How DevOps is demanding a whole new approach to cloud

August 17, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Chloe Green.

Cloud adoption is accelerating amongst businesses as they look to move their IT to a more efficient and streamlined process. This is often the business case for newer, more agile IT with complex distributed applications. However, security, flexibility and trust, which depends on the operating system as much as the network the cloud is built on, is becoming increasingly important.

In combination with this, enterprise demands are not limited to a particular geography; they demand a global networked cloud infrastructure. Connecting traditional in-house IT (more often than not, systems of record) with cloud based agile IT (a.k.a systems of engagement) is the optimal solution today for most companies’ IT requirements…

This involves a combination of private compute, network and storage, and public cloud infrastructure, the latter being far more DevOps friendly…

Read more from the source @ http://www.information-age.com/technology/cloud-and-virtualisation/123460013/how-devops-demanding-whole-new-approach-cloud#sthash.C8ySsfpK.dpuf