The LIMA aims to establish the maturity of your current Linux environment in order to help your organisation develop it to a level which fits with your technical and business requirements.

1. Linux Infrastructure
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Maturing Your Linux

2. LIMA Objective
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To provide a Linux operating environment
that is fully aligned to your technical and
business requirements, dramatically reduce
deployment time, simplify maintenance,
increase stability, and reduce support and
management costs.

3. Structure
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01. Linux – The State of Play
02. Linux - The Current Challenge?
03. What is Required to Mitigate Risk?
04. The Proven Fast Track - LIMA

4. Structure
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01.
Linux – The State of Play

5. Linux Adoption Trends
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Linux
80%
2010 2011 2012
60% 69% 73%
Windows
20%
5 year plan for
increased OS
investments
Increasing
80%
Decreasing
1%
Enterprises increasing
use of Linux for mission
critical workloads
The results of this survey were based on responses from
355 IT professionals from organizations with £250 million
or more per year in revenues and/or 500+ employees.
Maintaining or
increasing Linux to
support cloud

6. Linux Is Being Used Everywhere
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Stock Exchange use Linux
New York
Movies are made on Linux
The automotive trade
uses Linux
Banks use Linux
International Space
Station uses Linux
London
Singapore

7. Why Linux?
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What our customers tell us motivates them to adopt more
Open Architectures*
01. Technical agility
04. End-users
07. Reduced costs
02. Cost agility
05. Customers
08. Innovation
03. Cloud
06. Collaboration
09. Quality
*Source: LinuxIT Survey (February 2013)

8. What Are The Market Forces Behind Linux
Adoption Trends
Preferred OS for
Tier-1
Applications
Preferred OS for
Cloud
Preferred OS for
Big Data
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Preferred OS
Certification for
CV’s
93% of employers
plan to hire a
Linux pro in the
next 12 months
The results of this survey were based on responses from 850 hiring managers from
corporations, small and medium businesses (SMBs), government organizations, and
staffing agencies.

9. Structure
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02.
Linux – The Current Challenge

10. Current Challenges For Linux
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OSS empowers organisations to increase innovation,
efficiency and competitiveness.
As OSS becomes more pervasive, the need for governance increases
exponentially. Open source governance should be embedded in broader
governance to insure IT supports the business goals, and appropriately
manages IT-related risks and opportunities.
As the use of OSS is growing and maturing, the need for governance has
become an integral part of mainstream IT management. OSS is ubiquitous
and unavoidable - having a policy against it is impractical and may place
you at a competitive disadvantage and more.

11. Current Challenges For Linux
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50% of Global 2000 organisations will experience
technology cost and security challenges due to
lack of Open Source governance
By 2014
Source: Gartner
Through 2015
Less than 50% of IT organisations
will have effective Open Source
governance programs in place
Poor governance can expose organisations to potential quality and business risks,
putting organisations in a vulnerable position.

12. Current Challenges For Linux
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Slashed IT budgets are forcing organisations to look at
cost effective alternatives like OSS whilst delivering quality and
innovation. However, lack of knowledge and information has driven
organisations to act outside normal governance when adopting Linux
and OSS.
Mike Curtis, Executive Director at LinuxIT
However, the very nature of OSS and historically the way in which
it has proliferated outside of corporate governance filters now means
it suffers from a lack of quality and adherence to governance policies.
This makes it appear inferior and riskier than governed IT estates,
explains Curtis.

13. Current Challenges For Linux
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Why your organisation will benefit from best practice
Linux architectures and systems management
The common issues
• Linux often entered into the organisation
via the backdoor many years ago and has
proliferated organically, rather than against a
strategy or plan.
• It has not, therefore, been subject to the same
rigorus standards or ROI assessments applied
across the UNIX and Microsoft estates.
• This very often leads to multiple,
undocumented builds of variable standards
across numerous Linux distributions.

14. Current Challenges For Linux
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• Some of these distributions do not carry the
enterprise assurances demanded of a mission
critical environment.
• They are often not optimised for the application in
terms of performance or security.
• Without a standardised architecture design and
documentation, there is a great deal of risk through
dependency on the engineer that built the servers.
• Servers are not built with operational efficiencies in
mind, so scaling up capacity is complex, expensive
and does not benefit from any economies of scale.
• It also often means they are not regularly updated
with security patches and fixes which can introduce
risk into the organisation.

15. Current Challenges For Linux
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• Because they have not been built against best
practice, there is often no facility to detect, isolate
and correct problems before they impact on the
business.
• Very often, security has not been considered to the
extent that it should have been when building these
servers, particularly in terms of identity management,
activity monitoring and virus/malware management.
• Ultimately poor practice around Linux causes an
increase in failure rates, security risk and costs while
decreasing productivity, operational efficiencies and
the value your organisation is able to deliver.
• Customers may not return if they’ve suffered from
a bad experience - for example, on an e-commerce
or m-commerce website, leading to lost sales
opportunities.

16. Structure
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03.
What is Required to Mitigate Risk?

17. Audit Linux Significance
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Perform a thorough audit of your
current Linux environments
Including what varieties of distributions,
versions and configurations exist and where,
why and how they are deployed and managed.
This includes all instances of Linux existing
and planned, the hardware it sits on and
applications it underpins, and how it integrates
into the environment. Be sure to document.

18. Audit Linux Competencies
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Undertake a skills assessment
To establish whether the necessary
competencies exist in-house or indeed with
your service provider.
Beware, there are very few service providers
that have these competencies themselves and
contractors simply cannot offer the integrated
services approach.

19. Implement Best Practice
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• Manage your systems in such a way that you
are aware of problems before your customers
are - implement fault management systems
that are designed specifically to provide a
greater return on investment in your Linux
estate.
• Secure your Linux infrastructure with best
practice Linux security management that
addresses access controls, user activity, data
privacy, viruses and malware and denial of
service attacks.
• Adopt best practice Linux as the foundation
for value recognition further up the stack.

20. Structure
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04.
The Proven Fast Track- LIMA

21. Evaluate Maturity
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Define
Assess
Envision
Transform

22. Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
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Optimised
Standardised
Controlled
or none has been identified in the
infrastructure
Ad-hoc
No Linux
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23. Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
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Lack of capability
Reactive
Optimised
Unpredictable, Uncoordinated
Standardised
Undocumented strategy
Controlled
No Linux
Ad-hoc
2
3
4
Lack of reporting or MI
No/low budget
No Backups or DR
0
1

24. Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
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Basic documentation
Coordinated plans
Some systems integration
No configuration management
Optimised
Emergent Linux strategy
Standardised
Ad-hoc
No Linux
Controlled
3
4
Less reactive
Basic management processes
Some cost control
Some monitoring & reporting
Backups and some DR exists
0
1
2

25. Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
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Mature Strategy Configurations managed
systems integrated
Effective monitoring & reporting with
detailed MI Proactive management focus
Optimised
Controlled
Ad-hoc
No Linux
Standardised
Consolidated and rationalised
Details SLA’s
Effective backup policy
Effective DR (manual intervention required)
Budget and costs managed
Most risk identified
Capability to deploy new resources in days
and hours
0
1
2
3
4

26. Linux Infrastructure Maturity Model
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Standardised
Controlled
Ad-hoc
No Linux
Optimised
Dynamic & flexible strategy
Scalability to accommodate new
requirements (deployable in minutes and
seconds)
Lean & agile processes
highly integrated
Real time MI fed into KPI’s, Businessbased SLA’s (reflects availability & capacity
requirements)
Automated systems management
Highest levels of auditability and security
Full BCP and DR systems in place,
regularly tested
Fully identifiable cost and risks
Proactively focused on improvement
0
1
2
3
4

27. LIMA Process
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Scope
Phases
Analysis
Discovery
Current State
Strategy
Consulting
Analysis
Assessment
Presentation
& Discussion
Transformation
Reporting
Enablement Program
Future State
Vision

28. Assess Maturity
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Groundbreaking Assessment Toolkit
Integrated and
Holistic Conceptual
Framework

29. Envision Appropriate Level of Maturity
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Identify Appropriate Future State of
Maturity
Mature Strategy Configurations managed
systems integrated
Effective monitoring & reporting with
detailed MI Proactive management focus
Optimised
Controlled
Ad-hoc
No Linux
Standardised
Consolidated and rationalised
Details SLA’s
Effective backup policy
Effective DR (manual intervention required)
Budget and costs managed
Most risk identified
Capability to deploy new resources in days
and hours
0
1
2
3
4
...informed by technology and business
requirements and strategy
Pragmatically
Designed by Qualified
Consultants

30. Transformation
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Ambitious but Achievable
balances costs, scope, pace, capabilities, benefits and timing
Gap Analysis
Prioritise
Requirements
to Bridge
Gap
Reassess
Maturity
Design
Transformation
Enablement
Program
Implement
Discrete
Transformation
Elements
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31. Reporting Maturity
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70 page report designed to inform and advise with
degrees of granularity appropriate to different readers

32. Accreditations
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Just some of our awards, accreditations and partnerships

33. Customers
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Some of our private sector customers
Telecommunications
Retail
Media &
Entertainment
Financial Services
Manufacturing
Technology
Transportation
Utilities

34. Customers
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Some of our public sector customers
Councils
Health
Education
Government
Not For Profit
Police
Charity

35. Linux Infrastructure
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