Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile
October 21, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Frederic Paul.
Last month, I wrote about what Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst had to say about applications finally overshadowing infrastructure. But the rise of apps is only one of the big changes roiling the IT landscape. Cloud computing has had an equally dramatic effect. Has the cloud already won? Yes… and no
So I asked Whitehurst if the cloud had already won the war for IT infrastructure, but he gave me a more nuanced response than I expected: “I think there’s a new architecture combining computing and storage in an easily managed centralized data center,” he said. “Scaling out that architecture… That’s clearly winning.”…
“What’s less clear,” he continued, “is whether the traditional enterprise-owned-and-managed data center on premise will serve that, or will it be the public cloud or something in between? That’s still far from resolved.” I figured that he was talking about things like security, compliance, reliability and the sheer difficulty in changing things in large enterprises, but it appears that pricing may play a role in the future of cloud computing. Despite lots of noise recently on continuing price drops from Google, Amazon, and others, it appears that cost remains a central cloud computing issue…
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