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Can automated DevOps fill private cloud hole?
Private clouds and software as a service applications claiming to mimic the public cloud experience sans migration pains and security holes might seem to good to be true. They usually are, said Ed Walsh (pictured), general manager of storage and software-defined infrastructure at IBM Corp.
Mant private cloud offerings currently on the market might bring down costs, improve efficiency and consolidate operations, “but that’s not really how a true private cloud is; you need the automation,” Walsh said. Addressing this need, IBM has teamed up with Cisco Systems Inc. to develop converged infrastructure solution VersaStack.
“How do you make a private cloud as agile and has the same use cases specifically for developers or DBAs, that you have in the public cloud?” Walsh asked. VersaStack answers this with application program interfaces and software-defined storage.
Walsh spoke to John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during the IBM InterConnect 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (*Disclosure below.)
Cloud darlings on-prem
This combo brings the fast, seamless development possible in public cloud on-prem, Walsh said. “Imagine an API abstraction layer that, for storage, allows all the orchestration and all the DevOps tools to literally do the exact same thing on-prem,” Walsh said.
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management in tandem with developer darlings like Chef, Puppet, UrbanCode and Python scripts, perfectly mirror public cloud DevOps, he said. With a single line of code, developers can spin up a whole environment — this would take two or three weeks with traditional on-prem tools.
With a single click, users can deploy applications on-prem or in a cloud. This provides a walkable bridge over the organizational gap at many companies transitioning from on-prem to hybrid or public cloud, Walsh concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM InterConnect 2017. (*Disclosure: SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE is a media partner at InterConnect. Neither IBM nor other conference sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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