2021 Cloud Forum Survey Results
Dedicated to Gerard Shockley
Formalized Cloud Strategy
Formalized Cloud Strategy 2016-2021
2016
2017
2021
2018
Thoughts on Cloud Strategy
Percentage AWS Usage
Percentage Azure Usage
Percentage Google Cloud Platform Usage
Percentage VMware Cloud on AWS Usage
Percentage Oracle Cloud Usage
Percentage Usage: All other Cloud Service Providers
Cloud Adoption
Age of On-Premise Facilities
Centralization of IT Organization
Fully Centralized ←
→ Completely Decentralized
Trend 2016-2021: Centralization of IT Organization
Fully Centralized
Completely Decentralized
Drivers Moving Participants Toward the Cloud
Reduce Costs
Improved Service
Added Flexibility
Technology Innovation
15
10
5
0
Colors represent weight of response.
Increasing Importance L → R
Drivers Moving Participants Toward the Cloud (Part 2)
Outsource Infrastructure
Increase Agility
Improve Support for Research
Compliance & Regulatory
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
Colors represent weight of response.
Increasing Importance L → R
Obstacles to Broad Cloud Adoption
Security Concerns
Disaster Recovery Concerns
Service Provider/Reseller
Changing Business Models
Obstacles to Broad Cloud Adoption (Part 2)
Vendor Viability
Staff Readiness
Initial Investment Requirements
Convincing Leadership of the ROI
Other
Other Obstacles to Broad Cloud Adoption
Container Technology
Serverless Technology
GovCloud for Export of Restricted Data
Internet2 NET+ Enterprise Agreement
Central IT support for Research Computing
Clinical Cloud Research
BAA with Cloud Service Provider
Cloud Machine Learning
Cloud Data Lake
Cost Overruns & Moving Workloads
Validated Cloud Exit Strategy
Thoughts on Exit Strategy
The Making of a Legend
Bill Wrobleski - Shut up and work harder™
The Big Reveal
The Big Reveal
I think it is high time we unmask Bill Wrobleski for the amazing and wonderful person he is.
Alok Vimawala - UMich/Google
The Formative Years
Go Blue?
The Formative Years
Bill and I were the first two microcomputer consultants hired at U-M... as students. Bill used to code things like a scheduling app to register computer seminars for people who wanted to learn Microsoft Word, etc. He wrote the apps in DBase III. Because of his questionable skill his nickname was "Crash."
The Formative Years
This took on a new meaning in 1987. The Macintosh II was released and U-M received the first Mac II in the State of Michigan. It was in our offices at the U-M Microcomputer Education Center and we worked with it during the weekdays. With the coming weekend Bill wanted to keep playing with it. He walked the Mac II CPU system down two flights of stairs to his car. He then walked the Mac II monitor down the stairs and dropped it. The monitor did not work again for many weeks.
Andy Palms – UMich
Leadership Material
It’ll be fine
Leadership Material
The thing with Bill is he is a visionary but we are still cleaning up his mess. He made a decision to leave Exchange running and we just shut it down (so 11 years). He's retiring before we retire AFS, which is something he proposed to do then fled to Hawaii. He had a group named ITS.Artisans, which was all about cloud stuff, but BILL NOTHING ABOUT THE CLOUD SHOULD BE ARTISANAL.
Martin Sager – UMich
Leadership Material
As much as I'd love to take it out on Bill....my overwhelming feeling is that he is a teacher through and through, even if his profession was "IT Director". Goofball 100% but in that very generous and caring sort of way. He also loved to develop talent and truly cared about the places he worked at. Though.....Bill had an art for the mixed metaphor that NO ONE else had, often combining colloquialisms with well known metaphors to form a uniquely Bill version :)
Mandie Chapman - UMich
The Hawaii Years
Boogie Bill hard at work
Mature Leader
As if...
Mature Leader
All I know is that one should take into account Bill’s competitive streak while playing games. I thought Bill was going to start screaming at one of us to complete the answer before the “bomb” went off!! The goal of the game, as aligned to the retreat, was to get the teams to work closely together to solve problems! If anyone else has played games with Bill, they probably have experienced that.
Cheryl Seybold – PSU
Mature Leader
“Keep talking and nobody explodes” was the game. We also did the cross the river exercise and when Bill couldn't communicate, and someone wasn't doing something that he wanted he'd get all flustered and red in the face. 🤣
Zach Przybilla - PSU
A sweet, sweet man
The kind you want to bring home to mom
A Sweet, Sweet Man
I know Bill enjoyed giving away IU appeal for the last place contestants during a contest at a cloud event. I am sure Bob will remember the event.
Rich Cropp - PSU
We love you, Bill.
We may miss you.
But you are dead to us now.
So if you are looking for Bill...
Just don’t forget to bring donuts!