

In a discussion about the challenges of the enterprise cloud Pete Malcolm, Abiquo, CEO, Val Bercovici, NetApp, Cloud Czar, and Chris Weitz, Deloitte, Director of Tech Strategy & Architecture attack the issues. Here are the live blogging notes from Gigaom Structure 2011.
This was most interesting panel of event so far. It was put together by Wendy Perilli from Abiquo, she is a SiliconANGLE.tv alum. Here is my conversation with Wendy at Citrix Synergy.
o Public cloud issue is you are always constrained with how cloud operates, with AWS you have to write to how their cloud operations (e.g. storage)
o One thing to do Farmville and movies but whole other issue when trains/planes need to run on time
o Cloud computing has a much higher bar to jump over before it is ready
o What is your mission? Is it angry birds or firing drones?
o The category matters, but more important is the complexity behind the application or mission
o Whole new option set today
o What fits, it is a fit for function, now just more options on the table
o Just b/c you can do something, doesn’t mean you should
o A lot of these things have nothing to do with technology, things like taxes and audits
o Reason why AWS employees can’t step into Illinois
§ Once they step into state entire Amazon.com subject to state of Illinois taxes
o 3 buckets…private, hybrid and public…question is how big each of these buckets should be
o Cloud is just a technique
o “if you think this problem is going to be solved any time soon you are just wrong”
o What you need
§ Key is 3 parts 1) mgmt of physical infrastructure 2) self service or the virtual enterprise 3) network provisioning
§ Storage can’t be just a commodity, users have to be able to provision across storage media
§ Have to also be able to provision networking
o McDonalds analogy = burger at mcdonalds versus cost of burger at home
o What is marginal cost of VM at scale from top 10 private cloud guys vs Amazon?
o This is the real issue…but I am not sure there is a good answer right now
o About quantifying cost of complete thing or historical evidence around what the price achieved is
Support our open free content by sharing and engaging with our content and community.
Where Technology Leaders Connect, Share Intelligence & Create Opportunities
SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation serving innovative audiences and brands, bringing together cutting-edge technology, influential content, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — such as those established in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology, and AI. .
Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a powerful ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands, with a reach of 15+ million elite tech professionals. The company’s new, proprietary theCUBE AI Video cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.