Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose
(2023/09/13)
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Analyst firm Gartner has observed its clients asking hyperscale cloud vendors to behave more like legacy tech vendors – and feels that might not be the worst thing to happen to organizations seeking to tap into the value of multi-cloud.
Speaking at the advisory org's Symposium in Australia yesterday, VP analyst Michael Warrilow recommended not adopting multi-cloud to improve availability or resilience, because it doesn't work.
"You get a patchwork of this bit connected to that bit," he said, but you'll struggle to improve resilience.
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Making multi-cloud work therefore requires buyers "to accept the lock-in."
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"That's what hyperscalers have done to you," he observed, adding "and funnily enough, you are doing to them as well."
"There is this dangerous connection we are starting to see, where you are training the hyperscalers to behave like traditional vendors and they are responding by hiring traditional sales people – and you get in this vicious circle."
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Warrilow nonetheless advocated planning for multi-cloud adoption – and adoption of tools to manage it – so you can diversify and avoid lock-in when it makes sense to do so. "For some of you concentration risk is a big issue," he said. Adopting multiple clouds to access best-of-breed services in one or the other is also sensible.
[5]Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in
[6]Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late
[7]What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem
[8]Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is
But he cautioned against cloud-first strategies. He advised that software-as-a-service is the most sensible first step into the cloud, followed by platform-as-a-service, and finally infrastructure-as-a-service.
Warrilow also advocated going cloud-native – which in Gartner-speak denotes using services that only clouds can offer, rather than a software development model. The analyst mentioned elasticity as a service users should employ.
"We are still buying cloud like we used to buy hardware and software," he observed. "We're locking into multi-year contracts. And as a result, you don't focus on elasticity."
That's a missed opportunity, he said, because organizations have realized that "lift and shift" cloud application migrations aren't particularly effective. Optimizing applications to run in clouds by using cloud-native services delivers better outcomes. ®
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[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/dell_apex_storage_cloud/
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Speaking at the advisory org's Symposium in Australia yesterday, VP analyst Michael Warrilow recommended not adopting multi-cloud to improve availability or resilience, because it doesn't work.
"You get a patchwork of this bit connected to that bit," he said, but you'll struggle to improve resilience.
[1]
Making multi-cloud work therefore requires buyers "to accept the lock-in."
[2]
[3]
"That's what hyperscalers have done to you," he observed, adding "and funnily enough, you are doing to them as well."
"There is this dangerous connection we are starting to see, where you are training the hyperscalers to behave like traditional vendors and they are responding by hiring traditional sales people – and you get in this vicious circle."
[4]
Warrilow nonetheless advocated planning for multi-cloud adoption – and adoption of tools to manage it – so you can diversify and avoid lock-in when it makes sense to do so. "For some of you concentration risk is a big issue," he said. Adopting multiple clouds to access best-of-breed services in one or the other is also sensible.
[5]Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in
[6]Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late
[7]What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem
[8]Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is
But he cautioned against cloud-first strategies. He advised that software-as-a-service is the most sensible first step into the cloud, followed by platform-as-a-service, and finally infrastructure-as-a-service.
Warrilow also advocated going cloud-native – which in Gartner-speak denotes using services that only clouds can offer, rather than a software development model. The analyst mentioned elasticity as a service users should employ.
"We are still buying cloud like we used to buy hardware and software," he observed. "We're locking into multi-year contracts. And as a result, you don't focus on elasticity."
That's a missed opportunity, he said, because organizations have realized that "lift and shift" cloud application migrations aren't particularly effective. Optimizing applications to run in clouds by using cloud-native services delivers better outcomes. ®
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/15/accept_cloud_lockin/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/dell_apex_storage_cloud/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/servicenow_intergated_cloud_observability/
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Sir Sham Cad
My philosophy on Cloud is never put anything important in a cloud provider that you cannot lift-and-shift back on-prem. I'm not a fan of Serverless instances for that reason.
Doctor Syntax
"that might not be the worst thing to happen to organizations seeking to tap into the value of multi-cloud"
Of course not. There's earthquake, fire, flood, famine, nuclear war....
Lock in - always been a thing
thondwe
Lock in for any Software system has always been a thing - cloud no exception. You'd just as easy get "locked in" to Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel, or a specific C compiler...
IaaS looks on face to be "safe" but VM drivers, networking setup, agents for monitors... PaaS, SaaS, on site systems, etc nearly always a lock in as soon as you start using the useful unique functionality that you bought the thing for!
Cloudy operators have their customers
by the short and curlies when it comes to wanting to leave. The costs of the divorce would make Kanye/Kim blush, they are that high.
I think of them as being like drug dealers. "here, come and try my wares". Then you are hooked and bound and gagged to their service for eternity.
Those heavy rainstorms we are now getting is just a sign of a cloud provided shitting on a customer.
Before long, those providers and we all know who the major ones are will start taking over the businesses of their clients. That is step 2 in the 'Guide to Borg Assimilation'. You have been warned for years and years but the dumb FSKERS still keep on coming. Cloudy anything should carry a warning 'This is addictive as Fentanyl and as dangerous'.