Gabriel Chapman

how do I get to IT as a service type of offering or infrastructure as a service?

And that's where we started to see the public cloud giants come in and say, oh, we've got this licked.

We had to do this really, really well.

And like I said, going back to that example earlier when I was talking about it, is that those pressures of what public cloud can do force a lot of internal IT people to have to make changes to their infrastructure to support that as well.

So

You know, if you look at it from the Gartner world, it's mode one.

It's kind of the old way of doing things.

If you're looking towards the next generation, it's mode two.

It's cloud first strategy or it's IT as a service or something that all the as's that exist out there.

It's leveraging those models to simplify, automate, orchestrate, and get towards a more cloud-like implementation process.

Well, first we have to thank our friends in the

We can thank Mr. Koops or Mr. Pitcher.

You know, so reality is, I think a lot of it really boils down to who the customer is, what they want to do, right?

A bespoke infrastructure, you know, if I look at Twitter, that's very bespoke.

They've purposely built and delivered a platform to meet their specific needs.

And it's probably better for them to do that than it is to kind of go out and try to buy, you know, they build versus buy.

And I think a lot of those bespoke infrastructures are those type of builders, right?

They take an open source technology, they run with it.

They don't feel like they have to be beholden to any one particular vendor.

you know, or at the more traditional enterprise space, they have the ability to say, all right, well, I can take best of breed components and put them together.