This document discusses the rise of services as the new cloud platform (SaaP) and how they enable business agility. It defines SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS more tightly and introduces SaaP as composable, reusable services optimized for DevOps. SaaP allows for an a la carte consumption model versus the prix fixe model of PaaS. The document argues that AWS operates more as SaaP than IaaS/PaaS and that DevOps without SaaP misses something important. It concludes that speed is the new norm, with new culture (DevOps) and tools (SaaP) driving internal SaaP for business agility in the

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Services are the New
Cloud Platform
Randy Bias, VP Technology & Strategy, Cloud Software,
Juniper Networks
Cloud computing meet up - 07/20/2017
@randybias

2. Public Cloud is Winning
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AWSVMW
$M
Revenue

3. Why?
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4. Speed is Life … The New Norm
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5. Business Agility In the Cloud Era
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6. Culture Change to a Historical
Problem
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7. A Nuanced Cloud Model
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8. Tighter definitions
• SaaS: Applications on demand via web or mobile
• PaaS: “Load your code and go” for developers
• IaaS: Basic compute, storage, & network via APIs
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9. A tighter definition of SaaP
• Composable, reusable services optimized for
DevOps, managed via API, and meant to be
assembled into a customized PaaS that is
application specific by DevOps teams
• Examples: RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging/Queuing,
Speech2Text, MapReduce, DNS, Directories
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10. The difference?
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PaaS SaaP
Consumer target Developers
Developers and
operators
Architectural model Constrained
Microservices /
composable
Consumption model Prix fixe A la carte

11. AWS is Really SaaP
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12. DevOps w/o SaaP is like
Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson…
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…it’s good, but it’s missing something that makes it great.

13. Business Agility In the Cloud Era
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SaaP
DevOps

14. Internal SaaP for DevOps
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15. Summary
1. Speed is Life … the New Norm
2. New culture (DevOps) + new tools (SaaP)
3. The bulk of work in cloud is SaaP, not IaaS/PaaS
4. SaaP enablement best exemplified by Kubernetes/Helm
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16. Q & A
@randybias
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