Decision Time for the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure
How much I believe in hybrid infrastructure. Our Co-location contract is coming up for renewal.
We have a higher-end co-location facility for the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure (CTOAHI). To get into our cage, you need a keycard, check in with security, get a physical key out of a lockbox, and provide a retinal scan to finally get into the data hall. I have 10Gbps connectivity options for all of the major public cloud providers. It’s as enterprise as a data center co-location facility gets.
From a workload perspective, there’s nothing we do in the data center that couldn’t be accomplished with a $500/month budget in any of the major public clouds. However, the point of the project is to show my audience what it takes to run a hybrid infrastructure and perform sponsored proof of concepts. We can’t receive an HPE dHCI, a Dell VxRail System, or a rack of Juniper and integrate them into our Google Cloud infrastructure if we are all in on the public cloud.
So, what’s the problem? The sweet spot for pricing is committing to 3-years. I have no doubt that the hybrid cloud is the future of enterprise IT. However, I don’t know if I’ll be running a lab as a business for 3 more years. I’m confident in one more year and feel comfortable with a two-year commitment.
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