head in the clouds aligning for the future jack wilson senior client consultant coretek services
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDSALIGNING FOR THE
FUTUREJack Wilson
Senior Client Consultant
Coretek Services
Cloud is not a religion
Terminology:Private CloudIs a virtual infrastructure that exists with your organization’s or a hosted datacenter
Public CloudIs a virtual infrastructure that exists outside of your organization in a large remote site, not owned by you
Hybrid Cloud Is a combination of the above, some applications/data in a Public Cloud site and some in your site.
“Every twelve to eighteen months, computers double their capabilities, and so do the information technologies that use them.” EmergingFutures.com
The popularization of the term “Cloud Computing” can be traced to 2006 when Amazon.com introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud
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Software-defined data center (SDDC) is the phrase used to refer to a data center where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella promised a “mobile first, cloud first” strategy
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As Microsoft turns 40, CEO Satya Nadella looks beyond Windows to the cloud / April 4th 2015
Where are the major players going?
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The only installed apps will soon only be your legacy applications
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The key is to move from the Complex Distributed Legacy to a Streamlined Virtual architecture
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Preparing for a Cloud Future
First Step Where are you now?
-solid assessment of the evolved infrastructure
-”Legacy Drag” -traditional distributed architecture
-maybe some server virtualization
-maybe some endpoint virtualization
-maybe using one or a few SaaS
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Second Step
Where do you want to go? -Target environment
Flexible agile technology architecture
web-based deliveryanywhere, any device
accesslower costeasily supportable or
better yet let someone else support
Hard to make one big leap
It usually takes a process to move from an organic evolved architecture to a more thoughtful cloud strategy
Moving a mess, won’t work
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Best Practice Approach
Virtualize & Streamline current environment
Two key componentsVirtualize the servers and
endpoints Desktops, applications
and data are in your datacenter
you’ve created a PRIVATE CLOUD
Preparing for a Cloud Future
What steps are involved?
Discover all the application in your environment
discard what not being used (save $)
consolidate redundant functions
what are the core client facing applications
own and control these
what are the common function applications
no competitive advantage
routine functions
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Rationalize your applications portfolio
Streamline “Southwest Airline” approach
Discover all the applications in your environment
(not an easy task, but necessary)
discard what’s not being used (save $)
consolidate redundant functions
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Left are the applications your business needsKey decision what are the core client facing applications
own and control thesekeep and support these
in your Private Virtual Cloud (at
least for now)
what are the common function applications
no competitive advantage
everybody needs and has them
move to SaaS model in the
Public Cloud
Centralized Virtualized Desktop
The Private Cloud Applications are published to a virtual desktop, supported in one central location
The Public Cloud Applications are accessed by a browser on the virtual desktop, vendor maintains and supportsEverything is accessed via a browser
Ready for an eventual all web-based world.
Endpoints are irrelevantMobile devices can access
desktop and applicationsBYOD is now possibleAll data is now in the Private or
Public cloud not on the endpoint
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Now you have a Virtual / Hybrid Cloud architecture that positions you for the future, while being transformative right now.
Business agilityAccess anywhere, Anytime, Any Device
Better Security
Lower cost
Focus on Critical applications and new functionality
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Now you positioned to look at PaaS or IaaS
Both of these are maturing technologies that are still in the Pioneer stage for the most part.
You can now develop web replacements for your Critical legacy applications in a PaaS environment
Since you have created a centralize private cloud, you could get out of the datacenter business and move that to a hosted datacenter or an IaaS environment in the future
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Few issues to consider
All Public Cloud vendors are not equal
Check security, you’re now in a shared
environmentWho owns the data?
you or the vendor Interface between public cloud
and private cloud(now in different locations)
Vendors business continuity/disaster recovery
Exit options (if any)
