First there was cloud – public as well as private. Then hybrid cloud. And now we have multi-cloud. And hybrid IT. And what about hybrid multi-cloud?
In spite of this excess of buzzwords, the enterprise shift to cloud-native architectures represents a profound change in how large organizations plan, deploy, and leverage their IT infrastructure investments.
Many trends have converged to create this infrastructure paradigm shift.
Virtualization technologies are now ubiquitous as both web scale organizations and traditional enterprises move to containerized environments that support microservices architectures.
Another important trend: after many years of false starts, private clouds are finally becoming a reality – not simply hosted virtualization, but seamlessly elastic cloud environments with public cloud-like self service capabilities, both via user interfaces and APIs.
Building a ‘Data Fabric’
Every vendor in the IT infrastructure space, regardless of its specialty, must ride this wave of transformation. One company that is all in: NetApp.
Historically known for its SolidFire storage offering, NetApp presented a revamped corporate strategy at this week’s Insight user conference. “You need to move your thinking from data centers to data fabrics,” explained George Kurian, CEO of NetApp. “Particularly for incumbents who are not born digital, your data is your single most important strategic advantage.”
‘Data fabric’ is another of those vendor buzzwords that sounds promising, but leaves you wondering what it means. In the case of NetApp, the story begins with how it’s leveraging its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offerings.
Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/10/25/netapp-brings-clarity-and-simplicity-to-hybrid-multi-cloud-for-dreamworks/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, NetApp is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. NetApp covered Jason Bloomberg’s expenses at Insight, a standard industry practice. Image credit: Amber.
