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Speakers: Jeffrey Snover and Mark Russinovich
Yesterday
It held back business. “Do you really need a server?”. IT slowed things down. Difficult to see the line between IT and business operations. IT was undervalued.
Today and tomorrow
- People, cloud, apps are service-focused.
- Industry standard low cost hardware
- Fast and cost effective innovation and developer empowerment
- Holistic strategic thinking
- Standardised and automated processes & configurations
In other words, IT can operate at the speed of business instead of business operating at the speed of IT. Most IT is not optimized for the speed of operations, change, and agility. The goal is to bring those traits from Azure to on-premises where you can run private cloud at your own pace and under your control.
Things like “data gravity” can slow down public cloud migration. Compliance, trust, control, regulations all impact. Therefore private cloud is still critical.
“Is cloud going to save you money?”. Russinovich says that you might not. But cloud does give you flexibility and agility. Also OPEX versus CAPEX. So the cost savings might be there, but they are often not obvious bottom line figures. Companies become successful not by saving money, but by investing money.