Knocking On Heavens Door The business reality of doing business in the cloud.

Who Am I? AJ McKee Systems Manager for 10+ years IT Manager for 5 Consultant and contractor Founding Member of Rush Hour Analytics

AJ McKee

Systems Manager for 10+ years

IT Manager for 5

Consultant and contractor

Founding Member of Rush Hour Analytics

Cloud Computing Identify Your Needs Locating a suitable provider Working with your IT department Hidden Costs Technical Challenges Quick Wins Questions

Identify Your Needs

Locating a suitable provider

Working with your IT department

Hidden Costs

Technical Challenges

Quick Wins

Questions

Identifying Cloud Needs Examine all aspects of the business Talk to your teams and assess their needs Find the quick wins on non essential services first Identify your current virtual offerings Resist the BORG approach to assimilate everything Don’t be afraid of thinking outside the box

Examine all aspects of the business

Talk to your teams and assess their needs

Find the quick wins on non essential services first

Identify your current virtual offerings

Resist the BORG approach to assimilate everything

Don’t be afraid of thinking outside the box

Finding a Provider Many providers already out there Amazon AWS Google App Engine Hosting 365 (Irish Too  ) Sales Force Go Grid Level 3 Joyent

Many providers already out there

Amazon AWS

Google App Engine

Hosting 365 (Irish Too  )

Sales Force

Go Grid

Level 3

Joyent

Finding a Provider Key to locating one is to let others do the work for you Research their offerings Find out what the developer community is saying PAYG Model is best at the start

Key to locating one is to let others do the work for you

Research their offerings

Find out what the developer community is saying

PAYG Model is best at the start

Finding a Provider Avoid the cool factors Test, Test and then Test some more! Assess their Capabilities Identify Potential Legal Issues Identify all the costs, not just the compute unit cost

Avoid the cool factors

Test, Test and then Test some more!

Assess their Capabilities

Identify Potential Legal Issues

Identify all the costs, not just the compute unit cost

IT Departments & The Cloud Otherwise referred to as the FOG Change will always be resisted You have to get buy in from them Outline the disadvantages as well as the advantages to them

Otherwise referred to as the FOG

Change will always be resisted

You have to get buy in from them

Outline the disadvantages as well as the advantages to them

IT Departments & The Cloud Listen to them Give them all their own instance Ensure they KISS Assign each member a primary cloud role Act as secondary to another

Listen to them

Give them all their own instance

Ensure they KISS

Assign each member a primary cloud role

Act as secondary to another

IT Departments & The Cloud Treat Virtual Hosts as real machines Apply your ITIL best practices to the Cloud Appoint a SW Dev Liaison and Vice Versa Give them time to get their heads around things

Treat Virtual Hosts as real machines

Apply your ITIL best practices to the Cloud

Appoint a SW Dev Liaison and Vice Versa

Give them time to get their heads around things

IT Departments & The Cloud Documentation Documentation Documentation More Documentation Always make sure you have some

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

More Documentation

Always make sure you have some

Costs All providers fairly upfront about costs Think in Pounds, Yen, Euro, Dollars but not cents! Bigger is not better! Do the math first then set yourself an Upper Limit

All providers fairly upfront about costs

Think in Pounds, Yen, Euro, Dollars but not cents!

Bigger is not better!

Do the math first then set yourself an Upper Limit

Costs Getting up and running can be expensive Your own infrastructure needs to work You will find you repeat certain things Its not Fire & Forget, once in, it must be maintained

Getting up and running can be expensive

Your own infrastructure needs to work

You will find you repeat certain things

Its not Fire & Forget, once in, it must be maintained

Costs Backups are needed don’t rely on the provider Migration in costs Migration out costs more usually Security, Auditing, Disaster Recover etc, all need to be done in the cloud too.

Backups are needed don’t rely on the provider

Migration in costs

Migration out costs more usually

Security, Auditing, Disaster Recover etc, all need to be done in the cloud too.

Some Tech Challenges Data Persistence Redundancy DNS Sharing Data between nodes Node awareness Transferring large datasets quickly

Data Persistence

Redundancy

DNS

Sharing Data between nodes

Node awareness

Transferring large datasets quickly

Some Very Quick Wins Remote Monitoring Sharing Large Files instead of mailing them Run a WIKI Remote Hot Site

Remote Monitoring

Sharing Large Files instead of mailing them

Run a WIKI

Remote Hot Site

Examples Video Processing Story Site Training Systems Application Testing Systems Automated Build Systems Rush Hour Data Collectors

Video Processing Story Site

Training Systems

Application Testing Systems

Automated Build Systems

Rush Hour Data Collectors

Questions

Contact [email_address] +353 (0)86 380 50 70 @ajmckee Google AJ McKee http://rushhouranlytics.com http://aj.mc-kee.com

[email_address]

+353 (0)86 380 50 70

@ajmckee

Google AJ McKee

http://rushhouranlytics.com

http://aj.mc-kee.com