Day Two Cloud 104: Cloud Is No Escape From Your Data Center Dumpster Fire

IT and business leaders need to be more nuanced in their approach to the cloud. On today’s Day Two Cloud podcast, guest Melissa Palmer discusses why cloud hype is a problem for organizations, the need to understand why you’d use cloud, what problems you’re trying to solve, and how your premises data center can often be a better option. Melissa Palmer is Senior Technologist & Team Lead at Veeam. She also blogs at vMiss.net. We discuss: * How cloud hype can obscure better solutions * Poor assumptions that the cloud is “better” * The value of the cloud’s operational model, and how it can be incorporated on-prem * Good and less-good cloud use cases * Correcting cloud mistakes * More Takeaways: Always ask “Why?” The cloud may not be the answer (and that’s OK) Take the time to do cloud right Show Links: vMiss.net – Melissa Palmer’s blog @vmiss33 – Melissa Palmer on Twitter Why I Hate The Cloud – vmiss.net vMiss on YouTube Melissa Palmer on LinkedIn Transcript: [00:00:05.210] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud. And today we’re talking to someone who maybe doesn’t like the cloud all that much, you could even say that she hates the cloud. We’ve got Melissa Palmer. She’s the senior technologist and team lead over at Veeam and she might have a bone to pick with cloud. What stuck out to you there, Ethan? [00:00:23.990] – Ethan It’s not so much that she has a bone to pick with cloud. It’s how people use the cloud, the hype of the cloud, the dumb decisions people make around cloud and the rage monster comes out a little bit Ned the rage monster comes out with Melissa. [00:00:37.550] – Ned And there’s lots of wheels being spun. And if you’re not sure what that’s all about, while you’re about to find out. So enjoy this show with Melissa Palmer from Veeam. [00:00:46.320] – Ned Melissa, welcome to Day Two Cloud. Before we get into the topic of why you think cloud is awful and terrible and no one should ever use it, why don’t you tell the folks a little bit about yourself and what you do? [00:00:57.750] – Melissa Well, first of all, thank you for inviting me on this Cloud podcast. I was very excited to get your invitation. My name is Melissa Palmer. You might actually know me as vmiss. I blog over at vmiss.net on a lot of different IT infrastructure type of stuff. And I am currently a senior technologist and team leader at Veeam Software. [00:01:16.710] – Ned Awesome. So as we all know, Cloud is like the best thing ever. We know that that’s that’s just an undisputed fact. It represents everything that is great and incredible in the world. So tell me Melissa, why do you hate things that are awesome? [00:01:31.440] – Melissa Well, how about first you tell me, why is the cloud really that amazing? [00:01:38.500] – Ned If you want a serious answer and not the flippant marketing answer, in my estimation, the thing I like about Cloud the most is the availability of APIs to construct services and the fact that I can do it in an On-Demand fashion and experiment with new features and services. [00:01:56.660] – Melissa Those are very valid reasons to like the cloud. However,