This document outlines the importance of planning for cloud migration. It defines different types of cloud services like Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. While many organizations use cloud applications, less than a third have defined governance and planning. The document recommends developing a cloud plan through discovery, analysis, and design phases to understand current needs, future demands, and costs in order to design an optimal hybrid cloud strategy. Proper planning is key to avoiding unexpected challenges when migrating to the cloud.

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Planning for the Cloud

2. Agenda
• Who is HOSTING?
• The Cloud Defined
• The Cloud Challenge
• Developing a Cloud Plan
• Close & QA

4. What Is The Cloud?
• Computing that is…
• On-demand self-service
• Broad network access
• Resource pooling
• Elastic
• Consumption-based

5. What Is The Cloud?
Infrastructure as a Service
A pool of cloud-based compute resources
(processor, memory, disk) provided as managed or
unmanaged resources
Platform as a Service
A computing platform that allows organizations to
create software using tools and/or libraries from the
provider
Software as a Service
A software delivery model in which software and
associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud
Desktop as a Service
A cloud-based desktop environment that can be
access from any-device, anywhere at anytime
Courtesy Wikipedia

6. The Cloud Challenge
Does this sound familiar? “I just read about ‘the
cloud’…I need you to
get us there by the
end of the month.”

7. The Cloud Challenge
According to RightScale…
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94% of organizations are
running cloud applications
Less than a third have
defined governance
and planning

8. Why Plan?
• Enables a data-driven decision process
• Understands current demand
• Factors future demand and business
plans
• Understand costs and options

9. Developing a Cloud Plan
1. Discover
2. Analyze
3. Design

10. Discover
• Workloads
• Physical servers
• Virtual infrastructure
• vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer, OpenStack
• Network infrastructure

11. Analyze
• Business requirements
• Current workload demands
• Data center efficiency
• Hardware lifecycle

12. Determining Business Drivers
CapEx Availability Performance
Location Support
OpEx
Staffing
Security
Alignment
Cost

13. Design
• Hybrid cloud blueprint
• Public, private, hybrid
• Right-size cloud instances
• Validate workload compatibility
• Determine resource requirements
• Compute, storage, network
• Estimate cloud solution costs

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Design Your Cloud Strategy

15. Key Takeaways
• Don’t Stumble Into the Cloud
• Understand Your Current Needs
• Anticipate Your Future Needs
• Design a Cloud that Meets Them Both

16. Summary
• Embracing the Cloud?
• Plan Your Cloud Journey with
HOSTING
• View on-demand webinar here.

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Q&A
Bill Santos | President, HOSTING Advanced Solutions
For more information about managed cloud services by HOSTING, please
contact our team at 888.894.4678.