2018 IT Modernization Summit Samuel Gordy, GM, Federal & Government Industries, IBM

2. Future Proofing
Your Mission
Samuel Gordy
GM, Federal &
Government Industries,
IBM
@IBMindustries
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4. IBM’s transformation
§ 235 data centers
§ 31 networks
§ 26,700 software licenses
§ 15,000 deployed applications
§ 12 data centers
§ 1 network
§ 1 architecture
§ 1,800 software licenses
§ 4,700 deployed applications

5. WE SAVED
$1.25
BILLION

6. Lessons
Learned

7. The future is
multi-cloud

8. 81% of
organizations are
building an
architecture to
support multi
cloud
and they're
leveraging an
average of
5 cloudsRightScale “State of the Cloud Survey” 2018

9. Flexibility
matters – a LOT

10. Cloud affinity
assessment
Approach and analysis derived from IBM Technology Team study,
“Cloud Workloads Framework”
Large Enterprise with Long-
Running, Stable Demand
Legacy or Highly Complex
Services;
Heterogeneous Services
Small Scale, Ephemeral or High
Demand Fluctuations
GAINHighLow
DEPLOYMENT EasyHard
Tier 1 & 2
Prod
Tier 1 & 2
Prod
(virtualized)
Tier 3 -5 Prod
Analytics
Dev/Test
SAP (Blue Harmony)
WebMail
(hosted)
Storage
SAP (legacy)
Collab
Self-serv app
environ

11. It’s got to be secure
and protected

12. IBM Data
Principles
Your data is YOUR
data; we’re merely
its steward
There is NO
monetization of
your data
We provide algorithmic
transparency
We we know exactly
where your data is, down
to the server rack; no one
else can do that
And our crypto
technology has
never been broken

13. IBM Cloud
www.ibm.com/industries/federal/fedramp
Thank you!