The cloud is reshaping technology choices, development paradigms, and tech business models. How do you see it affecting vendor/IT engagement practices? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/85qag
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Maish Saidel-Keesing (☁️🚀☁️🚀☁️)
Engagements are going change to how does this choice affect what I deploy in the cloud today - and how I manage my cloud. This will traverse Management, Devops, security, storage and data. If they do not accommodate how I use the cloud - then they will not be a viable option
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jameskobielus
Cloud is making self-service the IT/vendor engagement model for even the larger, more complex buys. Going forward, it's hard not to see AWS, Azure, and others scaling back direct sales as buyers using self-service marketplaces for bigger-ticket items.
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Dave Vellante
traditional vendors have no choice but to pick cloud partners - they bring a lot to the table in terms of customer relationships and services but the historic intel and msft partnerships are morphing to cloud partnerships.
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Sarbjeet Johal
The gap between when stuff get produced/released to when it is consumed is shrunk to almost zero days. Old days of releasing things in half-hazard way are a thing of the past. Your service is your press-release ;) Old guard need to understand this clearly!
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John Furrier
The vendor customer relationship will be automated away and value relationship will ensue after - a new model will emerge imho
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Sarbjeet Johal
Any vendors which don'y play well with mega-platforms (AWS Google Microsoft Alibaba Tencent) will suffer.
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Sarbjeet Johal
Old guard vendors must invest heavily into marketing for developers... A must ....