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digital business requires agility and enterprise networking can help achieve it by building a Multicloud environment that can help leverage the right cloud when needed

To be honest, it's really about making money. That's why businesses exist. The more biz can move to a digital transformation, the more possibilities of profits exist. IT needs to be an enabler in this, rather than a road block. We need to stop just being a cost center.

Digital is speed. Speed of change becomes a core attribute. Finding ways simplify networks can increase agility.

improve focus on business outcomes being able to chose the right cloud at the right time for each workload

Cloud is an operating model. Private clouds that are fungible and reliable are part of a multi-cloud hybrid strategy. One powerful construct is to use a Cloud-first model, and update and manage private clouds from an "Uber" cloud.

I think it's pretty subjective currently. Personally, I think of hybrid cloud as a company taking on maybe one major public cloud for some of their applications. Multicloud is managing multiple cloud in one way, making a lot of the infrastructure invisible (pub or priv)

Multicloud’s true benefit is the ability to operate across both private and public clouds, on and off premises, as a single entity.

@yusukekanamori Another key point to remember is that its not always about mixing private and public. Multicloud can also be private only

@alamontagne 100% YES!

@alamontagne Yes, I agree. The key is operating different environments as a single entity. So, multicloud is more an operational condition.

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We can't jump into SDN without being fully prepared in all pillars, especially with legacy and cloud-native applications. If we go too soon to SDN, without planning well, we'll all end up shooting ourselves in the foot.

processes and people need to evolve from supporting servers to support workloads. Security will continue to be central to the new mode of operation. Assure agility is achieved.

A key process is to build availability into an application, & not as an operational add-on. That means the tools have to be in place to determine the application state against SLAs, and automate processes to recover. Issuing an operator alert is no longer sufficient!

Absolutely. I would almost say security is under the umbrella of reliability.

The answer to this is always RELIABILITY!

Don't speed up creating fires, make sure you're not creating them to begin with.

Agility is a key benefit from automation. This supports the business to win big in their space. The right cloud is available when needed in a secure and consistent way.

The objectives of IT should not change. Automation is a how, not a why. Automation lets us deliver more reliable and secure services so that work can be done.

The main purpose of automation is to improve reliability. That also means that the tools used for automation have to be reliable. An example of a poor tool is Scripts. The requirement is for well tested and battle hardened APIs as the foundation for reliable operations.