Cloud Service Providers vs “The Supercloud”

How does the moniker Supercloud apply to how cloud providers are changing over time? Specifically when facing market pressures, trying to lock in, get bigger and become essential. Today we discuss the changing nature of service providers, specifically cloud providers.

This topic has been coming up on Twitter, and I know you will find this conversation fascinating. It talks both about the hypothetical and very practical drivers behind concepts like supercloud.

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IT In An Age of Scarcity

How do supply chain, ecologic, capital, and political issues limit our ability to continue to build big data centers? Today we expand on this continued conversation.

We’re already seeing this in the news, and we need to rethink how we are building a lot of the core infrastructure we depend on. That includes power, data centers, networking and connectivity. Potentially even human logic, which we get into.

The purpose of this conversation was to look at the bigger picture, and then pull it back into how we build IT systems.

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Rob’s Hot Take:

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of RackN and host of the Cloud 2030 podcast, discusses the shift from availability to scarcity in the IT landscape, highlighting the need to find synergies and connections between systems. He emphasizes the necessity of coupling components and integrating systems efficiently, especially as resources like power, data centers, and supply chains become limited. Hirschfeld encourages listeners to engage in the conversation at 2030.cloud, emphasizing the importance of diverse insights for shaping future discussions.