Day Two Cloud 184: Think Multiplatform, Not Multicloud

Today on Day Two Cloud we put on our thinking caps about platforms, cloud, and multicloud. The last ten years or so has been a push for “cloud-first,” but any wholesale approach to “X-first” (cloud, edge, digital, etc.) is problematic. We discuss why. We also look at cloud cost controls and how they compare to on-prem cost controls, and why enterprise cloud adoption may not be as widespread as you might think. We also explore strategies for CTOs, IT managers, and engineers on how to grapple with cloud strategy, implementation, and operation. Our guest thinker is Jon Collins, VP of Research at GigaOm. This episode was spurred by a thoughtful blog post by Jon. Show Links: Time Is Running Out For The “Journey To The Cloud” – GigaOm Cloud FinOps 2nd Edition – O’Reilly @jonno – Jon Collins on Twitter @[email protected] – Jon Collins on Mastodon Jon Collins on LinkedIn Transcript: [00:00:04.410] – Ned Welcome to day two. Cloud. Today we want you to put your thinking cap on, pour yourself a nice cup of tea perhaps, and sit back with our guest Jon Collins. He’s the VP of Research at GigaOM and he has some thoughts and opinions about Cloud multicloud platforms. Multiplatform? What does it all mean? Ethan, what does it all mean? [00:00:28.490] – Ethan What it means is we’re on a journey. Actually, he’s going to say that he hates that term and we’re not on a journey as such because it’s so much more complicated than that. Not everything is going to go to Cloud, nor will it ever, according to Jon. And he has some, as you said, cerebral thinking. Yeah, lots of thinking that Jon has done about this topic and reflecting on the reality of enterprise. It net, it is not all cloud these days. [00:00:54.450] – Ned Absolutely. So pull up a chair and enjoy this episode with Jon Collins from GigaOM. Well, Jon, welcome to the show. We’re very excited to have you and talk about what could be a controversial topic. Should you stay on the cloud, should you move everything back? But before we get into that, why don’t you tell the good folks out there a little bit about yourself and who you are. [00:01:13.460] – Jon Okay, so it background. Started as a programmer, did systems management, ran a Unix environment, broke everything, got shouted out a lot, ran a help desk, had the therapy, wrote some books, did all that and then became an analyst. And it’s really great because you don’t actually have to explain yourself anymore, you just have opinions about what other people do, which suits me, but I still miss that, to be honest. I missed the kind of the cut and thrust. I did run a little healthcare startup for a while, which was fun. We went into a hospital and we tried to solve their problems and we didn’t get very far because healthcare problems are bigger than we are. But it was fun till the money ran out. But the log in the shot these days I’m kind of a gig titled as the VP of Research, but I’m kind of not the smartest person in the room. I’m the one who tries to understand what everyone else is talking about and how it all fits together. So my area is more on the DevOps and application deployment si...