Posts by Wobble1

Hybrid cloud is a neat concept – but we need to be able to move data

Re: Completely overlooking the obvious

Hi Lusty,

Designing an app for the cloud can absolutely replace the requirement for running on-prem with outsourced IaaS. I'm a huge advocate of cloud native where its actually possible. However, operating multiple clouds is a real thing, not marketing - and I cringe when people think its that easy to change an entire business or line of business to adopt cloud in the way its meant to be used.

The problem is that your example uses probably one of the easiest possible workloads (ecommerce website) to make the point. Cloud is not the answer to everything and its businesses like AWS that forget this (even though i still believe they will release some type of on-prem version ala Azure Stack or Oracle Cloud on prem). Also, its not as easy as turning up to work and saying "lets get native". The process is long, arduous, requires strict governance and cultural change. Its easier for start ups or small to mid-business, but for large global enterprises with overlapping areas of concern its not.

Large enterprises are still barely even scrapping the barrel with cloud in relation to on-prem vs cloud ratio (for many reasons including the above) and this will be the case for years to come - this is the target market for vendors and this is why they are playing the hybrid card. There is still lots of money to be made in this arena.

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While we weren't looking, the WAN changed

I agree. I've implemented and designed some interesting things in my career that covers all infrastructure elements but networking is the one thing that i continue to find interesting. Also, the people that intimately know networking and its concepts have a great advantage in every other field

I love it. Its almost a science to understand fully and has been the one skill set that i have consistently used throughout my career.

The WAN has been capable of doing that for the last 15 years. Nothing new here, move along

Could NetApp's purchase of SolidFire see the end of ONTAP?

cool story bro ^^

Could NetApp buy SolidFire? It would be outside its comfort zone

Re: wut?

Check out things like OCI, SDS and cloud integration (Data Fabric). AFF is just one part of the NetApp story. Plenty of innovation, its just this website only seems to focus on IOPs...

wut?

SolidFire has some great capabilities in QoS for sure hence how they resonate in the SP market but I do not see it threatening NetApp with its flash capability.

It is mentioned that NetApp isn't making progress in "cloud provision-style IT shops" - Chris what are you referring to here, please elaborate? NetApp has QoS, API presentation for orchestrators, automation, multi-tenancy, and scale-out too and has had an enormous uptake by service providers and enterprises looking to become service providers to their business. Software-defined and management/monitoring capabilities with OnCommand Insight is there too.

Its had a tough few years for ONTAP due to the transition but its integration into multiple ecosystems is unparalleled. NetApp are the biggest vendor contributor to OpenStack and you cannot deny it's capabilities with its integration into apps. Building a strategy around an OS (CDOT) that A) Can deliver on scale, availability and speed, B) Can operate in numerous deployment models (On-prem, AWS appliance) is not a bad thing..