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and flexibility not necessarily attainable
with a closed source model. He added: “It
is beneficial in any industry. Everyone has a
digital part to their business.”
Being agile in the way that your business
adopts and utilises technology can provide a
significant advantage over the competition
and Knoblich is quick to point out that
some of the most innovative technologies
impacting hybrid cloud, infrastructure, Big
Data and AI are occurring in open source
communities. The collaborative nature
of these communities is a huge source of
strength and innovation.
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Open source technologies also provide
advantages when it comes to Digital
Transformation efforts. One of the issues
surrounding proprietary technology is that
businesses have historically found it very
difficult to move away from these closed
source platforms. This lock-in can prevent
organisations from moving to or adopting new
technologies if they become more beneficial
to their strategy than their current tech.
Avoiding vendor lock-in is vital as businesses
race to hybrid cloud adoption in 2019.
Figures from a recent Gartner report show
that by 2020, 75% of businesses will have
a hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure. When
moving workloads into the cloud, the data
needs to be stored and handled in a way
that factors-in a potential exit strategy. Using
vendor-specific and non-open standards,
formats, APIs and frameworks makes an exit
very difficult, risky and expensive, especially
with extremely large datasets.
Knoblich enthuses that the ethos of open
source allows you to take full advantage
of public cloud offerings without getting
locked in and informs us that you can
use container technology to move your
infrastructure between suppliers, across a
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