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I think it's pretty subjective currently. Personally, I think of hybrid cloud as a company taking on maybe one major public cloud for some of their applications. Multicloud is managing multiple cloud in one way, making a lot of the infrastructure invisible (pub or priv)

Multicloud’s true benefit is the ability to operate across both private and public clouds, on and off premises, as a single entity.

@yusukekanamori Another key point to remember is that its not always about mixing private and public. Multicloud can also be private only

@alamontagne 100% YES!

@alamontagne Yes, I agree. The key is operating different environments as a single entity. So, multicloud is more an operational condition.

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The answer to this is always RELIABILITY!

Don't speed up creating fires, make sure you're not creating them to begin with.

Agility is a key benefit from automation. This supports the business to win big in their space. The right cloud is available when needed in a secure and consistent way.

The objectives of IT should not change. Automation is a how, not a why. Automation lets us deliver more reliable and secure services so that work can be done.

The main purpose of automation is to improve reliability. That also means that the tools used for automation have to be reliable. An example of a poor tool is Scripts. The requirement is for well tested and battle hardened APIs as the foundation for reliable operations.

That SDN is only about the network. It's really about modernizing the people, processes, applications, and all pillars of the data center/multicloud.

a key myths misunderstood is the need to simplify operations and keep control as you move to cloud

that a single vendor, with a closed solution can solve all your challenges

The top myth of enterprise networks is that they exist to manage connections among servers, databases, and applications. In fact, they exist to ensure service levels to sustain knowledge worker productivity 24x7.

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That, for some, automation isn't necessary.

I would say the biggest myth is that a single vendor can solve all problems

operation doesn't need to change, each internal business customer is supported they way they need it

The myth that networking should transport all data from the Edge to a data center. With the increasing amount of data from Edge sensors, and the availability of inference devices, the Edge should be treated as a private cloud environment.

improve focus on business outcomes being able to chose the right cloud at the right time for each workload

Cloud is an operating model. Private clouds that are fungible and reliable are part of a multi-cloud hybrid strategy. One powerful construct is to use a Cloud-first model, and update and manage private clouds from an "Uber" cloud.

Absolutely. I would almost say security is under the umbrella of reliability.

There will NEED to be more collaboration among IT teams, but also with the business side as well.

More things to work together as a mix of offerings and capabilities needed to meet different business requirements

Multicloud accelerates the need to bring simplification, automation and security in a consistent and scalable way.

The trend to multicloud is driving the trend toward software-defined data centers that can flexibly span private and public clouds, with seamless movement of data, apps, and workloads between them behind a virtualization layer.

@jameskobielus To me, this all comes down to customer experience, and eventually revenue building through data analytics.

To a degree, but everyone will need to embrace open APIs. The more closed a system, the harder it will be for it to remain flexible to changes in the public cloud for example. But public cloud isn't the only example.

Intercloud networking will be a major area of invention and investment over the next 5 years, especially as public cloud players invest in interdependent, high-value services.

A key step is considering the handoffs between teams that depend on the network to be successful. It's not just within the networking team but all the points of interaction too.

I believe right now we're concentrating on helping our customers achieve this in a multivendor scenario. We don't need to re-invent the wheel when it comes to offering infrastructure, we need to re-invent how our customers are using what's available.

We want to help our customers build the most reliable #multicloud infrastructure, with the most responsive workloads and the most predictive applications. Likely Juniper will differentiate ourselves because of what we offer via automation.