Building the Cloud - the Highlights

Building the CloudThe Highlights
April 2011

Building the Cloud – The Highlights
Building the Cloud was a joint webinar given by Zenoss, Cisco, and Redmonk.
The webinar was a discussion on building Cloud Computing infrastructures focusing on real world examples and lessons learned
You can view the full webinar here.
Host: Josh Duncan, Zenoss
Guest Speakers: Mark Balch, UCS Product Management Cisco Michael Cote, Red Monk Analyst
Floyd Strimling, Technology Evangelist Zenoss

Myth v. Reality
Where is the cloud today?
“
As with all things in IT that drives us technologists crazy, it usually gets down to money…
It's sort of the--
Trail of sugar that you give someone
to use to pull them behind the bush
to wham them over the head
with your technology and benefits.
”
-Michael Coté
- Michael Coté

Myth v. Reality
“
What makes it [the Cloud] truly consumable is that there has
been a technology convergence.
”
-Mark Balch
- Mark Balch

Myth v. Reality
“
Use IT more like a weapon,
not as a cost center.
”
This can make us better than our competitors.
- Floyd Strimling
-Floyd Strimling

Building Your Cloud Strategy
How to transition to a service-based approach?
“
If it ain't broke,
don't cloud it.
”
-Michael Coté
- Michael Coté

“
“
Cloud is an interesting word, but now it has been adopted for everything. It seems if you want to get any attention you just call it a
Cloud.
”
”
- Floyd Strimling
-Floyd Strimling

“
Technology doesn't go away. It just gets wrapped up and abstracted.
”
-Michael Coté
- Michael Coté

Building the Cloud
Moving from a legacy to a compute infrastructure
“
Forecasting is an imperfect art…
and the process wasn't agile at all.
”
How do we get away from the static model to this self-serving model?
-Mark Balch
- Mark Balch

Building the Cloud
Operating the Cloud Datacenter
“
”
Everything is changing.
The ability to converge other silos into a single infrastructure is great, but now we're making changes across people, process, and solutions
- Floyd Strimling
-Floyd Strimling

The Problem
Cloud Breaks Traditional Management
“
I know there are a lot of people out there who say a lot of people are going to fail. But you don't have to fail. You can future proof.
”
-Michael Coté
- Michael Coté

The Problem
“
It's not enough to view this in a single GUI.
It's not enough to munge the data into a portal or dashboard.
”
You have to understand the relationships between each of these different old world silos and what that's going to bring to you.
- Floyd Strimling
-Floyd Strimling

The Problem
“
At scale, everything fails.
”
And what we're trying to do here is proactively intercept that failure with the right team and right individual in this environment because if you don't,
the impact can be considerable.
- Josh Duncan
- Josh Duncan

Final Notes
Building the Cloud
“
“
Go ahead and think about the full stack requirements from
a software perspective,
management perspective,
and infrastructure standpoint.
”
”
-Mark Balch
- Mark Balch

Final Notes
Building the Cloud
“
This is not a fictional, theoretical university project. This is happening today.
”
- Floyd Strimling
-Floyd Strimling

Final Notes
Building the Cloud
“
Cloud computing is offering the chance
to do something transformative.
”
-Michael Coté
- Michael Coté

Building the Cloud - the Highlights

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