Ian Rae talks Cloud, Innovation, and Updates from Google Next 2018

Highlights 1 min 55 sec: Define Cloud from a CloudOps perspective Business Model and an Operations Model 3 min 59 sec: Update from Google Next 2018 event Google is the “Engineer's Cloud” Google's approach vs Amazon approach in feature design/release 9 min 55 sec: Early Amazon ~ no easy button Amazon educated the market as industry leader 12 min04 sec: What is the state of Hybrid? Do we need it? Complexity of systems leads to private, public as well as multiple cloud providers Open source enabled workloads to run on various clouds even if the cloud was not designed to support a type of workload Google's strategy is around open source in the cloud 14 min 12 sec: IBM visibility in open source and cloud market Didn't build cloud services (e.g. open a ticket to remap a VLAN) 16 min 40 sec: OpenStack tied to compete on service components Couldn't compete without Product Managers to guide developers Missed last mile between technology and customer Didn't want to take on the operational aspects of the customer 19 min 31 sec: Is innovation driven from listening to customers vs developers doing what they think is best? OpenStack is seen as legacy as customers look for Cloud Native Infrastructure OpenStack vs Kubernetes install time significance 22 min 44 sec: Google announcement of GKE for on-premises infrastructure Not really On-premise; more like Platform9 for OpenStack GKE solve end user experience and operational challenges to deliver it 26 min 07 sec: Edge IT replaces what is On-Premises IT Bullish on the future with Edge computing 27 min 27 sec: Who delivers control plane for edge? Recommends Open Source in control plan 28 min 29 sec: Current tech hides the infrastructure problems Someone still has to deal with the physical hardware 30 min 53 sec: Commercial driver for rapid Edge adoption 32 min 20 sec: CloudOps building software / next generation of BSS or OSS for telco Meet the needs of the cloud provider for flexibility in generating services with the ability to change the service backend provider Amazon is the new Win32 38 min 07 sec: Can customers install their own software? Will people buy software anymore? Compare payment models from Salesforce and Slack Google allowing customers to run their technology themselves of allow Google to manage it for you 40 min 43 sec: Wrap-Up