Experience the cloud beyond the cloud

Over the last couple of weeks, I have had an opportunity to explore the promise of the cloud with a number of business and technology leaders in emerging markets where cloud adoption is still at an infancy.?

While many acknowledged the value of the cloud, the greatest challenge to adoption appears to be related to driving the organizational and cultural changes necessary for success. Some made reference to CAPEX friendly procurement processes which were not easily adaptable to the OPEX model of the cloud. Purchased hardware is reflected as asset on the balance sheet and depreciated over time, so a paradigm shift is needed across the board.

One area of common interest appears to be the ability to deploy cloud capabilities on infrastructure beyond the cloud, for example, implementing solutions on bare metal systems in a local datacenter to address regulatory and data residency constraints.

To enable the exploration of this opportunity, we created this mind map to explore the key technical capabilities and design of Google's Anthos on Baremetal offering. Click on the image to navigate through the mind map.

Anthos on Baremetal enables organizations to leverage cloud native platform capabilities beyond the cloud environment. We created an automated installation script for Anthos on Baremetal to demonstrate how organizations can easily and cost effectively deploy workloads on a Kubernetes platform which is consistent with Google Kubernetes Engine, and fully supported by Google.?

By clicking on this link, our installation script will be cloned to a Google cloud shell environment. Run the installation script to explore Anthos Baremetal on Google Compute Engine virtual machine on the Google Cloud project in as little as 30 mins.

We recommend running our demo in a new Google Cloud project which should be deleted upon completion. The tool also installs the latest version of Anthos service mesh and Cloud Run.

Cloud Run enables the deployment of stateless workloads on a highly scalable platform which is currently available on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare and Baremetal systems.

We have used assets such as these to accelerate cloud adoption by enabling our clients and partners to cost effectively experience and assess the capabilities of the cloud. You can find more information on how we support enterprise clients and start-ups on their journey to the cloud at https://techequity.cloud?