Is the Enterprise Ready for Google’s Cloud Native Approach?
July 30, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: John Furrier.
For many years now, IT conferences around the world have had keynote speakers asking why Enterprise IT organizations didn’t operate more like Google GOOGL +0.58%. The line of questioning was based on the premise that Google moves quickly and creates services that end-users love, so why wouldn’t an Enterprise CIO want to emulate those characteristics for their business? It’s a valid question to ask, given the approval rating of many CIOs is near 40% and their leadership believes IT moves too slowly for the business.
But until last week, it was nearly impossible for Enterprise IT organizations to get the core technologies from Google into their own data centers. They could easily use services such as Gmail or Google Apps, but it rarely ran their most critical or differentiated applications. That all changed last week, as Google announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the release of their Kubernetes software as open-source for the open community…
This is big news for a number of reasons. At the macro-level, the IT industry is at the beginning of the biggest shift since the PC replaced the mainframe. This new era, defined by Cloud Computing and Open Source Software, is radically moving technology from being productivity-focused to creating new business models for companies…
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