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Deloitte Consulting Cloud Guru: 5 Winning Multi-cloud Strategies
Mark Haranas
Deloitte’s Chief Cloud Strategy Officer David Linthicum explains to CRN five winning cloud investments and strategies that channel partners should do if they want to succeed in the multi-cloud world.

Deloitte Created A Cloud Complexity Management Framework
A while ago, we created a Cloud Complexity Management framework to deal with the cloud complexity issues for [customers] either in the planning stages or in flight.
In other words: you are already there, and you realize you have an issue—how do you retroactively fix the thing while the trucks rolling down the road? And investing in those innovations before the need is there, is ultimately what we do well. So in other words, it’s observing the marketplace and proactively managing the realities of cloud transformation.
We have research teams where we figure out where our clients are at, and also where the market is at, and then try to pre-solve problems that we see coming down the line.
So if multi-cloud is going to bring in complexity, complexity is going to bring in hardships in terms of operational challenges and money challenges.
We’ve put together a framework in how that’s going to happen and lay down the foundation [for customers] to achieve what cloud makes possible.