UK Conference 2018. People. Processes. Tools. Three's a Cloud_Rich Gibbons

1. Three’s a Cloud

3. What is the aim of Cloud
ITAM?
• Reduce spend
• Stay compliant

4. What are the problems
facing ITAM & Cloud?
• Cloud doesn’t need ITAM
• Knowledge
• Access
• Enterprise Architects

5. People

6. Who is involved in planning?
• Infrastructure
• Enterprise Architects
• Database Admins
• Development Teams
• Finance
• ITAM

7. Who is involved in using?
• Infrastructure
• Enterprise Architects
• Database Admins
• Developers

8. Who is involved in paying?
• Finance
• Enterprise Architects
• Infrastructure
• ITAM

9. Will there be conflict?
• Between whom?
• How can this be
avoided/managed?
• Who will manage it?

10. Who has the power?
• ITAM?
• CTO?
• CEO?
• CIO?
• Infrastructure?
• Other?

11. Is a new team required?
• Who would be part of it?
• Who oversees?

12. People
• Who plans?
• Who uses?
• Who resolves conflict?
• Who oversees?

13. Processes

14. What processes are needed?
• Uses of Cloud
• Limits
• Types
• Approval process
• Users

15. No Limits?
• Hardware
• SoLware features
• Spend

16. Understanding Hardware
• Processor types
• Core counts
• Amount of RAM
• OperaNng System types

17. Pre-approved menu
• Test & Dev
• High Performance
CompuNng (HPC)
• Database
• Web Server
• ProducNon

18. Amazon
• General Purpose
• Compute OpNmised
• Memory OpNmised
• Storage OpNmised

19. Azure
• General Purpose
• Compute OpNmised
• Memory OpNmised
• Storage OpNmised
• GPU
• High Performance
Compute

20. Azure instances
$2.933 p/h $9.650 p/h
16 cores
112 GB RAM
382GB storage
32 cores
448 GB RAM
6144GB storage

21. Azure instances
$0.438 p/h $6.016 p/h
8 cores
32 GB RAM
64GB storage
64 cores
256 GB RAM
512GB storage

22. Azure Instances
• 35 general purpose opNons
• $5.58 per hour difference
• $4,151.52 per month – based on 24x7

23. Self serve changes
• Decide on limits
• EscalaNon process
• Urgent process

24. Who decides?
• ITAM?
• CTO?
• CEO?
• CIO?
• Infrastructure?
• Other?

25. Payment opKons
• Pay As You Go
• Reserved Instance (1 year)
• Reserved Instance (3 years)
• Azure Hybrid Use Rights

26. Flexible
• Oracle Cloud changes for
Amazon & Azure
• MicrosoL Azure changes
in December 2017, April
& May 2018

27. When things go wrong
• Policies not followed
• Cost limits exceeded
• License rules broken

28. Processes
• Set limits on Cloud use
• Pre-approved Cloud menu
• AnNcipate changes
• Be flexible
• Have an enforcement policy

29. Tools

30. Tool
• What is it for?
• Who chooses it?
• Who owns it?
• Who pays for it?

31. What is it for?
• Reducing spend
• Saving Nme
• Enforcing policies
• Keeping compliant

32. Choosing a tool
• DevOps
• Infrastructure
• Finance
• ITAM

34. Tool types
• On-premises
• SAAS
• IAAS

35. IAAS Cloud Tools available
• CloudHealth
• Densify
• RightScale
• Jamcracker
• Metricly
• CloudAware
• Partners

36. What is already available?
• FlexNet Manager for
Cloud
• MicrosoL Cloudyn

37. Cloud Management

38. Costs

39. Assets

40. AWS ßàAzure

41. AWSßàAzure

42. Get Access

43. Feature comparison
Free
• Cost & usage reporNng
• Resource tag categorisaNon
• Create cost & asset budgets
• Create cost & usage alerts
• Right-size resources
Premium
• Chargeback features
• Import external budgets
• Customise thresholds
• Categorise costs with custom tags

44. Basic
Standardised
RaNonalised
Dynamic
Cloud ITAM Maturity Levels

45. • Forge links across the company
• Have clear processes
• Clear financial ownership
• Collaborate around tools
• Start with easy wins

46. Thank You
• Rich.gibbons@itassetmanagement.net
• @rich_gibbons
• hlps://www.linkedin.com/in/richgibbonslicensing/
• www.itassetmanagement.net