This week on The Business of Cloud Native I spoke with Chris Psaltis, CEO and co-founder of mist.io. We spoke about why multicloud is necessary (and scenarios where multicloud is not necessary), where multicloud is headed in the future and the journey Chris and his co-founders have been on with Mist. 

Highlights

The difference between using multicloud for legal / regulatory reasons or because of the company’s history and using multicloud strategically to improve developer velocity or improve customer experience. 

The complexity involved with pursuing multicloud and why many organizations are better off in just one cloud. 

Why being cloud agnostic from day one is not a good strategy in the vast majority of cases. 

Why no one seems to be able to correctly estimate how difficult it is to build a multicloud platform. 

Why ‘silos’ are the competitive alternative to a unified platform for companies 

How Mist went from working primarily with smaller teams before figuring out that they provided more value for large teams because the pain from multicloud management increases exponentially as the number of engineers, applications and environments increases. 

When the founding team decided to stop being consultants and start an open source technology startup. 

Links

Mist

Chris on LinkedIn

Chris on Twitter