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Cloud bursting is definitely one. Elastic compute in cloud, long term storage in datacenter.

federated ID management across multi-organizations , bursting, backup and cost reduction (by moving systems out of managed service provider claws)

just working with a VFX house who had their busiest pilot season ever, bought zero new gear, burst to cloud for everything

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.

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.

Backup is an easy way to get started with #hybridcloud. On-premises secondary copies, with tiering to cloud.

@andriven agree cloud bursting is a huge challenge, also think if you can make it happen, it provides the most obvious value

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.

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

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.

Archive in hybrid cloud is real. Just needs to be paired with analytics to understand what might need to be retrieved.

@dinisco Absolutely agree - there's huge potential value/market there that no one has truly unlocked yet.

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.

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

@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.

@steve_pao cloud-bursting? please explain/defend, because moving data is challenging

Obviously Saleforce dominates the conversation. How many data center managers are building operations based on SF integration?

@CTOAdvisor totally agree, very ez to demonstrate the value of SaaS that works, IaaS is harder

@CTOAdvisor Agree with integrating IaaS layer with apps. Azure get more interesting because of Azure AD + O365.

@andriven All of the serious providers are offering colocation of the ecosystem of enterprise apps.

@CTOAdvisor Hosted @Epic hosted @cerner - there's a long list...

@CTOAdvisor Yes. Amazing how even condo HOA's use prem.force.com!

@CTOAdvisor great point about vertical cloud bc that speaks to hybrid use cases expanding imho

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.

without.

@CTOAdvisor I would add to that also by saying moving from large capital investments to operational model key transition factor

@CTOAdvisor yes agree totally

It depends on the industry. Smaller businesses are leveraging DR in the cloud

@CTOAdvisor The HCI manufactures are making it easy to do DR / Backup to the cloud

@csharney I might agree with that comment. ;)

I wouldn't call it server backups but companies are putting tertiary copy's of backups to the cloud so maybe archival is a better answer

I don't think people really know why. They are still trying to figure it out.

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.