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Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 8

Name: Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 8
Uploaded: 2023-09-28T15:00:11+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (speaker) reflects on recurring historical patterns in technology operations, using the early-2000s virtualization wave and VM sprawl as an…

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Mike Austin (speaker) reflects on recurring historical patterns in technology operations, using the early-2000s virtualization wave and VM sprawl as an analogy. He describes how rapid adoption led to uncontrolled sprawl, licensing and control problems, and the subsequent need to collect data, audit environments, and regain control. He emphasizes that the first requirement to address such problems is visibility into usage.

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So if you think about things, there's other history, always repeats itself. It just shows up in different ways, right? So if you think back in the early 2000s when virtualization started, you had VM VM Sprawl, right? It was like, oh, VMware come out. I can make one server and make it into 100. All this VM Sprawl happened, right? And so you just sprawled and you didn't know what to do about it. Your licensing costs and your controls got out of place. You then you had to go and get some data, start to look at that data, figure out how to control it, and then you brought that VM environment back in place. Same thing with first time. You rotted it, you didn't know what to do. You got to audit it. You have no clue. You wouldn't even know how to run an audit. Those sorts of things. And so it's the same sort of thing. What do you need? The first thing you need is visibility into usage.