HEAD IN THE CLOUDS ALIGNING FOR THE FUTURE Jack Wilson Senior Client Consultant Coretek Services.

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)

Project SuccessNO Exceptions

Jack WilsonSenior Client [email protected]

Thank you / Questions

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