Improving Your Cloud Deployment [Video]

and our topic today is cloud computing things you can do to improve your cloud deployment two issues to be aware of to talk about that I'm joined by Jeff Burke director of research and development at Dell Boomi great to be here thanks for having me and you are there right around Philadelphia correct that is correct yeah we're just west of the city of Philadelphia all right looks like it's a it's a sunny day in Philly today we're having a really nice day so it's supposed to warm up a little bit so we're excited to see a little bit more summer come back to us now I know obviously everyone knows Dell but could you give us kind of the 11 second elevator pitch of what exactly does Dell Boomi do sure so Delta mu me sort of started its life as an independent company created outside of Philadelphia and really was built on the notion of integration and a few years ago Dell saw what goomy was doing in thought you know hey this would be a nice solution given where the markets going and how the clouds evolving have in our portfolio and so what we've done is we've come into Dell and we we still maintain our business and we you know sell it as a standalone separate solution and really what Bhumi is is an integration platform as a service and really what that means is we have a cloud native solution that allows you to connect you know cloud apps to existing middleware on Prem so cloud to ground so really you can use Bumi to connect all those things that you care about shouldn't a belay make sense so I'm you know given given your position I'm assuming you've seen a lot of companies deal with getting out of the cloud expanding a cloud deployment I'm wondering what sort of advice you would give to companies that are want to expand their clear deployed cloud deployment or improve it and in particular you know what sort of pain point have you seen out there what sort of challenges our business is dealing with in the cloud in your eyes yeah you know it's been really interesting it's been you know I think in the last you know 18 months it's really been an interesting and very fast cycle right and I think 18 months ago we were hearing a lot of concern about you know traditional things like security and and in those pieces which you know when you're on cram you sort of can wrap your arms around that and there's a comfort to knowing that those things are living within your own sort of footprint and I think over the last 18 months or so it's really those cloud solutions and the value they offer they've they've also started to earn the trust I think of corporate IT and and so you know as in a lot of cases the cloud offers sort of a more secure footprint because of the visibility and a number of people contributing to to ensuring that Security's in place so I think the biggest challenge that a lot of folks faces one overcoming you know initiative that initial hesitation of moving from pram to trusting of an important part of your business with a cloud service provider but I think the value proposition is is become really compelling to a lot of businesses and I think the other challenge sometimes is once you kind of get your cloud infrastructure in place now we're seeing a lot of conversation about cost right look mostly because you know there's a whole cloud enablement ecosystem which is really focused on saying listen if you have an instance running say at AWS let's make sure that instance is only up and running when I need to use it right we don't want to kind of like keeping the lights on at home when nobody's in the room so I think that's been something that we're starting to see as well so it's really just getting a good plan around what you want to accomplish and what technologies help you accomplish that whether it's a mix as a hybrid on-prem and cloud or all cloud it doesn't change the traditional success factors for for running a project you have to sort of know what you want to do make sure you're driving to those outcomes you know it's interesting you mentioned the security piece it seems like several years back there was a sense of well you know we can't go to the cloud it's gonna be less secure but I essentially as a general agreement now that the cloud ironically tends to be more secure because it's you know there is as you mentioned so much focus on on security in it and we sell the we sell the headlines about data breaches I mean so many you know IT data centers that have been breached we don't hear much about cloud centers being breached it's it's almost as if cloud is more secure than in-house at this point yeah I think it's fair and I think when the lineage of the cloud providers they kind of take an approach that you know it's security is code right so everything that they built right as they've moved into that space they're they're taking a security first approach and what they built right so I think you know it's harder when you've been on Prem and you have infrastructure that you've been carrying forward for 15 20 years you know the traditional day-to-day business pressures now as security Rises lose concern but it wasn't necessary layered into your application in a lot of scenarios from day one and I think when you see those cloud providers those are some of the things that they were focused on in the initial days of building a solution and you know they've benefited from that right and what I think about the cost issue it seems like there was again a sense of viewers back like well maybe we're gonna save money with the cloud maybe we're not or you hopefully we will but there's a sense now that there's all these tools that aren't enabled by going on to a major cloud provider that you couldn't necessarily create an in-house so it's like whether or not we can be in-house or in the cloud we need to be in the cloud because there's you know there's AI tools there's some other tools that we need to access and we can only actually we can't build them in-house we can only access from the cloud so if the cloud might be more expensive in fact it probably is for many folks but it enables a competitive toolset that you can't do in-house is that your so yeah I think it's a fair statement I mean it can act as a force multiplier right because you in a sense have a really tight feedback loop as well you know if you talk about some of the major cloud providers you know they they have to service a number of disparate needs and wants and asked and they're in a really interesting position because they can sort of pull all those things together look at trends and then move solutions forward to address those trends and I know you know a lot of folks again in a traditional in a business that they're working through the day-to-day challenges and I think we see a lot of this sort of in the innovators dilemma model right like you get a little bit sort of consumed by what you're trying to do to just drive your business forward and then being able to sort of step outside of that and innovate can be a challenge and I think the cloud offers sort of that almost like a crowd-sourced innovation model that is really accessible and that you can take advantage of look at the crowd the cloud a crowdsource innovation model I'm gonna have to use that phrase I'm gonna I'll act as if it's mine it's a really cool Prez so what can what can a company what can an integration platform do for a company why why would they need that and and how could that really help help a company in the cloud Yeah right so I think the biggest thing is so many businesses have all this really awesome information on trapped in silos within their business and you know the traditional way to kind of get after that would be to write some software to go pull data out of one place and drop it into another place and a lot of those what we call sort of point-to-point integration where you know I had a system of record a system of record a and then I'm trying to move it over to another solution maybe for HR and I'm actually asking my developers to write code to solve that problem and with the solutions that are evolving sort of the cloud native solutions and also some of the on-prem stuff that's a problem you want to I think solve one time and I think the beauty of boomy is that with through our connector model we offer you sort of an api to those systems without having to invent that all the time right so what you're able to do is leverage all of our customers and their experiences as we've built these connectors and you can grab that connector and if you want to like connect the Salesforce to something like a database on Prem maybe it's a my sequel instance or something you can do that in sort of the scale of hours and minutes versus like days and weeks and you know we've seen that really be compelling and really really sort of helped a lot of our customers move their business forward and just sort of do the things they need to do by what a way of integration and then unleash those developers on the really hard problems that they need to be working on to drive innovation right like don't don't rebuild the wheel there just use of stuff that's already been created that could have that always a job for you correct yeah so I'm here so - like you know what what you see going forward in the cloud whether it's whether it's a you know everything is a multi cloud world or it's a hybrid cloud world if private cloud would survive there's there's you know a AI in the cloud there's edge what would it say in the next say 12 18 months what what do you see really happening in cloud computing yeah good question I think you know I think the hybrid trend will continue I think that people won as they look at what problems are trying to solve I think more and more that they're sort of triangulating between the cost benefit piece that we were just chatting about versus the on-prem you know cost and do I have the expertise so do I get economy as a skill that I can use on cram or cloud so I think people continue to sort of triangulate between those those key pillars and sort of their decision making suddenly not one necessarily at this point correct okay you know you don't want to go hunting with an accordion right you want to the right tool for the right job and make sure that you're making responsible decisions for that so I think hybrid cloud will continue to evolve and we'll see a lot of continued energy and traction around solutions to try to make you know your private your public connect and work well I think that you know also as we see that and those those networks and those sort of fabrics grow I do think we'll see a lot more move to the edge I think just given the amount of information and data that's you know dealing with devices when we talk about IOT and and out chatty and and how frequent those devices will be pumping out information they actually sort of think of it in a traditional model of going out grabbing all of that and pulling it back to a central location to process I think that becomes almost you know it becomes very difficult and in that type of model so I think if we can offload work to the edge maybe massage or work that data and then bring some of those results back to a central location I think that's a more efficient and effective way to deal with those scenarios on that point actually well the processing will happen at the edge or or back it at home base and do you think that sense that more and more the process city's going to happen if the edge is that does that happen here is that more is like just we hope what's going to happen sometime soon no no I think you know with bhumi what's really kind of interesting about how we designed our solution is we have sort of the platform where the folks come in and they can build their integrations right it looks a lot like tools that you've used in the past point-and-click I sort of draw a line between two systems map fields all that good stuff but when I create that integration we have a couple of different runtime options right so say I've built that integration it's all based on our infrastructure we have what we call the Adams theorem we have this notion of an atom which is really a runtime environment for those integrations and those atoms can be installed on devices right they can be installed on computers on the edge we have our own atom cloud they can be up in a private or public cloud but they all know about each other they know how to talk to each other and I think when you think about that and where people are going in those edge computing scenarios we see that as a really a great model going forward not just because it's you know in eighths of the platform but I feel like we saw that trend and it's an important trend so I we are seeing that happen I mean people have a lot of compute power in their in their ecosystem and it you know to take advantage and use that it makes good sense right you don't want to leave that compute power idle when you can actually grab cycles on it do that processing and then pull it back so I think it distributes the load and it sort of is the best of both worlds yeah Jeff you said a lot of good stuff is there anything else you want to add about the future of cloud before we wrap up today no I think it's a really awesome time to be innovating in this space I think that you know the cycle times sort of keeps speeding up so for folks that are out there looking for solutions I mean I think every other day you're seeing something really awesome at scale that can help your business and you know you think Bhoomi is one of those solutions but we're really excited about what the future holds all right Jeff thank you very much I'll say to the link when we're all done we can tweet it and appreciate your expertise intestacy was great being with you today thank you

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