The recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event was the largest open-source event in Europe. Those attending have had a chance to see how everyone is bringing cloud-native together with their heritage apps.

The event was a chance to learn more about companies such as Emma Technologies. Emma stands for Enterprise Multicloud Management Application, according to Dmitry Panenkov (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Emma Technologies.

“We help bigger organizations to streamline the way they interact with different cloud service providers and the way they manage the different cloud environments and the applications,” Panenkov said. “We help them to deploy, manage, analyze the workloads and properly reduce their cloud costs and what they do in the clouds as well.”

Panenkov spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Rob Strechay at KubeCon, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Emma’s approach to enterprise multicloud management and the challenges and solutions related to cloud infrastructure. (* Disclosure below.)

Navigating multicloud complexity challenges

The challenges Emma aims to tackle are big problems, especially for bigger companies, according to Panenkov. For instance, consider being based out of AWS.

“You have your environment at AWS, and then you decide to acquire someone smaller because of the business. You like the business, not the infrastructure, not the cloud service provider,” he said. “You acquired the guys and you’ve got this multicloud. So, you have AWS, imagine they have Azure and you need somehow to merge that.”

Research done by theCUBE has indicated that not everything is moving to cloud and is actually hitting an equilibrium. Even when someone says they have a multicloud strategy, that’s not actually true, according to Panenkov.

“They want to decide where and how they deploy the workloads and how their workloads scale based on the cheapest developable instances out on the marketplace, or better reliability or whatever,” he said. “But on the other hand, again, we see that the guys, they want to leverage this approach, where they decide where and how they deploy the workloads and scale these workloads. We can call it multicloud, but we prefer to say it’s more cloud-agnostic than multicloud.”

Here’s the complete video interview, and tune into SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s ongoing coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe:

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

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