Digital foundations - Paving the road to cloud solutions

Here is a quick summary for those that just want the cliff notes.
The World is Changing
Businesses need a continuous competitive advantage
All businesses are software companies
Competition is everywhere
IT Needs
To increase relevance and reduce complexity (mode-1)
To create more agile processes and build programmable & scalable infrastructure and platforms (mode-2)
Red Hat Helps
Accelerate delivery
Optimize for efficiency
Modernize development and operations
Deliver scalable infrastructure
Only Red Hat Delivers
Innovation in the form of pure open source solutions
Integration with world class testing, support, and certification

We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.

In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.

We hope this overview of solution areas allows you to understand *what* Red Hat can solve for it's customers. Equally as important as the "What" is the "How". After all, customers need to understand why they should choose Red Hat to solve these problems. One major consideration is that nearly all innovation in the areas of DevOps, cloud applications, and infrastructure are being driven by open source. Major projects such as Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible that are forming the basis of DevOps tools and cloud platforms are being driven in the open source community. Organizations need, and want, to align with these projects to ensure the greatest access to innovation.

Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.

Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.

Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:

Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure

It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.

Introduce Red Hat Cloud Suite and explain the products in the Suite here. Note that Ansible Tower is not included.

https://url.corp.redhat.com/services-solutions

I hope this presentation is helpful in allowing you to understand the problems Red Hat Cloud Suite has allowed organizations to solve. To get you started, Red Hat Consulting offers a number of design workshops to rough out technologies, processes, and architectures while establishing a strategy for the solution across your organization's people, process, and technology.

• With our IT Operational Efficiency workshop, we help you establish an infrastructure foundation that optimizes your traditional IT capabilities and prepares you with the tools and techniques needed for agile IT success. We'll work toward driving new or improved capability around areas such as workload management, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. With a hands-on approach to mentoring and training, your team will receive the real-world skills needed to maintain and grow your environment independently.

• The cloud strategy and migration workshop is intended to help customers begin building a comprehensive approach to cloud adoption and begin mapping a robust, powerful bimodal infrastructure to meet your specific requirements, working toward bringing your end-user applications to the new infrastructure as needs dictate.

• Through an Accelerate DevOps workshop, we'll capture your requirements, identify use cases, and establish priorities to define actionable recommendations for DevOps implementation. The idea is to accelerate the delivery of value and capability and introduce tools and methodologies to improve your lifecycle management.

These workshops are part of a larger framework intended to assist customers at different stages of their journeys in not just adopting new technology, but increasing your knowledge and self-sufficiency.

Summarizing ….
The World is Changing
Businesses need a continuous competitive advantage
All businesses are software companies
Competition is everywhere
IT Needs
To increase relevance and reduce complexity
To create more agile processes and build programmable & scalable infrastructure and platforms
Red Hat Helps
Accelerate delivery
Optimize for efficiency
Modernize development and operations
Deliver scalable infrastructure
Only Red Hat Delivers
Innovation in the form of pure open source solutions
Integration with world class testing, support, and certification

Digital foundations - Paving the road to cloud solutions

Eric D. Schabell

Digital foundations - Paving the road to cloud solutions