Public or private Cloud? This is the question companies are asking about implementing Cloud computing. Lithium Technologies is a highly innovative company implementing both public and private Cloud for its clients with great success.

At OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015, Lachlan Evenson, team lead for Cloud Platform Engineering at Lithium Technologies, and Joe Sandoval, director of Cloud Platform at Lithium Technologies, sat down with John Furrier of theCUBE to talk about Cloud implementation.

Utilizing private and public Cloud

Sandoval began the conversation by talking about implementing both public and private Cloud computing for the company’s clients.

“As the Cloud space has matured, we really wanted to be able to leverage public Cloud as a vehicle to really help drive forward and move quickly,” said Sandoval. Still, Lithium Technologies understood that private Cloud was something its customers might need, and OpenStack was a way that could help them provide that service platform.

“We wanted to take the best of both worlds,” said Sandoval.

Containers are the key

According to Evenson, containers seem to have a huge benefit when dealing with both private and public platforms.

“Each of these platforms have different idiosyncrasies and different ways to provide network computer storage,” he said. “But when you actually overlay containers on top of them, it levels the playing field, and you no longer worry about the platform. … The container story actually picks it up a notch again.” 

The next step

Logically, then, the next step for Lithium Technologies is to be on the forefront of container technology. “We’re focusing on leveraging our platform we’ve built on OpenStack and using that as shoulders to our container platform,” said Evenson. “So we’re heavily looking at containers and how we can use OpenStack.”

Using containers, the team will be able to scale out into a larger infrastructure without increasing headcount. “We want to stay very proficient and optimal,” said Sandoval.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE andtheCUBE’s coverage of the OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.

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