The document discusses how cloud computing can enhance business operations by reducing delivery times, lowering costs, and fostering innovation through managed services. It highlights the importance of avoiding vendor lock-in and adopting a hybrid cloud strategy that combines dedicated, public, and private cloud resources for optimal performance. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of automation, orchestration, and continuous integration in modern IT transformation.

1. HOW CAN CLOUD HELP YOU? Gerhard Pretorius – Cloud Architect Rackspace Asia

2. What We Hear From CIO’s / CTO’s
REDUCE DELIVERY TIME TO BUSINESS USERS
LOWER
INTERNAL COST & COMPLEXITY
AVOID
VENDOR LOCK-IN
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3. Keep Up with the Competition
You are behind your competitors
Market expectations
Time
Typical Change Management
Continuous Integration & Deployment
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4. The IT Transformation: Focus on Innovation Less on Operation
Source: Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2012
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5. How can Cloud Help?
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6. RACKSPACE® HOSTING | WWW.RACKSPACE.COM
Traditional IT Provisioning takes time . . .
Cloud Provisioning happens instantly.

7. Own the Base Rent the Peak
Traffic
Time – 1 YEAR
On-Demand Cloud
Dedicated Infrastructure
Public Cloud Burst
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8. Capacity that Follows Demand
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9. Be an Innovator
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10. FOCUS YOUR BUSINESS WITH MANAGED CLOUD Gerhard Pretorius – Cloud Architect Rackspace Asia

11. Cloud is for…
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12. Google Search Trends
Red Hat
IIS
Apache
MySQL
What got us here?
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13. Google Search Trends
PowerShell
GitHub
NginX
MongoDB
Won’t get us there
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14. Cloud is introducing new tools
Automation & Orchestration
•Chef
•Puppet
•PowerShell
Integration & Deployment
•Jenkins
•Hudson
•Gerrit
•Github
Code Management & API Tools
•Cloud APIs
•API Wrappers
•Nova Client
•Supernova
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15. RACKSPACE® HOSTING | WWW.RACKSPACE.COM
DevOps is about people, process, and technology
producing Release once per month Release once per day
Dev/Ops Creates a Continuous Delivery Model
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Refactoring for Cloud is a Reality
Cloud is about people, process and technology
producing outcomes

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17. How do you succeed?
Open And Standard Technologies
Avoid vendor lock-in
Use a Hybrid Strategy
Combine Dedicated, Public Cloud and Private Cloud
Start well! Start with Managed Cloud
Start with a provider that offers a Managed Services approach to help you with your initial Cloud Projects
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18. How Cloud Computing is Consumed
DIY MODEL
MANAGED SERVICE MODEL
•Deep expertise to design and solution based on application profile and criticality
•Decades of support to solve problems and operations to keep you running
•Portfolio of options ensuring mission critical apps never fail
•You figure out how to scale – In house Architects
•You figure out how to design for failure – In house Devs
•You monitor, you respond, you fix – In house support & ops
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19. Cloud Adoption is Entering Mass Market
2.5%
INNOVATORS
13.5%
EARLY ADOPTERS
34% EARLY MAJORITY
34% LATE MAJORITY
16% LAGGARDS
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20. Creation of monitors specific to your infrastructure’s needs, with 24x7 response to alarm conditions by Rackspace Cloud Engineers
MONITORING AND RESPONSE
Access 24x7 to Support Engineers when you need them – and when your business is depending on it
24 X 7 CLOUD ENGINEERS
CODE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
Developer guides alone aren’t enough – need access to experts to ensure your code is leveraging interfaces (e.g. APIs, SDKs) to the fullest
Apply cloud provider’s security expertise to your workload to help identify potential vulnerabilities and enable more secure deployments
SECURITY EVALUATION
ARCHITECTURE ADVISORS
Move beyond ‘one size fits all’ reference architectures – use experts to help tailor your workload architecture to your exact needs
Managed Cloud Services
We ensure that your Cloud Servers are maintained up to date with the latest patches and updates to keep your environment running at its best.
PLATFORM MAINTENANCE
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21. What lies beneath?
Cloud Service
SERVICE PROVIDER
 Billing & Metering
 Service Mgmt.
 Financial Modeling
 Lifecycle Automation
 Config./ Asset Mgmt
 Workload Optimization
 Virtualization
 Scalable Capacity
 Data Management
 Business Continuity
 Provisioning
INTERNAL IT
 Mission critical activities
 Change the business activities
 True innovation
WORKLOAD
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22. Hybrid Cloud
•Public cloud + private cloud + dedicated servers
•Working together as one
•More familiar environments, less need to re-architect
•Run apps where they run best
•Better performance, reliability, security and economics
DEDICATED
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
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23. USE CASES: ENTERPRISE HYBRID
Hybrid Cloud Example
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