Curing Addiction Is Easier
summary
Claims that cloud lock-in drives vendor profitability and throttles adoption, supported by examples: Amazon's API and terms deter large enterprises, Red Hat tops out near $750M, and consolidation follows rapid innovation in about one to two years. Notes an interoperability approach via Delta Cloud abstraction and points to open-source stacks OpenStack/Eucalyptus/cloud.com plus provisioning tools Chef and Puppet. Argues the practical cure is portable open-source clouds so customers can lift-and-shift providers or run the environment themselves.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:10Addiction in technology
- 0:30Speed
- 0:52Everyone has a cloud
- 1:35Interoperability
- 2:30Delta Cloud
- 3:30Cloud Addiction
- 5:20Technology Market Evolution
- 8:23The Problem with the Cloud
- 8:39The Bigger Problem
- 9:34Revenue vs Margin
- 10:19Lockin vs Profitability
- 11:34Cloud Vendors
- 12:06IBM
- 13:14Amazon Web Services
- 14:31Best Hope for Change
- 14:46The Answer
- 15:50The Future
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