One of your top priorities is implementing a cloud-first strategy. Learn to make the shift as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Watch this webinar and learn the best practices for cloud migration, optimization, governance and automation.

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7 Things You Need to Know for Your Cloud-First Strategy

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Speakers
Matt Maloney
Senior Director, Technology Agility Strategy
Ryan O’Leary
Senior Director, Product Management

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About Flexera
IT technology intelligence and spend optimization from desktop,
datacenter to cloud
Top 200 software company
World’s most trusted SAM vendor (Oracle, IBM and Microsoft)
Leader in each market served – ITAM/SAM, CMP, Technology Intelligence
and Security (2018 HCMP/CCO Wave, 2019 CMP MQ & SAM MQ)
Over 5000 customers globally

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Cloud First Strategy
Cloud First Path
• IaaS first - Lift & Shift, Re-Platform or Re-Architect
Cloud First Strategy
is a top 5 2019
initiative
RightScale 2019 SOTC

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Cloud First Strategy
Cloud First Strategy
is a top 5 2019
initiative
RightScale 2019 SOTC
Cloud First Path
• IaaS first - Lift & Shift, Re-Platform or Re-Architect

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Cloud First Strategy
78% of Enterprises
are challenged by
the lack of necessary
cloud resources &
skills
RightScale 2019 SOTC
Cloud First Path
• IaaS first - Lift & Shift, Re-Platform or Re-Architect
• SaaS first – Migrate & Retire

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Top Cloud Challenges

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Top Cloud Challenges

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Cloud First Strategy – Key Focus Areas
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Enable, Govern &
Automate
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Discover

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Cloud First Strategy – Key Focus Areas
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Enable, Govern &
Automate
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Assess

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Cloud First Strategy – Key Focus Areas
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Enable, Govern &
Automate
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Migrate

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Cloud First Strategy – Key Focus Areas
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Enable, Govern &
Automate
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Optimize

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Cloud First Strategy – Key Focus Areas
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Enable, Govern &
Automate
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Govern, Automate & Self-Service Enablement

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Discover
”You can’t manage
what you can’t
measure”
Peter Drucker
• Discovery – Agentless
• Audit Business Services, Applications & Infrastructure
• Business Service / App / Infrastructure Dependencies
• Application / Infrastructure Configuration
• Performance & Utilization
• Software Entitlements

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Discover
”You can’t migrate
what you can’t
discover”
Anonymous,
Internet Quote
• Discovery – Agentless
• Audit Business Services, Applications & Infrastructure
• Business Service / App / Infrastructure Dependencies
• Application / Infrastructure Configuration
• Performance & Utilization
• Software Entitlements

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Discover

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Discover

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Discover

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Assess
• Scoring of best fit workloads for lift-shift
• Cloud Cost Best Fit
• Consolidation
• Reduction
• Right-Size
"There is no
compression algorithm
for experience”
Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS

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Assess

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Assess

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Assess

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Assess

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Optimization Focus Areas
Pre-Migration Post-Migration
Consolidation / Reduction Instance upgrade
Rightsizing Instance Rightsizing
Operational Hours Operational Hours
HA/DR BYOSL / EDP
BYOSL Bursting
SaaS / Cloud Provider SaaS Rightsizing

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Optimization Focus Areas
Pre-Migration Post-Migration
Consolidation / Reduction Instance upgrade
Rightsizing Instance Rightsizing
Operational Hours Operational Hours
HA/DR BYOSL / EDP
BYOSL Bursting
SaaS / Cloud Provider SaaS Rightsizing
Development & Staging
SLA/SLO Requirements
EA Programs
Features, Performance, Location & Cost

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Start optimizing costs during migration
Rightsize as you
move to the cloud
to avoid waste
Pick the right cloud
and the right region
for each workload
to optimize savings
Large variability in costs
by cloud and region
Save $1710 in
AWS US East
by rightsizing

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What is the cloud cost compared to on-prem?
Cloud costs less for this
application
Cloud costs more for this
application
On-prem usage data is collected to allow
rightsizing of cloud infrastructure
Cloud cost On-prem cost
Cloud cost On-prem cost

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Cloud Shop
Compare Cloud
Providers based on
Compute, Storage,
I/O and Network
Cost

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Case Study: Turner Broadcasting
• 10,000 servers discovered on-premise
• 1000 (10%) servers were identified that could be eliminated
• 600 servers could be combined after optimization
• Determined which services could be moved to cloud, including
• Technical feasibility
• Target VM size in the cloud
• Cost analysis of current on-prem cost vs. cloud cost for each service
Accelerate migration by 3X-6X vs. traditional approach
Potential Savings: $3M-$4M annually*
*Does not reflect Turner’s actual savings

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Migrate
• Migration Types
• Lift & Shift (Re-Host)
• Re-Platform
• Rewrite / Architect
• Migrate & Retire (SaaS)
• Use Cloud Provider tools
• AWS CloudEndure
• Focus on straight forward lift & shift candidates
• Validate initial set of workloads first before scaling
Cloud Migration
Analysis should
integrate with the
Cloud Workload
Migration solution

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Public Cloud Adoption
Typical Enterprises
use almost five
different clouds -
from private to
public
RightScale SOTC
2019

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Continuous Optimization
“Just when I think I
have learned the
way to live, life
changes.”
Hugh Prather
Public cloud spend is
expected to grow
24% in 2019
RightScale SOTC 2019
Cloud services are constantly changing
The meter is always running
Active and automated optimization prevents overruns

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Optimization

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Optimization
Pre-Migration Post-Migration
Consolidation Instance upgrade
Rightsizing Instance Rightsizing
Operational Hours Operational Hours
HA/DR BYOSL / EDP
BYOSL Bursting
SaaS / Cloud Provider SaaS Rightsizing

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Optimization
Pre-Migration Post-Migration
Consolidation Instance upgrade
Rightsizing Instance Rightsizing
Operational Hours Operational Hours
HA/DR BYOSL / EDP
BYOSL Bursting
SaaS / Cloud Provider SaaS Rightsizing
Continuous
Process

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Case Study: Optimize cloud + BYOSL
$1M Annualized Savings (25%)
Initiatives Monthly Savings
Unused Storage $13,000
Resizing of VM’s $4,000
Auto-shutdown of VM’s $12,500
Azure Hybrid Benefit $55,000
Total $84,500

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Cloud Cost Management
Showback Groups
1. Who is spending
2. Savings opps
Custom Dashboards &
Reports by anything on
cloud bill

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Cloud Cost Optimization Automated policies drive
continuous optimization
and savings
Recommendations on
savings options

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Govern and Operate
“You just can’t let life
cloud happen to you,
you have to make life
cloud happen.”
Idowu Koyenikan
Freedom and power of cloud requires guardrails
Deployed controls need to cover the entire landscape
Democratizing operational responsibility means being
flexible about the tools that are used

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Governance via Policies
• Define policies that guide and enforce desired usage
patterns and behaviors
• Address the major areas of concern
• Operations
• Compliance
• Security
• Cost
• Use a tool with extensibility that allows for future
technology to be governed
• Implement a governance dashboard

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Policies

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Governance Dashboard

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Automate
Increase productivity by reducing repetitive, manual
tasks
Leverage one of the most significant benefit of cloud
technologies – API availability
Consistent automation across all aspects of cloud use
“There’s a lot of
automation that can
happen that isn’t a
replacement of
humans but of mind-
numbing behavior.”
Stewart Butterfield

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Automate
Key considerations include:
• Accessibility to your team
• Extensibility across a variety of current and future
technology
• Broad applicability to a variety of use cases
• Service provisioning
• Incident remediation
• Reaction to environment conditions
• Consider integration to other business systems

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1. Discover
2. Assess
3. Migrate
4. Optimize
5. Govern
6. Automate
7. Self-Service Enablement

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Self-Service Enablement
Enable your teams to move at the speed of business
Streamline all end user requests, from
onboarding/offboarding to application delivery
Leverage automation to eliminate service delivery
bottlenecks
Majority of business
units expect central
IT to decide/advise
on apps appropriate
for cloud.
RightScale SOTC 2019

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Enablement
Provides Proactive Governance
• Cloud Account Setup
• Service
onboarding/offboarding
• Access Control & Security
• Billing Management – Tagging
• Configuration Management –
Tagging

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Self-Service
Key Value Items
● Applying governance
standards to existing
automation
● Templates are providing key
cloud services for developers
to do dev/test work
● Once a template is launched,
the user can add further
operational governance to
provide ‘self-service’ to
developers to stop / start, add
tags, re-size workloads etc.

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Flexera Helps Across The Cloud Journey
Service & Resource
Discovery
SaaS Spend
IaaS/PaaS
Spend
Cloud Migration
Assessment
Recommendations
& Policies
Self-Service
Manage and
optimize the use
of software
licenses in cloud
See IaaS/PaaS
spend, understand
trends and allocate
costs by group
Recommendations
to optimize and use
automated policies
to reduce spend
and risk.
Governance via cloud
enablement, approved
templates through
lifecycle
Manage SaaS spend,
uncover shadow
SaaS, manage risk
BYOSL
Agentless
discovery of
assets and
business services
Technical and
business assessment
for cloud migration
Discover & Assess Optimize Govern, Automate & Self-Service EnablementMigrate

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Q&A V i s i t F l e xe ra . c o m t o :
C o n t a c t u s
J o i n o u r c u s t o m e r c o m m u n i t y
L e a r n h o w o u r s o l u t i o n s c a n h e l p

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THANK YOUV i s i t u s a t F l e x e r a . c o m

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ABOUT FLEXERA
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“black hole,” helping business leaders turn IT insight
into action.
With a portfolio of integrated solutions that deliver
unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and
agility, Flexera helps enterprises realize IT’s full potential to
accelerate their business.
To learn more, visit flexera.com