So, why should one use a Hyper Open Cloud?

The answer is simple: in order to avoid the trap of conventional clouds in 2020, a trap that will cause of lot of problems to your company, cost you a lot of money and maybe even cost you the control of your company.

By adopting Hyper Open Cloud immediately in addition to conventional public clouds, just like companies adopted Linux and Free Software in addition to Windows 25 years ago, you are protecting your future.

With Hyper Open Cloud, you are deploying in your company a different form of cloud service that will make your company much more competitive with a level of flexibility, sustainability and innovation that does not exist with conventional public clouds.

You are also sending a strong message to conventional public clouds. This strong message will make conventional public clouds improve their service and reduce their price.

Adopting Hyper Open Cloud is an instant win-win decision.

A quick win to complement what is missing already in conventional public clouds.

A quick win to prepare the next negociation round with conventional public clouds.

Illustration credit: Mousetrap Vectors by Vecteezy

Unlike conventional public clouds, Hyper Open Cloud is an "open service".

Open Service is a general concept which applies to any service industry. It is the same idea for the service industry as Free Software to the software industry.

An open service provides more rights to the client.

The right to use a service without borders or discrimination.

The right to reproduce the service.

The right to study how the service is made.

The right to modify the service and provide the modified service to other users.

The idea of open service applies to cloud but also to any service: operating a restaurant, providing electricity, water distribution, etc.

Open service acts as a new type of player in any service market where leading players keep their operation procedures, operation technologies and operation data secret enough to slow down market competition, hinder innovation and maintain overpricing. Open service consists essentially of sharing with competitors and clients the knowldege and technologies needed for the service operation. The main benefit of open service is to eliminate lock-in problems observed in certain service industries such as cloud or utility services.

One of the first examples of open service can be found in an executive order (2016-65) of the French government introduced on January 29, 2016 in relation to public utility markets. This executive order requires (Article 53) private operators of utility services to provide access to essential data needed by another operator to continue operating the service (thanks to Maurice Ronai for teaching us this source). Although its scope is limited, it was the first time that the intellectual property of utility operators was restricted in order to facilitate service portability and free competition.  

A company which starts adopting Hyper Open Cloud can benefit immediately from all the advantages of Hyper Open Clouds.

There is no requirement to switch entirely to Hyper Open Cloud. The move can be gradual, starting with 1% of cloud loads and growing.

At some point, conventional public clouds will evolve due to this new competition. They will reduce their price, provide better control, protect trade secret better, etc.

Adopting Hyper Open Cloud is thus a win win choice: it provides unique benefits for new cloud loads while improving the competitiveness of existing cloud loads.

Just like Linux vs. Windows did for operationg systems.