For the modern enterprise, multi-cloud is the new rule – and cloud portability hurdles pose a critical challenge. That’s the background for a recent conversation between Paul Nashawaty, Principal Analyst at SiliconANGLE and theCUBE; John Furrier, founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media; and FluidCloud’s own CEO, Sharad Kumar and CPO, James Bayer. The group sat down at this week’s VMWare Explore to discuss FluidCloud’s launch out of stealth and how it’s working with customers today to solve cloud lock-in and unlock true cloud fluidity.

Highlights from the discussion:

• “There's definitely a need in the market for portability”, Nashawaty explains. For instance, recent research finds that 67% of companies say application portability is very critical -- but rigid cloud structures and a lack of API standards are holding that portability back.

• The AI explosion means new cloud fluidity pressures – including the need to fit the right cloud to the right use case, and demands to optimize cloud costs amidst historic data usage levels.

• FluidCloud delivers unprecedented cloud migration control – including unmatched migration price forecasting, and Cloud CloningTM that shrinks months of migration work into just weeks or faster.

Watch the full discussion from SiliconANGLE theCUBE below.