Cloud customers are no longer bound by limitations that come with running their own hardware, such as capital expenses, limits on compute and storage, or the need to build out geographically diverse sites for continuity and discovery recovery.
But as companies move legacy applications to the cloud and build cloud-native applications, they’re running into a new restraint: If you build it in Amazon (or Google, Azure, etc.), you may have a hard time taking it anywhere else.
Incompatible hypervisors, cloud-specific APIs, data that’s captured inside the provider’s infrastructure, and a rat’s nest of application and performance management tools don’t make it easy to build apps that span multiple cloud services.
But as adoption of cloud computing has advanced, so have the wish lists of cloud buyers. Just as virtualization makes it easy to move an application from one server to another, organizations want the flexibility to run an application on premises and across multiple cloud platforms.
Organizations would have more options when it comes to business and regulatory requirements, could take advantage of new services more easily, and enjoy a greater degree of competition.
Cloud Connect, located at Interop Las Vegas, will offer expert insight on new technologies that enable hybrid clouds.
Join cloud users and industry leaders from April 27 to May 1 as they explore the latest developments in application and workload migration, emerging technologies such as Docker, and trends such as DevOps. Find out how the next generation of cloud computing will liberate your applications. Gigaom readers save $200 off the current rate of Conference passes or a Free Expo pass with discount code: BAGIGAOM
–Drew Conry-Murray, Director of Content & Community, Interop

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