reducing risk and cost in with a linux infrastructure maturity assessment
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The LIMA aims to establish the maturity of your current Linux environment in order to help your organisation develop it to a level which fits with your technical and business requirements.TRANSCRIPT
Maturing Your Linux
Linux Infrastructure Maturity Assessment
Linux Infrastructure Maturity Assessment
To provide a Linux operating environment that is fully aligned to your technical and business requirements, dramatically reduce deployment time, simplify maintenance, increase stability, and reduce support and management costs.
LIMA Objective
Linux Infrastructure Maturity Assessment
01. Linux – The State of Play
02. Linux - The Current Challenge?
03. What is Required to Mitigate Risk?
04. The Proven Fast Track - LIMA
Structure
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Structure
Linux – The State of Play
01.
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Linux 201060%
201169%
201273% 80%
1%
80%
20%Windows
Increasing
Decreasing
5 year plan for increased OS investments
The results of this survey were based on responses from 355 IT professionals from organizations with £250 million or more per year in revenues and/or 500+ employees.
Maintaining or increasing Linux to
support cloud
Enterprises increasing use of Linux for mission
critical workloads
Linux Adoption Trends
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Stock Exchange use Linux
The automotive trade uses Linux
Movies are made on Linux
Banks use Linux
International Space Station uses Linux
Linux Is Being Used Everywhere
New York LondonSingapore
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*Source: LinuxIT Survey (February 2013)
What our customers tell us motivates them to adopt more Open Architectures*
01. Technical agility 04. End-users 07. Reduced costs
02. Cost agility 05. Customers 08. Innovation
03. Cloud 06. Collaboration 09. Quality
Why Linux?
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Preferred OS for Tier-1
Applications
Preferred OS for Cloud
Preferred OS for Big Data
Preferred OS Certification for
CV’s
93% of employers plan to hire a
Linux pro in the next 12 months
The results of this survey were based on responses from 850 hiring managers from corporations, small and medium businesses (SMBs), government organizations, and staffing agencies.
What Are The Market Forces Behind Linux Adoption Trends
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Structure
Linux – The Current Challenge
02.
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OSS empowers organisations to increase innovation, efficiency and competitiveness.
As OSS becomes more pervasive, the need for governance increases exponentially. Open source governance should be embedded in broader governance to insure IT supports the business goals, and appropriately manages IT-related risks and opportunities.
As the use of OSS is growing and maturing, the need for governance has become an integral part of mainstream IT management. OSS is ubiquitous and unavoidable - having a policy against it is impractical and may place you at a competitive disadvantage and more.
Current Challenges For Linux
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Current Challenges For Linux
By 2014 Through 2015
50% of Global 2000 organisations will experience technology cost and security challenges due to lack of Open Source governance
Less than 50% of IT organisations will have effective Open Source governance programs in placeSource: Gartner
Poor governance can expose organisations to potential quality and business risks, putting organisations in a vulnerable position.
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Current Challenges For Linux
However, the very nature of OSS and historically the way in which it has proliferated outside of corporate governance filters now means it suffers from a lack of quality and adherence to governance policies. This makes it appear inferior and riskier than governed IT estates,
explains Curtis.
Slashed IT budgets are forcing organisations to look at cost effective alternatives like OSS whilst delivering quality and innovation. However, lack of knowledge and information has driven organisations to act outside normal governance when adopting Linux and OSS.
Mike Curtis, Executive Director at LinuxIT
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Current Challenges For Linux
Why your organisation will benefit from best practice Linux architectures and systems management
• Linux often entered into the organisation via the backdoor many years ago and has proliferated organically, rather than against a strategy or plan.
• It has not, therefore, been subject to the same rigorus standards or ROI assessments applied across the UNIX and Microsoft estates.
• This very often leads to multiple, undocumented builds of variable standards across numerous Linux distributions.
The common issues
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Current Challenges For Linux
• Some of these distributions do not carry the enterprise assurances demanded of a mission critical environment.
• They are often not optimised for the application in terms of performance or security.
• Without a standardised architecture design and documentation, there is a great deal of risk through dependency on the engineer that built the servers.
• Servers are not built with operational efficiencies in mind, so scaling up capacity is complex, expensive and does not benefit from any economies of scale.
• It also often means they are not regularly updated with security patches and fixes which can introduce risk into the organisation.
Linux Infrastructure Maturity Assessment
Current Challenges For Linux
• Because they have not been built against best practice, there is often no facility to detect, isolate and correct problems before they impact on the business.
• Very often, security has not been considered to the extent that it should have been when building these servers, particularly in terms of identity management, activity monitoring and virus/malware management.
• Ultimately poor practice around Linux causes an increase in failure rates, security risk and costs while decreasing productivity, operational efficiencies and the value your organisation is able to deliver.
• Customers may not return if they’ve suffered from a bad experience - for example, on an e-commerce or m-commerce website, leading to lost sales opportunities.
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Structure
What is Required to Mitigate Risk?
03.
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Audit Linux Significance
Perform a thorough audit of your current Linux environments
Including what varieties of distributions, versions and configurations exist and where, why and how they are deployed and managed.
This includes all instances of Linux existing and planned, the hardware it sits on and applications it underpins, and how it integrates into the environment. Be sure to document.
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Audit Linux Competencies
Undertake a skills assessment
To establish whether the necessary competencies exist in-house or indeed with your service provider.
Beware, there are very few service providers that have these competencies themselves and contractors simply cannot offer the integrated services approach.
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Implement Best Practice
• Manage your systems in such a way that you are aware of problems before your customers are - implement fault management systems that are designed specifically to provide a greater return on investment in your Linux estate.
• Secure your Linux infrastructure with best practice Linux security management that addresses access controls, user activity, data privacy, viruses and malware and denial of service attacks.
• Adopt best practice Linux as the foundation for value recognition further up the stack.
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Structure
The Proven Fast Track- LIMA
04.
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Evaluate Maturity
Define
Assess
Envision
Transform
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Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
No Linux
Ad-hoc
Controlled
Standardised
Optim
ised
0 1 2 3 4
or none has been identified in the infrastructure
Undocumented strategy
Unpredictable, Uncoordinated
Lack of capability
Reactive
Lack of reporting or MI
No/low budget
No Backups or DREmergent Linux strategy
Basic documentation
Coordinated plans
Some systems integration
No configuration management
Less reactive
Basic management processes
Some cost control
Some monitoring & reporting
Backups and some DR exists
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Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
Ad-hoc
No Linux
Controlled
Standardised
Optim
ised
10 2 3 4
Undocumented strategy
Unpredictable, Uncoordinated
Lack of capability
Reactive
Lack of reporting or MI
No/low budget
No Backups or DR
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Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
Controlled
No Linux
Standardised
Optim
ised
20 3 4
Emergent Linux strategy
Basic documentation
Coordinated plans
Some systems integration
No configuration management
Less reactive
Basic management processes
Some cost control
Some monitoring & reporting
Backups and some DR exists
Ad-hoc
1
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Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
Standardised
No Linux
Controlled
Optim
ised
30 2 4
Mature Strategy Configurations managed
systems integrated
Effective monitoring & reporting with detailed MI Proactive management focus
Consolidated and rationalised
Details SLA’s
Effective backup policy
Effective DR (manual intervention required)
Budget and costs managed
Most risk identified
Capability to deploy new resources in days and hours
Ad-hoc
1
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Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
Optimised
No Linux
Controlled
Standardised
40 2 3
Dynamic & flexible strategy
Scalability to accommodate new requirements (deployable in minutes and seconds)
Lean & agile processes
highly integrated
Real time MI fed into KPI’s, Business-based SLA’s (reflects availability & capacity requirements)
Automated systems management
Highest levels of auditability and security
Full BCP and DR systems in place, regularly tested
Fully identifiable cost and risks
Proactively focused on improvement
Ad-hoc
1
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LIMA Process
Presentation & Discussion
Assessment
Discovery
Analysis
Reporting
StrategyConsulting
Current StateAnalysis
TransformationEnablement Program
Future StateVision
Scope Phases
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Assess Maturity
Groundbreaking Assessment Toolkit Integrated and Holistic Conceptual Framework
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Envision Appropriate Level of Maturity
Identify Appropriate Future State of Maturity
...informed by technology and business requirements and strategy
Pragmatically Designed by Qualified Consultants
Standardised
No Linux
Controlled
Optim
ised
30 2 4
Mature Strategy Configurations managed
systems integrated
Effective monitoring & reporting with detailed MI Proactive management focus
Consolidated and rationalised
Details SLA’s
Effective backup policy
Effective DR (manual intervention required)
Budget and costs managed
Most risk identified
Capability to deploy new resources in days and hours
Ad-hoc
1
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Transformation
Ambitious but Achievablebalances costs, scope, pace, capabilities, benefits and timing
Gap Analysis
Prioritise Requirements
to Bridge Gap
Design Transformation
Enablement Program
Implement Discrete
Transformation Elements
Reassess Maturity
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Reporting Maturity
70 page report designed to inform and advise with degrees of granularity appropriate to different readers
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