Cloud!!!

1. State of Technology: A Round of
Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts
Frank Gens, SVP & Chief Analyst, IDC
Richard Villars, VP, Storage & IT Executive
Strategies, IDC
Robert Mahowald, Research Vice President, SaaS &
Cloud Services, IDC
Dave McNally, IT Executive Advisor, IDC

3. The Agenda
IT Industry
Transformation
Frank Gens
IT Leadership
Dave McNally
X 3 Infrastructure
& Data
Rick Villars
Applications
& Platforms
Robert
Mahowald

4. Cloud’s About Much More Than the Cloud
The “Third Platform” for
IT industry growth is
IT Industry
emerging
Transformation
Frank Gens Millions of new apps and
services will be built on it
These apps and services
will be built on innovative
mash-ups of cloud, mobile
devices, mobile apps,
social technologies, big
data/analytics, and more

5. 2. Today’s Converged IT Solutions Aren’t the
Endpoint of Your Data Center Transformation
Infrastructure
& Data
Rick Villars
Target loads per server for
large enterprises and SPs
Silos Convergence
Approaching Limits of Today’s Converged IT
Shared Cache Drives the Next DC Makeover

6. 3. “Bring Your Own License” Means Real
38%
Deployment Choice
of 2011 cloud survey respondents:
Applications “Current SW EA & license agreements are
& Platforms primary obstacles to greater Cloud use”
Robert
Mahowald Lowers the cost barrier for SPs to offer hosting
services for major apps (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle)
Eases audit/compliance requirements for IT orgs
APP
VM APP APP APP APP
VM VM VM VM
Opens the door to place licensed SW in multiple
A B C
OS locations for single cost – AND use ISV clouds
Shared OS
HW Shared HW Smooths transitions to using Cloud
Customer Premise AWS

7. 4. Reorient IT around Services
Architecture moves beyond the firewall
of companies
IT Leadership
Development delivers Services not Apps will have Cloud
Dave McNally IT Sourcing complex cloud services Services within
Vendors build Digital Supply Chains the year
Manual Consolidation
Prom.
Allow. DB
P-Sys A-Sys
Operational Operational
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Rep
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Off-sys Op. Rpt
HRIS CRM ERP
Sales Tool - EDGE
Sales Data
W arehouse
Sales Tool -
TRANSMIT
P-Sys Divisions
A-Sys Divisions
USFOOD.com
Central Forecasting
& Procurement
14 Off-System Divisions
9 Operating Platforms
Orchestration & Integration
Div. Procurement
A-Sys
Cust.
Rpt
P-Sys
Cust.
Div. Procurement Rpt
Private Storage
Off-sys Cust Rpt
P-Sys
Financials
A-Sys
Financials
Cloud
Off-sys Proc.
Off-sys Financials
1990’s 2000’s New Architecture

8. Public Cloud Will Be > Important Than Private
Gens’ Law: “Markets
always follow solutions”…
IT Industry
Transformation of new enterprise apps
Developers are voting will be developed for
Frank Gens
with their feet for the cloud in 2011
Public Cloud
Your enterprise’s ability to
exploit this avalanche of
new services in the cloud
of 2015 spending on
depends on you getting enterprise apps
good at using/managing will be via the cloud model
public clouds

9. 6. Big Data: Cloud SPs Grease The Skids
Infrastructure
& Data
Rick Villars
HDD capacity purchased directly
by cloud service providers in 2010
CSP have multiple roles in
today’s Big Data ecosystem
“Big Data” services must be part
of your cloud supplier’s portfolio

10. 7. IT Orgs Will Become Cloud Service Brokers
Applications of Jan 2010 cloud survey respondents:
& Platforms “Extremely/Very Important for our IT org to be
Robert involved in pre-sale/sale/purchase of our SaaS
Mahowald
IT departments are increasingly multi-source,
hybrid orgs, taking on the role of “services
brokers”
IT depts want to manage internal and external
services as a unified portfolio: costing, service
Public Cloud Services quality, utilization, asset prioritization
On-Premise Hybrid asset management, granular service
Traditional & Private
Cloud Services metering, and chargeback, are critical to this new
shape of IT as a service center

11. 8.Disruptive Technology Disrupts Workforce
Cloud Impacts IT Professionals
IT Leadership
Technology Roles are commoditized
Dave McNally Development replaced by Standard Services
Creativity shifts from Build to Buy
Where’s the Next Gen IT Workforce?
Business knowledge still in demand
New Roles and Skills needed
Gap in attracting College Graduates

12. 1/3+ of Your Key Vendors Will Be “WikiTrivia”
25 years ago, vendors faced a
similar transition, to the
IT Industry
Transformation “Second Platform”…
Frank Gens

13. 10. Public Cloud: Even IaaS Will Go Vertical
Infrastructure Intelligent
& Data Industry
Rick Villars Solutions US enterprises using
or implementing
intelligent industry
solutions
Industries are “digitizing”
Look for an SP with targeted solution, but
beware of “faux” offerings

14. 11. You Can’t Avoid the Personal Cloud
PCs Smart Tablets
phones
Applications
& Platforms in the workplace are employee owned/liable
Robert
Mahowald
BYO Desktop, Devices, Apps, Content
Public Clouds Where personal life and work life meet
Enterprise Private Cloud
Data
Location
Social Graphing
Network preferences
Directory

15. 12.Cloud Services enable a Focus on Innovation
Future State CIO Role CIOs hope to
IT Leadership Off-loading commodity services spend
Dave McNally Seeking Competitive Differentiation
New Go-to-Market Strategies
Results . . . of their time
Rapid adoption of new Capabilities driving business
Business Agility innovation

16. Takeaways… Cloud can’t be planned, funded or
executed without ties to mobility, social,
IT Industry
big data and industry transformation
Transformation
IT Operations are transforming:
Infrastructure
hardware & software (easy), process &
IT Leadership
& Data
skills (hard), supplier terms &
relationships
Applications &
Platforms
IT Industry leadership is ripe for
turnover, again
Enterprise IT leadership’s role and
agenda are being disrupted