Data Definer16
Q6: What are the advantages of having your data center model span private and public clouds?
Nick Howell
True public cloud offerings seem to be focused on the consumer market, but I believe we'll begin to see Enterprise apps move there as well. Eventually you get a choice of moving data between, or going "whole-hog" and working out of the Cloud directly.
Ed Morgan ☁️🦄
A lot of companies aren't ready to put all their data in the cloud - a hybrid model enables them to keep physical ownership on what the business decides is too valuable to trust outside of their hardware... Still lots of trust issues around cloud storage..
Data Definer
By having a common data platform, it enables entirely new capabilities such as automatic translation between VM formats whenever data is moved. What else?
Sean Luce
Geographic redundancy; being able to maintain SLAs during site disasters or maintenance windows.
Nick Howell
Advantages of a hybrid model include moving CapEx spend o OpEx "subscriptions" with pay-as-you-go, off-site DRaaS, and the removal of the need to maintain monolithic datacenters and the required staff.
Nick Howell
Focus on DevOps, and shift staff accordingly.
John Zemonek
Having the flexibility to choose which applications reside in which environment gives IT leaders options they may not have otherwise.
John Furrier
handling the diversity of workloads becomes a concern for CxOs and there is no one solution.