Rackspace calls on users to rethink cloud technology approach

Grazed from Cloud Pro. Author: Jane McCallion.

Organisations need to move beyond thinking about public and private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings when considering cloud and think more about what it is they want their application to do. This was the message from Nigel Beighton, international vice president of technology at Rackspace, during his keynote speech at the IaaS company’s Unlocked: The Hybrid Cloud event in central London earlier today.

“Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service [have been] a revolution,” Beighton said. The technology revolution of cloud, which Beighton described as “treating infrastructure as if it is software”, has changed how organisations deliver services, as well as how they exploit and use technology…

“The real crux of hybrid cloud is to separate…how we do something [from] where it runs – they are separate things,” Beighton said. IT professionals need to treat their infrastructure as though it is software, he explained. Part of the reason for this is that cloud technology as we know it is set to change again…

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