The Future of the Cloud is OpenIndustry Analyst: RedMonk

Stephen O’Grady – Principal Analyst & Co-Founder of RedMonk

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The Future of the Cloud is

Open

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What do these have in common?

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Any guesses?

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I’ll take “Things being used by my

employees,” Alex

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Technology adoption today is bottom up

CIO

DEVELOPERS

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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used

CIO

DEVELOPERS

What Developers Want to Use What is Actually Being Used

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It’s the end of procurement as we’ve known it

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…and I feel fine

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Why?

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Because Shadow IT are the Good Guys

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But also because theirtools are open

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Which is more open?

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IAAS PAAS

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PAAS Generations

GEN 1 GEN 2 GEN 3

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The Future is Open

GEN 1 GEN 2 GEN 3

ClosedRuntimes

OpenRuntimes

MultipleOpenRuntimes

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Open is great, but what do I do?

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Step 1: Learn from King Cnut

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Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person.”

Source: Wikipedia

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Step 2: Learn Jujitsu

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"Jutsu" can be translated to mean "art" or "technique" and represents manipulating the opponent's force against himself rather than confronting it with one's own force.

Source: Wikipedia

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Why does Shadow IT embrace the cloud?

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Because it’s available and

because it works

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To jujitsu Shadow IT, make available a platform that is

available and just works

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Then monitor and manage that

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