This stuff is hard - Migration to the Public Cloud
We are all moving to the public cloud in the next decade. Or maybe not.
I was on the manufacturing floor of one of the world’s largest and most innovative companies. In the data closet was a DEC Alpha system. Compaq acquired DEC in 1998. HP acquired Compaq in 2002. So, we are all moving to the public cloud in the next decade, and hybrid infrastructure is a stopgap until that time.
That’s what the other pundits, cloud providers, and cloud consultants keep telling me. I’ve been in enterprise IT long enough to know there are plenty of DEC Alpha systems in production generating millions of dollars in income. I also know thousands of other types of systems don’t “fit” into the public cloud.
We’ve been running the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure for over a year now. It’s a mock data center located in a co-location here in Chicago. We have a 10Gbps pipe to the public clouds and are on the verge of deploying a new engineer system on-premises. This stuff is hard. My team has a split-brain as they try to figure out the latest cloud stuff while dedicating enough resources to the data center to keep it functional.
When you read that you are a laggard because you haven’t migrated to the public cloud, remember that only 15% of workloads live on the public cloud, according to AWS' accepted numbers. How many of those were “born” in the cloud? So you aren’t a laggard. But, like the rest of us, you are trying to figure it all out.