I moderated a panel at the Open Networking User Group meeting held at UCSF Mission Bay San Francisco on April 26th, 2017, where the topic was Enterprise Workload Onboarding Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Environments. The panelists were Nivesh Gopathi of The Gap, Inc, Carlos Matos of Bank of America, Bruce Pinsky of Intuit, and Shafeeq Shaikh of GE Digital and Harmen Van der Linde of Citi.
The purpose of the panel was to distill the findings of a Hybrid Cloud Working Group, which discussed the various barriers to adopting a hybrid cloud, which is comprised of traditional on-premises resources along with one or more public cloud service providers. This group includes the members who work at the panelists’ firms as well as those from other industries such as finance, health care, industrial goods, logistics and delivery, pharmaceuticals, and retail.