Cloud Evolution: Why On Prem Data Centers Still Matter in a Cloud-First World

Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

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This week, Mirantis CTO Shaun O'Meara dives deep into On Prem data centers - a concept that many have forgone with the explosion of Public Cloud providers and solutions - but, one that is still critical for securing many organization's data to meet specific security requirements both in given industries and for specific clientele. Shaun also presents the Mirantis strategy for leveraging the most secure data center components while still maintaining flexibility in regards to cloud provider and infrastructure choice.
A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Data Center background: is the Data Center really dead?
• Current use cases driving Private Cloud & On Prem Data Centers
• Common challenges with Public Cloud
• Advantages of Public Cloud
• Multi/Hybrid-Cloud: get the best of Public & Private Cloud worlds
• How to build a "Hybrid-Cloud" data center
• On Prem Cloud and Data Center strategies
• The Mirantis approach

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Chapter

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. What this podcast will cover (00:00:54)

3. Is the Data Center really dead? (00:01:18)

4. Use cases driving the On Prem model (00:06:35)

5. Challenges in the Public Cloud domain (00:10:31)

6. Advantages of Public Cloud (00:12:55)

7. Get the best of Public and Private Clouds (00:15:05)

8. How to build this "Hybrid Cloud" Data Center (00:17:53)

9. On Prem Cloud strategies (00:19:59)

10. How Mirantis approaches Hybrid Data Centers (00:25:18)

11. Outro (00:28:33)