John Furrier43
Q3: What applications are driving hybrid cloud use cases? Backup? Archival? Cloud bursting?
Stephen Pao
Cloud bursting is definitely one. Elastic compute in cloud, long term storage in datacenter.
Chris Dagdigian
federated ID management across multi-organizations , bursting, backup and cost reduction (by moving systems out of managed service provider claws)
jeff dinisco
just working with a VFX house who had their busiest pilot season ever, bought zero new gear, burst to cloud for everything
Andrew Miller
Absolutely Archive with Backup a close second - are seeing lots of customers replace tape with cloud archives. Cloud Bursting is great in theory but still really hard in practice given the weight of data and LAN vs. WAN speeds.
Andrew Miller
Also seeing test/dev drive it...spot pricing on AWS can even help there. This works given an underlying mechanism to move data around and leverage EC2/Azure instances on the fly.
Stephen Pao
Backup is an easy way to get started with #hybridcloud. On-premises secondary copies, with tiering to cloud.
jeff dinisco
@andriven agree cloud bursting is a huge challenge, also think if you can make it happen, it provides the most obvious value
Andrew Miller
There's dreams around DR but still automation/orchestration to be worked out there - it's variable across the space how much is baked out there.
John Furrier
All three but bursting has broader use cases that drive variable revenue. backup and archival must be standard so it's a hard decision different both valuable use cases
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
I think archive and backup is a dominant use case. I'm not sure for how long. Enterprises will figure out Object storage and offer a comparable cost to cloud based storage.
Stephen Pao
Archive in hybrid cloud is real. Just needs to be paired with analytics to understand what might need to be retrieved.
Andrew Miller
@dinisco Absolutely agree - there's huge potential value/market there that no one has truly unlocked yet.
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
But you have to think beyond the IaaS layer. SAP is a good example. Cloud hosted enterprise apps make sense as cloud providers show greater ability to support the app than the enterprise. SAP in the cloud, bolt on in the private DC.
Chris Dagdigian
I'm starting to see an interesting edge case where people arbitrage against discounted bandwidth from the cloud providers. For instance US-Europe connectivity between branch offices may be cheaper routed through an AWS transit VPC
Andrew Miller
@CTOAdvisor There are even some providers (Cerner for instance) that will host just not just their own app but specific other apps that integrate closely or need to be at LAN speeds to the core app.
Stuart Miniman
@steve_pao cloud-bursting? please explain/defend, because moving data is challenging
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
Obviously Saleforce dominates the conversation. How many data center managers are building operations based on SF integration?
jeff dinisco
@CTOAdvisor totally agree, very ez to demonstrate the value of SaaS that works, IaaS is harder
Stephen Pao
@CTOAdvisor Agree with integrating IaaS layer with apps. Azure get more interesting because of Azure AD + O365.
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
@andriven All of the serious providers are offering colocation of the ecosystem of enterprise apps.
Stephen Pao
@CTOAdvisor Yes. Amazing how even condo HOA's use prem.force.com!
John Furrier
@CTOAdvisor great point about vertical cloud bc that speaks to hybrid use cases expanding imho
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
IaaS becomes an enablement for legacy software providers to remain relevant. Elastic compute allows for a business model where they run software they write for the customer with heavy capital investment.
John Furrier
@CTOAdvisor I would add to that also by saying moving from large capital investments to operational model key transition factor
John Furrier
@CTOAdvisor yes agree totally