This show was recorded pre the announcement on August 27th, 2018 of CloudHealth Technologies acquisition by VMware.
This is the 3rd in our series looking at the move to public cloud, the challenges involved and some of the tips and technologies that can help you to overcome them. In this episode we look at perhaps the biggest challenge facing most organisations moving to public cloud, the issues of multi-cloud.
A few weeks ago I published a post about multi-cloud becoming the technology industries holy grail (Tech and the holy multi cloud grail) as they look at ways to extract the complexity from multi-cloud environments and allow us to build solutions that encompass our infrastructure be it on-prem, in a co-lo or a public hyperscale provider. The benefits of multi-cloud deployments are many and will be a major part of our future use of cloud.
On this weeks show we look at those issues surrounding multi-cloud and particularly how to manage it, maintain cost efficiency, govern and ensure security of our cloud based assets. To discuss this I’m joined by Joe Kinsella CTO and Founder of CloudHealth Tech, a company that have built a platform to pull together information from numerous environments, consolidate it into one place and allow you to make informed, proactive decisions to ensure you use your technology in the best way you can.
During the episode we explore some wide-ranging topics, we look at why complexity is an issue, how multi-cloud was initially “stumbled upon” but is now becoming a chosen strategy. We ask why don’t we expect cloud to be complex when much of what we do in our datacentres is very complicated? Joe also confesses that 3-4 years ago he was predicting the death of the on-prem DC and why he has revaluated that with hybrid becoming the deployment reality.
We also discuss the traits for successful multi-cloud deployment and why a cloud first strategy isn’t about everything in the cloud, but more about can we use cloud? should we use cloud?
We wrap up discussing the CloudHealth Tech platform, what it does and how it helps to manage a multi-cloud environment by pulling together clouds, on-prem and automation platforms, connecting all the information to provide the business insights needed for proactive decision making. Finally, we look at the maturity of cloud management and how it needs to move beyond cost control and embrace security and governance as the evolution of multi-cloud management.
Joe gives some great insight and CloudHealth Technologies deliver a very powerful platform, so powerful that VMware saw fit to acquire them.
To find out more about CloudHealth Tech you can visit their website www.cloudhealthtech.com
Follow them on twitter @cloudhealthtech
You can find out more from Joe on twitter @joekinsella, his CloudHealth Tech blog www.cloudhealthtech.com/blog and finally his own blog hightechinthehub.com.
Enjoy and thanks for listening.
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