RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly, up from less than 5%. (Sky High Networks) It's clear that the cloud is no longer just a fad - it's here to stay, and 2015 will be a year full of continued cloud education and cloud adoption. Plan your cloud strategy now, with these tips.
Enterprises need to manage these resources being provisioned as well as define a consistent methodology for adopting the cloud. Management refers to the tasks and processes required to maintain business applications and the resources that support them.
Azure Governance, one of the aspects of Azure Management, has various concepts and services that are designed to enable management of various Azure resources. Understanding the different available tools for a variety of management scenarios becomes necessary.
Test Your Cloud Maturity Level: A Practical Guide to Self AssessmentDavid Resnic
Organizations start the path to cloud, but with multiple approaches you can easily go down the wrong path. The keys to cloud success are understanding how it changes process, people and technology. In these slides, which CA Technologies VP of Product Marketing Andi Mann presented at Gartner ITxpo, take you through a self assessment to determine where you are today and the right next steps for the future.
Migrating your Existing Applications to the CloudNestweaver
Cloud migration is the process of moving the applications, data or business elements from on-premise location or organization computer to the cloud or migrating from one cloud environment to another. The transition of data between cloud environments is called cloud to cloud migration and transitioning to a different cloud provider is called cloud service migration. In some cases, the successful migration to service provider environment may require middleware or cloud integration tool to bridge the gap between the service provider and the customer.
Moving your business to the cloud helps you focus on your customers and bring new offerings to market in hours instead of months. Yet the journey to the cloud is often bumpy, with half of all migration projects failing.(*1)
Learn the top 5 pitfalls to avoid.
(*1. Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Share, Q3 2015)
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly, up from less than 5%. (Sky High Networks) It's clear that the cloud is no longer just a fad - it's here to stay, and 2015 will be a year full of continued cloud education and cloud adoption. Plan your cloud strategy now, with these tips.
Enterprises need to manage these resources being provisioned as well as define a consistent methodology for adopting the cloud. Management refers to the tasks and processes required to maintain business applications and the resources that support them.
Azure Governance, one of the aspects of Azure Management, has various concepts and services that are designed to enable management of various Azure resources. Understanding the different available tools for a variety of management scenarios becomes necessary.
Test Your Cloud Maturity Level: A Practical Guide to Self AssessmentDavid Resnic
Organizations start the path to cloud, but with multiple approaches you can easily go down the wrong path. The keys to cloud success are understanding how it changes process, people and technology. In these slides, which CA Technologies VP of Product Marketing Andi Mann presented at Gartner ITxpo, take you through a self assessment to determine where you are today and the right next steps for the future.
Migrating your Existing Applications to the CloudNestweaver
Cloud migration is the process of moving the applications, data or business elements from on-premise location or organization computer to the cloud or migrating from one cloud environment to another. The transition of data between cloud environments is called cloud to cloud migration and transitioning to a different cloud provider is called cloud service migration. In some cases, the successful migration to service provider environment may require middleware or cloud integration tool to bridge the gap between the service provider and the customer.
Moving your business to the cloud helps you focus on your customers and bring new offerings to market in hours instead of months. Yet the journey to the cloud is often bumpy, with half of all migration projects failing.(*1)
Learn the top 5 pitfalls to avoid.
(*1. Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Share, Q3 2015)
Cloud Computing is profoundly changing the way that businesses consume and deliver IT services. And while large enterprises generally recognize the value of Cloud Computing, many are still wondering how to approach, evaluate and integrate Cloud Computing into their businesses. In this session we learn about the different strategies and milestones that enterprises are using to adopt Cloud Computing and how AWS can support these efforts.
The cloud presents organizations with a new way to deliver IT services. It can significantly lower costs, improve efficiency, and, if implemented well, provide significant competitive advantage. But cloud computing takes a number of forms: private, public hybrid and combinations of these. These options can be confusing in terms of their technical implementations as well as their economics.
This session describes the various types of clouds and major trends in the cloud market. It also looks at the economic issues to consider when making the decision on whether to go with cloud, and if you choose cloud, which path to take.
Cloud Computing can be so much more more than just a model for elastic workloads, cost reduction, capital preservation and improved IT efficiency. Cloud computing is evolving and had the opportunity to be a major driver for the enterprise in innovation and opening up new business segments and markets. But to achieve all this its imperative to have a mature and well defined 'Enterprise Cloud Strategy'. A strategy with the ability to consider additional and potential benefits as part of it's target state.
NFM’s Cloud, DevOps, Containers, and Microservices Adventures - presented by Michael Nichols, a Senior Software Architect and member of the “Enablement Team” at NFM. Michael will be covering topics including NFM’s move from a Monolithic Architecture to a Microservice Architecture, the software and infrastructure challenges this move presented, tools and technologies used overcome these challenges, and will be highlighting the successes and failures encountered along the way.
The mainstream of technology pros are still well and truly wedged in the past relative to the strategic behaviors of cloud computing. All but a few are embracing cloud as “just another technology”, leaving choices on what way to implement, own and administer to engineers. To get the maximum business value from your cloud investments enterprises need to appreciate that it is NOT a technical judgment but it’s a strategic one.
However, don’t get me wrong. It’s necessary for technical people to be involved. But let’s be crystal clear, any enterprise strategy will collapse before first execution if it doesn’t embrace beyond I.T departments.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
Risc and velostrata 2 28 2018 lessons_in_cloud_migrationRISC Networks
Learn how to accelerate and
de-risk your cloud migration project
Despite the surge in enterprises migrating applications to the public cloud, more than half of all projects are delayed or over budget and an even greater number are more difficult than expected.1
Cloud Migrations don’t begin when you start moving applications into the cloud. They begin with your application landscape discovery and assessment. The second phase comprises the actual migration where applications are moved to the public cloud. Working with purpose-built enterprise-grade cloud migration platforms, especially those that partner to integrate both phases greatly simplifies and accelerates projects.
RISC Networks and Velostrata have teamed up to deliver this webinar where we’ll share real-world examples, tips, and tricks on crafting a seamless cloud migration from start to completion.
Accelerate your Cloud Migration Journey (Level 100)
Many enterprises have realized the benefits of migrating services to the cloud and are considering the next stage in their journey. In this webinar we will take you through the principles of cloud migration including the business benefits, cloud economics, methodologies and tools to accelerate your journey. We will also discuss the key enablers for cloud adoption based on real examples.
This is a Level 100 webinar
Speakers: Manav Prabhakar, Practice Manager, AWS Professional Services
Jon Austin, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Parijat Mishra, Solutions Architect Manager, Amazon Web Services
Accelerate Cloud Migration to AWS Cloud with Cognizant Cloud StepsAmazon Web Services
Digital transformation and cloud migration are complex but necessary mandates for modern organizations. Cognizant’s Cloud Steps transformation and migration framework simplifies the process, enabling enterprises to quickly and easily build resilient cloud foundations and confidently migrate applications, infrastructure, security, and DevOps to an AWS environment at speed and scale.
Cloud Technology Partners’ (a premier consulting partner and part of APN) practice leader Robert Christiansen provides an overview of why Financial Services organizations are looking to migrate to the cloud and the kinds of benefits current adopters are realizing. In this presentation, he outlines best practices, which include alignment workshops, decision-making processes, cloud business office, inclusive business case, dependency discovery, solutions iterations, security assessments, continuous governance, automation and validation, and preparation for migration at scale.
Stuart Robertson
Manager, Global Alliances at CTP, takes us through cloud economics and the thought process and analysis for building a business case for cloud adoption. He shows a high level methodology for building an economic model and developing a business case, and concludes with lessons learned and best practices that CTP uses in its approach with FSI customers.
Jan 2017 Investment Recommendation for Tableaupaulchenuva
Buy Tableau was one of my stock pitches in 2017. I was predicting a 2x return. Instead, Tableau's stock increased over 4x since. Great to see Salesforce's acquisition today. Would love to hear your comments and feedback.
AWS FSI Symposium 2017 NYC- CTP & Cloud Migration Best PracticesAmazon Web Services
Cloud Technology Partners is a longstanding AWS partner and also part of the AWS Financial Services Competency Program. In this session, they will be sharing best practices learned from helping major Financial Services enterprises migrate to the cloud, set up a cloud center of excellence to manage and measure success, and some pitfalls to avoid.
AWS May Webinar Series - Industry Trends and Best Practices for Cloud AdoptionAmazon Web Services
If you are interested to know more about AWS Chicago Summit, please use the following to register: http://amzn.to/1RooPPL
Forrester estimates that cloud adoption will soar 91% from $100 billion to $191 billion in 5 years. The next phase of cloud adoption will feature more diverse workloads, more applications that bridge public clouds and private data centers, and a greater emphasis on cost efficiency. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the impact of cloud adoption on the industry and on your business, including realignment of tech budgeting and applications, retooled staffing to enhance the skill sets of your internal teams, and the role of specialist firms in accelerating your progress. Join Vikram Garlapati, Manager of Solutions Architect, AWS, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst John Rymer, along with Amit Khanna, VP of Cloud Services at Virtusa, to gain insight into the state of cloud adoption and to learn the lessons and best practices gained from multiple engagements that helped customers transform their application landscapes. Learning objectives: 1) Understand overall trends in cloud adoption 2) Learn best practices for migrating diverse workloads – to take full advantage of cloud services
On-premise legal software can be traced back to major inefficiencies in the way modern law firms are managed - often subjecting attorneys to more technological and financial grief than inherent value. In this presentation, we walk you through the considerations of on-premise vs. cloud-based solutions for your law firm.
Cloud Native, Cloud First, and Hybrid - AWS Summit Bahrain 2017Amazon Web Services
The advent of highly scalable, easy-to-deploy technology is transforming both private and public entities – but it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each organization has its own cloud journey to share. Some start with pilot projects, while others jump into mission-critical programs. Adopting the cloud doesn’t mean starting over – it’s about enhancing your existing infrastructure. This session explores how organizations are using the cloud to build on their existing technologies and learning valuable lessons along the way.
Investments in information technology have a direct and fundamental impact on the success of an organization's revenue-generating activities. As a consequence, the business' financial leadership has a crucial stake in understanding and influencing IT decisions.
The presentation content focuses on a three-stage approach geared toward building profit models around well-planned cloud implementations. Discover how CFOs are in a unique position to lead this effort and make the IT organization aware of its impact on revenue and profitability
Cloud Computing is profoundly changing the way that businesses consume and deliver IT services. And while large enterprises generally recognize the value of Cloud Computing, many are still wondering how to approach, evaluate and integrate Cloud Computing into their businesses. In this session we learn about the different strategies and milestones that enterprises are using to adopt Cloud Computing and how AWS can support these efforts.
The cloud presents organizations with a new way to deliver IT services. It can significantly lower costs, improve efficiency, and, if implemented well, provide significant competitive advantage. But cloud computing takes a number of forms: private, public hybrid and combinations of these. These options can be confusing in terms of their technical implementations as well as their economics.
This session describes the various types of clouds and major trends in the cloud market. It also looks at the economic issues to consider when making the decision on whether to go with cloud, and if you choose cloud, which path to take.
Cloud Computing can be so much more more than just a model for elastic workloads, cost reduction, capital preservation and improved IT efficiency. Cloud computing is evolving and had the opportunity to be a major driver for the enterprise in innovation and opening up new business segments and markets. But to achieve all this its imperative to have a mature and well defined 'Enterprise Cloud Strategy'. A strategy with the ability to consider additional and potential benefits as part of it's target state.
NFM’s Cloud, DevOps, Containers, and Microservices Adventures - presented by Michael Nichols, a Senior Software Architect and member of the “Enablement Team” at NFM. Michael will be covering topics including NFM’s move from a Monolithic Architecture to a Microservice Architecture, the software and infrastructure challenges this move presented, tools and technologies used overcome these challenges, and will be highlighting the successes and failures encountered along the way.
The mainstream of technology pros are still well and truly wedged in the past relative to the strategic behaviors of cloud computing. All but a few are embracing cloud as “just another technology”, leaving choices on what way to implement, own and administer to engineers. To get the maximum business value from your cloud investments enterprises need to appreciate that it is NOT a technical judgment but it’s a strategic one.
However, don’t get me wrong. It’s necessary for technical people to be involved. But let’s be crystal clear, any enterprise strategy will collapse before first execution if it doesn’t embrace beyond I.T departments.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
Risc and velostrata 2 28 2018 lessons_in_cloud_migrationRISC Networks
Learn how to accelerate and
de-risk your cloud migration project
Despite the surge in enterprises migrating applications to the public cloud, more than half of all projects are delayed or over budget and an even greater number are more difficult than expected.1
Cloud Migrations don’t begin when you start moving applications into the cloud. They begin with your application landscape discovery and assessment. The second phase comprises the actual migration where applications are moved to the public cloud. Working with purpose-built enterprise-grade cloud migration platforms, especially those that partner to integrate both phases greatly simplifies and accelerates projects.
RISC Networks and Velostrata have teamed up to deliver this webinar where we’ll share real-world examples, tips, and tricks on crafting a seamless cloud migration from start to completion.
Accelerate your Cloud Migration Journey (Level 100)
Many enterprises have realized the benefits of migrating services to the cloud and are considering the next stage in their journey. In this webinar we will take you through the principles of cloud migration including the business benefits, cloud economics, methodologies and tools to accelerate your journey. We will also discuss the key enablers for cloud adoption based on real examples.
This is a Level 100 webinar
Speakers: Manav Prabhakar, Practice Manager, AWS Professional Services
Jon Austin, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Parijat Mishra, Solutions Architect Manager, Amazon Web Services
Accelerate Cloud Migration to AWS Cloud with Cognizant Cloud StepsAmazon Web Services
Digital transformation and cloud migration are complex but necessary mandates for modern organizations. Cognizant’s Cloud Steps transformation and migration framework simplifies the process, enabling enterprises to quickly and easily build resilient cloud foundations and confidently migrate applications, infrastructure, security, and DevOps to an AWS environment at speed and scale.
Cloud Technology Partners’ (a premier consulting partner and part of APN) practice leader Robert Christiansen provides an overview of why Financial Services organizations are looking to migrate to the cloud and the kinds of benefits current adopters are realizing. In this presentation, he outlines best practices, which include alignment workshops, decision-making processes, cloud business office, inclusive business case, dependency discovery, solutions iterations, security assessments, continuous governance, automation and validation, and preparation for migration at scale.
Stuart Robertson
Manager, Global Alliances at CTP, takes us through cloud economics and the thought process and analysis for building a business case for cloud adoption. He shows a high level methodology for building an economic model and developing a business case, and concludes with lessons learned and best practices that CTP uses in its approach with FSI customers.
Jan 2017 Investment Recommendation for Tableaupaulchenuva
Buy Tableau was one of my stock pitches in 2017. I was predicting a 2x return. Instead, Tableau's stock increased over 4x since. Great to see Salesforce's acquisition today. Would love to hear your comments and feedback.
AWS FSI Symposium 2017 NYC- CTP & Cloud Migration Best PracticesAmazon Web Services
Cloud Technology Partners is a longstanding AWS partner and also part of the AWS Financial Services Competency Program. In this session, they will be sharing best practices learned from helping major Financial Services enterprises migrate to the cloud, set up a cloud center of excellence to manage and measure success, and some pitfalls to avoid.
AWS May Webinar Series - Industry Trends and Best Practices for Cloud AdoptionAmazon Web Services
If you are interested to know more about AWS Chicago Summit, please use the following to register: http://amzn.to/1RooPPL
Forrester estimates that cloud adoption will soar 91% from $100 billion to $191 billion in 5 years. The next phase of cloud adoption will feature more diverse workloads, more applications that bridge public clouds and private data centers, and a greater emphasis on cost efficiency. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the impact of cloud adoption on the industry and on your business, including realignment of tech budgeting and applications, retooled staffing to enhance the skill sets of your internal teams, and the role of specialist firms in accelerating your progress. Join Vikram Garlapati, Manager of Solutions Architect, AWS, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst John Rymer, along with Amit Khanna, VP of Cloud Services at Virtusa, to gain insight into the state of cloud adoption and to learn the lessons and best practices gained from multiple engagements that helped customers transform their application landscapes. Learning objectives: 1) Understand overall trends in cloud adoption 2) Learn best practices for migrating diverse workloads – to take full advantage of cloud services
On-premise legal software can be traced back to major inefficiencies in the way modern law firms are managed - often subjecting attorneys to more technological and financial grief than inherent value. In this presentation, we walk you through the considerations of on-premise vs. cloud-based solutions for your law firm.
Cloud Native, Cloud First, and Hybrid - AWS Summit Bahrain 2017Amazon Web Services
The advent of highly scalable, easy-to-deploy technology is transforming both private and public entities – but it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each organization has its own cloud journey to share. Some start with pilot projects, while others jump into mission-critical programs. Adopting the cloud doesn’t mean starting over – it’s about enhancing your existing infrastructure. This session explores how organizations are using the cloud to build on their existing technologies and learning valuable lessons along the way.
Investments in information technology have a direct and fundamental impact on the success of an organization's revenue-generating activities. As a consequence, the business' financial leadership has a crucial stake in understanding and influencing IT decisions.
The presentation content focuses on a three-stage approach geared toward building profit models around well-planned cloud implementations. Discover how CFOs are in a unique position to lead this effort and make the IT organization aware of its impact on revenue and profitability
Cloud computing is transforming how businesses run their applications.
Join us as we present the latest insights on why and how businesses are
using cloud computing applications. You’ll hear the latest industry trends
and get practical strategies around adoption success. Can cloud computing
give you the security and trust you require while providing you with
scalable solutions?
It has always been a challenge to explain and convince top management including the Chief Financial Officers to embark into Cloud Computing. Predominantly because many still unclear or not so very sure what is cloud computing. Is it managed hosting, co-location or managed services? While technology providers and vendors continue to confuse management technology jargon, the need to embark into cloud computing seems inevitable...just like any others before such as the need to have emails, websites, online transactions, web based applications etc.
This presentation provides layman's, easy to understand meaning of cloud computing, why is it important for management,especially the CFO to seriously consider embarking into and some statistics and trend of how the world will move toward cloud.
Having the Cloud Conversation: Why the Business Architect Should CarePeter Coffee
Peter Coffee presentation at The Open Group in Seattle, February 2010, on business incentives and handling of business concerns surrounding cloud computing
The Enterprise Cloud: Immediate. Urgent. Inevitable.Peter Coffee
Peter Coffee presentation to 2010 Spring Conference of Colorado Government Association of IT on cloud computing status and prospects for application development, collaboration and cloud/legacy integration
Peter Coffee presentation on enterprise cloud computing to CIO Forum in Schaumburg IL 6 April 2010 with new material on Chatter and social tools as well as U.S. Census case study
Internap’s John Freimuth and Steve LeClair of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider to meet your virtualization goals.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a pro
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider.
Cloud computing is more than an opportunity to lower the costs of IT as it has been; it's a chance to re-envision IT as fundamentally more connected, more immediate, and more responsive to the needs of tomorrow's competitive environment.
1. Developing Your Cloud Strategy
Presented by:
Jason Baker, CTO, VISI
James Smale, CEO, Redpath
Paul Selway, President, Redpath
2. Jason Baker, CTO, VISI
Jason Baker has over 14 years of experience working with Internet
and telecommunications organizations in Minnesota.
Prior to VISI, he co-founded Digital North and was the technology
leader within the organization.
In his capacity as Director of Operations, Baker helped Digital North
expand into multiple datacenters serving thousands of customers.
Prior to Digital North, Baker was a key technology driver at iPares, a
multinational dot-com consultancy. Baker managed the profitable Jason Baker
Application Hosting division within the organization. CTO
Early in his career he joined incNET, a startup Internet Service
Provider located in Eden Prairie. As Chief Engineer he guided the
organization during a time when the Internet was first becoming a
useful business tool.
3. James Smale, CEO, Redpath
James brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 20 years of
experience in business and the IT consulting industry
His extensive background and career progression through the
roles Sr. Technical Analyst, Technology Director, Business
Entrepreneur and Principal Partner began from a solid
foundation as a Infrastructure Engineer.
His experience was gained from numerous management roles
and consulting engagements for clients in both Europe, Asia,
Latin America and North America; focused on software James Smale
manufacturing, airline operations, advertising, agriculture & CEO
manufacturing, and health care industries.
James also has extensive experience in operational support
leadership, process improvement, strategic organization
planning and enterprise architecture planning.
4. Paul Selway, President, Redpath
Paul brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 25 years of
experience in the consulting industry.
His extensive background and career progression through
the roles Quality Management Consultant, Managing
Consultant, Technology Director, and Principal Partner
began from a solid foundation as a Software Engineer.
His experience was gained from numerous management
consulting engagements for clients in both Europe and
North America; focused on the healthcar, financial, banking, Paul Selway
President
brokerage, and capital markets industry
Paul has an Electronics Degree, B.S.C Honors Computer
Science Degree and an International MBA from Henley
Management College.
5. About ReliaCloud
ReliaCloud, a product of VISI, is an enterprise-class cloud designed
for businesses and that need dynamic infrastructure.
Based in Minneapolis/St. Paul region
2 data center locations (SAS 70 Type II)
10+ years in data center business
24x7x365 live support
www.reliacloud.com
www.visi.com
Data Center 1: St. Paul, MN
6. About Redpath
Our mission is to help our customers leverage enterprise class cloud
computing technology. We will help you develop your cloud computing
strategy, technology roadmaps, business value propositions and cost
benefit analysis, ensuring it is targeted at reducing IT costs and driving
revenue. Our experienced consulting team believe that you, the customer,
know your business better than anyone, and we know where cloud
computing can enable your business.
We are recognized partners with leading International and Local cloud
vendors (Salesforce.com, Google, ReliaCloud). Let us show you how you
can leverage the cloud.
www.redpathcg.com
7. Agenda
Introduction to the Cloud
Why the Cloud
Use Cases
Developing your Cloud Strategy
The IaaS Decision Process
8. Types of Cloud Computing Services
Infrastructure as a Platform as a Service Software as a Service
Service (IaaS) (PaaS) (SaaS)
• Operating system and • APIs exposed to user • Web application
storage exposed to user exposed to user
• Requires porting
• Mimics traditional applications or re- • Requires uploading of
systems architecture writing from the data into application
ground up
• Supports legacy • No need to code or
applications • Allows for scaling manage
applications without
infrastructure
knowledge
ReliaCloud Google App Engine Google Apps
Amazon EC2 Microsoft Azure Salesforce.com
Rackspace Cloud Server force.com Intuit
9. IaaS - Public Cloud
Multi-tenant
Automatic Upgrades
Pay-as-you-go
Elastic
5 Times Faster
Half the Cost
IDC White Paper sponsored by Salesforce.com: “Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings”, Doc #
219965, September, 2009
11. What’s Driving Cloud Adoption?
Cost savings, economic uncertainty, and the CFO
Accelerated time to delivery
Security and regulatory requirements
Elastic resources
Scalability
Pay for what you use
12. The Cloud Delivers Fast Time to Value
Software Cloud Computing
Automated Upgrades
Large Operating Expenses
Cloud Computing Value
Value
Value
Time
No Capital
Expenses
Upgrade Expense
Large Capital Expense &
High Risk
53% of software projects cost Average 51% ROI
189% of original estimate1 within 12 Months2
1 Standish Group, Chaos Report 2006
2 Third-Party CustomerSat Research on 3,500 Salesforce.com customers, December 2008
13. Business Challenges Are Changing
Information overload
• Volume of information is increasing radically
• Sort, file, and find is a broken paradigm
Collaboration is central
• Work with global, distributed teams
• Connect with external partners
Access anywhere
• Proliferation of smart phones
• Struggles with VPNs
14. The Cloud Delivers Lower TCO
On Premises = Hidden
Costs
Cloud Computing:
46% Lower TCO1
Licenses
Hardware No Upfront License Fees
Consultants No Hardware Infrastructure
Infrastructure Lower Implementation Costs
Dedicated Staff Free Upgrades
Upgrades No Ongoing Maintenance Fees
Predictable
1Source: Yankee Group: Hosted vs. Premise based Sales Solutions: TCO and Trade Offs
15. Use Cases
Cyclical Demand – Retail Web Site
Elastic and near instant scalability
Just in time capacity
Supports any business size
Test and Development Environments
Spin up or down when project needs
Rapid enablement
No capital costs (expensed for usage)
Rapid provisioning
No hardware procurement
Provisioning virtual servers in minutes (not weeks/months)
Self service via web portal
Secure
Rapid decommissioning
16. Creating a Cloud Strategy
7. Select and Implement Strategies
6. Perform Cost Benefit Value Analysis
5. Build Strategic Options (cloud
opportunities)
4. Build Preferred Future State Vision
3. Understand Infrastructure
2. Understand Application Portfolio
1. Assess Current State Business
Architecture
17. IaaS Considerations
Where can I Integrate IaaS into my Infrastructure strategy?
How does IaaS address my shared service model?
IaaS and hardware / OS life cycle management?
Server provisioning process?
Private versus public cloud?
18. Redpath / ReliaCloud - Your Partners to the Cloud
Companies Customers are
invested here: here:
Data Center
Community Sites
19. Promo
Free ½ Day Cloud Strategy Mini-Assessment - Redpath
Redpath Consulting Group will provide two experienced cloud strategy
consultants for ½ day to work with your business and IT team to perform an
assessment of your current state and identify a cloud computing opportunity.
Free Cloud Server for Mini-Assessment - ReliaCloud
ReliaCloud will provide a $200.00 credit towards creating a cloud server or
utilizing cloud storage for you to try one of your apps in the cloud.
20. Thank You
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