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Ahilan Ponnusamy
Ahilan Ponnusamy
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Ahilan Ponnusamy

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore. Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.
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Andreas Spanner
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Andreas Spanner

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes. Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Approaching Your Distributed Future

Hybrid cloud and edge adoption has been growing steadily and is fastly becoming the standard deployment model for most organizations. In this chapter, we will explain what the hybrid cloud is, how it differs from multicloud, and the various internal and external factors that are shaping hybrid cloud adoption and its distributed future extending into edge computing. By the end of this chapter, we will have addressed the following:

  • Key reasons why enterprises are moving toward a hybrid cloud and edge strategy
  • External factors, from data sovereignty to ever-changing security and compliance requirements and AI/ML use cases that contribute to this journey
  • How a more connected and distributed future with 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing is playing a role

Let’s start by revisiting what hybrid cloud is and how it differs from multicloud. A hybrid cloud is a diverse computing environment, where different types of infrastructures...

Top reasons for hybrid cloud adoption

As far as the reasons for hybrid cloud adoption go, we can classify them into two different categories:

  • Business reasons
  • Technology reasons

We shall discuss these classifications in detail here.

Business reasons

Hybrid cloud adoption doesn’t always need to be a technical decision – in fact, most reasons for adoption or organically evolving to a hybrid cloud are not technical at all. This section focuses on the key business drivers in hybrid cloud adoption, which are as follows:

  • Flexibility
  • Cost optimization
  • Reduce vendor lock-in risk
  • Address everchanging security and compliance requirements
  • Minimize business disruption

Let’s get started.

Flexibility

A hybrid cloud allows organizations to choose the best deployment option and location for their specific needs – that is, a new cloud-native application can be deployed on one public cloud provider of choice and...

The external factors

External factors that are required or mandated play a significant role in enabling organizations to implement a hybrid cloud architecture. Some of these external factors are as follows:

  • Regional compliance requirements
  • Infrastructure limitations
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Regional compliance requirements

Regional compliance (and security) requirements are the most common and well-known reason for organizations to embrace a hybrid cloud deployment model. One such requirement is the data sovereignty requirements that differ from region to region. Here are some examples of data sovereignty requirements:

  • European Union: The data sovereignty requirement for the EU is called the GDPR. The GDPR requires that the personal data of EU citizens is stored and processed within the EU or in a country that the EU has deemed to have adequate data protection laws.
  • Russia: The Personal Data Law of Russia requires that the personal data of Russian...

Impact of 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing

You may be wondering why the impact of 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing has been put together in this section. We believe they are logically connected in aiding the adoption of hybrid cloud and in delivering edge use cases across the industries. We need to classify edge computing into two different eras:

  • Traditional edge computing (pre-5G)
  • Modern edge computing (post-5G)

The important differences between these eras are the explosion of new use cases and architecture patterns that modern edge computing can support thanks to the reliability, data transfer rate, and security that a 5G/6G network can provide, along with the increased processing capabilities of smart devices. In this section, we will focus on modern edge computing (post-5G).

For modern edge deployments to be successful, we need the following:

  • A reliable high-speed and secured network that’s provided by the 5G/6G network
  • Smart devices capable...

Summary

In this chapter, we explained how the innovation in the fields of 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing is creating new business value across industries, which is creating a need for a hybrid cloud and edge deployment model. We also discussed some of the top use cases it supports and how some regional data sovereignty and compliance requirements can influence the adoption of hybrid cloud and edge computing. We also discussed the external factors that can play a role in hybrid cloud adoption, including M&A.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how organizations can build a hybrid cloud and edge operating model that suits their business needs.

Further reading

For more information about the topics that were covered in this chapter, please refer to the following links:

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Authors (2)

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Ahilan Ponnusamy

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore. Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.
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Andreas Spanner

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes. Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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