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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.

Yes, vendors and partners will need to ramp up services to help customers. We really need to put our customers in the best position possible, or else we'll all fall flat on our faces. It's in our best interest, as Juniper, to help customers beyond day 0/day 1.

There will NEED to be more collaboration among IT teams, but also with the business side as well.

More things to work together as a mix of offerings and capabilities needed to meet different business requirements

Multicloud accelerates the need to bring simplification, automation and security in a consistent and scalable way.

The trend to multicloud is driving the trend toward software-defined data centers that can flexibly span private and public clouds, with seamless movement of data, apps, and workloads between them behind a virtualization layer.

@jameskobielus To me, this all comes down to customer experience, and eventually revenue building through data analytics.

To a degree, but everyone will need to embrace open APIs. The more closed a system, the harder it will be for it to remain flexible to changes in the public cloud for example. But public cloud isn't the only example.

Intercloud networking will be a major area of invention and investment over the next 5 years, especially as public cloud players invest in interdependent, high-value services.

A key step is considering the handoffs between teams that depend on the network to be successful. It's not just within the networking team but all the points of interaction too.