Best practices for PaaS, OpenStack, & cloud adoption · 2018-02-06 · Cloud Computing DAVID...

Best practices for PaaS, OpenStack, & cloud adoption

David S. Linthicum, Cloud Technology Partners Gordon Haff , Red Hat

Which emerging technologies and standards are most important to watch?

Source: Chander Khanna

Which businesses and industries can serve as models for your cloud adoption?

What are common pitfalls in building and deploying clouds, and how can enterprises avoid them?

Most Cloud-Based Systems are Lacking Architecture

Thus, many clouds are not meeting expectations.

•  Inefficient utilization of resources.

•  Resource saturation.

•  Lack of elasticity and scalability.

•  Lack of security and governance.

•  Frequent outages.

•  Bad or no tenant management.

•  Other very bad things.

The results

What does the cloud model mean for application architectures?

Source: ZDNet

What are the advantages of bringing open cloud infrastructure like OpenStack into a PaaS strategy?

•  It’s  all  about  avoiding  risk  and  cost.  •  It’s  all  about  removing  the  barriers  to  solu7ons  

development.  •  It’s  all  about  leveraging  the  data  properly.  •  It’s  all  about  crea7ng  the  founda7on  for  the  future.  •  It’s  all  about  crea7ng  the  ability  to  change.  •  It’s  all  about  speed  to  delivery.    

Bottom Line

Source: OpenShift

Fireside Chat

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