“I think hybrid Cloud is a descriptor of a large way in which Cloud is being used today,” said Mark Interrante, senior VP of Engineering for Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Cloud Business Unit, who spoke to theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick during OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.

But does the hybrid Cloud exist? According to Interrante, “I think it’s a category. I don’t think it’s a product.”

Evolution of OpenStack

Interrante went on to discuss the hybrid Cloud, and the evolution of OpenStack. He believes that as OpenStack evolves, it will continue to become more internally compartmentalized with build out of smaller and smaller independent services driving higher quality. OpenStack is viewed as a DevOps project, being run in a DevOps manner by the same people who are developing it. HP is an example, as the company is increasingly using OpenStack in development environments.

“People aren’t doing wholesale rewrites of their massive systems,” Interrante explained. He recommended that companies review their systems for areas under stress and that only systems with both high required change and high maintenance should be evolved in a Cloud manner.

“It’s a journey,” Interrante stated and then offered advice for customers looking to start entering the Cloud environment. “Step one: Commit to CI process and automating infrastructure. Get a release done every month. Step up, and at some point you’ll be releasing every day. Then just keep going; double every couple of months. Find the roadblocks; find ways to do it faster and easier.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.

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