Hybrid, But Only My Half Keeps Shrinking
Shinsegae I&C and KT have teamed up with Nutanix to sell hybrid cloud together. Hybrid cloud means running the servers in your own room (on-prem) and someone else’s public cloud from a single control plane. The word ‘hybrid’ implies fifty-fifty. Contracts rarely say who gets to set that ratio. When the vendor sets it, the split quietly drifts one way, because only one direction is easy to move workloads in. Today’s strip is about four-year-olds arguing on top of that scale.
Source: 신세계I&C·KT, 뉴타닉스 손잡고 하이브리드 클라우드 공동 영업 · bespin
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What this means for ThakiCloud
In a hybrid deal the negotiable item isn’t the feature matrix. It’s who owns the ratio. Paxis runs enterprise work as agents while letting you pin, per workload, where each agent actually executes. Regulated data stays on your own floor with Aegis; a sudden burst of inference spills over to a Metis endpoint. Set up that way, resizing your half becomes a config change instead of a renegotiation. The bill stops being leverage and goes back to being arithmetic. One Paxis. Many Workflows. Any Cloud.
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