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The whole point of cloud and one of the main drivers for rapid adoption has been that it removes the need to invest and manage your own hardware, staff and cape

by throw2016 10y ago

The whole point of cloud and one of the main drivers for rapid adoption has been that it removes the need to invest and manage your own hardware, staff and capex. Amazon, Google or others takes care of that unless regulations require you to be on-prem. It never really had anything to do with the lack of software or management tools. Not to take away from Kubernertes but Vmware, Cisco, Microsoft and other enterprise vendors have always had this market sealed up with relatively sophisticated capabilities. Things like Vcenter seem far ahead in terms of management, capabilities, feature set, policy and fine tuned for enteprise use. Just taking distributed storage as an example where options like VSan, Nutanix or ScaleIO do not really have any open source counterparts. But this is not surprising given the billions of dollars spent in enterprise.

smn1234 10y ago
Which regulations require you to be on prem?
- Steeeve 10y ago
  I don't know of any that require you to be on prem, but if you can't arrive at a reasonable liability agreement with your providers, cloud can be taken off the table pretty easily for any information that requires public disclosure of breeches (e.g. ssn) or comes with hefty fines (e.g. patient information)
- devonkim 10y ago
  It's not so much that regulations require you to be on premise as much as on premise is how you fulfill a combination of so many requirements emphasizing meticulous control and auditing of your entire operations from background checking your datacenter janitors on up. FedRAMP and similar standards have historically been fulfilled by companies built around bureaucracy-ware-first business models for enterprise customer demands rather than technology-first like most technology companies, and most of these companies focusing upon managing as much of a company's technology as possible such as EDS (now HP).
- Symbiote 10y ago
  Data privacy, in some European countries. Perhaps it is an overly cautious interpretation of the law, I don't know.

smn1234 10y ago

Which regulations require you to be on prem?

Steeeve 10y ago
I don't know of any that require you to be on prem, but if you can't arrive at a reasonable liability agreement with your providers, cloud can be taken off the table pretty easily for any information that requires public disclosure of breeches (e.g. ssn) or comes with hefty fines (e.g. patient information)
devonkim 10y ago
It's not so much that regulations require you to be on premise as much as on premise is how you fulfill a combination of so many requirements emphasizing meticulous control and auditing of your entire operations from background checking your datacenter janitors on up. FedRAMP and similar standards have historically been fulfilled by companies built around bureaucracy-ware-first business models for enterprise customer demands rather than technology-first like most technology companies, and most of these companies focusing upon managing as much of a company's technology as possible such as EDS (now HP).
Symbiote 10y ago
Data privacy, in some European countries. Perhaps it is an overly cautious interpretation of the law, I don't know.