One of cloud’s great drawcards has been its simplicity: point-and-click, IT on demand, pay as you use. It has redefined (disrupted) the IT landscape and forced a major re-alignment of most other forms of processing, delivery and storage.

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“At Ordnance, we are trying to set the landscape for the ‘cloudification’ of more services and help more businesses tangent those workloads into off-premises environments. 15 years ago, running a web application or a web service meant data centers, servers, and people to run them. Now it’s point and click, and that’s exactly what Ordnance wants to do for the network.”But is it that simple or that fast? As cloud has emerged so have questions of security, latency, and service. Hybrid cloud has evolved as a means to access the scalability of public cloud and the security of private – hybrid IT takes this a further step through adding server environments to the mix. It is clear that cloud cannot do all things – a lesson that is in many ways at the core of edge computing - and it is clear also that it is not just a matter of deploying cloud; it is how you deploy it. Alexander Turner explains:

The key to the ‘shake and bake’ principle is the network and how software-defined networks can sidestep a number of the issues of cloud deployment including multi-tenancy and network management. Alexander promises to deliver practical insights and demonstrate the process through case studies he has worked on:

“I will be speaking on the SDN market and how a lot of that ties into cloud deployments. We’ve had a lot of experience at Ordnance with cloud connectivity through our product and customers with a lot of stories to share. We’ll also be sharing one of our most recent success stories with a large carrier and how we turned a three months’ cloud deployment into an overnight affair”.

Alexander Turner will be speaking at DCD>Australia on June 27 at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney.

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