Having a consistent underlying infrastructure like HCI across all deployment models is crucial for simplifying management and ensuring seamless integration. It allows organizations to efficiently manage resources, streamline operations, and reduce complexity, which is particularly important as 70% of IT organizations rely on multiple cloud providers.

Organizations connect HCI clusters to the public cloud primarily for running separate production workloads, accessing public cloud resources for short-term needs, application testing and development, disaster recovery, and long-term archiving. This connectivity supports flexibility and scalability in operations.

Organizations encounter several challenges in hybrid multicloud environments, including managing different workflows and tools across deployment locations, difficulties in sharing large amounts of data, and a lack of unified security and management. These issues can hinder operational efficiency and complicate cloud strategy implementation.