Datapipe: A Look at Cloud Computing and the Service Provider

Ed Laczynski , VP of Cloud Strategy and Architecture at Datapipe, a
global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced
IT and cloud computing, discusses the lessons learned developing a
cloud infrastructure. Laczynski covers the rationale for developing a
cloud computing solution, trends impacting the technology in the mid-
to long-term, state of (customer) cloud computing understanding, as
well as overcoming typical challenges that occur when building,
deploying and managing a cloud solution. Recorded at Cloud Connect,
which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
CA from February 13-16, 2012.

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datapipe is a global provide
mission-critical IT services we excel at
providing
complex IT solutions to enterprise
customers
we've been doing cloud services for
for years now om we had a virtualization
as a service offering
and more recently we've evolved out into
a I
self-service and provisional not
offering
up you know on last year
hybrid cloud is definitely a bit
talked about all over the place arm you
know we we've been doing hybrid poplar
while data by
and it's a shitty interesting an
immensely pleased to see
being talk about more here I think you
are realizing that's a lotta
enterprise customers really interested
in we do a lot to work with customers
were they want big iron
I databases a big iron I
content management solutions in a more
traditional environment from in their
print promises are provided the pipes in
concert with
cloud solutions so we see that trend
over the last couple years as companies
adjust the cloud
hybrid clouds really the pathway to calm
environment
yeah it's interesting
its it runs the gamut the most customers
are are not
I new light as occasion to understand
how they can you spot we we really talk
about clout in
in for our customers concerns the use
cases and fit
so we look for use cases like
situational computing
deft sq air disaster recovery are rapid
provisioning
om virtual datacenter so those are
values cases we try to fit our customers
and for cloudy if we start
applying cloud to traditional IT
problems
education that customer they may not be
says hi with service so
we take that on as a man service
provider we've done a lot of work with
customers I have been dissatisfied with
other providers or doing it themselves
because they didn't have the education
level
and even to the point where they say
look let's head over you let you look
you can worry about the
heavy lifting and and what's more about
our business
big challenges dealing with things like
patch management
and some other traditional IT measure
concerns that
just because you're on Cloud doesn't
mean that summers magically and take
care of your environment for you
so ASM area that we've had a arm
released up into our customers and we're
as per what we do as a core business but
with a lot of customers are on cloud
that didn't realize that they may be
running Sourav
Arab and our office back after a couple
months in a cloud environment because no
one's really guarding their
their clout
so Citrix
we use cossack as our cloud
orchestration platform
are we also use nets killers as per load
balancing before
it's allowed us to
with extremely fast for visiting times
while maintaining the same ol services
expect from us and
I who it was it would be very difficult
to provide our customers with the
speed up delivery and maintain the same
level of service without cloud solutions