The Cloud Hotness.

At least for 2020 so far...

Aug 17, 2020

(Image courtesy of CRN)

2020 has been an interesting year for sure. Everything we’ve been doing has probably been disrupted one way or another. But with all the disruption in our day-to-day lives that is causing us to replan everything the IT world is still moving forward with new tech (both disruptive and innovated). New technologies, new startups, new ways of doing things, and more. All positioned to help companies deploy, scale, and manage their service offerings all over the globe.

CRN recently dropped what they feel is some of the hottest cloud services/products that have been announced this year. Let’s highlight a few!

Anthos on AWS

This is cool. Anthos is Google’s super cool K8S platform that runs on-prem and in GCP. Launching it on AWS? That’s taking a stab at AWS and their K8S offerings. You can see what deployment options are available for AWS, On-Premises, and Google Cloud here.

HPE GreenLake

The company I work for is an HPE Partner and we’ve been reading/hearing about GreenLake for a few months now. Definitely some cool offerings and bundling of products and services that target cloud, computing, containers, and more.

VMware Tanzu

With VMware’s purchase of Pivotal for a cool $2.7 billion last year, they have been busy getting all those K8S projects bundled under the Tanzu name and branding. Tanzu is their enterprise K8S product line that enables companies to build, run, and deploy apps faster, manage multiple K8S clusters, etc. Right now one of the big market leaders in the ECP world is Red Hat OpenShift (also on the CRN hottest list) so seeing Tanzu on there means solid competition for Enterprise customers in the K8S world.

Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer

You don’t hear much about Oracle Cloud in a lot of discussions of the big players but they are scaling rapidly and adding some high profile customers (Zoom for instance). But one of their newest offerings is their on-premises cloud service: Cloud@Customer. Basically a fully-featured Oracle Cloud region inside a customers’ DC. That’s pretty slick.

You can check out the whole list here - https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/the-10-hottest-enterprise-cloud-services-of-2020-so-far-

Tech Geek Link of the Week:

I first heard the Velero project from the Google Kubernetes podcast (fantastic podcast btw!) and have been following it off/on.

Typically with K8S you really don’t care too much about your nodes (the VM’s and K8S aspect). K8S is designed to scale rapidly and users are ‘supposed’ to treat servers as cattle vs pets. So backing up data hasn’t been a big deal in the past but that is changing as Ops might want copies of YAML files, configurations, data, etc. Project Velero aims to change that by letting kubeadmins backup all their Kubernetes resources, data, etc.