When and Why does Portability Matter? Exploring multi-cloud, open source and cloud switching costs
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The document discusses the importance of portability in cloud computing, highlighting the risks of vendor lock-in and the challenges associated with multi-cloud and open source solutions. It emphasizes that while cloud services are becoming more integrated into everyday life, organizations face unmet demands for portability and often encounter high switching costs. The speaker advocates for open source as a necessary approach for enhancing competitiveness and managing technical debt in cloud environments.
When and Why does Portability Matter? Exploring multi-cloud, open source and cloud switching costs
- 1. When and Why does Portability Matter? Dan Young | CEO, EngineerBetter | @dan0young Exploring Multi-cloud, Open Source and Cloud Switching Costs.
- 2. The past. The present. Making better decisions. This talk:
- 3. A story about lock-in.
- 4. “The AWS Console is this generation's Visual Studio” @brianleroux Got Déjà vu?
- 5. Lock-in fear considered harmful. Wakefield Research Survey (Logicworks) - July 2016
- 6. What exactly is lock-in? The Lock-in Cycle Information Rules (Shapiro, Varian) 1998
- 7. 10 years of public cloud decisions. ● One horse race ● Compelling economics ● Compelling velocity ● Few switching tools ● Nobody to switch to
- 8. Who cares? Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- 9. Shared things. “Cloud computing is now pervasive in our everyday lives..It is so fully integrated that it is not obvious how dependent we already are” CloudWATCH2 Consortium (http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/Roadmap-for-trans parent-pricing)
- 10. We are always unprepared. Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
- 11. The global utility. Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
- 12. No predictable outcomes. Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
- 13. Meanwhile, back at the ranch... https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269631781978/
- 14. Where has my competitive advantage gone?
- 15. We keep on abstracting. “Modularity through abstraction is the way things get done” Barbara Liskov
- 17. We have unmet demand for portability.
- 18. We have unmet demand for portability. Intermedia Survey (April 2016)
- 20. What do the analysts think? https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/3998273279
- 21. 2014 2015 2016 Gartner’s magical shrinking island.
- 22. "Although Azure is neither as feature-rich nor mature as AWS, many organizations can now consider it "good enough," and base their vendor decision on factors other than technical capabilities." -Gartner MQ, 2016 The age of ‘good enough’ alternatives.
- 23. “One interpretation of this development is that infrastructure is reaching a commodity status” -Rachel Stevens, Aug 2016
- 24. Recap, so far: Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory ● Pervasive single supplier ● Unmanaged switching costs ● Black Swans happen ● AWS ubiquity ● We keep abstracting ● We wish we had options ● IaaS market commodity-like
- 25. Open Source at your service. Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory "It's important to understand that open source in this utility computing world is not a tactic, it's not a strategy, it's the only practical way of creating and competing in a marketplace" - Simon Wardley OSCON 2007
- 27. Devs can go anywhere. $ cf push
- 30. Who is paying attention? Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory Banks Governments
- 31. Multi-cloud in action. Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory ● Entire production PaaS ● 120 Apps ● VMware → Openstack ● 2-3 people ● 2 weeks effort ● 30 mins downtime.
- 32. BOSH keeps getting better. Image credit: @mreider
- 33. BOSH CPIs keep getting better.
- 34. Managing your IaaS switching costs. The Lock-in Cycle Information Rules (Shapiro, Varian) 1998
- 35. Remember: You can manage you switching costs, just like you manage technical debt.
- 36. ● Open source wins. ● Portabilty for Devs ● Portability for Ops ● Lower marginal cost ● Higher marginal benefit Portability in 2016+