Rackspace CTO Chat Cloud trends revealed 2013 Cloud automation program

Computing has been evolving, and new ithttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7313.html "> Job skills needs are evolving, such as upgrading platform capabilities, cloud automation and portability, and cloud-focused tools." Rackspace will provide later content in 2013, said John Engates, chief technology officer, who also provides details on cloud trends and what we can expect from cloud hosting providers in the coming year.

techtarget:2013 How will cloud computing change their lives for the average IT staff?

The tool set in John Engates:it department is beginning to change.

In the past, if you think that most people in the IT department are system administrators (sysadmins), an expert in an application, and they all have hands-on architectural skills, the company will start to move towards more developers.

DevOps will be a trend accepted by more CIOs and businesses; you need some developer skills to access the cloud. You can speed up a server in a portal, but without the full functionality of automation and cloud, you need to be able to consume an API in order to be able to implement it. We see this trend in our own company, and I think this trend will be well into the business.

It also means you are seeing more of the work of a general technician; As the system goes into the cloud, you may no longer need a specific database specialist or a specific application specialist. You might be able to click on it from your cloud provider.

TechTarget: Are we going to see the infrastructure that is the service moving to a more platform where services become part of these skills?

John Engates: It's getting harder to be clear about the difference between the two.

Rackspace Cloud has a product called Cloud Files, which is an object store. It looks more like a platform than an infrastructure because the customer of this product has no idea how many servers we have, they don't see any machines, they don't save capacity, they put their own files in and get their files back.

New features, such as large data, will be more platform-like services rather than infrastructure. Because developers are the consumers of these services. There is a concept that the infrastructure is the service for the system administrator, the platform is the service for developers.

Developers consume all of these things, and devops blur the lines within the organization, so you can expect cloud providers to blur the boundaries between product sets. I don't think people want to use them alone.

Will there be more automation in the TECHTARGET:2013 infrastructure, the service sector? Less acceleration of personal instances, more workload allocation, and proper response to services?

John Engates: Another product we released in this process is a tool that allows customers to compile what you describe. Instead of manually speeding up a specific instance, let with do it for me. We call IT service Registry. It provides a place for developers to describe applications and services that are trusted to drive some automation.

Many of our customers use chef, but chef essentially does not automatically expand or compile when the server increases and decreases. We need to drive through other amounts, and our service registry becomes the tool.

All of this goes into the cloud to make sure that you don't have to consider an application in a way that is not federated server to server, you can think of the application as a building block of services.

TechTarget: How is the portability between the clouds? What do you think about the development of portability in the 2013?

John Engates: I think it's going to get better.

I reviewed my predictions for 2012 years, and one of the things I mentioned was that the coming open source cloud and open standards will become increasingly important. This year we have seen this trend, but open source is still difficult to understand in the cloud. Mainly because Amazon is the biggest cloud maker, they haven't embraced the time to go to standard. They allow people to use their APIs and build them in their own products, but they do not officially tell the world they are allowing their standards to become open standards. This is also open source jump in to fill in the blank. We expect that 2013 will bring more cloud providers to adopt OpenStack.

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