Cloud Packets and Perimeters

EP12 - "How do you pick the right partner for your cloud journey ? Choose wisely as your success depends on it " - with special guest Justin Donohoo [Founder and CTO @ Observian]

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Justin Donohoo the Founder and CTO of Observian and is probably one of the most knowledgeable and experienced cloud advisor we know in the space of app modernization, cloud migration, cloud security and big data. A trusted advisor with real world cloud experience that can be of tremendous help with customers cloud journey. In this episode, we get together with Justin to get his thoughts on customer lessons learned, partner landscape and how Observian is helping enterprises in this rapidly evolving cloud space. Some key points:

  • Importance of "safe and repeatable architectures" as operational overhead due to lack of automation is detrimental.
  • If your leadership doesn't empower you to fail and experiment, your cloud journey is going to suck.
  • How does VMWare Tanzu compares with CSP Kubernetes offerings, GKE, Anthos, EKS etc..
  • Don't be afraid of learning something new as change is inevitable and status quo is existential threat to businesses. 
  • Aviatrix give Networking and security a seat at the table and along with Terraform makes them contribute to speed of innovation
  • How Cloud is making lines blurrier b/w traditional "paper-pusher" partner model , MSP model and Pro services. Today modern partner with right skills and trust can take it all as there is no dependency on hardware/infra anymore.
  • Without Cloud skills and experience, traditional partners are being excluded from future strategic conversations b/c customers no longer seem them relevant.
  • How to get over the stigma that somehow "all cloud native" is always better 
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