From a joint webinar with Verismic in December 2015 The rise of the “as-a-Service” paradigm is disrupting industries across every market of technology. Join 451 Research’s Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D., and Ashley Leonard, CEO of Verismic Software, in exploring how IT is being disrupted today. This webinar will explore industry changes and how end users have responded to the shift in areas such as cloud, DevOps and IT management. Along with a 20,000+ survey panel, we will discuss what IT teams need to survive and thrive in the era of IT as a Service.

1. How IT will disrupt in 2016:
The ITaaS imperative
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.
Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops
Verismic, Dec 2015

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4. Scalable “genius bars”
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5. Minimizing risk, maximizing agility
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Source: Various custom 451 studies

6. The need
for speed
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Source: 451 DevOps study, Q3 2014

7. P R O G R E S S
The journey to software-defined infrastructure has been slow
Q. In what phase are you in evolving your internal infrastructure
(i.e., cloud-enabling) environment? n=158. Source: Cloud Computing – Wave 7
Standardization
8%
Consolidation
6%
Virtualization
32%
Automation
26%
Orchestration
11%
Private Cloud
17%
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8. CLOUD COMPUTING
Q2 2015
Q9(Left).Thinking of all the applications your organization runs, approximately what percentage are currently running in the
following cloud and non-cloud environments?
Q9(Right).Approximately what percentage will be running two years from now?
Applications by Environment – Cloud Respondents
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Today In Two Years
Source: 451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Computing, Q2 2015
35.7%
7.0%
19.2%
12.0%
10.6%
15.6%
On-Premises, Non-Cloud
Off-Premises, Non-Cloud
On-premises Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)/Public Cloud
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Percent of Sample
n = 776
52.9%
8.0%
15.3%
7.9%
5.7%
10.1%
On-Premises, Non-Cloud
Off-Premises, Non-Cloud
On-premises Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)/Public Cloud
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Percent of Sample
n = 781

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11. But it’s not that simple
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12. Cloud “aaS” market highlights
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13. Phases of cloud adoption
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15. Digging into infrastructure SaaS
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16. IT Management moving to *aaS too
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17. CLOUD COMPUTING
Q2 2015
Q22(Left).Approximately what percent of the Systems Management and Orchestration (Server, Storage and Private Cloud) workload is deployed in the
following environments today?
Q22(Right).Approximately what percent of the Systems Management and Orchestration (Server, Storage and Private Cloud) workload will be deployed
in the following environments in two years’ time?
Systems Management and Orchestration (Server, Storage and Private Cloud)
Distribution – Cloud Respondents
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Current Future
Source: 451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Computing, Q2 2015
55.0%
5.9%
19.9%
9.5%
5.2%
4.5%
On-Premises, Non-Cloud
Off-Premises, Non-Cloud
On-premises Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)/Public Cloud
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Percent of Sample
n = 137
38.5%
5.8%
25.7%
11.4%
10.8%
7.8%
On-Premises, Non-Cloud
Off-Premises, Non-Cloud
On-premises Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)/Public Cloud
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Percent of Sample
n = 129

18. What business users (LOBs) need/expect of IT
• They don’t care about any of the
stuff on the last few slides
• They need better, cheaper, faster
(sometimes different)
• 2 of the 4 will do – for now
• Why can’t my IT organization
work like Uber? Box, Salesforce,
AWS, Apple?
CIO
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19. Factors inhibiting software-defined infrastructure and ITaaS
• Indecisive organization
• Lack of collaboration
• Poor planning
• Inadequate skills
• Dated, rigid IT processes
• Complexity of orchestration, administration and integration tooling
• Lack of technology maturity
This is good news for IT organizations – sort of!
It buys time and helps formulate IT strategy
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20. Getting started: IT strategy for the journey to ITaaS
• Accelerate virtualization (server, storage, networking) toward a SDDC
• Push IT siloes together
• Rethink IT processes
• Expand IT self-service catalogues and offer to LOBs
• Relinquish commodity technology and services, and ‘unprofitable business’ to
service providers and vendors (partners)
• Stick to high-value competitively differentiated services
• Inventory IT building blocks and assemble into differentiated assets =
reference architectures & ease their deployment
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21. Question:
What is your core differentiator
as a business?
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Thank you!
Donnie Berkholz
Twitter: @dberkholz
donnie.berkholz@451research.com