cloud strategy assessment webinar

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September 2013

ALFABETCloud Strategy Assessment

Thomas Gregg

Director Global Sales Programs

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HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS

• 30 minutes of live presentation

• 15 minutes of live Q&A• Please enter your questions

in the chat box

• All lines are on mute

• Webinar is being recorded

• Slide deck and recording will be sent out after the webinar


Mind the Cloud: Real value … or pie in the sky?

Until 2020 the cloud marketis expected to grow by

22% annually.** Forrester Research


Why do businesses invest into cloud technologies?

You no longer run the applications yourself.

You only pay forwhat you need.

You can scale up and down as things

change.

? ? ?


Who is ready to leverage the cloud?

• Compliance is a major hidden cost of the cloud. A recent market survey* showed that 23% of organizations have been fined for privacy violations in the cloud within the past 12 months.

• In the eyes of 80% of leading CIOs, the complexity of their own IT architecture is the biggest hurdle to cloud adoption, according to another market survey**.

• An online survey*** revealed that all respondents valued Application Right Sourcing as a key use case, but only 2 out of 3 respondents see it being adopted by their organization.

Sources:

* Symantec “Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013”

** NTT Communications

*** Alfabet “IT Portfolio Assessment Survey 2013”


YOUR PRESENTER

Thomas Gregg


www.alfabet.com

[email protected]

twitter.com/thomasgregg


DemandsCapabilities

Applications

Technologies

Budgets

Regulations

Roadmaps Projects

Risks

Devices

Skills

StrategiesWe want to

save costs!

We planto reduce

complexity!

We expectto improve

agility!

We want more early warnings!

What is ourCloud

strategy?


WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

1. Determine non-differentiating capabilities

2. Analyze supporting applications

3. Create your migration plan


DETERMINE NON-DIFFERENTIATING CAPABILITIES


ANALYZE THE SUPPORTING APPLICATIONS

Cost Analysis

What‘s your current cost to operate an

application?

What makes an application so

expensive?

Is it an IaaS or SaaS candidate?

Business Acceptanc

eWhat are the

supported business processes?

Which regions / Business Units are the applications

used in?

Will the business become more agile?

Compliance

What business data is stored within the

application?

Does it have interfaces to other

applications?

Can the data be stored outside of

this country?

Technical Fit

What technologies are used?

Does it rely on custom / non-

standard technologies?

Are there IaaS/PaaS solutions from public

cloud providers?


COST ANALYSIS

High Storage Costs

Possible IaaS candidate

Cost Comparis

onHigh cost

compared to the average

OPEX application

costs


BUSINESS ACCEPTANCE

Business Users

There are a lot of internal

business users using the

application.

Geographic ReachHigh. Good public or

private cloud candidate


COMPLIANCE

Regulations & Data

The application stores critical data but the

implications on regulations are

low

Integrations

The application interfaces

heavily with other

applications. A public cloud

model would be challenging


TECHNICAL FIT

StandardsThe

infrastructure is not standardized and the appl. is

highly customized.

Critical public cloud candidate.

Scalabilityrequirements are

low and the number of

incidents was very high in the

past


APPLICATION CLOUD READINESS


DEFINE YOUR MIGRATION PLAN


TAKE-AWAYS

… and keep looking beyond!

Start from the TOP …


YOUR CLOUD STRATEGY ASSESSMENT

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• Let us help plan your cloud strategy




QUESTIONS?

Thomas Gregg


www.alfabet.com

[email protected]

twitter.com/thomasgregg

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