The Hybrid Cloud Forecast Series: Recent Episodes
Andre Tost
Join Andre Tost, IBM Distinguished Engineer & Chief Technology Officer of IBM Cloud Pak Architecture, as he leads you through the Hybrid Cloud Forecasts. In each episode, Andre is joined by a subject matter expert on a particular facet of hybrid cloud, and together, they take a deep dive into where we are and what the future might hold.
In today's episode, Andre is joined by Anant Jhingran, IBM’s CTO of Software. They discuss Anant’s trajectory from being a database expert to his new role as the CTO, how the industry has changed over the course of his career, and what technologies he thinks are on the rise.
Connect with Anant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anantjhingran/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Today J.R. Rao, IBM’s CTO of Security Research, sits down with Andre to talk about how the security arms race has developed along with modern computing, “YQK,” another thing, and much more.
Connect with J. R.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-r-rao-3095309/
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On today’s episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast, Andre is joined by IBM Fellow Shankar Kalyana. They discuss Shankar’s broad definition of what the hybrid cloud is today, and how it can provide the backdrop for IBM to deliver a wide array of solutions to their diverse clients.
Connect with Shankar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarkalyana/
Art by Sam Smith
On today’s episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast Series, Andre sits down with IBM Fellow Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood. They discuss Tanveer’s career in AI, how she found herself working for IBM, limitations on AI mimicking human behavior, the role of IBM in developing technologies to improve the human condition, and much more.
Connect with Tanveer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanveer-syeda-mahmood-09297224/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast Series, Kebin Stoodley, IBM’s CTO of Z, stops by to talk with Andre about the struggles of balancing managerial and technical roles, the modern application of mainframes, and much more.
Connect with Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-stoodley-ibmzcto/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com
Naeem joins Andre in this episode of the Hybrid Cloud forecast. As the CTO of IBM Space Tech, Naeem walks through the interesting challenges of extreme condition computing in space, and its relevance to the terrestrial hybrid cloud.
Connect with Naeem: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahori/
More about IBM Space: https://www.ibm.com/industries/space
More about IBM’s Cubist: https://endurancein.space/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com
In this episode, Andre talks with Alessandro Curioni, VP of IBM Research for Europe and Africa. They discuss advances in computing over the last decade, the place of research in a large corporation, and much more.
Connect with Alessandro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-curioni-a527996/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com
To celebrate the second anniversary of the podcast, Andre is re-joined by his first-ever guest, Kyle Brown, to check in on how Kyle’s thoughts and perceptions of the hybrid cloud have evolved and changed over the past two years, and across multiple jobs at IBM.
Connect with Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-brown-5a02581/
Kyle’s blog: https://kylegenebrown.medium.com/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com
In this episode, AB Vijay stops by to talk with Andre about IBM's strategic outlook for the hybrid cloud, talking about practical use cases, and the work that goes into moving clients onto the hybrid cloud.
Check out AB's blog: https://abvijaykumar.medium.com/
Connect with AB: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abvijaykumar/
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music "Happiness" by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow, CIO DevSecOps CTO, where she is currently working on transforming z/OS into a modern platform with DevSecOps as a showcase for Hybrid Cloud, demonstrating to the world how Hybrid Cloud can work for enterprises. She emphasizes fit-for-purpose by running workloads where it makes the most sense in the Hybrid Cloud environment for business value. They discuss how siloed mainframe and distributed computing organizations today can use the same development processes, with many of the pipelines and toolchains being ported to z/OS. Andre and Rosalind discuss how DevOps has evolved into DevSecOps using automation to help simplify security challenges. She talks about the challenges of running the CIO organization for IBM, of being IBM’s client “zero”, with 6000 developers that build, run, and maintain all of the applications for running IBM. She is currently working on transforming z/OS to be infrastructure-as-code based to simplify management processes with application pipelines that are very highly efficient, with zero trust, no system programmers, all done through automation.
Art by Sam Smith
Intro by Nathan Brophy
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In the second annual holiday episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast podcast, Andre takes a step back from the world of cloud computing and hears from his guest Faried Abrahams, IBM Fellow - IBM Consulting, about growing up in apartheid South Africa, how he came to work in IT, and the importance of his mentors along the way.
Art by Sam Smith.
Intro by Nathan Brophy.
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Gosia Steinder, IBM Fellow, Hybrid Cloud Research, where she guides research teams in innovative research projects that advance the state of Cloud computing. Gosia began her career working on the first example of a system that offered compute capacity as-a-service to users, before virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service existed. Then containers came along for managing applications, and she built the first of incarnation of IBM Container Service which ultimately moved to Kubernetes. Over the years, her role has naturally expanded across two areas: advancing the hybrid cloud platform, and ensuring it has the security and compliance capabilities that are required, especially in regulated industries. Together they discuss the challenges of securing multi-cloud solutions as the API services, semantics, and risks vary across Cloud providers. Andre asks her what it means to be a researcher and she describes how the role has changed over time. Gosia is currently working on a new technology from Red Hat, called “kcp”. It is a new spin on Kubernetes, which can be applied to a variety of other problems, not just container management. The kcp technology extracts the desired state management layer and applies it to different contexts by provisioning and managing the lifecycle of resources that have nothing to do with Kubernetes, such as VMs on another cloud, or network resources. You can learn more at https://github.com/kcp-dev/kcp
Art by Sam Smith.
Intro by Nathan Brophy.
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Ajay Apte, IBM Fellow, IBM Public Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Ajay describes the kinds of work that occur behind the scenes to design and build data centers, before you can even provision a VM. Sustainability is becoming a common theme in these podcasts, and Ajay shares that Fortune 500 CEOs are putting sustainability as one of their top three initiatives. Energy consumption is a major driver and he talks about the need to tune power consumption to ensure data centers stay energy efficient. He tells us that customers are more energy conscious than ever, wanting to measure energy consumption not only at the infrastructure level, but now also at the workload level and even at the application level.
He shares that for IAAS, abstraction and standarization is not as important as it is in the software stack. Most Cloud providers are not focusing on standardization. Rather, their efforts are spent on highly optimizing their stack for a standard set of hardware in terms of scale, performance, resiliency, and security.
Finally, Ajay talks about the vast amount of data that is being accumulated and the work to gather meaningful insights for both the Cloud provider and the Cloud consumers. Another interesting space he works on is figuring out how to push more software functionality into hardware.
Art by Sam Smith.
Intro by Nathan Brophy.
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode, Andre talks with Andrew Hately, Chief Architect of IBM’s Public Cloud, about the past, present, and future of cloud computing. Andrew begins by sharing how his role in a position in South Africa shaped the way he approaches software engineering. He and Andre discuss why there is a hybrid cloud aspect to almost any modern application deployment.
They talk about the emergence of specialized industry clouds which address the reputational and risk concerns of industries like transportation, healthcare, government services, banking, and insurance.
Andre asks about repatriation of software that can occur due to cost, performance, or sovereignty reasons. Andrew explains how some markets require a backup plan to account for this capability. He describes how Open Source software provides a powerful safety net by enabling portability across platforms and eliminating the dependency on a single provider.
Andrew talks about the importance of understanding your data requirements. Legal jurisdictional boundaries are becoming critical, driving the need to be extremely explicit in the way you code your data boundaries.
Finally, Andre asks Andrew his predictions for public cloud. He mentions two competing pressures - lowering our carbon footprint and energy usage versus the growth of digital business. The challenge will be how to build something that is always on and always secure, while still allowing for the computationally expensive data access and sovereignty.
In this episode, Andre talks with Ray Harishankar, IBM Fellow and VP of Assets, Architecture, and Platforms. Together they discuss the importance of building assets for reuse. Ray talks about the need to build the right architecture into assets so they become not just reusable but also extensible from a technology standpoint. He shares how Cloud and Hybrid Cloud have led us to Cloud Native architecture, domain driven design, and event architecture, which enables the creation of composable applications that are based on building blocks created by not only by us, but also together with our partners, and clients.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader from IBM Research.
Francesca shares the main goal of AI Ethics is to ensure that Artificial Intelligence advances in a way that is aligned to human values, in terms of fairness, transparency , and explainability, rather than creating an alternative form of intelligence. She talks about how machine learning models can inject bias into AI recommendations due to how the data is collected, how the training data is labeled, and how we make decisions during development. To counteract this bias, she describes the use of tools to detect bias in the training data, the AI model, or the output of the AI model. But just having the tooling is not enough. Diverse teams and robust training and educational material are required for developers to understand how to use and integrate the tools with their existing development processes. She reminds us that part of AI Ethics is ensuring that our clients will use the AI technology in line with our ethics and principals. This is done by employing a risk assessment process that considers the properties of the technology itself, the client’s planned use of the technology, and their history of using technology in an appropriate and responsible way. When the topic of data sharing comes up, Francesca talks about how the GDPR regulations in Europe were the very first regulations to govern how data is collected and shared. Francesca concludes by talking about ethics around the emerging field of Neurotechnology, reading and even writing data to our central nervous system and the ethical issues with this technology.
Art by Sam Smith.
Intro by Nathan Brophy.
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow, CTO IBM Cloud Systems Research. Donna shares her definition of Cloud native and how that paradigm has driven development DevOps practices -- specifically how we build applications, connecting Cloud APIs and flowing data through the Cloud services. Together, Andre and Donna discuss the implications of serverless computing. Donna explains that with serverless, the application developer no longer has to worry about storage, network, and compute resources. But that means the underlying infrastructure becomes even more critical as it needs to sense the changing workloads and adapt accordingly, driving even more demand on infrastructure. She contrasts this Cloud behavior with mainframe systems that are elastic by design and even suggests that the mainframe is the first cloud computer. Donna describes her current work on pervasive AI with AI accelerators, that deliver fraud detection, stolen identities, trade optimization, and medical imaging, which enables AI to be truly deployed in production in the Cloud.
Art by Jake Volz.
Intro by Nathan Brophy.
Music “Happiness” by Mixaund https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Marcel Mitran, IBM Fellow, CTO Cloud Platform IBM zSystems and LinuxONE, where they delve into zSystems and the role that mainframes play in cloud computing. Marcel explains the different use cases for Linux on z vs. z/OS. They talk about “fit for purpose” requirements, and how zSystems can address data gravity and data security needs in a hybrid cloud solution. Marcel mentions IBM Wazi as a Service, a modern native cloud development environment for applications on z/OS available in IBM Cloud. Marcel shares how businesses are most successful when they bring cloud computing and mainframe worlds together by not sacrificing the qualities of service that mainframes offer. In the future, Marcel sees more collaboration with Quantum computing, and is excited about the new AI accelerator on the z16 system Telum processor. He also sees the confidential computing becoming critical as customers seek technical assurance over their data that resides in a public cloud.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks with Krishna Ratakonda, IBM Fellow, CTO IBM Financial Services Cloud, about specialized industry clouds. Together they explore the challenges of compliance and controls in the Financial Services Cloud and the importance of the location of the Cloud systems. In the financial services industry, where 70-80% of the workloads are considered sensitive, they discuss how to operate in a multi-cloud world in a secure manner. And with mainframe computing playing a critical role in the Financial Services industry, Krishna shares how mainframes and cloud computing can coexist to address the demands of mainframe workloads in terms of resiliency, latency, and security. Andre concludes by asking Krishna if he foresees similar fit-for-purpose clouds for other industries and how they might evolve.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Vincent Hsu, IBM Fellow, CTO, IBM Storage, about storage technologies and the latest challenges for storage systems. In a surprising revelation, Vincent shares why tape storage is making a comeback. He also describes how the latest compression and deduplication technologies, used to reduce storage consumption, compete with data security and encryption practices. They discuss one of the biggest challenges today, as the volume of data increases from intelligent devices, how to make storage more intelligent. He shares that large scale AI is using too much power, impacting climate change, and how this problem is driving the need for smarter storage. Their discussion concludes with an interesting conversation about decreasing the time to recover data after a ransomware attack and the requirements for building the next generation of storage systems with “Zero Trust”. Vincent finishes with another very exciting project he is working on -- the role of storage at the ultimate edge location, the International Space Station.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Nataraj Nagaratnam, IBM Fellow, CTO of IBM Cloud Security. Andre begins by asking how to approach security and Raj explains that it starts by identifying the risks that need to be mitigated which then drives the security policies, controls, processes, and technologies that are required. Andre and Raj discuss the importance of DevSecOps and how it is changing the fundamental thinking of security as a forethought instead of an afterthought. They discuss how the recent Log4j vulnerability elevated the topic of supply chain security, as it's not enough to secure what you build, but now also you need to consider what dependencies you consume. Raj provides an example of a specialized security technology, Hyper Protect Crypto Services, included with IBM Cloud for Financial Services. He explains how built-in controls in this Cloud enable customers to focus on innovating their business and building new applications. Andre asks Raj to explain how to address the large number of standards and compliance requirements across industries and geographies, which leads to a discussion about how to make compliance as code. Raj concludes by explaining that data security and privacy are pushing the boundaries, especially as we expand into hybrid cloud, and that the company that's going to innovate and lead is going to pave the way for more secure and private environments.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Chris Ferris, IBM Fellow, CTO Open Technology, discuss Open Source Technologies. They talk about what constitutes an open source project - that its not just putting code in a public repo, but its about inviting others to collaborate on the project and building a community around it. Andre and Chris discuss that open source is not just about putting a project out for people to use or contribute to - but to put it under open governance, Kubernetes as an example. Andre and Chris talk about the success criteria for open source projects, how it is a diverse set of projects and different committers rather than a single vendor. Chris also talks about a survey that showed that 65% of developers believed that its more important to know the underlying opensource APIs rather than the vendor specific APIs as it allows them more flexibility in terms of career. Here is a link to the report: ibm.biz/oreilly-open-report.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Rachel Reinitz, IBM Fellow, Vice President, Founder & CTO IBM Garage. Rachel talks about how the Garage started and its principles of design thinking and agile development became very popular with customers, so much so that a number more locations were opened. The IBM Garage methodology innovatively helps in taking big ideas and testing them out - and has a systematic process to evaluate ideas and prototype them. Andre talks about repeatability and automation and their importance to Hybrid Cloud applications. They also discuss the dark side of hybrid cloud which is the management of its many moving parts - and the balance between being too course grained and too fine grained while creating microservices. Rachel talks about using design thinking and marrying that with agile development, peer programming, and test driven development to create products that delight customers. The foundation of the garage is to deliver at speed on ideas that matter. Andre and Rachel discuss the challenges of having design workshops virtually and the role of technology. They talk about how they innovate and yet maintain consistency - basically being able to adapt and repeat what works and learn from what does not. They talk about the importance of diversity in all aspects of the team.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Maja Vukovic, IBM Fellow, AI for Application Modernization. Andre and Maja discuss if the meaning of an application being cloud native only means it has microservices or if a minimum functional computational unit upon which the application is built has to be defined. Maja talks about using AI for code to understand the applications and help customers "untangle" their code and help them decide which parts of the application to refactor. Maja talks about application modernization in two parts - technology and development process modernization - to culturally shift the organization to the devops model. They discuss how AI can be used to measure the quality of the resulting microservices after an application re-write to convert a monolith to microservices. Maja talks about using AI to enable rapid containerization and code refactoring.
Art by Jake Volz
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to John Cohn, IBM Fellow Emeritus and "Distinguished Agitator Research". You'll note that this episode is a little different from the others, but we are sure you will find it both interesting and inspiring. So we decided to make this a special episode, one that is not about Hybrid Cloud, but about analog chip testing software, AI, getting married and other life changing events, being a reality TV star and how you have even less time once you retire. John mentions that he knew at the age of 8 that he wanted to be an engineer and wanted to go to MIT! John talks about the 5 (or 6 or 7) different careers he had at IBM during his 40 year tenure. John and Andre talk about careers and kids and John talks about his middle son Sam and about "Samstones" (http://samstones.org). He also shares his experiences with being a star in a reality TV show, where he had to eat dogfood, cat food or rats(??) for 2 months! John talks about the importance of play even while working and how it helped him innovate.
Art by Jake Volz
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Roland Barcia, IBM Fellow - Cloud & Data Platform Adoption, IBM Technology (CSM, Tech Sales, Assets, & Tech Garage). They dive deeper into deployment and management space - specifically Day 2 management. Roland talks about what he thinks the center of gravity for building hybrid applications is - pipelines to automate deployment of clusters, shared databases, and testing tools. They delve deeper into "layering of pipelines" to ensure maximum automation and portability. Roland and Andre talk about how to structure the teams so that applications are scalable and easily deployed and not broken into a million pieces because of over-indexing on the "micro" in micro-services. Andre talks about how to efficiently deploy and run microservices and in this case why "less is more". Andre and Roland discuss GitOps, as not just a one time deployment, but more as a management of desired target state, where changes are managed through git which is the one source of truth.
Art by Jake Volz
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Grady Booch, IBM Fellow; Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. Grady works in embodied cognition and artificial general intelligence and helping customers architect really large systems. He talks about the birth of UML at a time when there was a necessity for a language that was able to specify, visualize and construct complicated, distributed systems and how the UML has been adapted today by biologists to describe cell mechanisms. Andre and Grady discuss the different aspects of cloud - from where the applications and data are physically located, to the architecture view - how to run an application on cloud vs as a monolith - depending on the point of view, cloud is different things to different roles. Andre and Grady talk about whether different architectures are needed for on-prem vs cloud application and Grady talks about the book he is writing about software architecture patterns. They also discuss the importance of architecture patterns to build systems that are scalable, reliable and secure and not just feature-rich. They touch upon the different types of architectural patterns based on domains such as event-driven, stateless, caching, and how to pick which pattern to use based on cost and application needs. For example, the architecture of a social application will be very different than a transactional application to process financial data. Grady talks about the new series he is working on about computing that explores art, faith and what it means to be human.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow: CTO, AIOps. They delve deeper into the principles of Operations - that if everything was done right - the systems should be self-healing, self-monitoring and self-managing. IT management is to observe everything, then detect when problems occur, or predict before they occur, diagnose and fix them. Rama talks about reactive and proactive incident management - one is about putting out fires after they have been started, and the other about predicting the fire, but the best way is to prevent the problem altogether. Andre and Rama talk about how to use AI to detect anomalous behavior, and the dilemma of SRE's while they look at data coming from many different sources such as logs, metrics to decide which ones are actionable and which ones to ignore. Rama also discusses the role of AI in IT management such as grouping log anomalies, prioritizing them, and suggesting solutions based on past actions, with the option for the human in the loop to further fine tune the models.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Jason McGee, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO, Cloud Platform about IBM Cloud. They discuss how to build, operate, scale and secure applications across a combination of on-prem, cloud and edge locations and the challenges with building such applications. They talk about the cloud as a manifestation of the as-a-service consumption model at the infrastructure and application layers and how more and more customers want technology as a service. They touch upon the fact that some aspects of application development have not changed for hybrid cloud, but application developers now need to be intentional about the features they use on clouds that are specific to particular clouds. They discuss how to migrate monolithic applications to the cloud, and how the gitops model is gaining popularity as customers push as much of the operational lifecycle into the toolchain that leads into production.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Mike Kaczmarski, IBM Fellow, CTO Cloud Pak Shared Services, about the Cloud Pak platform-operator. They discuss that biggest difference cloud has made is design patterns - making it easier and more ubiquitous to scale workloads across geographies, and resources. Andre and Mike talk about how having a platform makes it easy for a customer to pick capabilities, but also abstract other things such as workload placement, load balancing and automation and how the platform brings other non-functional requirements for free. By using the platform, customers can easily integrate different capabilities into modern cloud environments and focus on writing applications as opposed to trying to glue all the pieces together. Mike also talks about using gitops and automation to deploy environments that are repeatable, governed, and managed, where customers can take the deployment artifacts and use them across environments and releases to test and deploy. Andre and Mike discuss how some customers like to run highly sensitive workloads on-premise, but other customers are moving capabilities to the cloud to take advantage of the economies of scale and pricing on the cloud - written on top of our platform those capabilities would be a lot easier to move to the cloud.
They discuss the important traits of a platform - footprint, consistency for customers, integration and ability to share services.
Art by Jake Volz.
In this episode of Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Rob High, IBM Fellow, Vice President and CTO, IBM Networking and Edge Computing, discuss hybrid cloud on the edge. Andre and Rob talk about the differences between cloud computing and edge computing - that cloud computing assumes a degree of homogeny and dynamism via scaling in the cloud and edge devices are very diverse and mostly in physically moving devices like cars and manufacturing equipment. Rob stresses the importance of autonomous systems that take responsibility to ensure the right software is in the right place at the right time across billions of diverse compute systems. They talk about how applications on the edge have to make do with fewer resources and deal with "compute islands" that may or may not be connected. Andre and Rob discuss the concept of "cloud-out" where the processing is offloaded to the edge for performance, cost and privacy reasons.
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In this episode of Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Mike Williams, IBM Fellow, Architecture, GTS IS Offerings & CTO discuss how to help customers transform toward hybrid cloud. They talk about the reasons behind the transformation journey that surprisingly, its not just due to superior technology, but because customers need to move faster, more nimbly, and provide more revenue streams. They discuss the importance of responsibly modernizing applications, not just lift-and-shift to the cloud. Andre and Mike discuss transformation as a sport, where the ball gets moved slowly down the field - where the end goal is to be fully cloud native - and the intermediate steps that lead up to it. They also talk about the importance of operational refactoring - not just application refactoring - and how the development and operational worlds come together.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this episode of Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Sridhar Muppidi, IBM Fellow, VP & CTO IBM Security discuss the security onion: a business layer for compliance, a technical layer for implementing and monitoring controls, and a layer to infuse security throughout the lifecycle from planning to managing and operating applications at scale. Andre and Sridhar talk about how security is typically seen as a gate, but needs to evolve to being a guardrail, where guidance is provided to not only predict and prevent bad things from happening, but course correct and fix any issues as soon as possible. They touch upon the fact that security has real life applications like managing the moderna vaccine pipeline and the hacker attacks happening today and discuss how machine learning can be used to make the protection more proactive and the detection more accurate.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this episode of Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Charlie Hill, IBM Fellow, VP Platform Experience. They discuss how designers think differently, working from outside in, crafting the user interface to visualizing it and finally bringing everything together to delight customers. Design thinking is not just for designers, but developers, product managers, marketers all making user success the center of their work and the different disciplines coming together around this common value system. Charlie talks about the designers backgrounds and how there are Anthropology majors who learn how people think and use our products and bringing this insight into designs ensures that the products usable, and needed. Andre and Charlie discuss the "make to learn" process that the design team uses to tease out what the customers want, sometimes by finding out what they don't want. They discuss the complexities of designing for the hybrid cloud - how to bring together disparate capabilities into common models in order to deliver exceptional products.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP & CTO AI Automation, the "founding father" of WebSphere technologies talk about how to automate the hybrid cloud. They discuss the fact that clouds are evolving with personality and specialty akin to specialized grocery stores. Andre and Jerry talk about the process of automation, how its mostly looked upon as a closed loop system but is really a two step dance - step one: eliminate mundane repetitive tasks to reduce errors and step two: augment skills to upskill employees. They discuss the reasons for acceleration of automation, everything is online now, for example: online businesses, telemedicine, autonomous cars, and technology in the form of AI which complements the digital ability of the cloud and bring intelligence to the table. They discuss how automation used to be a means to an end, but now is an end in itself and for digital businesses to succeed they need to not just automate, but optimize processes.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this new episode of the hybrid cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Tamar Eilam, IBM Fellow, Cloud, Climate. Tamar talks about working on the project that resulted in the "birth of the cloud" and how the project impacted cloud as it is today. Tamar and Andre talk about inventing the future and how new ideas for ground breaking research are conceptualized. They discuss the qualities that are necessary for being a good researcher in addition to being persistent. Tamar talks about how important it is to change course due to technology and landscape upheavals, and how to decide when to admit defeat and move on.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In the second episode of the hybrid cloud forecast series, Andre talks to Bala Rajaraman, IBM Fellow, Global Technology Services. Bala talks about his experience with building and managing reliable, compliant, secure, mission critical applications for different industry verticals and how to help enterprises modernize them. They talk about hybrid cloud as more than a location - as more a architectural model than a location model, how delivering software at scale and modernizing existing architectures is a journey, and how existing and new architectures and locations can co-exist. Bala and Andre talk about management challenges on how to build and deliver modern and monolithic applications in a way that continues to improve upon management of existing systems while delivering features for new application in an agile manner. Finally, they discuss the importance of not only automatically managing applications, but intelligently managing them.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this episode of the hybrid cloud forecast series, Andre is joined by IBM Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Modernization, Kyle Brown. They discuss how to elegantly modernize applications in hybrid cloud. Kyle addresses modernization myths and how to find a happy medium between rewriting applications and starting from scratch. Andre and Kyle talk about the future application architecture, programming models and where devsecops fits in the new models.
Art by Matt Cardinal.
In this introductory episode, Andre elaborates on the concepts of hybrid cloud, electric cars, and how this all relates to the future of enterprise technology. He introduces you to the series and gives a preview of what's coming in future episodes.
Art by Matt Cardinal.