Current issues and the future of cloud and infrastructure.

In this interview, we asked Michael Benaroch, Director of Pre-Sales at the BU Cloud Infrastructure, several questions. The goal is to take stock of the current situation and establish tangible elements concerning the future of this very important branch of IT: cloud and infrastructure.

What are the challenges in the world of Cloud and Infrastructure in 2022?

"There are several challenges for our customers today. We need to be able to accelerate the time to market, i.e., the speed at which infrastructure is made available. To be able to expose these infrastructure services to end customers through provisioning portals. These two factors will inevitably generate increased consumption and potentially exponentially! Behind all this, there is a strong financial stake. We need to analyze and take this issue into account when accompanying the transformation. One of the solutions is to choose open source. The key is to save money on a large scale, especially on licenses. Today Blue Soft is a committed, independent, reliable and vendor agnostic player. We are able to address the entire value chain on all infrastructure perimeters. The BU is also competent in project management and information system governance. We know how to concretize the transformation of an I.S. from end to end. From design to implementation, including the training of RUN teams so that they can subsequently operate the system.

What is the vision of our team Cloud Infrastructure?

"The roadmap has been redesigned in 2019 for a five-year period. So our goal is to bring artificial intelligence to infrastructure service management. To do that, we're relying on an in-house R&D program, a portal for provisioning system, storage, and backup infrastructure services that is currently voice-driven. Our objective is to to be able to optimize resources and performance continuously. We need to be able to provide the agility our partner customers need to meet their business challenges and application availability. "

What place for innovation in our team Cloud Infrastructure?

"Innovation at Cloud Infrastructure has always been very important. We have been supporting our partner customers for many years in the transformation of their infrastructure. If we want to be a force of proposition, we have to be avant-garde. What does "forward-thinking" mean? It means having the ability to identify tomorrow's solutions, to analyze them, to qualify them and to recommend them to our customers. This requires a strong technological watch and also POCs that we carry out in our lab," explains Michael Benaroch.

What solutions bring value to your customers?

"Today at Cloud Infrastructure, the high value-added solutions offered are mainly around the automation of private cloud solutions and Data Vision dashboards. They can be implemented from both open source solutions and vendor solutions."

What are the skills to have in infrastructure now?

"For several years now, infrastructure experts have had to strengthen their development skills. The acceleration of the time to market and the ever faster provisioning of infrastructure services is essentially based on automation. It requires either specific programs developed to measure, based on the REST API, the Python programming language or also on open source stacks such as Ansible. This requires strong development skills. "

What future for Cloud and Infrastructure?

"It is essential to optimize resources to cope with the shortage of components. We also need to scale real-time performance to deliver the computing power needed for real-time applications. Highly resilient and secure applications are crucial. Today, we have customers who ask us to have an information system that never stops, even in the event of an attack. This means that we have to be able to bring an information system back up under attack and in complete transparency for users, all this in a strong economic context. We have to transform, bring continuous value to our partner customers while optimizing expenses," concludes the consulting director.

Michael Benaroch is a pre-sales manager at Blue Soft within the Cloud Infrastructure BU.

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