Interview with Craig Matsumoto, Senior Analyst Last year, we welcomed Senior Analyst Craig Matsumoto to the 451 family – and we are so excited to have him back on stage at the
Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit (HCTS). Craig will lead the “Building the Datacenter Fabric – Networking Opportunities in the Datacenter World” session on September 24 at 1:15pm PDT, in the Orovada Breakout Room 2 at the Aria in Las Vegas.
Q: What will you be discussing in this session? A: Something I've been calling 'the new enterprise network.' As enterprises have reached out to the cloud, they've often been content to use broadband internet or SD-WAN to connect there. Datacenters would like to present an alternative, aided by the agility of software-defined networking – we're calling it software-programmable interconnection.
Q: Why is this topic significant? A: I think the element of cloud dependency is underappreciated. As more mission-critical work moves to remote places – clouds, SaaS providers, even edge computing – I would expect some enterprises to find internet connectivity insufficient. We're going to discuss colocation as an alternative, but many enterprises don't think of colocation that strategically. About 30% use colocation, and of those, 53% use it for disaster recovery. It suggests a slim, tactical view of colocation. Is there a richer role that third-party datacenters can play for enterprises? I want to start some discussion on that.