AURO Canadian Cloud and Cloud Onboarding

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AURO Cloud Presentation:
Cloud Onboarding in
Canada
Matt McKinney, AURO

State of the Canadian Cloud
• Canadian Cloud continues to lag with adoption more than 10% behind the US
• Canada is ranked 9th out of 24 countries for cloud
• As many as 65% of executives said they do not feel secure sharing business data with
cloud providers
• As many as 45% felt their company’s information would be unsafe in the cloud
• 43% of businesses think cloud is for large enterprises
• 4 in 10 small companies said they do not know what cloud can do for them
• 1/3rd of small business executives admin to “not having a “clue” what cloud computing
really is.

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Why Cloud Matters
• Scalability
• Reduced CAPEX
• Reduced Infrastructure
• Improve Access
• Reduced Headcount
• Minimize licensing
• Flexibility

The Workload

Barriers to Moving Workloads
Summary:
Apathy/Lazy – 15%
• No plans or haven’t got around to it
Lack of Understanding – 44%
• Costs are lower in house, complexity
Control: 71%
• Loss of control, on premise, vendor may not survive
Policy: 65%
• Policy, regulations
Location: 34%

Why Does Onboarding Matter
To Benefit from the Cloud you have to get their first. Unfortunately, most
companies don’t make it that easy.
Google/Bing: does cloud onboarding matter
• 100’s of companies providing cloud onboarding services at a premium. Why?
• Most companies advertise “Cloud Onboarding” but don’t specify what that
means?
Sample: “In this service, we take a collaborative approach to facilitate the customer’s
adoption of our enterprise cloud platform. Additionally, we help the customer
empower their internal staff with new skills and the confidence to realize the benefits
of our cloud services.”

Cloud Onboarding
‘Onboarding' refers to the deployment of applications and/or data to Cloud
infrastructure like AURO (public, private or hybrid).
If everything has been properly prepared beforehand, there’s no reason why it
shouldn't.
Successful onboarding is all about prior planning and preparation.
If you do it right – It’s not that hard!

It No Longer Matters: Cloud is the New Reality

Are you Cloudy?
• Many startups today are building their businesses in the cloud.
• Consumption for new services are more focused on cloud.
• New users are focused on cloud first, disregard for the stack but focused on
the “app”.
For enterprise, cloud can be:
• Test and development: because applications under development are relatively
'stand-alone' in terms of the level of interaction with other applications and
services.
• Collaboration and web applications: because their native architecture is
already compatible with running on multiple computing and storage nodes.

Most Companies are Still Not Prepared
For most enterprise applications, there's more work to do in preparing them for
a cloud environment because they're not natively designed for it.
• Most applications are designed to run on a single server, end-user machine, or on a
cluster of front-end and application server nodes backed by a database.
• running on infrastructure designed for reliability, so hardware failure is taken to be an
unlikely exception that requires special backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• This is quite different from a cloud environment that has built-in redundancies, and
multi-site failover capabilities where the infrastructure design includes ‘expected’
failures and respond to it by switching resources seamlessly.

Is It Really That Hard?

Some Reasons to Move
• Existing web hosting is located on servers owned by the company and they either
wish to relocate these servers to a different location (where the existing IP address
space cannot be used) or they wish to have a third party take over provision of web
hosting services.
• The existing web hosting service is either in-house or provided by a third party this is
no longer suitable. This could be due to:
• Level of service is not acceptable
• The requirements of the client have outgrown the capabilities or scale at which the
existing provider operates at,
• Commercial reasons such as pricing are dictating the need to move,
• The existing service is currently located offshore and there is a desire to make it local,
• The client wishes to have a greater level of control over the hosting, i.e. currently
outsourced and wish to bring in-house.

Needs Dictates Next Steps
The original hosting arrangements will define the options which exist for
migration:
• Websites are hosted under a reseller plan or some form of shared hosting in which
the client does not have control of the server and root access cannot be provided.
Websites may or may not all be hosted in the same place or with the same company.
• Websites are hosted on a server (either in an office or a data centre) that is
dedicated to the client and which they have full access to and control over.

The Application Workload

Challenges With Application Workloads
When you're migrating an application to a cloud environment, some of the
described elements may not need to be migrated with the application.
• if you are moving away from a legacy IT environment, some of the previously used
services may no longer be required.
• As an example, it's common for some of our enterprise customers to maintain their
Active Directory domain controllers in-house, while some of the applications it
controls may reside in AURO’s cloud computing environment.
• Enterprise applications usually interact with one another.
• Cross Platform interactions

Application Onboarding: the basics
• Deploying the workload
• Workload analysis
• Ensuring seamless two-way access with appropriate candidate
workloads for cloud migration and understanding their
requirements for onboarding
• Testing and validating
• Getting your application cloud-ready
• Discontinuing the old service as the application will perform as
required on the target cloud architecture.

Things to Consider
• Because workloads differ in terms of their importance and cost to your
business, choosing a workload that is both critical and complex to migrate can
be a big risk, but the potential cost savings or other benefits may outweigh the
risk.
• Work to identify and prioritize the best candidate workloads for migration
including business and technical factors.

Last Things: Partner
Why picking a partner can be your best step forward.
• Migration
• Application Architecture
• Network Architecture
• Ease Of Use
• Commercials and Billing
• Performance Guarantees
• Security
• Business Continuity
• Governance
• Support
The Quiet Revolution Has Already Begun

Thanks for Attending
http://www.auro.io/cloud-onboarding

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