movement,” Colbert said.

Right now, tasks include establishing how to build an architecture and framework to manage multicloud and abstract away the complexity. This was one of the core discussions at theCUBE’s recent Supercloud 22 event, for which VMware was a diamond-level founding supporter.

This focus on multicloud management is one of the reasons behind the name change from VMworld, which is associated with the company’s roots in virtualization, to VMware Explore, which reflects the wider vision, according to Colbert.

“Given this focus on multicloud … and how it is the go-forward focus for VMware, we wanted to evolve the conference to have that focus,” he said.

After touching on application architecture innovation for the edge and reflecting on his VMware Explore breakout session on Web3, Colbert wrapped the conversation back around to multicloud services and the future of enterprise cloud.

“We need to get as an industry to a place where we have alignment about this overall architecture to enable interoperability,” he said. “I think that’s really the key thing if we’re going to make this industry architectural shift, which is what I see coming.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VMware Explore:

(* Disclosure: VMware sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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