Many of our customers are still struggling to adopt some of the most basic and foundational cloud native skills. Many display an on-prem bias in terms of execution which has constrained the transformation and modernization promised by the cloud. This session will take it back to the basics by emphasizing the promise of elasticity, reliability, and scalability of the cloud due to the emergence of ephemeral resources that can be deployed. We refer to this mindset as one of pets versus cattle. In this talk, we will highlight what should be cattle and what clearly are pet-like characteristics and behaviors that our customers are bringing to the cloud.
Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who's covered business technology for three decades. He's written about cyber security for more than 15 years and was one of the founding editors of Dark Reading. Sweeney has covered enterprise networking extensively, as well as its supporting technologies like storage, wireless, cloud-based apps and the emerging Internet of Things. He's been a contributing editor to The Washington Post, Crain’s New York Business, Red Herring, Information Week, Network World, SearchAWS.com, and Stadium Tech Report.