building business success from buzz words

BUILDING BUSINESS SUCCESS FROM BUZZ WORDS

CHRIS JACKSON

ABOUT ME 8-year Racker

DevOps & DadOps

@chriswiggy

chris.jackson@rackspace.co.uk

http://github.com/chrisjackson1982

CHRIS JACKSON CTO (DevOps Services)

§  Introduction & Overview (Chris Jackson) §  Workshop Kick-Off (Simon Crawley-Trice)

§  Workshop Breakouts §  Hybrid Cloud (Malcolm Orr) §  DevOps (Chris Jackson)

§  Big Data (Robert Morris)

§  Workshop Debrief (Simon Crawley-Trice)

TODAY’S AGENDA

MANAGED CLOUD IT’S EVERYTHING WE DO

5

PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS

OVER 200,000+

CUSTOMERS

60% OF THE

FORTUNE 100

Our Support® is the Difference

WE LOVE OPEN SOURCE

MANAGING YOUR IT… The common problem of

A BATTLE ON MULTIPLE FRONTS

CONFLICTING GOALS

I WANT IT TO BE FASTER

I WANT IT TO BE STABLE

I WANT IT TO BE CHEAPER

I WANT IT TO ENABLE

ME

THE ROOT CAUSE

SPEED UNLOCKS VALUE

FASTER DECISION MAKING DELIVERS

COST SAVINGS

QUICKER CYCLE TIMES ENABLE

FASTER INNOVATION

REDUCED TIME TO MARKET IS A

FINANCIAL DRIVER

SHADOW IT IS A CONSTANT

THREAT TO INCUMBENT SERVICES

THERE’S NO TIME TO WAIT

Gartner  -­‐  h*p://gartnernews.com/how-­‐to-­‐innovate-­‐with-­‐bimodal-­‐it/    

“45 percent of CIOs state they currently have a second, fast mode of operation and, by 2017 Gartner believes 75 percent of IT organizations will have a bimodal capability.”

Daryl Plummer, Vice President and Gartner Fellow

FINDING FOCUS IN A SEA OF

BUZZ WORDS

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT?

THE IT PARADOX ACTIVITIES

THAT PROTECT ACTIVITIES THAT SERVE

WHERE YOUR JOB KEEPS YOU

WHERE YOU WANT TO WORK

Patching & Updating Security & Hardening

Hardware Maintenance Metrics and Dashboards

Application Performance Analysis Data Science & Analytics

Continuous Release Multi-Cloud Platforms

BUSINESS PLATFORMS

Services and Providers Who Can

PROTECT & OPERATE

Expertise in Your Business Who Can  

ENABLE & SERVE RETAIN IN-HOUSE

OUTSOURCE

HOW TO BUILD

WINNING COMBOS

© Capcom

KNOW YOUR CHARACTER

WHICH ONE ARE

YOU?

INTRODUCING RACKSPACE HYBRID CLOUD: é è ê ç ¢

DEVOPS SERVICES: è è n

DATA SERVICES: é ê ¢

DIGITAL & E-COMMERCE: ç ê n ✚

HYBRID CLOUD é è ê ç ¢

YOUR CHOICE OF §  PERFORMANCE §  SECURITY §  TECHNOLOGY §  CONSUMPTION §  ARCHITECTURE §  LOCATION

HYBRID IS CHANGING…

JOIN OUR ON-METAL

DEMO AT 15:10

DEVOPS SERVICES è è n

THE PERFECT STORM FOR DEVOPS DISRUPTION

INTERNET BUSINESS New businesses

disrupting traditional enterprises in an world dominated by demand

for online services

CLOUD COMPUTING Democratization of IT

services allowing businesses to exceed

their traditional IT capacity

OPEN SOURCE

Plethora of choice for technologies that can

add value to applications and customers in new

ways

DEMAND SUPPLY INNOVATION

CLASSIC IT MANAGEMENT?

BUILD YOUR STACK FROM A COMBINATION OF

AND CHOOSE INTEGRATED SUPPORTED SERVICES

WITH INFRASTRUCTURE

AS CODE WE DEPLOY READY TO USE APPLICATION

COMPONENTS

ON DEMAND SYSOPS APPROACH DEVOPS APPROACH

YOU BUILD

WE BUILD

WE BUILD

YOUR APPLICATION

DATA SERVICES é ê ¢

DATA SERVICES STORING LOTS OF DATA DOES NOT MEAN YOUR ARE “DOING” BIG DATA

CERN 0.001% OF THE DATA GENERATED IS KEPT

THIS IS STILL MANY PETABYTES PER YEAR

OR MILLIONS OF iPADS

YOU DO NOT NEED LOTS OF DATA STORAGE TO RUN

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

NFL PLAY BY PLAY 607,399 PLAYS, 3722 GAMES, 7020

PLAYERS

LESS THAN 80MB OF DATA

MongoDB Redis

Hadoop

DIGITAL & ECOMMERCE ç ê n ✚

DIGITAL & E-COMMERCE

OUR FIRST COMBO

WHERE TO START? Identifying your #1 priority

“My priority is the security, location and infrastructure architecture”

“My priority is reducing time to market through automated processes”

“I own large data sets with a requirement to investigate and monetize them”

“Our online brand and revenue is a significant driver for our whole business”

HYBRID CLOUDS

DEVOPS SERVICES

DATA SERVICES

DIGITAL & ECOMMERCE

BUSINESS PLATFORMS Expertise in Your Business Who Can  

ENABLE & SERVE RETAIN IN-HOUSE

OUTSOURCE

SUMMARY FOR SUCCESS YOUR BUSINESS IS UNIQUE THERE IS NO PRESCRIBED TEMPLATE

EXPLORE THE COMPONENTS PRIORITISE WHAT YOU NEED TO THRIVE

RUN THE THINGS THAT MATTER FOCUS ON ADDING VALUE

DELIVER MORE, FASTER GET YOURSELF OUT OF THE SWAMP

1 2 3 4

WHAT NEXT?

START BUILDING YOUR PLATFORM RIGHT NOW…

TALK TO A RACKSPACE SPECIALIST TODAY

RACKSPACE ADVISORY SERVICES

ABOUT ME

simon.crawley-trice@rackspace.co.uk

SIMON CRAWLEY-TRICE Head of Advisory Services

EXECUTABLE STRATEGY

IT TRANSFORMATION

CLOUD STRATEGY

DEVOPS

ADVISORY SERVICES Assist IDENTIFY and CREATE the right IT

STRATEGY for YOUR BUSINESS

HYBRID CLOUD Malcolm Orr

DEVOPS Chris Jackson

BIG DATA Robert Morris

What are your key drivers?

Share our experience ?

What are your key

challenges?

PRIZES!

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

WORKSHOP BREAKOUT

DEBRIEF & SUMMARY

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THANK YOU

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