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execs in the enterprises

admins in green field or startup environments

in my world the drivers have been business app/service owners in IT orgs or high-level power users / scientists from the R&D side of the fence.

It's really customer by customer. Execs don't care about hybrid cloud per se but want increased flexibility/lower cost and from their peers are starting to see the challenges in public cloud for certain apps.

So if hybrid cloud gets them there, they're all for it - call it a dose of realism.

Lines of business are often more SaaS focused as they don't know the underlying mechanics...but if/when SaaS doesn't work/isn't secure/doesn't integrate will be open to an option that actually works.

@dinisco I've seen execs drive "cloud first" and get brought to hybrid cloud by their line of business or IT teams.

Stu @wikibon just talked about this the other day with #Cloud Service provider chat https://www.crowdcha...

Here is the thread on who will be the buyer of #cloud services https://www.crowdcha...

In general seeing hybrid cloud move through the hype cycle where it's not a perceived panacea but a legitimate option that helps customers move in the "right direction" / move the dial.

Keith Townsend @ctoadvisor said "Business. I don't readily see the value IT offers in the purchasing relationship today. That may change over the next couple of years. Today, I find it hard to define enough value for it to change."

I will say the smarter IT folks I see are using hybrid cloud to get ahead of the general trends and reduce the amount of reactionary work.

@andriven Agree on line of business often being driven to SaaS in certain green field environments, but I see many wanting the agility to augment cloud with what they already have. Particularly in analytics.

And at times hybrid cloud can be driven by the Line of Business when the AWS bills skyrocket. ;)

It is often still a fragmented application-based decision as to what bucket to use - SaaS/on-premises/public cloud. "hybrid" comes back as the state of what they are using today.

Josha Stella @joshstella said "lots of bottom up will continue, but in that more strategic context, which means there is risk of losing some of the benefit of cloud in speed to delivery."

@steve_pao agreed. Hybrid cloud is a capability play driven by high-level execs and lower-level engineers; especially in research and science spaces.

Funny but serious comment was that maybe "bots" will be determining the buying aka automation but that speaks to setting up architecture first

lines of biz used to create shadow IT, never worked that well, AWS now legitimizes this approach

I actually love the concept of AI driven markets determine in real time best place to run/move applications...like the Chicago commodity exchange but more.

I was riffing the other day about infrastructure being like "stock market" with valuation metrics. If that happens the infrastructure will be tied to revenue and value. thought exercise

@steve_pao Often just gets back to "sunk cost" or the true cost of cloud when run it all the time.

Cloud today feels like VDI in 2006 there are lots of reasons to do it but not everyone is all in

@csharney Is it the "Year of Cloud"? Or was that last year? Or next year? Or all the years? ;)

Year of the Cloud again

It depends o the industry, biogen definitely is moving storage to the cloud

accelerating for sure but at varying rates and directions

absolutely accelerating - hybrid and multi #cloud is top of mind. Most companies are building the strategy - like any good strategy, it needs to be a bit flexible at this point in industry maturity.

Absolutely accelerating - literally heard yesterday that "Cloud Only isn't viable but Cloud First is very important".

clearly accelerating, driven to some extent by integration with on prem appliances/systems

Hybrid is more of a reality then ever as the #multicloud value is being touted

I think multicloud is a future but not in sight yet in terms of workloads moving across clouds so hybrid is stepping stone to this vision

Hybrid cloud (when done right) is moving out of "Pollyanna" mode into actually delivering the previously impossible combo of more flexibility at lower cost.

On our side, we're definitely seeing interest from different directions. Both from those that were all on-premises and from that those that think of themselves as "cloud first."

On Premise cloud or True Private Cloud is the action we are seeing at @theCUBE events as a conversation among architects

I will say we're starting to see the beginnings of multi cloud for some customers...more than none but still just the beginnings.

moving workloads is a separate issue. my current definition is that hybrid means both on-premises (or hosted) and public cloud. Multi-cloud means multiples of the options incl AWS/Azure/GCP

A key element to this remains data created at the "edge" forcing some on-premises footprint, yet desiring cloud native applications.

there's also increased realism among enterprises execs about how possible refactoring applications is and in what timeframes (let's talk Cobol for instance)

hype curve still disgusting. We also see orgs getting destroyed by C-level execs who shout "cloud first!" without being able to do math or due diligence upfront

gr8 point @steve_pao #iot edge will be driving more data thus more clou

we're seeing the cloud and on-prem division split by app more often than apps that are able to burst into cloud which is where most want to be

@dinisco Yes - becomes an app by app selection and/or analysis. Tedious but the only way to practically do it given the practical reality of "lift and shift" success rates.

@chris_dag Agree with the "cloud first" push from C-level execs often skipping the analysis of data origins or usage patterns.

Lynn Langit‏ @lynnlangit said
Decelerating - rather I've seen momentum toward cloud vendors in addition to AWS, particularly Azure

I'm posting from Palo Alto. Where is everyone posting from? It's going to be hot in Silicon Valley

Welcome - I've got a lot of thoughts here!

hi all - between physical and virtual events, I'm not sure where I am 😉

It's a sunny day in Seattle! Igneous is headquartered here in Belltown!

Am on the 35th floor of the Hyatt Regency Chicago looking at the Chicago River myself.

Glad to be here. Nice day in Boston

we'll give folks time to jump in from LinkedIn Twitter and Facebook come on in folks

@chris_dag it is lovely in MA today - been hearing everyone talking about the tall ships

surfs up in Manhattan Beach, CA

@dinisco I wish that I was rollerbladding on the strand today

Am here for AHEAD's #LookingAHEAD2017 conference today.

Happy to be here!

C- level definitely pushing a cloud first strategy. It is seems to be more Line of business driven though

There is still a huge skills gap, not everyone has taken the time to get comfortable with cloud or which cloud platform to choose