Digital cloud
ecosystems connect everyone to apps, data, and devices.
Image: Digital, cloud ecosystems connect
everyone to apps, data, and devices
Source: Forrester’s “Cloud Powers the New Connected
Economy” report.
Top 10 factors influencing
enterprise cloud strategy.
1) Digital strategy
2) Existing investments
3) Balancing priorities
4) Existing app details
5) Location
6) Culture
7) Talent
8) Dev scale
9) Types of apps
10) Money
And everyone is going
hybrid cloud.
Implementations/environments of unique vendors:
- Five+ vendors 19%
- Four vendors 6%
- Three vendors 12%
- Two vendors 25%
- One vendor* 38%
*Includes 0 vendors.
Why hybrid? Because
enterprises are pursuing three cloud strategies at once.
1) We want to build new apps on cloud-native
platforms.
Q: Which cloud ecosystem or platform is right for us?
2) We want to add cloud services to existing apps.
Q: Which cloud services and integration tools are
required?
3) We want to optimize the IT we own & run.
Q: How to create consistency across on-prem and off?
Hybrid is a set of new
challenges
Image: Hybrid is a set of new challenges
The 5 big trends
shaping cloud through 2020
1. Modernization of complex enterprise apps
2. Containers everywhere key to platform success
3. Empowering agile devs and digital
transformers
4. Cloud service providers seek app, geo or industry
niches
5. Hybrid is the standard and someone’s got to
manage it
Everything about apps
is changing at once, enabled by and pioneered in cloud
App Infrastructures: Physical Servers ->
Virtual Servers -> Containers
& Serverless
Development Styles: Waterfall -> DevOps -> Agile
App Architectures: Monolithic -> Multi-Tiered
-> Microservices
Calls to Action
Q: What are you client’s top business drivers?
Q: Who is driving their cloud decisions?
Q: What is their multicloud mix?
Q: Who is driving data analysis and AI at their firm?
Q: What level of edge compute needs is your client
preparing to address?
Knowledge Check
Across many industries, hybrid cloud management is being
broken into specific services, being added for free as part of managed public
cloud offerings and being built out by native services.
The value that an organization can deliver to customers
is the primary concern of cloud decision makes who are both line-of-business
owners and IT professionals. Adoption of private cloud strategies is not
necessarily becoming more critical than adoption of public cloud strategies,
but there is a need for both to work together. This condition is where the need
for hybrid cloud management arises and why there is a strong need for hybrid
cloud management options. Only the NetApp stack of services provides
industry-leading solutions for customers’ hybrid cloud management needs.
Customers value all of these Cloud advantages to drive
business value:
- Speed
- Agility
- Flexibility
- Ability to focus on core competencies
A company’s financial statement is no longer the leading
influencer of adopting a cloud strategy.
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