The Cloudcast - The Enterprise Debate in 2013

The Cloudcast (.net) #71 - Enterprise Cloud - The Debate Rages on in 2013 (37:20)

Date: January 13, 2013

By: Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely

Description: Aaron and Brian give a brief “State of the Podcast” for 2013, and then discuss Enterprise Cloud Computing and some of the debates about how it is evolving.

State of the Podcast - 2013

• Entering Year 3 of the Show
• 600% Year over Year listener growth (podcast) with only 2x the # of podcasts
• Launched The Cloudcast “whiteboard” channel on YouTube
• Need to make sure we can remain at least semi-independent, non-biased
• Bring back some more “news” shows, or at least “news segments”
• Potentially going to spin-off a few new shows: Mobile, PaaS, European-centric
• Continue to bring the show to industry events, community events

Enterprise Cloud - Lots of Debates & Discussions

• AWS Needs to Figure Out It’s Enterprise Plan - Rodney Rogers (Virtustream)

 - 6 Reasons while AWS will struggle in the Enterprise

• Amazon’s AWS Enterprise Strategy is Actually Pretty Simple - Leverhawk

 - Focused on Innovator’s Dilemma, Disruption use-cases

• Time to Stop Forgiving Cloud Providers for Repeated Failures - Andi Mann (CA)

 - Clouderati always give AWS a pass for downtime, “design for failure”

• Will 2013 be Amazon’s Year of the Enterprise - Cloudyn

• AWS: A Space Shuttle to Go Shopping - Massimo Re Ferre (VMware)

- Interesting analysis of AWS usage by customers

• Which Applications to Move to the Cloud - Ben Kepes

 - Following up on Forrester’s comments on “cloudy apps”

Discussion Points

1. Are all “clouds” the same?
2. What is the cost of new cloud-aware apps, vs. SaaS apps?
3. How lacking is the market for “public cloud” skills?
4. AWS currently has (approx) $1.5-2B in revenue. There was a financial-analyst report saying it will go to $4B in 2013 and could be $20-30B (market cap) if independent.