Increasing scale for critical workloads drives many firms to move to multi-cloud environments. But challenges such as cost, complexity, lack of appropriate skills, and security often kill multi-cloud projects, especially those involving AI, machine learning (ML), and analytics, long before they deliver any benefits. VMware and Intel architects will discuss five key elements to building a multi-cloud platform based on a reference architecture with VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu, new 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Optane Persistent Memory. See how this drives a federated learning model for an AI use case with on-premises private cloud platforms that seamlessly and securely scale to VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as the Azure VMware Solution, to quickly and dramatically scale out various modern/cloud native app workloads.