Enterprise Cloud, IoT and OpenStack

June 22, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Flexiant.  Author:  Marco Meinardi.

This year’s GigaOm Structure 2014 event focused on three main themes. The first, the relationship between the enterprise and the cloud; the second the effect the Internet of Things will have on infrastructure; and the third OpenStack.

The conference took place in San Francisco and managed once again to gather industry leaders and visionaries in the computing infrastructure space. While I’m not going to give you a summary of all what has been discussed (you can find the complete coverage on GigaOm), there are some important takeaways to share…


    1.  Enterprises are not in the cloud

Despite Amazon Web Services CTO, Werner Vogels’ claims that enterprises are already on AWS – he specifically named some of them such as Netflix, Dropbox and Newscorp – we all understood how far those examples are from traditional enterprises with legacy workload. In fact, HP remarked how its daily talks with CIOs revealed how the percentage of enterprise applications running in the cloud is still on a single digit…

Read more from the source @ http://www.flexiant.com/2014/06/20/thoughts-from-structure-2014-enterprise-cloud-iot-and-openstack/