Every business today relies heavily on cloud systems to run critical operations, but moving or upgrading these systems is far from simple. Without the right solutions, migrations can stretch for months, cause unexpected downtime, and leave companies stuck with a single provider. This increases costs, slows growth, and makes adapting to change much harder.
Reliable, secure, and flexible cloud solutions are vital for businesses to run without interruptions, grow confidently, and stay agile in a world where technology and demands are constantly evolving.
Harshit Omar, Co-Founder and CTO of FluidCloud, has been leading the charge in solving these challenges. Seeing how fragile and dependent traditional cloud systems had become, he focused on one of the biggest pain points for enterprises: slow, risky, and expensive cloud migrations.
By creating a three-layer portability engine and Cloud Cloning™ technology, he helps companies replicate their infrastructure, move data seamlessly, and translate applications across different cloud platforms. His work removes downtime, reduces risk, and frees businesses from vendor lock-in, giving them the flexibility and resilience they need to grow and adapt.
The spark behind FluidCloud’s creation
FluidCloud was founded on a simple but important observation: the cloud infrastructure industry was moving in the wrong direction. In 2023, two major events, the Terraform licensing change and Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, exposed how fragile and dependent enterprise cloud systems had become. At the same time, conversations with CTOs and infrastructure leaders revealed a common problem. Cloud migration was slow, complex, and relied heavily on costly services.
This challenge inspired the creation of FluidCloud. The company set out to make portability and resilience the foundation of cloud design rather than an afterthought. The initial hurdle was not just technical. Many enterprises had been told for years that true cloud portability was impossible. The first goal was to prove that it was possible and achievable with the right approach and a clear focus on tangible business outcomes.
From technical elegance to practical impact
Harshit Omar’s biggest personal learning has been understanding the importance of connecting technical innovation directly to business outcomes. Early in his career, he focused on creating systems that were clever, elegant, and deeply engineered. Over time, he realized that customers are not impressed by technical sophistication alone; they care about results they can quickly understand and the clear return on investment they can present to their leadership. Embracing this insight transformed the way he works, shaping how he prioritizes tasks, designs features, and communicates the value of his solutions. This shift allowed him to move from building things that are impressive to creating solutions that are truly indispensable for businesses.
The three main steps of cloud migration
FluidCloud’s breakthrough is its three-layer portability engine, which separates migration into its core components:
- Infrastructure replication
- Data mobility
- Application rewriting and translation
Instead of following the traditional lift-and-shift approach, FluidCloud generates a clean, parallel copy of a customer’s environment on the target cloud. This eliminates the risk, downtime, and fragility that have made migration a multi-month process for decades.
The company has also achieved something that even major cloud providers have not: 100 percent deterministic, auto-generated Terraform across multiple clouds. Unlike other tools that offer only partial approximations, FluidCloud delivers production-ready accuracy for a seamless and reliable migration.
Security built into every layer of the cloud
FluidCloud follows a strong framework that ensures security, reliability, and freedom for its customers across every aspect of cloud operations:
- Security is built into the system from the ground up, ensuring every state is predictable and reproducible.
- The infrastructure is designed for resilience, anticipating outages and platform changes.
- Automation is used to minimize human error in critical workflows.
- Governance is cloud-agnostic, allowing customers to operate freely without being locked into a single provider.
Don’t explain approach, show result
One of the biggest early challenges FluidCloud faced was overcoming skepticism. On paper, the company’s capabilities could seem almost too good to be true, especially since many enterprises had already attempted their internal portability solutions, and even major cloud providers had abandoned similar efforts after years of investment.
To overcome this, FluidCloud’s team shifted focus from explaining the approach to demonstrating tangible results. By showing customers how their technology could achieve what others had failed to do, they were able to build trust, prove the reliability of their solutions, and gain confidence in the value FluidCloud could deliver.
Empowering engineers to drive creative solutions
FluidCloud fosters innovation, collaboration, and a strong company culture by maintaining an intentionally flat organizational structure. The company believes that the most creative and effective solutions come directly from engineers, and adding extra managerial layers can dilute the original problem before it reaches them.
Harshit Omar stays closely connected with frontline engineering teams to ensure that ideas are clearly understood and executed as intended. By keeping the structure flat, the company enables open communication, faster iteration, and stronger operational scalability, creating an environment where innovation thrives without compromising efficiency or excellence.
Success story
Harshit Omar shares a success story that highlights the impact of his work.
One customer, a global EdTech platform running on AWS for 7 years, needed to move its entire stack to a more cost-effective cloud. FluidCloud replicated the full environment automatically, translating 1,500+ live assets and deploying them on the target cloud. What the customer had scoped as a four-month rebuild requiring five specialists, a single engineer completed in one week, while cutting the cloud bill by 48%.
This example demonstrates the company’s approach, which focuses on deterministic replication rather than traditional migration. By removing friction and unpredictability, it addresses the delays and risks that have long slowed down enterprise cloud transitions, giving businesses the confidence to move quickly and efficiently.
Expanding reach
FluidCloud supports 8 major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Nutanix, Vultr, OVHcloud, and VMware, with formal partnerships across 6 of them. FluidCloud’s Cloud Cloning™ technology enables customers to migrate seamlessly across hyperscalers and specialized cloud platforms in minutes without downtime, re-architecting, or excessive costs and delays, giving businesses the freedom to choose the right provider for their needs.
The company plans to continue expanding these capabilities and partnerships, offering more solutions to simplify cloud migration and increase flexibility for businesses.
Media recognitions
Harshit Omar and FluidCloud have been featured in several industry publications highlighting their expertise in cloud infrastructure and portability:
- Harshit Omar has published articles in InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, Unite AI, and AI Tech Insights
- FluidCloud’s partnership with OCI was featured in Database Trends and Applications
- The announcement of FluidCloud’s partnership with Vultr was featured in IT Brief.
- Harshit was recently interviewed alongside his Co-Founder and CEO, Sharad Kumar, on theCUBE.
- FluidCloud was featured in SiliconANGLE around its initial funding and launch from stealth.
- FluidCloud’s Large Infrastructure Model launch was featured in Network World: https://www.networkworld.com/article/4144531/fluidclouds-large-infrastructure-model-targets-the-multicloud-networking-gap.html
Advice for upcoming industry professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs
Harshit Omar advises upcoming industry professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs to be cautious about relying on hybrid cloud as a long-term solution. Even when providers promise a shared responsibility model, the reality is that the customer is ultimately accountable for meeting service level agreements. He encourages building systems with resilience at their core from the very beginning. Investing in robust and reliable infrastructure, even when the effort is high or the returns are not immediate, is essential because true resilience is what will protect a business in the long run.
Harshit Omar’s 5 impactful business mantras
- Outcome-Led Engineering: Build technology that delivers measurable business value, not just technical sophistication.
- Complexity Made Invisible: Transform difficult infrastructure challenges into seamless, reliable experiences for customers.
- Proof Over Promises: Earn trust through tangible results, demonstrated performance, and real-world impact.
- Engineers Closest to the Problem: Empower technical teams to innovate, solve challenges faster, and drive meaningful change.
- Resilience by Design: Create systems that are secure, portable, adaptable, and prepared for the future.
