Stream 1 - Cloud Computing

Mario Gaon

A view of the Cloud1 A view of the Cloud1

2 Companies harnessing the Cloud

3 What to consider with investigating Cloud solutions

a) Key questions to ask

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a) Key questions to ask

b) Return on Investment areas

� Chargeback & transparent billing on usageusage

� Speed & flexibility of on boarding

� Lack of internal skills to properly secure and proactively monitor our ecommerce applications

Cost of communicating & collaborating � Cost of communicating & collaborating effectively across the globe

� Uncertainty of information backup and restore

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Converging

enterprise and

consumer

computingSelf-Service

PUBLIC

HYBRID

PRIVATE

Self-Service

Sourcing Options

Flexible charging

“Factory” IT Services

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Cloud computing is the provisioning of dynamically scalable, virtualized resources “as-a-Service” over the Internet (Public Cloud) or Intranet (Private Cloud).

IBM

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IBM

� Automation required to allow them to deliver services faster.

� Developers saw IT as a bottleneck whenever they interacted with it. First there were the manual process for requesting new services and the long delays in approval.

� Secure development environment for disperse developers and testers

� Improve access to resources requesting new services and the long delays in approval.

� 2 weeks to setup a single test configuration

� 6 to 8 weeks to deploy images across 5 environments

� IBM CloudBurst – A pre-packaged private cloud offering that integrates the service management system, server, storage and services needed to establish a private cloud

� Improve access to resources anywhere, anytime

� Lower maintenance and support costs via remote desktop management and user support

� Flexible and scalable

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storage and services needed to establish a private cloud addressing application development and test requirements

� Flexible and scalable infrastructure to support peaks in resource demands

IBM

� 300,000 employees need to collaborate

� Largest Japanese electronics producer

� Global decision to bring all Brands under the one

� Low cost and rapid deployment will

provide cost savings.

� Immediate access across all regions

to a set of cloud collaboration tools

� Connecting global project teams for collaborative platform

� Greater efficiencies and competitive advantage

� Reduce costs due through consolidation

� Adopt IBM's LotusLive cloud collaboration services to enable its workforce to communicate and

� Connecting global project teams for

product research, development and

sales and giving Panasonic an

edge over competitors.

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collaborate more efficiently with its global network of customers, partners and suppliers.

� Migrate employees from Microsoft Exchange or other collaboration software to LotusLive Notes and

LotusLive iNotes for email, calendaring and contacts.

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� An Australian financial services group supporting 4,000 financial advisers and 700 staff across Australia

� Improve access to development resources across Australia and overseas

� Secure development environment for disperse developers, testers and users

� Need end user environment that can supportdevelopers, testers, users without local support staff

� Solution must be secure, provide remotedesktop management & support, flexible and scalable

� Plan, design and implement IBM’s innovative

developers, testers and users anywhere, anytime

�Lower maintenance and support costs via remote desktop management and user support

�Flexible and scalable

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� Plan, design and implement IBM’s innovative and unique Smart Business Desktop Cloud

� Thin-Clients

�Flexible and scalable infrastructure to support peaks troughs of resource demands

IBM

� Biscayne Aquaculture is an industry leading construction company specialising in aquatic filtration systems. Clients includes Zoo’s, resorts and water parks

� Prepare for looming natural disaster, Hurricane Frances in 2004 post crisis, � Prepare for looming natural disaster, Hurricane Frances in 2004 post crisis, integrate on-demand data protection best practices into business

� Secure and protect 3 years of business critical and archive data in less than 48hours to a disaster recovery site several hundred miles from the danger zone

� Using IBM’s Information Protection Service, Biscayne uploaded and protected data in a matter of hours; today they protect over 145 GBs

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� Corporate piece of mind� Business continuity milestone reached.

Claims Management Application

Global insurance company with eight high touch point customer web applications

� To build and deliver applications that do not have

exploitable vulnerabilities“

� Scan all mission-critical applications over the course of

2008/2009

� Introduce security testing into SDLC

Number of

High Issues

82First Scan

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29

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Second Scan

Third Scan

Forth Scan

point customer web applications

Additional Application

High

Medium 8

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Number of Issues

SEVERITY

IBM’s Rational Appscan On Demand

Scanned 8 production applications

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Medium

LowFirst Scan

Second Scan 24

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- App1: 80% reduction in High issues

- App2: 100% reduction in High and Medium issues

�Virtualised and consolidated thousands of

IT Transformation1997 Now

CIOs 128 1

Host data

Data Centre Efficiencies✔�Virtualised and consolidated thousands of

servers onto approximately 30 IBM System z™ mainframes.

�Additional virtualisation using System p, System x and storage.

�Savings include energy, software and system management and support.

�Have reaped $4 billion over seven years.

�For every dollar invested, we saw a $4 cumulative benefit.

Host data centers

155 7

Web hosting centers

80 5

Network 31 1

Applications 15,000 4,700

On Demand IT DeliveryEnergy Savings

�Self-service for 3,000 IBM researchers across eight countries.

�Virtualized environment uses 80% less energy and 85% less floor space.

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countries.

�Real time integration of information and business services.

space.

� In 2010, will have doubled existing capacity without increasing consumption or impact.

ServiceCatalogue

AutomaticProvisioning

AutomatedDivisional

Billing

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Workload: Workload:

� What workloads are appropriate?

Topology:

� Where does the service need to reside?

Data:

� Where will my data be, who will own it and which laws will it be

bound by?

Security:

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Security:

� How rigorous are the protections and processes?

Infrastructure Leverage

Virtualisation of 1 Utilisation of 2Virtualisation of

Hardware

Drives lower capital

requirements

1 Utilisation of

Infrastructure

Virtualised environments only

get benefits of scale if they

are highly utilised

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Labour Leverage

Self Service

Clients who can “serve

3 Automation of

Management

4 Standardisation

of Workloads5

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Clients who can “serve

themselves” require less

support and get services

Take repeatable tasks

and automate services

Lower complexity = more

automation possible =

reduced IT labour costs

� Cloud is the some of all parts to date

� Cloud is an evolution and not a revolution

Many varied companies from separate industries are � Many varied companies from separate industries are

benefiting from Cloud based solutions

� Broad range of Return on Investment focus areas to

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� Broad range of Return on Investment focus areas to

investigate

For more information, please visit:http://www.ibm.com/au/ibm/cloud

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