VMware & Azure are the Leaders in Hybrid Cloud
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>> VMware and Microsoft are the leaders in hybrid cloud. Fight me. (wondrous music) Hey, welcome to the first edition of the CTO Advisor CTO Dose for 2020. Happy New Year. So, 2019 was the year of hybrid cloud. What do I mean by that? It's the year that IT vendors finally acknowledged-- when I say IT vendors, I mean AWS, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure, which they've always have, as well as Dell Technologies, and all of the traditional vendors-- it's the year that they acknowledged hybrid IT is their future of enterprise IT.
This is, I think, supported by the fact that AWS finally released Outpost. They're still not talking about other clouds, but they released Outpost. Google has partnered with several providers to make sure that Anthos is available on premises. Microsoft has continued their march and their maturity towards Azure Stack. VMware has made a deal with the devil, and now is in every public cloud provider. So, the future of enterprise IT, I think, if you're a practitioner, you've already known this: hybrid cloud is just the way it's going to be.
We're going to have multiple cloud providers and we're going to have, the majority of us at least will have some on-premises or private cloud components that make up our hybrid IT infrastructure. So who's leading in this space? I got a lot of push back from my friends at Nutanix. I welcome for them to continue to share with me why they feel that they're a leader in this area, but it's people who've been working on it for a very long time. Microsoft with Azure Stack.
We had the Azure Stack Jeff Snover, he's the Azure Stack, was the Azure Stack chief architect. We had him on the CTO Advisor podcast a couple of years ago talking about Azure Stack and what Microsoft wanted to accomplish with it. During Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of services around Azure Stack including one that replicates data to AWS. So Microsoft has full-on accepted the reality of not just multiple clouds, but hybrid cloud and the need for organizations to manage their infrastructure if not in a consistent manner, at least a platform that gives you that capability.
VMware's coming at it from a different perspective. They're saying, "Y'know what? "We know that you're going "to want to adopt cloud native capabilities. "You're going to want to go into Google "and use their AI machine learning capability. "You're going to want to go to AWS "and use advance services and best in class services "like serverless Lambda functions. "And you're going to have your on-premises resources, "your Oracle databases, your SAPs of the world. "You're going to need to put your data "as close to these services as possible, "and what better way to do that "then to use your existing processes to do that.
"Using VMware vSphere. " That's probably the most popular thing. I think the second thing that VMware hasn't done a really great job of promoting is that they're taking public cloud services and allowing those public cloud services to run on vSphere. So, it's kind of similar to the Azure Stack function where you take something like RDS and they will RDS to manage databases within your vSphere infrastructure. You go to your AWS console and you deploy it as if you were going to deploy Azure Stack as a region inside of your data center.
You're going to deploy RDS as a region, but it's just inside of your data center. So I think those two vendors are by far the furthest in execution of their overall vision. I think Nutanix has a vision. Sill waiting on a request for them to update me on the maturity of their vision and their maturity of them executing upon that vision. It's just that most customers I talked to aren't engaging Nutanix for their on-prem, off-prem integrated cloud experience more so than improving the existing private cloud operations.
But, again, I'm open to hearing that. I'm also open to hearing if you're a vendor or if you're a IT practitioner and you don't agree or I'm missing someone or I'm missing an aspect of what one of the vendors are doing. I would love to hear your feedback. Who's leading in execution and vision for hybrid cloud in 2019 going to 2020. Talk to you next CTO Dose.
