In this episode of Hybrid Trends, Rob Sims and Dell’s Ihab El Ghazzawi tackle one of the biggest challenges facing IT leaders today: how to optimise a multi-cloud world without losing control.

From cloud sprawl and inconsistent policies to rising costs and duplicated data, they discuss why successful organisations are shifting to a multi-cloud by design approach — placing workloads in the right location based on business value, not just trend or habit.

The conversation explores hybrid cloud strategy, operational simplicity, Dell APEX, private cloud automation and the growing need for flexibility, control and security across on-prem, co-lo, edge and hyperscale environments.