No longer incidentally on multiple clouds, IT leaders are making a point of reaping the benefits of intentional multicloud flexibility. But key issues — interoperability in particular — add complexity to the calculus.
AI startups are getting in the interoperability game as well.
Stardog, an AI startup that counts Morgan Stanley, NASA, and Schneider Electric among its customers, recently announced a private GPU cloud facility powered by Nvidia in Ashburn, Va. The company is taking a data fabric approach to enabling enterprises to interconnect data across a wide range of SaaS, cloud, and on-prem data sources.
Multicloud is becoming a reality because big enterprise does not want to be locked into a single cloud or face huge fees to move workloads efficiently, says Stardog CEO Kendall Clark, acknowledging that the additional complexity, especially for AI, is real and expensive but maintains that demand will drive innovation for interoperability.
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