What is expected from Chief Cloud Officers? Bernard Paques Cloud Solution Architect, Europe - @bernard357
Jun 10, 2015
What is expected
from Chief Cloud Officers?
Bernard Paques
Cloud Solution Architect, Europe - @bernard357
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What is expected from Chief Cloud Officers?
1. User experience - Master the delivery of IT services to end users
2. Go to market - Accelerate the release of products and services
3. Business agility – Get the most from your eco-system
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How far away can you be from digital consumers?
Your time budget for user experience:- stay under 250ms to feel “fast”- stay under 1000ms to keep user attention
70msrendering
30msprocessing
200ms (3G)80ms (4G)
30 ms within Europe45 ms within USA90ms Trans-Atlantic150ms ZA to UK160ms Trans-Pacific250ms UK to India
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The first thing you need is a powerful virtual data centre
“The Dimension Data cloud servers showed consistently high performance across the range of resources benchmarked.” Tolly Report, July 2013
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The second thing you need is a global virtual private
network across your virtual data centres
1 Locate your end users 2 Position servers 3 Let information flow
Any two of your VMs can interact privately, wherever they are, automatically
UK NL
US-E
US-W
BR
ZA
AU-W
AU-E
CN
JP
Central servers
Region 1
Region 2
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The third thing you need is
end to end control of the user experience
US West Europe Africa Sidney
• SSL and XML offload• Content Compression• HTTP Caching• HTTP Multiplexing • TCP Offload
• Private network between MCP• Accelerated by Steelhead
Europe• Single location application• Centralised data• Stingray cluster management
Hong Kong
You can now integrate what CDN used to provide separately
Mgt
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What is expected from Chief Cloud Officers?
1. User experience - Master the delivery of IT services to end users
2. Go to market - Accelerate the release of products and services
3. Business agility - Get the most from your eco-system
?
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Software Toolbox
How to be agile in a multi-cloud environment?
8
2
Multiple service
abstractions
Cloud 1
Cloud 2
Cloud 3
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1 2
Use APIs and third-party to build your service catalogue
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corporate catalogue
Self-service provisioning Service consumption
• Output based packages
• Multi-provider wrapping
• Billing reconciliation
Procurement
Business End-user
Compound service
API
API
API
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DevOps: develop and release directly in the cloud
LoadBalancer
Chef Server
Git + GitLAB (SCM)
VMs
Public Key
HA Proxy
Developers
Jenkins
JIRA GreenHopper (Scrum, Kanban)
IDS*
Web 1
Web 2
SQL master
SQL slave
CloudControl APIServices catalog
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Applicationintegration
DevOpsintegration
IDS*
Web 1 Web 2
SQL master
SQL slave
LoadBalancer
Self-service
VM
Service Desk
Self-service: APIs are of higher value than portals
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VM
file
Large format
Small format
ApplicationEx : video sharing
or Big Data
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What is expected from Chief Cloud Officers?
1. User experience - Master the delivery of IT services to end users
2. Go to market - Accelerate the release of products and services
3. Business agility - Get the most from your eco-system
?
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How to industrialise IT, but preserve differentiation?
- the difficult marketplace equation
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Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
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Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Infrastructureas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Platformas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Softwareas a Service
With IaaS
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
TraditionalOn-Premises
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Infrastructureas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Platformas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Softwareas a Service
Self-managed
How to augment the reach, but contain costs?
Extend reach
Optimize
platform
We provide managed IaaS to support your business growth
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
TraditionalOn-Premises
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Infrastructureas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Platformas a Service
Applications S/W
Data / DBMS
Runtime S/W
Middleware
Operating System
Virtualization O/S
Computing Servers
Disk Storage
Networks
Softwareas a Service
With managed IaaS
Baseline Augmented capability Improved costs
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How to preserve a holistic understanding of my
information system, across multiple providers?
# risk scenarios
∆ risk value
513 risk scenarios
631 risk scenarios
376 risk scenarios
No impact
Positive impact Negative impact
Will the move to the cloud impact your security? We assess risks
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(Cross-connect)
DR on Public MCP and spun up on demand
DR on Public MCP and spun up on demand
Application on Private MCP
DB on Managed Hosted Environment
We are moving SAP to the cloud, and can share our own experience
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Dimension Data wants to support your cloud ambitions:
1. We provide one seamless managed infrastructure, available world-wide
2. We integrate our services with your development and orchestration toolbox
3. We provide the levels of service that your eco-system is expecting