aws webcast - datacenter migration to aws

Migrating & Modernizing your applications when moving your data center to the AWS Cloud

Windows 2003 Server end of support (EOS) as a motivator

Datacenter as a Service

Modern technology, craftsman quality. We’re an interactive design and technology architecture firm matching the most experienced consultants in the industry to the most challenging business and technical problems facing our clients.

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The Modern Application Company ™ Giorgio Pironi

Managing Architect - Cloud & Services

www.bluemetal.com

[email protected]

@giorgiopironi

Introductions

Our Services

Agenda

1. What does Windows Server 2003 end of support (EOS) mean?

2. Windows Server 2003 options – How to move forward?

3. What is a “Modern Application”?

4. What is a “Modern Infrastructure”?

5. AWS as the Modern Infrastructure enabler

6. Modern Application demands Modern Infrastructure

7. Best Practices & patterns for migrating/modernization

8. Taking your data center to cloud as a service

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Windows Server 2003 EOS - Why we are here?

• Windows Server 2003 approaching end of support (EOS) on July 14, 2015• No more patches and updates without a custom support agreement• Custom support agreement will be expensive• No Security patches for OS & IIS

Days until Windows Server 2003 End of Support

Time is running out!!!

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Windows Server 2003 EOS – The impact

Months Ago Today July 14, 2015 After July 14, 2015

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Windows Server 2003 EOS – The Risks

• Applications at Risk• Running applications on unsupported WS2003 machines

• Security and Regulatory Compliance Risks• Is your application required to run on a supported platform for compliance?

• Due to regulations like: HIPAA, PCI, SOX, & Dodd-Frank, regulated industries must run on supported platforms

• Business Continuity/Risk• Will your users not be able to use a product/service because of a unpatched security hole or

perhaps application updates run into issues related to Windows 2003

• Supportability• Loss of Microsoft support

• Loss of third-party vendor support• What impact does this have on your application

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What are the challenges in waiting to act?

• How do you mitigate your business risk?

• Can you afford custom support?

• How do you remain compliant (if applicable)?

• How do you continue releasing product updates?

• How do you maintain the security of the system for your users?

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Seize the opportunity in doing something

• Maintain Business Continuity

• Use migration & modernization as a means to deliver a compelling and competitive product that

1. Grows your business

2. Provides increased competitive advantage

3. Is cost effective

4. Delivers a compelling user-centric experience

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Windows 2003 EOS Options

Migrate

SaaS platformService model3rd party product

RetireCreate a Retirement Plan

Apr 24, 2003 – July 14, 2015

Do NothingTake the risk

Modern Application (User Centric)Modern UX (Responsive)Modern Security (Two factor)Modern Data (Hadoop/Analytics)Modern Infrastructure (Cloud)

Modernize

Replace

Stay in placeManual updateLift & Shift to Cloud

Hybrid

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Windows Server 2003 EOS – Options

Option Notes Effort Benefits

1. Do Nothing • Maintain legacy systems; accept risk• Evaluate custom support agreement with MSFT

Low Low effort

2. Retire • Sunset legacy applications Medium Simplification

3. Replace • Transition to SaaS, service model, or third-partyproduct

Medium - High Leverage better capabilities and operations

4. Migrate • Upgrade OS• “Lift and ship” to cloud, then upgrade applications

via manual and automated processes

Medium Predictable and manageable

5. Modernize Modernize the application using updated UX, security, data, and virtualization approaches

High Competitive advantage, business growth, at lower cost

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Next – Modern Application & Modernization

“The Modern Application”

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What is a “Modern Application”?

The “Modern Application” is a set of principles for best practices and design patterns in developing applications that are user-centric.

Modern applications are:

• Responsive

• Secure

• Intelligent

• Dynamic

• Data/Information driven

• Available

• Performant

• API driven13

Modern Application Behavioral Aspects

Modern applications:

• Provide a great experience

• Architecturally sound & flexible

• Great Design

• Deliver Productivity

• Act intelligently

• Adaptable to environment

• Interact with the world around them, like infrastructure

• Possess agility

Experiences

DesignArchitecture

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The Modern Application Directive

“A philosophy of best practices and design patterns to meet today’s

business drivers”

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The Pillars (Framework) of the Modern Application

• Modern Security (Two-factor auth, Fingerprint)

• Modern UX (Responsive, Multi-device, Voice)

• Modern Data (Relational, NoSQL, Storage, DW)

• Modern Intelligence (Data & Predictive Analytics)

• Modern Access (Anywhere, anytime, any device)

• Modern Performance (Speed, Agility, Scalability)

• Modern API (Interoperability, expose & consume)

• Modern Workflow (user centric, design & process flow)

• Modern Operations (predictable, cost-effective)

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Modernizing your application

Modern Security

Where a “security first” mentality permeates throughout the entire application design & implementation. Security follows the user, is consistent, and is delivered by infrastructure that is protected.

Two-factor authentication

Fingerprint

Voice Authorization

Encrypt data at rest / in transit

Dynamic, adaptive to device, context aware, simplification of information. Modern UX is a paradigm of the way a user would interact with an application.

Responsive

Multi-Device

Context aware

Voice

Modern UX Modern Data

The promotion of data storage repositories that are optimized to the structure of the data , but where data can still be viewed and communicated in a uniformed manner.

Relational

NoSQL

Object Store

Data Warehouse

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Modern Intelligence

Making use of data and the current context that surrounds us to be predictive, suggestive, and actionable. Information presented in a coherent structure, easily understandable, in a given user context.

Data Analytics

Predictive Analytics

Suggestive Analytics

Actionable

Architecting your application to be highly accessible with a great user experience.

Anywhere

Anytime

Any Device

Modern Access Modern Performance

Users expect responsive results. Applications must be designed to provide information context on time, or adapt appropriate communication paradigms when processes will take long time.

Speed

Agility

Scalability

Elasticity18


Modern API

Connectivity delivers functionality that follows the user.

Interoperability

Expose & Consume

One application instead of many, designed to follow all of the activity surrounding a user process.

User-centric

Design Flow

Process Flow

Adaptable

Modern Workflow Modern Operations

High levels of interactivity with context to provide feedback to the end user regarding their environment .

Predictable

Feedback / Dashboard

Status

Activity Progress

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What is Modern Infrastructure?

“The Modern Infrastructure” enables

“The Modern Application”

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The Pillars (Framework) of Modern Infrastructure

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• Security (Processes, methods, procedures)

• Availability (MAA, Cross region DR)

• Scalability (Limited by what you can afford)

• Reliability (eleven 9’s, etc.)

• Elasticity (Grow & contract)

• Global Presence (all around the world)

• Performance (Highly performant)

• Infrastructure API (provision and control your infrastructure)

• Management (Deployment, operations)

Modern Application “meets” modern Infrastructure

“AWS”is the

“The Modern Infrastructure”that powers

“The Modern Application”22

Why AWS for Modern Infrastructure?

• #1 reseller of Windows Server & SQL Server

• Maturity

• Ecosystem – Whitepapers, webinars, target first

• Reliability & Scalability

• Global Footprint

• Automation

• Large number of services

• Leader in the introduction of new innovative services

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Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

“Everything now is a programmable resource. There are no physical thingsanymore……..” – Dr. Werner Vogels (Re:Invent 2012)

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Modern API – Infrastructure as code / software

+ API = Programmable Platform

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Modern Access

The scale that you want

• Broad range of different combinations of CPU,

memory, disk, and networking

• AWS global Infrastructure– 9 Regions

– 25 Availability Zones

– Continuous Expansion

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Modern Data

RDS is a managed relational database service that is simple to deploy,

easy to scale, reliable, and cost-effective

Managed Service

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Choice of Database Engine

Managed Service

Easy to Scale

High Performance

High Availability

Amazon RDS

DynamoDB

Amazon NoSQL DB

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Modern Performance

DynamoDBOptimized Instances

Redis

ElastiCache

Memcached for performance, scalability, and cost savings

Amazon DynamoDB forunbounded datawith heavy write load.

Redis for fast, complex caching and message passing

Instances to handle any load – high memory, GPU based,

Auto Scale

Auto scale to handle any load

Memcached

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Modern Operations

• System Center + AWS Management Pack

• Amazon CloudWatch

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS Identity & Access Management

• AWS CloudTrail

• AWS Trusted Advisor

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Modern Security - Built for Enterprise Security Standards

Certifications

SOC 1 Type 2 (formerly

SAS-70)

ISO 27001

PCI DSS for EC2, S3,

EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB, IAM

FISMA moderate compliant

controls

HIPAA & ITAR compliant

architecture

Physical Security

Data centers in nondescript

facilities

Physical access strictly

controlled

Must pass two-factor

authentication at least

twice for floor access

Physical access logged

and audited

HW, SW, Network

Systematic change

management

Phased updates

deployment

Safe storage

decommission

Automated monitoring and

self-audit

Advanced network

protection

Note: See http://aws.amazon.com/security/ for latest information30

http://aws.amazon.com/security/

Modern Security – AWS Advantage

Cloud Security Advantages:

• Dedicated Security Team

• Greater Investment in Security Infrastructure

• Greater Security Certifications that are met

• Real-Time Detection of System Tampering

Quotes from Forrester:

• “Cloud security will expand to be much more centralized and automated. If you’re resisting the cloud because of security concerns, you’re running out of excuses. The leading public cloud providers have made strong gains in security and compliance, and there are few workloads completely off-limits for public cloud anymore.”

• “…the larger Cloud providers tend to have a better grasp of threats, because as Forrester's Wang says: "These people deal with security issues at more complex levels than your own IT team sees on a daily basis".

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AWS Services for Migration/Modernization

Modern Compute & Storage

Amazon EC2 Elastic Load

Balancing Amazon VPC

Modern Data

DynamoDB Amazon RDS MySQL DB

instance

Oracle DB

instance

MS SQL

instancePostgreSQL

instance

Modern Performance

ElastiCache MemcachedRedis

Modern Intelligence

Amazon Redshift

Modern Security

AWS CloudTrailIAM

encrypted

data MFA token

Amazon S3Auto Scaling

Amazon

CloudSearchAmazon EMR

Amazon

Kinesis

optimized

instanceAmazon EBS

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Tools you already are familiar with

AWS Tools for Visual Studio AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell

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Modern Application “meets” Modern Infrastructure

“The Modern Application” demands

“The Modern Infrastructure”

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Modern App / Modern Infra working well

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Modern App / Modern Infra not working well

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Modern App / Modern Infra not working well

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Modern App / Modern Infra working well

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Modern Application “meets” modern Infrastructure

“The Modern Application” works with/is connected

“The Modern Infrastructure”

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What we want – We want this

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Best Practices / Patterns to move past Win 2003?

“Best practices and patterns for creating a composed solution when moving off of Windows

Server 2003”

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Windows 2003 EOS Options

Migrate

SaaS platformService model3rd party product

RetireCreate a Retirement Plan

Apr 24, 2003 – July 14, 2015

Do NothingTake the risk

Modern Application (User-centric)Modern UX (Responsive)Modern Security (Two factor)Modern Data (Hadoop/Analytics)Modern Infrastructure (Cloud)

Modernize

Replace

Stay in placeManual updateLift & Shift to Cloud

Hybrid

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Windows EOS Actions (Patterns)

Do Nothing

Retire

Replace

Migrate

Modernize

Hybrid

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Enterprise Windows EOS Solution Methodology

Discover, Inventory, & Categorize

Develop Common

Roadmap for EOS Action

Determine best EOS

action for each item in

inventory

Prioritize and rank inventory for migration

actions

Perform the migration

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Catalog your Software and Workloads

Tools to help you:Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) ToolkitAppZeroCloudamizeRacemiCloudVeloxmany more…

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Develop Common


Determine best EOS


inventory


actions


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Develop Common


Do Nothing

Retire

Replace

Migrate

Modernize

Hybrid

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Develop Common


Determine best EOS


inventory


actions


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Determine best EOS


inventory

Action Decision Tree

Action Eligibility Matrix

Action Scorecard

Final Action Selection

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Enterprise Windows EOS Solution MethodologyStart

RetireAdd Retire option to

Eligibility MatrixYes

Replace

No

Yes

MigrateAdd Migrate option to

Eligibility MatrixYes

No

Modernize

No

Yes

End

Add Replace option to Eligibility Matrix

Add Modernize option to Eligibility Matrix

Windows Server 2003 Action Decision Tree

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2 31 4Solution

Candidate

Business

Business checklist to determine if migration path meets business requirements

Legal/Global

Legal/Global checklist to determine if migration path meets legal & global criteria

Security/Privacy

Security / Privacy checklist to determine if migration option passes all security & privacy criteria

Architecture/Platform Compliance

Architecture Platform Compliance checklist to determine if public cloud passes the following checklists: Architecture, Hardware, Platform, Application

Migration Pipeline Checklist

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ID Application Do Nothing Retire Replace Migrate Modernize Hybrid

0001 Shipping App Yes Yes No No No No

0002 CRM No No Yes Yes Yes No

0003 Tax Calculator No No No Yes Yes Yes

0004 Search Engine No No Yes Yes Yes Yes

0005 Contact Management

No Yes Yes No No No

0006 Device Driver No Yes No No No No

0007 E-CommerceApp

No No No Yes Yes Yes


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Scorecard Biz Growth Competitive Affordable Innovative Criteria X Criteria Y

0001-ShippingApp-Dothing

0001-ShippingApp-Retire

0001-ShippingApp-……

0002-CRM-Replace

0002-CRM-MIgrate

0002-CRM-……

Etc.

Action Scorecard

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ID Application Migration Action Pattern

0001 Shipping App Do Nothing

0002 CRM Replace

0003 Tax Calculator Migrate

0004 Search Engine Hybrid

0005 Contact Management Replace

0006 Device Driver Retire

0007 E-Commerce App Modernize

Determine best EOS


inventory

Action Decision Tree


Action Scorecard

Final Action Selection

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Develop Common


Determine best EOS


inventory


actions


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ID Application Migration Action Pattern Rank

0001 Shipping App Do Nothing 1

0002 CRM Replace 4

0003 Tax Calculator Migrate 2

0004 Search Engine Hybrid 5

0005 Contact Management Replace 6

0006 Device Driver Retire 7

0007 E-Commerce App Modernize 3


actions

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Develop Common


Determine best EOS


inventory


actions


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Enterprise Windows EOS Solution Methodology - 5


JUST DO IT!!

Implement the plan

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Windows EOS Action Patterns

Do Nothing

Retire

Replace

Migrate

Modernize

Hybrid

Many PatternsMany Patterns

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Do Nothing Pattern

1. Identify when to revisit this decision

2. Document the factors that led to this decision e.g.

• Platform Incompatibility (Itanium chip)

• Financial Reasons

• Retirement of product at a later date

• Many more possibilities….

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Retirement Pattern

Develop a retirement roadmap for the asset containing:

• Document the factors that led to this decision

• Develop timeline

• Develop the process & procedures

• Determine how users of the system will be informed and possibly redirected

• Etc.

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Replace Pattern

1. Document functionality compatibility matrix

2. Document the data model

3. Evaluate products that are functionally compatible and can support the data model

4. Make selection of product for replacement

5. Configure product and migrate data

6. Develop a migration plan for users

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Migration Patterns – Multiple Destinations

In-place Migrate OSMigrate

Application & Data

Test

In-place, lift & shift to

cloudMigrate OS

Migrate Application

& DataTest

Lift & Shift to Cloud

Lift & shift to cloud & then migrate OS


Migrate OSMigrate

Application & Data

Test

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Modernization Patterns

In-place Migrate FirstImplement

Modernization Features

Test

In-place, lift & shift to

cloud

In-place Migrate

Implement Modernization

FeaturesTest


Lift & shift to cloud & then migrate OS


MigrateImplement

Modernization Features

Test

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Hybrid Patterns

Lift & shift to cloud & Keep OS


TestContinue with

Win2003 & AWS *

Migrate to Modernize

(Cloud Dest.)

Implement a Migration

PatternLeverage AWS

Perform Application

modernizationTest

* Contact AWS for more details

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Tying it all together

“Datacenter to Cloud”

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Getting From A to B

EBS

RDS ElastiCacheRedshift

AWS Cloud

EC2 Elastic LoadBalancing

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AWS CloudFormation

• Use AWS CloudFormation to create, provision & manage AWS resources in a uniformed manner

• Template-Derived Infrastructure Design

• Infrastructure becomes code

• Source control managed – can track changes

• You have governance and auditability, via SCC and AWS CloudTrail

• Easy to set up and tear down

• AWS CloudFormation is for macro deployment of your data center

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AWS CloudFormation Template – JSON Text File

CloudFormation

Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC)

Your datacenter as code

Actionable documentation that defines & provisions your infrastructure

Dynamic and user-driven templates

Version Control & sharetemplates with others

No Extra Charge

Declarative & Flexible

Repeatable process

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AWS CloudFormation – How it works

AWS CLOUDFORMATION

TEMPLATE

Model Click Done

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Sample CloudFormation Template

Sample Templateshttp://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-sample-templates.html

Many more no the internet:

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http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-sample-templates.html

AWS Cloud Design Patterns

AWS Cloud Design pattern (a.k.a. CDP) is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in cloud architecture.Examples:AvailabilityMulti-Server Multi-

Datacenter Floating IPDeep Health Check

Scaling ScaleOut CloneServer NFS Sharding NFS Replica StateSharingURL Rewriting RewriteProxy Cache Proxy Scheduled Scale Out

Batch Processing Queuing Chain PriorityQueueJob Observer ScheduledAuto Scaling

NetworkingOn-demand NAT Backnet FunctionalFirewallOperational Firewall Multi Load Balancer WAF Proxy CloudHub

Cloud Design Pattern wikihttp://en.clouddesignpattern.org

Example Server redundancy pattern

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http://en.clouddesignpattern.org/

Sample 3 Tier migration to AWS

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

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Sample 3 Tier migration/modernize to AWS

Amazon SNS

Amazon SQS

AW

S Services

CloudWatch

email notification

Amazon Redshift

Amazon

Kinesis

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Global Infrastructure for the Modern Application

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Datacenter as a Service – What does this mean?

Datacenter as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center facilities and infrastructure to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider’s data center, using the servers, networking, storage and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider.

You pay for only what you use

You operate and manage your applications

Cloud vendor provides and manages the infrastructure

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The Management Console

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Moving Forward – The Path Ahead

• With regards to Windows 2003 end of support, you are on a timeline, and the best time to take action is today.

• Modern Application – Your users deserve more and your business will profit from it. Look at modernization as an opportunity to meet core business goals of business agility & business growth at lower costs.

• Modern Infrastructure – Do you continue to invest in your data center, or do you leverage modern infrastructure that can help modernize (and monetize) your application?

• AWS is a winner!! Your application is only as good as the infrastructure to support and interact with. Re:Invent!!!

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BOSTON | NEW YORK | CHICAGO

44 Pleasant Street, Suite 200

Watertown, MA 02472

www.bluemetal.com

Blog.bluemetal.com

@bluemetalinc

Giorgio Pironi

Managing Architect

[email protected]

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