John Furrier40
Wild Card Question: What the heck is "multi-cloud" anyway?
Chris Dwan
When one of us uses Azure and the other uses GCS, and we have to interoperate.
Andrew Miller
it's the happy, buzzy, credibility-building successor to "hybrid cloud"
Chris Dwan
it's the reality that we live in now that there are legacy cloud environments.
Patrick Rogers
Hybrid cloud is a compromise. Multi-cloud means you've removed the distinction between on-premises and public cloud.
Jeff Hughes
Pricing arbitrage, feature arbitrage
Chris Dwan
@jhughes I know zero people who actually do pricing arbitrage between cloud vendors.
I am John White
Go to LHC1809bu at VMworld to find out! I have been asking people this question for a while. Most say it is when they use multiple clouds. Not a fan of that response.
Andrew Miller
if I'm a bit less cynical, I see it was companies living in multiple IaaS or PaaS environments, doing so intentionally, and thinking about how to move workloads back and forth. SaaS sits outside of that.
John Furrier
@fdmts this is my pet peeve bc many just think multi-cloud is apps on one cloud and others on another. Not really multicloud in my mind. Latency is huge issue
Chris Dwan
@johna_white Well what's a better one? Wide area ESX?
Stuart Miniman
AWS ☑️ Azure ☑️ GCP ☑️ - all the ☁️s
Patrick Rogers
Cloud is not one destination. Most enterprises will rely upon a collection of Multi-Clouds.
jeff dinisco
why use one cloud provider when you can spend twice as much with 2
Chris Dwan
Smearing a single app across multiple cloud providers is almost always a mistake.
Andrew Miller
@fdmts It's a "nice to demo" feature but even if you do live costing the portability is too hard to be worth it often due to the weight moving data. It almost cries out for a cloud data management layer. ;)
I am John White
Hybrid cloud will be the way of the future once you get common data and network planes working across multiple clouds. It will allow for much better decision making and curation of cloud.
Dave Vellante
There is a spectrum implied in multi-cloud - to some its JBOC (just a bunch of clouds) to others it's federated hybrid cloud with application logic spanning clouds
Patrick Rogers
Data at rest in the cloud is cheap. Why lock yourself into a single cloud provider.
Chris Dwan
@patrickrogersca Lock yourself into a single cloud provider and get on with solving business use cases. Not worth the time to optimize between the major public providers.
Stephen Pao
@fdmts Actually, I don't know if the multi cloud application here is really arbitrage but rather using other clouds like Azure when you want to integrate with Active Directory or Google when you want to use some special capabilities (AI / ML) primitives.
Kenneth Hui @rubrikInc HQ
Some users are treating multi-cloud like they did with multi-OS. Choosing different clouds for different apps based on bit or preference.
Kenneth Hui @rubrikInc HQ
For example, most workloads in AWS run in Linux while most in Azure, it's Windows.
I am John White
@fdmts Could be acceptable... NSX plus Linked vCenters will allow you to use multiple cloud locations as one.