James Maguire30
Q4. How do you recommend fixing the challenge(s) you pointed out?
Chris Ehrlich
A4: Proactive market standardization, building with open-source, built-in security, and security vendors as secondary measure
Ram Venkatesh
@Chris_Ehrlich completely agree, open is the best way to avoid trading off one type of lock-in for another
Ramesh Prabagaran
First deep breaths always help :-). But in all seriousness, invest in a layer on top of cloud-native capabilities. Think about how to achieve outcomes / experience / simplicity. We have several examples of this - Terraform for IaC, Redis / snowflake for data/DB
Chris Ehrlich
A4: Also, specialist vendors will solve the central management issue. The opportunity to own the category is too large to leave unsolved.
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James Maguire
@ramesh Is this top layer a management layer?
Ramesh Prabagaran
@Chris_Ehrlich +1 for using opensource and strive for some level of standardization. Challenge is knowing when to use cloud-native (because of its advantages) vs when to invest on top
Michael Liebow
A4. there's a serious resistence to change that is preventing orgs from capitalizing on new technology.
Ramesh Prabagaran
Management & visibility certainly, but it cloud also be a shim on top of core capabilities. In the infrastructure space, this could mean security APIs, proxies etc. Ultimately you want to operating on top of this common layer - not the underlying constructs
BMC Software
@ramsba When adding a top layer across different cloud environments is important and key is mapping that to business services.
Michael Liebow
you can always hire a bunch of consultants. :-) But seriously, orgs need to take responsibility and establish a Dev_Sec_Fin_Ops approach with consistent policy, security and oversight.
Michael Liebow
@cloudDay_2 critically important to realize that the vendors, skills, tools, workflows that worked for you in the past, don't necessarily apply to the future.