{"id":32004,"date":"2020-02-14T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=32004"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:27:54","slug":"experts-discuss-the-benefits-of-moving-public-apps-to-an-on-premise-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2020\/02\/14\/experts-discuss-the-benefits-of-moving-public-apps-to-an-on-premise-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts discuss the benefits of moving public apps to an on-premise environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The global findings of Nutanix\u2019s second global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI)<\/em> survey and research report<\/a> found that 84% of respondents in South Africa (compared to 73% globally and 71% across EMEA) are either moving public apps back to on-premise environments or planning to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry experts discuss these results in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Jansen van Rensburg \u2013 VMware Senior Systems Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, public cloud, private data centre. Whatever name you give it, they all have one thing in common: applications. Old, traditional and cloud native applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmajority of customers are already making use of the public cloud to access\nSoftware-as-a-Service applications like Microsoft\u2019s Office 365. There are also\nseveral other examples such as Sales Force, Workday, Concur, Google Apps and\nAmazon Web Services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most\ncustomers have a multi-cloud infrastructure, making use of old and traditional\napplications in their private data centre and the SaaS apps in the public\ncloud. Customers with large development teams prefer to work in the public\ncloud domain to ensure agility and a quicker time to market. Several other\ncompanies were even born in the cloud, such as Uber, PayPal and Airbnb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big\nbenefit for customers making use of their own data centre is that they have\nfull control of the costs, security and the location of the data. The larger\nfinancial customers in South Africa are on a hybrid cloud journey. VMware is\nmaking it possible for these customers to run their old, traditional and cloud\nnative application in their private data centre or seamlessly move it to any\none of the VMware\u2019s cloud partners (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM and\nAlibaba). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should\nbe all about choice that enables customers to get their applications quicker to\nthe market in a secure, cost effective way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hybrid\ncloud is driven primarily by IT operations teams who have established a proven\nmodel for infrastructure within the data centre. They are pursuing an extension\nto the data centre that gives them the flexibility to support their\nmission-critical applications, to rapidly migrate to the cloud with minimal\ncost and effort, to leverage the cloud for on-demand scale and extend the core\nprocesses required to support applications and infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hybrid\ncloud journey is focused on creating a single set of resources that are both\nintegrated and interoperable. Based on consistent infrastructure and consistent\noperations, the hybrid cloud architecture spans the private cloud, public cloud\nand edge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to\nsupport the needs of applications, organisations are pursuing a range of\nalternative initiatives to give the business access to the most powerful\ninfrastructure services from any source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most\norganisations are targeting multiple initiatives to varying degrees all at the\nsame time, based on their individual needs. \nIt is the rare exception for a company to be exclusively pursuing a\ndatacenter modernisation or a pure public cloud initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, it\u2019s really about business innovation and having the correct tools in place to support it. Some companies might opt for a public cloud only strategy, others hybrid but one thing remains, the customer experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Clarke, MD, LanDynamix <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The response is part of what I have always\nsaid in that cloud is not for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been saying for a while that the early\nadopters are not seeing all the milk and honey that was promised via lifting\neverything to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you refer to an on-premise data centre, you\nmean clients hosting at their own office; it\u2019s a traditional server room\nat the clients\u2019 offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The variable cost with public cloud is quite\npossibly the biggest issue. Nobody can give a fixed cost as usage and load make\nthe end bill vary.  My opinion is that certain workloads are suited to the\ncloud and the cloud providers are in the best position to run and maintain that\ninfrastructure.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office 365 is a great example here. Here\nis one possible scenario: We could build our own Exchange and SharePoint\nservers and manage them; therefore, when something goes wrong it would be\nup to us to sort it out.  Office 365 mail is built on Exchange and it\nincludes SharePoint.  Microsoft are the guys who developed that\nsoftware, if something goes wrong, I would definitely say that they are\nbetter equipped than anyone else to fix it, they know the product\nintimately.  There is no point trying to replicate that\ninfrastructure.  Nobody can do as good a job than Microsoft in managing\nthis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line of business and legacy applications that\nare bespoke to an organisation do not benefit from the knowledge that a vendor\nhas with Office 365.  In an instance of moving our line of business ERP\nsystem to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft cannot add the same kind of\nvalue.  They will give me some cloud processing space to run my app on but\nwhen it goes wrong I am on my own to fix it,  and because I don\u2019t have\naccess to the behind the scene layers of Azure troubleshooting is a lot more\ndifficult for me.  The costs of putting that app in the cloud to me does\nnot make sense.  I can buy hardware from Dell that has the best SLA and\nsupport and I have visibility into all of the layers which enhances my ability\nto resolve issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, I don\u2019t think moving everyone\nback to the clients\u2019 on-premises is the answer due to our power situation. The\ndata centres are geared to run on generators for days at a time if\nnecessary; not all businesses can afford that which is one significant\nconsideration for not bringing everything back to your own data centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I see happening is clients provisioning\ntheir own private cloud in data centres – they get the benefit of being in\ncontrol of their own systems and having the uptime that these data centres\noffer.  Customers will purchase their own hardware and co-locate this in a\ndata centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our own environment is similar to the\nabove.  We use office 365 for all the messaging and collaboration tools;\nwe let MS run that and get on with it. Our ERP system plus systems\nmanagement tools that we want more control over are hosted on our own equipment\nwithin the Hetzner and Teraco data centres.  When our generator recently failed, \nwe were still able to work by sending people home and running over 3G,  we\ngot the benefits of cloud but not at the high cost if we run everything in\nAzure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The global findings of Nutanix\u2019s second global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report found that 84% of respondents in South Africa (compared to 73% globally and 71% across EMEA) are either moving public apps back to on-premise environments or planning to do so. Industry experts discuss these results in more detail. Ian Jansen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":32006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,182,46,136,6,275,399,262],"tags":[1063,5698,7319,732,620,12598,2377,12594,7418,517,622,8333,532,8589,3850,8560,176,2178,499,2028,2110,300,174,8653,12595,625,441,12596,4386,1155,453,1275,94,12597],"class_list":["post-32004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-cloud","category-data-centres","category-industry-expert","category-insights","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-more-news","category-used","tag-3g","tag-airbnb","tag-alibaba","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-azure","tag-concur","tag-dell","tag-eci","tag-enterprise-cloud-index","tag-erp","tag-google","tag-google-apps","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-ian-jansen-van-rensburg","tag-ibm","tag-landynamix","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-multi-cloud","tag-nutanix","tag-office-365","tag-oracle","tag-paypal","tag-peter-clarke","tag-private-data-centre","tag-public-cloud","tag-saas","tag-sales-force","tag-sla","tag-software-as-a-service","tag-south-africa","tag-uber","tag-vmware","tag-workday"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32092,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32004\/revisions\/32092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}