Interesting twitter conversation between Jeffrey Snover and several others on Twitter about the recent Cloud Platform System (CPS) announced in conjunction with Dell.
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Snippets of the thread.. They start with the first one below and then diverge as the conversation travels
“Almost 80 per cent of private cloud projects today are failing". Good article on CPS by @marypcbuk http://t.co/gccSyskj7A — jsnover (@jsnover) October 21, 2014
@jsnover @marypcbuk When Microsoft caves and provides the “cloud” on-prem shouldn’t this be concerning to people beating the cloud drum? — Adam Bertram (@adbertram) October 21, 2014
@hitchysg @adbertram @jsnover it’s not the cloud; it’s a cloud. A private cloud — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
@marypcbuk @hitchysg @jsnover What’s the difference between a private cloud and something like Cisco UCS, for example? — Adam Bertram (@adbertram) October 21, 2014
@adbertram @hitchysg @jsnover UCS is s’thing you can use to build a private cloud; SW-defined networking & rack. Not preconfigured like CPS — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
. @marypcbuk @hitchysg @adbertram We think of this as “giving you the cloud on your terms” Some want public, some hosted, some private — jsnover (@jsnover) October 21, 2014
@adbertram @marypcbuk @hitchysg @jsnover Building blocks of software defined data centers. UCS needs an additional managment layer. — Simon Bisson (@sbisson) October 21, 2014
@sbisson @adbertram @hitchysg @jsnover so you’d put PowerShell/DSC or SCVMM or other layer in to turn your pieces into actual cloud — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
@jsnover @hitchysg @adbertram if you’re going right back to private cloud versus data centre; it’s level of standardisation, automation — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
@jsnover @hitchysg @adbertram obviously, only public cloud gives you scalout w’out ever buying hardware, but some co’s need local data gov — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
@jsnover @marypcbuk That makes sense. UCS would just be one part of the entire solution. I think I understand a little better now. — Adam Bertram (@adbertram) October 21, 2014
@jsnover @hitchysg @adbertram makes no sense for anyone outside Azure to use the tools Ms runs Azure with day to day — Scary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) October 21, 2014
@marypcbuk @jsnover @hitchysg I tend to agree. It’s still just a comfort thing IMO. Businesses are still reluctant to offload resources. — Adam Bertram (@adbertram) October 21, 2014
. @adbertram @marypcbuk @hitchysg People used to put money under their mattress to keep it safe. Now they use a bank. #ThingsChange — jsnover (@jsnover) October 21, 2014