This document discusses 10 cloud trends for 2017 and actions that can be taken. The trends include: 1) Enterprises using multiple public clouds like Azure and Google Cloud; 2) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) converging; 3) Governance becoming more important; 4) Cloud security matching on-premises security; 5) Growing use of containers with orchestration tools; 6) Emergence of serverless computing via functions as a service (FaaS); 7) Slowing price cuts from cloud providers; 8) Opportunities to reduce cloud spending by 30-45%; 9) Lack of cloud expertise being a top challenge; 10) High demand

1. CLOUD TRENDS FOR 2017
AND ACTIONS
YOU CAN TAKE NOW

2. • Michael Crandell
• CEO, RightScale
• Brian Adler
• Director Enterprise Architecture, RightScale
• Bailey Caldwell
• VP Customer Success, RightScale
• Kim Weins
• VP Marketing, RightScale
Panelists
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3. POLLS

4. Universal Cloud Management Platform
Self-Service Cloud Analytics
RightScale Cloud Management Platform
Cloud Management
Multi-Cloud Orchestration
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Governance
Public
Clouds
Private
Clouds
Virtual
Servers
Bare Metal
Servers

5. CLOUD USE TRENDS

6. Trend #1: Enterprises Using Multiple Clouds

7. Trend #1: …and It’s Azure and Google

8. The distinctions between "infrastructure"
and "platform" are evaporating, leaving
these terms to collapse into a single
concept. The expected end state is a
converged service model, which we denote
as "converged IaaS and PaaS"
Trend #2: IaaS and PaaS Converge
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Source: Gartner, Market Trends:
The Convergence of IaaS and PaaS Cloud

9. Trend #2: IaaS and PaaS Converge
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Network
Container Service Relational DB Caching CDN
StorageCompute
Serverless NoSQL DB Hadoop Load Balancing
Workflow Queueing Data Migration Data Warehouse
Batch Search ETL API Management
Scheduler Directory Services Key Storage Web Firewall
Machine
Learning
Data
Analytics
IoT Mobile
IaaSComponentsDomains
Gaming

10. Trend #3: Governance is the New Black
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Cost
Security
Visibility
Policies
Compliance

11. Actions: Govern Any Cloud, Any Service
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Compute Storage Network Database
Built-In Integration Cloud Service Plug-Ins
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Batch
Google
Container
Engine
Azure
PaaS
and more…
Created by
• RightScale
• Customer
• 3rd party
Governance

12. TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

13. Trend #4: Cloud Security Matches On-Prem

14. 2%
3%
3%
4%
6%
7%
9%
20%
27%
8%
10%
12%
11%
16%
18%
12%
14%
35%
Rancher
Rocket
Docker Tutum
Mesosphere
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Salt
Ansible
Docker
Respondents Using DevOps Tools
Use today
Plan to use
Container
Orchestration
Trend #5: Containers Get Orchestration
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report

15. • Services
• AWS Lambda
• Azure Functions
• Google Cloud Functions
• Use Cases
• Routine housekeeping tasks
• Process stored objects on the fly
• Image processing
• …and more
Trend #6: Serverless=F(unction)aaS

16. COST

17. Trend #7: Cloud Price Cuts Slow
US-East 2014
(EOY)
2015
(EOY)
2016
(Dec 12)
AWS (m3.xl) $.45 $.28
-38%
$.266
-5%
Google (n1-standard-4) $.252 $.200
20%
$.200
0%

18. Monthly Spend Savings Identified
Customer #1 $200,000 44%
Customer #2 $26,000 40%
Customer #3 $46,000 33%
Customer #4 $19,000 34%
Customer #5 $137,000 20%
Trend #8: Yes, You’re Wasting Money
Typical Savings Opportunities = 30-45% of spend.

19. Trend #8: Yes, You’re Wasting Money
Memory utilization
CPUutilization
20-40%: Size -1
<20%: Size -2

20. CLOUD IMPLEMENTATION

21. Trend #9: Expertise is the Biggest Challenge

22. Trend #10: Cloud Expertise in High Demand
21Source: Indeed.com
AWS + cloud
Google + cloud
Azure + cloud
VMware
AWS

23. • Contact sales
• sales@rightscale.com
Q&A
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