As the panoply of cloud vendors and products grows ever larger, so does the configuration and management complexity of the cloud. For many companies, this complexity can reduce the value of their cloud-computing investments. In this episode of the podcast, David Linthicum and guests, Intel's Lisa Davis and Deloitte's Doug Bourgeois, discuss ways companies can tackle cloud complexity and leverage multi-cloud architectures to help optimize cloud deployments in terms of performance, cost, and agility. Lisa and Doug also argue that companies need to realize that hardware isn't a commodity and that cloud architectures—and talent acquisition decisions—must be driven by mission-critical business needs and workloads.