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Is hybrid a fad? Will we still be discussing hybrid environments in 5 years?
Rich Miller
Not a 'fad'. And, yes, we'll probably be talking about hybrid cloud in 5 years, but for different reasons.
John Furrier
No way it's the natural progression for the new IT and business applications that are and will be built
Rich Miller
As security & data governance generally is accepted in the cloud, the decision as to where the best storage venture and the best workload execution venue will want to be a late-binding decision.
Michael J Dorosh
Definitely not a fad, in fact, the most likely defacto model.
John Furrier
@rhm2k AWS announcement today about Germany availability zone is proof the global consumption of cloud (data) is complicated but it's happening
Adam Wray
Agreed, not a fad, but I'd bet the buzz words morph over time to incorporate more subtleties, such as on premise, public or SaaS environments vs generality
Duncan Johnston-Watt
Definitely not a fad unless you see enterprise adoption of a cloud as a fad!
Michael J Dorosh
@adamjwray Yeah, on prem, pub, hosted private, SaaS.
Rich Miller
Hybrid is a 'fashion statement'. It's really about how we'll need to compose cloud-based applications in the future.
Rich Miller
Sorry. That should be: Hybrid is NOT a 'fashion statement.'
Duncan Johnston-Watt
5 years out we'll simply tap into cloud for whatever we need - hybrid will be seamless foundation
Mike Onsing
I'm in the marketing business and all the great apps are SaaS based so cloud is the best infrastructure to run new apps on
Duncan Johnston-Watt
In other words our job as enablers is to provide right level of abstraction - we are at the start of this journey
Mike Onsing
To me the business model of cloud is key because it allows for the freemium land and expand value prop. I (my customers) don't overpay for tech they aren't using. Buy as you grow is very compelling for me and customers
Kelly Meade
hybrid cloud is definitely not a fad--but in 5 years it will just be a natural progression/way of doing biz so no need to talk specifically about it
John Furrier
SaaS based anything is a winner bc you can turn it off if it doesn't work; reduces the risk; IT is more complicated in that there are compliance issues
Duncan Johnston-Watt
final thought on hybrid - He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it. Wittgenstein
Shubham Anand
we wont be talking about it.. but that doesn't mean hybrid would phase out but then.. it will still be the model in use however the abstraction in technology would not talk about such very common elements of infrastructure/ computing.
