Episode 4: Orchestration and Automation Across Multiple Clouds
In this episode, KJ Burke and Michael Traves from CDW and Parth Pandit from VMware discuss the landscape of tools that are available to automate and orchestrate app portability, as well as containers, Kubernetes, GitOps and how to connect on-premises and multicloud environments.
Featured in this Episode
KJ Burke is an innovative and driven IT infrastructure architect with solid interpersonal and communication skills. He is currently the Principal Technology Strategist at CDW Canada, with over 20 years in the IT industry and plenty of experience in planning and deploying technology to improve business processes and drive measurable value.
Michael Traves has 25 years of experience in IT, and a wealth of knowledge founded in data management, high availability and disaster recovery design practices. As a Principal Solutions Architect at CDW, he advises on solution strategy and technology in DevOps, AI and the cloud, helping clients realize the benefits of modern application architecture with cloud-native design principles.
Parth Pandit is an Advisory Solution Architect at VMware. With more than two decades' worth of experience in the field of application development and application modernization strategy for cloud deployments, he specializes in cloud-native application development and containerization. His professional accreditations include being an AWS-certified solution architect, a CNCF-certified Kubernetes developer and a Confluent-certified Kafka developer.
In this episode, we discuss…
- Understanding what workloads are running in an environment, and what the dependencies are between applications
- How to structure applications to make them portable to transition to the public cloud, or to multiple clouds
- Do containers and VMs work differently across the public and private cloud?
- Understanding what multicloud actually means, and does it make sense to move to a multicloud environment?
- Can you expect your staff to be experts in multiple cloud providers?
- How VMware can help reduce complexity in the cloud and build developer productivity
- A step-by-step process to evaluating your multicloud environment
Findings from our Cloud Report
56% of business leaders believe they will operate in a hybrid cloud model as they move forward.
