A sensible approach to multi-cloud
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to cloud, you may find that for some applications — ones you intend to maintain over a long period of time — you have to account for the possibility of changing providers in the future. Some vendors promise to make that a seamless transition — but in so doing, you might be losing out on some of the rich functionality that the cloud providers can offer. Our regular podcast host, Zhamak Dehghani talks to ThoughtWorks Australia’s Head of Technology, Scott Shaw about the cost of multi-cloud portability and explores how businesses can calculate the risks and rewards of multi-cloud.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Jamek. I'm really excited today to talk to Scott Shaw, one of my mentors and most favorite people in ThoughtWorks about cloud adoption. |
| 0:20.0 | So for maybe some people in our audience |
| 0:22.8 | that may not know you or be familiar with your work, |
| 0:26.0 | would you give a short introduction of what you do at ThoughtWorks? |
| 0:29.9 | Sure. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm called the head of technology for ThoughtWorks in Australia. |
| 0:34.2 | So I'm sort of like the regional CTO. I have a dotted line report to Rebecca Parsons, |
| 0:40.0 | who's our global CTO, and I help to run the business and set the technology strategy for |
| 0:46.6 | ThoughtWorks here in Australia. I also do a fair amount of consulting, and that's usually as an enterprise architect or working to help people bridge the |
| 0:59.7 | gap I guess between traditional enterprise architecture and people who are trying to adopt more |
| 1:04.2 | modern technology practices cloud agile containers microservices and things like that. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you for the introduction. |
| 1:13.6 | I know we can talk about many different topics today, |
| 1:17.6 | but I'm also aware that you've been focusing a fair bit on the state of cloud adoption, |
| 1:23.6 | the failure modes, and an interesting trend, multi-cloud. You had a wonderful talk called |
| 1:31.3 | Sensible Multicloud at Yale conference in Australia recently. So I'm hoping to pick your brain |
| 1:37.1 | on the topic. And perhaps starting with the current state of cloud adoption and what is really leading us towards |
| 1:49.5 | this, you know, increasing interest to multi-cloud? |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah, so I think there's a few reasons that people are considering multi-cloud now. |
| 1:59.5 | You know, we went through this, a lot of exuberance about cloud. |
| 2:05.3 | I think it was something like 12 years ago now that EC2 got launched. |
| 2:11.8 | And that was really exciting for a lot of us technologists |
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