The Cloud: Implications for the Enterprise

The Cloud: Implications for the Enterprise
Matt Deacon
Chief Architectural Advisor, Emerging Technologies, Microsoft UK
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Why am I here?
What’s cloud computing?
What’s the industry trend, projections, opportunity and client value?
What does this mean for organisations and how are we expecting them to change?
What’s the next big Disruptive technology?

What’s cloud computing?
Implications of the cloud

“It’s like the Industrial Revolution... It’s a Transition”
Simon Wardley, CloudCamp London, July 09

What’s the industry trend, projections, opportunity and client value?

What are they doing?
Progressive IT Organisations
UKArchitectCouncil
http://www.freeformdynamics.com/fullarticle.asp?aid=318

Progressive IT Organisations
What are they doing?
Architecture as Strategy
Integration as Strategy
Service-orientation as means to an end
Hybrid off-on premise models
Multi-sourcing as Services
IT viewed as a suite of Services
UKArchitectCouncil
http://www.freeformdynamics.com/fullarticle.asp?aid=318

What does this mean for organisations and how are we expecting them to change?

Convergence or Collision?
Physics
Internet
Dynamic IT
Boundary Erosion
Eco-nomics
Global-isation
Sourcing
SOA
www.itasaservice.com

IT Organisation of the Future
Business Stakeholder Group

Board-level responsibility/ownership
Capability Owners/sponsors
Customers

Commercial IP Department
- IP & Data Protection

SLA/KPIs
Penalties
Prime/ Sub Contracts

Architecture & Design
- Portfolio Management
- Standards & Governance
- Roadmap
- Design Authority
Service & Change Management

Monitoring
Integration
Service Reporting
Scheduling
Service desk

Capability Delivery Team

Supplier/Service Selection
Due diligence

Predictions for the future of IT
1. IT will physically contract
2. ITs boundaries will expand
8. Architecture and Design will be the key technology related roles
4. Commercials and Service management will be major IT functions
IT
5. But these can be sourced externally too.
IT
3. Services provided to the organisation will be at finer levels of specialisation
BUT external broker providers will hide much of this
6. Data is the key asset to be protected over process
7. But this too could be hosted externally

What’s the next big Disruptive technology?

You're in it!!!!
Well the answer is ...

The nature of disruption
Expected trajectory of performance offered by existing technology
Performance
Expected trajectory of performance improvement
Performance improvement required by mainstream market
Current performance by potential disruptive technology
Time
Joseph Bower & Clayton Christensen, HBR, 1995

The Disruptive Generation
“We’re not as many would say, in the information age, this is in fact the transitional period from industrial to information and this period has at least 20 more years to run. This period will be looked back on as one of those key transitions in human evolution whereby life will never be the same again.”
John Zachman, circa 2005

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