are you really ready for the cloud?

Are You Really Ready for the Cloud?

Four Stages to Successful Cloud Adoption

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Challenges Exist

Assess Migrate Manage Improve

Which apps should I move?

What is the business case?

How much cloud do I need?

Shift, re-fit or re-engineer

apps?

Are resources used efficiently?

Do the apps meet

benchmarks?

Do I have complete visibility?

Can I optimize the network?

Can I make informed decisions?

How do I improve & automate?

How can I increase app

reliably and agility?

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JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD

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Who is Asurion?

Provide device protection and support services for

smartphones, tablets, consumer electronics,

appliances, satellite receivers and jewelry.

“We protect the connections that matter most”

HQ in Nashville, Tennessee | Founded in 1994

14 countries | 49 offices | 17,000 employees

280 million customers

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Datacenters• 125 of them• Many interconnections• Large support teams

Organization• Separate teams• Permissions set by location, network,

function

Applications• On-premises; .NET and Java based• Minimal shared architectures

Circa 2014

CHALLENGES

Process

• Slow; needed approvals across teams

• Simple tasks were time consuming

Innovation

• Hard to share resources across apps

• Minimal collaboration across teams

Support

• 2.5 hours to identify team to resolve issue

• 40 people on calls up to 6 hours a day

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Customers

InnovationEfficiency

Cloud Migration - Rationale

Customers

• Place applications close to the customer

• Less downtime, better user experience

• Rapid innovation

Innovation

• Foster collaboration to solve customer problems

• Release velocity: months to 100+ changes a day

• On-demand development and QA environments

Efficiency

• Service-oriented approach to provisioning

• High-availability without idling resources

• Well suited for seasonal shifts

• Reduce costly maintenance cycles

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Our Journey to the Cloud

Preparation

• Training

• Networking

Assessment

• Planning

• Allocating

Migration

• Dev & Test

• Moving

Management

• Monitoring

• Optimizing

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Prerequisite: End-to-End Visibility in Production

SOFTWARE AGENT ON

WEB & APP SERVERS

USERDEVICES

WEBSERVER

APPSERVERS

DATABASESNETWORKFROM

PACKETS

FROM

USER

DEVICE

FROM

SERVERS

Visibility across users,

applications, networks

and infrastructure with

SteelCentral

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Preparation: Connect & Train

TRAINING

•95% cloud proficiency

•Cloud sandboxes for development

NETWORKING

•Connect enterprise to public cloud

•Backhaul traffic through HQ

AWS

BRANCH DATACENTERS < > HQ < > CLOUD

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Assessment: Which Apps to Move?

Who uses the app?

Is usage growing by size and geo?

Is user experience satisfactory?

Does the app influence revenue?

What features are most critical?

Which features can we abandon?

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Assessment: Sizing the Effort

What are the app dependencies?

Is it worth the time and effort?

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Assessment: Estimating Cloud Resources Needed

What is the current resource usage?

Does it help estimate cloud resources needed?

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Migration: Develop and Test

• Service oriented

architecture

• Micro-services as

opposed to long-

living servers

• Dynamically scale

based on usage

LEGACY

APPLICATION

MULTIPLE, DECOUPLED,

INTERDEPENDENT SERVICES

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Migration: Develop and Test

Understand

application

dependencies

Build the right

capabilities

Identify critical

modules

Engineer for Performance

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CLOUD

END USER DEVICE

DATACENTER

CLOUD

Unified View of Apps, Networks,

Servers & Your Users

Management: Extend Monitoring into the Cloud

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Management: Full Stack Visibility Eliminating Blind Spots

End User Network Web Apps Services Databases

TRACE EVERY TRANSACTION FROM END-USER DEVICE TO THE BACKENDexpose and diagnose bottlenecks in code, SQL, system resources, network, or web services

USER

Satisfaction

Interactions

Trends

NETWORK

Latency

Errors

Retransmissions

APPLICATION

Transaction Tracing

Call Trees & Parameters

System & OS Metrics

SERVICES

In & out bound

SLA

compliance

DATABASE

SQL insights

System & OS

Metrics

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Management: Responsive and Proactive Troubleshooting

PROACTIVE

RESPONSIVE

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Management: Optimizing Experiences

BASED ON WHERE USERS COME FROM BASED ON WHAT USERS USE MOST

BASED ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT BASED ON RESOURCE UTILIZATION


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