It’s time to ride the software wave – for too long IT organisations have been hamstrung and spread thin by having to manage the infrastructure and applications, rather being able to focus on delivering the benefits that the business demands. During this presentation, Brett Looney explores why we (as IT professionals) should be thinking about driving everything we do with software innovation; how that relates to the cloud (and why Brett hates that word); and what the path forward is. Presented by Brett Looney (Head of Innovation - Amcom) at the WA IT Leaders Summit 2014 (http://www.biaust.com.au/wa-it-summit/), at the AWS Summit 2014 Perth (http://aws.amazon.com/aws-summit-2014/perth/), and also at Cisco Live Melbourne 2015 (https://www.ciscoliveaustralia.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3875&tclass=popup).

1. The Software
Defined Enterprise
Brett Looney

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The What?

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SDN Is that
SDS?
Does
that even
have an
acronym?
What does that mean?
Software
Defined
Networks
Software
Defined
Storage
Software
Defined
Data Centre

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For
configuring
your network?
IS SDN?
For
dynamically
changing network
policy?
A software
control
plane?
A compute
platform?
Providing an API
to request network
resources?

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But: Does it matter?

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Who Cares?!
Most
end users
don't

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And you shouldn’t care either
Most
businesses
are not in
the IT
business
So the IT
department should
really be about
delivering business
solutions... Not
infrastructure

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Software is the Answer
But what’s the question?

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Let’s take a step back

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We need to fix this
But how?

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So what’s that question?
B.A.U
CHANGE!

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Not so easy…

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You need to plan
your software
architecture
And how it
will interact with
the underlying
infrastructure
Architecture

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Data Modelling is key
The right
data
For the
right people
At the
right time

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This is not news

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And you will need…
Software
development
resources
In house
Outsourced
Partners

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An example…
Commonwealth Bank

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Where to start

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Universities
Innovation
Spaces
Startup
weekends
Hackathons

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The bad

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The “cloud” can help
Using the
cloud will make
no difference if
you don’t change
your IT
processes

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But
if you’re
re-engineering
architecture
and process
Then using
cloud-based
infrastructure
is the
answer
The “cloud” can help

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To sum up

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Consumerisation
of the
enterprise
The Aim

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The Aim

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Any device
Anywhere
Any time

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Disrupt
your
Company

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Thank You