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EDITOR’S QUESTION
IAN JANSEN VAN RENSBURG
– VMWARE SENIOR
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
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ulti-cloud, hybrid cloud, public
cloud, private data centre.
Whatever name you give it, they all
have one thing in common: applications. Old,
traditional and cloud-native applications.
The majority of customers are already
making use of the public cloud to access
Software-as-a-Service applications like
Microsoft’s Office 365. There are also
several other examples such as Sales Force,
Workday, Concur, Google Apps and Amazon
Web Services.
Most customers have a multi-cloud
infrastructure, making use of old and
traditional applications in their private data
centre and the SaaS apps in the public cloud.
Customers with large development teams
prefer to work in the public cloud domain to
ensure agility and a quicker time to market.
Several other companies were even born in
the cloud, such as Uber, PayPal and Airbnb.
The big benefit for customers making use of
their own data centre is that they have full
control of the costs, security and the location
of the data. The larger financial customers in
South Africa are on a hybrid cloud journey.
VMware is making it possible for these
customers to run their old, traditional and
cloud native application in their private
data centre or seamlessly move it to any
one of the VMware’s cloud partners (AWS,
Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM and Alibaba).
It should be all about choice that enables
customers to get their applications quicker to
the market in a secure, cost effective way.
Hybrid cloud is driven primarily by IT
operations teams who have established a
proven model for infrastructure within the
data centre. They are pursuing an extension
to the data centre that gives them the
flexibility to support their mission-critical
applications, to rapidly migrate to the cloud
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THE BIG BENEFIT
FOR CUSTOMERS
MAKING USE
OF THEIR OWN
DATA CENTRE IS
THAT THEY HAVE
FULL CONTROL
OF THE COSTS,
SECURITY AND
THE LOCATION OF
THE DATA.
with minimal cost and effort, to leverage
the cloud for on-demand scale and extend
the core processes required to support
applications and infrastructure. The hybrid
cloud journey is focused on creating a single
set of resources that are both integrated
and interoperable. Based on consistent
infrastructure and consistent operations,
the hybrid cloud architecture spans the
private cloud, public cloud and edge. In
order to support the needs of applications,
organisations are pursuing a range of
alternative initiatives to give the business
access to the most powerful infrastructure
services from any source.
Most organisations are targeting multiple
initiatives to varying degrees all at the
same time, based on their individual
needs. It is the rare exception for a
company to be exclusively pursuing a data
centre modernisation or a pure public
cloud initiative.
In summary, it’s really about business
innovation and having the correct tools
in place to support it. Some companies
might opt for a public cloud only strategy,
others hybrid but one thing remains, the
customer experience.
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