Cloud Adoption: Data Centre Exit, Mainframe Exit, and BYOD (Google Cloud Adoption and Migration in the Enterprise Series)

Welcome to the continuation of the Google Cloud Adoption for the Enterprise, From Strategy to Operation series.

In the previous part, we talked about the importance of joining your cloud strategy with your open source strategy. In this installment, we’ll talk about other significant opportunities that your cloud strategy can help with, including:

• Data centre exit
• Mainframe exit
• Zero trust adoption, EUC strategy, and BYOD.

When Can You Exit the Data Centre?

On-Premises Workloads

Typical on-premises workloads might include:

• A VMware estate
• Legacy IBM Power / AIX
• Mainframes

Excluding cloud options for now, you broadly have two options for hosting these workloads:

1. In your own private data centres (owned or rented).
2. In a co-location (“colo”) facility from a colo provider (like Equinix), i.e. where you rent a certain amount of space and capacity in a shared data centre.