{"id":25442,"date":"2017-06-26T20:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=25442"},"modified":"2021-03-12T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:51:42","slug":"from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hybrid to Multi-Cloud: Seeking Order Amidst Enterprise IT Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Its_a_hashtag_extravaganza\" >It&#8217;s a hashtag extravaganza<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Increased_complexity_and_grievances\" >Increased complexity and grievances<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#The_value_of_legacy\" >The value of legacy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Enterprise_IT_in_figures\" >Enterprise IT in figures<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Enter_multi-cloud_thinking\" >Enter multi-cloud thinking<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#No_universal_digital_transformation\" >No universal digital transformation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Finding_order_out_of_chaos\" >Finding order out of chaos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/from-hybrid-to-multi-cloud-seeking-order-amidst-enterprise-it-chaos\/#Related_reading\" >Related reading:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_a_hashtag_extravaganza\"><\/span>It&#8217;s a hashtag extravaganza<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>1,500+ people gathered last week during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/top-100-quotes-from-the-cloud-foundry-summit-silicon-valley-2017\/\">Cloud Foundry Summit 2017<\/a> in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, to discuss PaaS and digital transformation. Several thousands had gathered the week before in New York City to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itprc.com\/cloud-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloud Expo<\/a> and discuss cloud computing and all that it entails.<\/p>\n<p><em>I attended both events, and am now confused. Maybe \u201coverloaded\u201d is a better word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The two events provided a veritable hashtag festival for anyone interested in Enterprise IT. On the programs and in conversations, it&#8217;s clear we&#8217;ve now gone beyond the basics of #Cloud, #BigData, #IoT, and #DevOps to embrace #CloudEnablement and #CloudNative, then onto #Blockchain, as well as the #AI, #ML, and #DL #cognitive quartet.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this the ubiquitous need for mobile apps and access, as well as emerging concepts, such as #GameTheory and #TokenEconomy, and we&#8217;re faced with a cognitive inundation, if not dissonance. Thus, my confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and let&#8217;s not forget the #FinTech #InsurTech revolution.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017.jpg\" alt=\"CF Summit Silicon Valley 2017\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25485\" \/><\/a><small>1,650+ registered at the Cloud Foundry Summit 2017<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>These hashtags are not simply buzzwords. There are companies large and small that are now seriously integrating one, several, or all of the technologies that reside behind these hashtags into what they do. Initial waves of disruptors have agitated the Global 2000 into a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revenge of the Sith<\/a> scenario in which the disrupted now wish to <em>disrupt the disruptors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this complexity the reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-year-2016-in-review-top-10-issues-of-enterprise-it\/\">Enterprise IT<\/a> presents a welter of generations of legacy technology, virtualized resources, and workloads, some of which are now moving into several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/2016-in-review-a-varietal-cloud-and-the-paas-revival\/\">varieties<\/a> of cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite countless product strategies and products themselves that promise to automate this, simplify that, and remove such and such headaches from your life, complexity only seems to be increasing. Gatherings such as Cloud Expo and the Cloud Foundry Summit exist to allow a full airing of grievances and promises.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/top-100-quotes-from-the-cloud-foundry-summit-silicon-valley-2017\/\">Top 100 Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit 2017<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Increased_complexity_and_grievances\"><\/span>Increased complexity and grievances<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>How many applications (or services) does a large enterprise use? The short answer is \u201chundreds, maybe more.\u201d A longer answer would point out that most Global 2000 companies have a familiar Top 10, including Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, WebEx, Slack, and several social-media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Enterprise-IT-Apps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Enterprise-IT-Apps.png\" alt=\"Enterprise IT Apps\" width=\"534\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25450\" \/><\/a><small><a href=\"http:\/\/appsruntheworld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image credit<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more, for example, the 3,000 enterprise app vendors being tracked by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appsruntheworld.com\/top-500-enterprise-applications-vendors-battle-for-market-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> that&#8217;s focused on them. Countless others develop custom software for enterprises, often in conjunction with their customers, to span the range of productivity collaboration tools, logistics, marketing analysis, and engineering\u2014accompanied by widely varying complexity in the customer-facing part of its website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, despite our surface knowledge of this complexity, it&#8217;s difficult to learn a lot about what&#8217;s going on inside all of these enterprises. For example, even the best-developed events will feature from several to a dozen strong case studies, offering insights into a very small section of the overall activity among the thousands of large enterprises in the world.<\/p>\n<p>How then, can higher level decision-makers begin to grapple with an <b>overall strategy<\/b> and vision for digital transformation? What sort of time frame is realistic to plan, build, and deploy a complete transformation? A few weeks? 12 to 18 months? Several years?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Beth-Ann-Bergsmark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Beth-Ann-Bergsmark.jpg\" alt=\"CF Summit Silicon Valley 2017 Beth Ann Bergsmark\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTransformational change with the business isn\u2019t just about what we\u2019re building. It\u2019s much more fundamental in terms of how your organization is leveraging technology to meet your needs.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/cfsummit2017.sched.com\/speaker\/bethannbergsmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Ann Bergsmark<\/a>, Georgetown University<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_value_of_legacy\"><\/span>The value of legacy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>One thing I took while listening to people these past two weeks was that the days of experimentation are nearing an end. Technology buyers and sellers alike wish to move beyond POCs and MVPs, to think long and deeply about getting an entire enterprise IT infrastructure onto a platform and into the clouds. This wish relates to the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareto_principle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">80\/20 rule<\/a> (based on the Pareto Principle), which says that 80% of IT is devoted to operations with only 20% devoted to innovation.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I heard conversations about moving the needle on that ratio in the direction of innovation. Then, more recently, we witnessed the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mendix.com\/what-does-bimodal-it-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cbi-modal\u201d enterprise IT<\/a>, in which cloud and other cool stuff is used for new apps and innovation, and the towel is thrown in on doing anything with the stodgy old legacy stuff. Just let it fade away.<\/p>\n<p>However, organizations have realized that their legacy data is their prized asset. They need to get it out of its stovepipes and into an infrastructure that&#8217;s flexible and interoperable. It&#8217;s time to eliminate the daily <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FUBAR_(disambiguation)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FUBAR<\/a> that all IT professionals will gladly talk about if they know they&#8217;re not being quoted.<\/p>\n<p>I found this marvelous quote online from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sambler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Ambler<\/a> of AgileData.org: \u201cWorking with legacy data is a difficult task, one that I don\u2019t wish on anyone. Unfortunately we all have to do it.\u201d Yes, it&#8217;s going to hurt and it&#8217;s not going to end soon. And so the long journey to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/digital-transformation-using-cloud-foundry-what-works-and-what-doesnt-recap\/\">digital transformation<\/a> has officially begun.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Mojgan-Lefebvre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Mojgan-Lefebvre.jpg\" alt=\"CF Summit Silicon Valley 2017 Mojgan Lefebvre\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25471\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn a world where we can\u2019t predict the future and new competitors can come from many directions, we will win by being able to embrace change and reconfigure our priorities in real time.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mojgan-lefebvre-02695\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mojgan Lefebvre<\/a>, Liberty Mutual Insurance<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Enterprise_IT_in_figures\"><\/span>Enterprise IT in figures<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The total worldwide enterprise IT budget is about US$2 trillion (not including telco), according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/3482917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gartner research<\/a>. Of these, 64% is spent on software and services, 29% on PCs and devices, and 8% on big iron.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dollar-value-it-spending-growth-revised-down-gartner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dollar-value-it-spending-growth-revised-down-gartner.png\" alt=\"dollar-value-it-spending-growth-revised-down-gartner\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25584\" \/><\/a><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/products\/special-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An average Global 2000 enterprise devotes 4.4% of its revenue to IT, according to a figure I derived from a variety of sources, including <a href=\"https:\/\/techvera.com\/how-much-should-a-company-spend-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechVera<\/a>. Calculating from these figures, a median G2000 (or Fortune 500) company spends $300 million on software and services. On a larger scale, a Global 200 (or Fortune 50) company spends an average of $2.5 billion software and services.<\/p>\n<p>On a separate plane, the amount of data handled by business enterprises now measures in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/why-weve-entered-a-new-era-of-it-zettastructure-and-other-concepts\/\">several zettabytes<\/a> (several million petabytes) per year, and is growing at around 26% annually. Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/r\/ruleof72.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rule of 72<\/a>, the amount of new data being created continues to double in less than three years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Enter_multi-cloud_thinking\"><\/span>Enter multi-cloud thinking<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>How are organizations handling all this data? The term heard most on both show floors was \u201cmulti-cloud,\u201d in contrast to last year&#8217;s debates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/all-the-worlds-a-hybrid-cloud-or-is-it\/\">hybrid cloud<\/a> and the early-days discussions of the SaaS\/PaaS\/IaaS trinity. Lest you get tired of reading and hearing about what can appear to be mere wordplay, I urge all to be resolute. <\/p>\n<p>The distinction between \u201chybrid cloud\u201d and \u201cmulti-cloud\u201d seems to be that in the latter case a company may pick more than one public-cloud provider, while the former case was used to describe a combination of on-site cloud (or perhaps just virtualization) with the services of a public provider. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cloud-foundry-summit-2017-Bryn-Worgan-JPMorgan-Chase-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cloud-foundry-summit-2017-Bryn-Worgan-JPMorgan-Chase-1.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-foundry-summit-2017-Bryn-Worgan-JPMorgan-Chase\" width=\"640\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We believe in clouds, not cloud.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brynworgan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryn Worgan<\/a>, JPMorgan Chase<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But really, who cares? The good news is that technology vendors seem eager to offer whatever combination of cloud services are needed for a particular project, and now it\u2019s time to cut into all of that pesky legacy technology and migrate it.<\/p>\n<p>On the large scale, a global cloud-based digital transformation will vastly increase utilization of processing resources, and\u2014therefore\u2014efficiency. Total electricity demand growth should slow. This is critical for the developing world, in which per-person electricity consumption runs only 3\u20135% of the developed world.<\/p>\n<p>Systems will become more responsive, organizations more agile. This latter term is thrown around with impunity by technology providers, but I think it&#8217;s valid. It means what it says, so just as agility\u2014and the speed that usually comes with it\u2014lets superior athletes accomplish remarkable things, an analogous organizational agility should let companies be faster to market, more flexible in adapting to changes, quicker in addressing customer issues, and more responsive to the gestalt of business overall. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_universal_digital_transformation\"><\/span>No universal digital transformation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Despite many compelling talks about the benefits of the specific technology adoption methods, no single architectural approach can be applied to all issues. To list an example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/creating-your-first-serverless-app-with-aws-lambda-and-the-serverless-framework\/\">the serverless model<\/a> looks ideal for smallish, event-driven apps, such as collecting real-time data from an array of sensors in an IoT deployment. But it&#8217;s not the path to the enterprise-wide change, at least not now. <\/p>\n<p>In similar fashion, microservices offer a new flexibility for apps new and old, but must be deployed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/over-engineering-when-microservices-are-too-micro\/\">purposefully<\/a> from the beginning. Then, we have the vast panoply of development and scripting languages, which collectively embrace most imaginable scenarios, but it must be clear when Java or Ruby is needed, when Node.js might be ideal, when to go with Go, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Jim-Shingler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Jim-Shingler.jpg\" alt=\"CF Summit Silicon Valley 2017 Jim Shingler\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPeople are still using microservices with a monolith mindset.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jimshingler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Shingler<\/a>, Cardinal Health<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hashtags will continue to evolve and multiply, apps and services will continue to proliferate, and there will assuredly be more than a single cloud in most enterprises. A counter-argument could be made here about going \u201call in\u201d on a public platform. However, even in such cases, I suspect that some of these companies&#8217; IT lies outside of the all in.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of digital transformation carries with it the idea of a distributed, sprawling IT environment that nevertheless provides ease of access, great reflexes, and the ability to get smarter on its own. There now seems to be enough momentum with clouds in all of their forms to start addressing the core of the enterprise. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Finding_order_out_of_chaos\"><\/span>Finding order out of chaos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Still, somewhere, somehow, a unifying platform must be present if the later 21st-century enterprise is going to be less of a spaghetti factory than what we&#8217;ve wrought over the past five decades. <\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, a current passive-aggressive battle is being waged between Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, as their respective maturity levels contrast with some crossover in their respective abilities. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/not-only-for-cloud-foundry-kubo-enables-kubernetes-deployments-with-bosh\/\">Kubo initiative<\/a> aims to get everyone reading from the same book, if not the same page. <\/p>\n<p>Certainly, it was viewed positively by the Cloud Foundry community to see the creator of Kubernetes, Google, as a major exhibitor at this year&#8217;s summit. Microsoft was there, as well. Both companies are now Gold members of the Cloud Foundry Foundation itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Greg-Otto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF-Summit-Silicon-Valley-2017-Greg-Otto.jpg\" alt=\"CF Summit Silicon Valley 2017 Greg Otto\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We don\u2019t want a single enterprise solution. We want replaceable components.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gregoryotto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Otto<\/a>, Comcast<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, this may end up being a barroom brawl after all, because the platform and navigation of workloads is the cornerstone, the linchpin, the wheelhouse, the center of gravity, and the essence of building IT infrastructure in these times. As this scene unfolds, no one is unaware that Amazon continues to be the leading public-cloud provider, and also staked a claim to the more recent serverless approach some time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, the entire digital transformation discussion cannot be had without mentioning DevOps&#8230;but next time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_reading\"><\/span>Related reading:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/top-100-quotes-from-the-cloud-foundry-summit-silicon-valley-2017\/\">Top 100 Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-year-2016-in-review-top-10-issues-of-enterprise-it\/\">2016\u20132017 Trends: Top 10 Issues of Enterprise IT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/2016-in-review-a-varietal-cloud-and-the-paas-revival\/\">2016\u20132017 Trends: A \u201cVarietal\u201d Cloud and the PaaS Revival<\/li>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hashtag extravaganza<\/p>\n<p>1,500+ people gathered last week during the Cloud Foundry Summit 2017 in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, to discuss PaaS and digital transformation. 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