This presentation is focused on addressing the broad category of Cloud Service Providers. Gartner will provide a overview of how Cloud Service Providers are being defined and how they different from traditional providers of outsourcing or products. And more importantly, what are they offering that is different, new and seeks to solve business problems for the enterprise. This session will provide an overview of these areas and begin the discussion of how do clients develop the business case for certain cloud services offerings.
Topics Discussed
Gartner analysts discussed with participants the following topics:
What is a cloud service provider and how does it differ from traditional outsourcing providers?
How will the approaches to evaluate and select among these providers differ?
How does the business case analysis differ?
Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Chris Dufour
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform made up of a growing collection of integrated services: compute, storage, data, networking and apps.
Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy and manage applications in any way you like for unmatched productivity.
In this talk we will take a look at Microsoft’s cloud strategy and see how you can leverage PaaS in your environment.
Analyze key aspects to be considered before embarking on your cloud journey. The presentation outlines the strategies, approach, and choices that need to be made, to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Chris Dufour
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform made up of a growing collection of integrated services: compute, storage, data, networking and apps.
Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy and manage applications in any way you like for unmatched productivity.
In this talk we will take a look at Microsoft’s cloud strategy and see how you can leverage PaaS in your environment.
Analyze key aspects to be considered before embarking on your cloud journey. The presentation outlines the strategies, approach, and choices that need to be made, to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ServicesKnoldus Inc.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers high-performance compute capabilities (as physical hardware instances) and storage capacity in a flexible overlay virtual network that is securely accessible from your on-premises network.
Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Easily organize, govern, and secure Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Architect, design, and build cloud-native apps anywhere without sacrificing central visibility and control. Get Azure innovation and cloud benefits by deploying consistent Azure data, application, and machine learning services on any infrastructure.
Gain central visibility, operations, and compliance
Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services.
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
Organize and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and tags.
Learn more about hybrid and multicloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Expanding Your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Hybrid IT strategies is a common practice for enterprise company. In this session we will introduce some Hybrid IT scenarios and best practices for cloud adoption.
Microsoft Azure - Introduction to microsoft's public cloudAtanas Gergiminov
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. The goal of this presentation is to give you a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of Azure, even if you don't know anything about cloud computing.
Microsoft Azure Overview | Cloud Computing Tutorial with Azure | Azure Traini...Edureka!
** Microsoft Azure Certification Training : https://www.edureka.co/microsoft-azure-training **
This Edureka "Microsoft Azure Overview” tutorial will give you a thorough and insightful overview of the subject and help you in getting started with Microsoft Azure. Following are the topics covered in this Azure tutorial:
1. What Is Cloud?
2. Cloud Computing Patterns
3. Cloud Service Models
4. What Is Azure?
5. Azure Platform
6. Azure Services
7. Demo
Check out our Playlists: https://goo.gl/A1CJjM
This is a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure cloud. I used these slides in an intro session for developers. I did few demos during the session that not included in the slide. Brand name and logos are properties of their respective owners.
With so many different cloud providers and solutions, how can organizations know which one meets their needs? Check out this presentation and learn more about this essential decision.
How deeply can you understand what is happening inside your application? In modern, microservices-based applications, it’s critical to have end-to-end observability of each component and the communications between them in order to quickly identify and debug issues. In this session, we show how to have the necessary instrumentation and how to use the data you collect to have a better grasp of your production environment. On AWS, CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services. With AWS X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your microservices communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high-availability for your applications.
This is a 2 hour strategy workshop developed by Predrag Mitrovic (http://mynethouse.se and http://cloudadvisor.se).
The workshop is intended for CIOs and roles close to business strategy formulation around technology. Feel free to use the material and develop it further, as long as you give me access to the updated materials.
Any questions can be directed to my e-mail: predrag[at]mynethouse.se
I hope that you enjoy this material and find it useful.
/Predrag a.k.a Cloud Advisor
Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ServicesKnoldus Inc.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers high-performance compute capabilities (as physical hardware instances) and storage capacity in a flexible overlay virtual network that is securely accessible from your on-premises network.
Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Easily organize, govern, and secure Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Architect, design, and build cloud-native apps anywhere without sacrificing central visibility and control. Get Azure innovation and cloud benefits by deploying consistent Azure data, application, and machine learning services on any infrastructure.
Gain central visibility, operations, and compliance
Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services.
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
Organize and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and tags.
Learn more about hybrid and multicloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Expanding Your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Hybrid IT strategies is a common practice for enterprise company. In this session we will introduce some Hybrid IT scenarios and best practices for cloud adoption.
Microsoft Azure - Introduction to microsoft's public cloudAtanas Gergiminov
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. The goal of this presentation is to give you a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of Azure, even if you don't know anything about cloud computing.
Microsoft Azure Overview | Cloud Computing Tutorial with Azure | Azure Traini...Edureka!
** Microsoft Azure Certification Training : https://www.edureka.co/microsoft-azure-training **
This Edureka "Microsoft Azure Overview” tutorial will give you a thorough and insightful overview of the subject and help you in getting started with Microsoft Azure. Following are the topics covered in this Azure tutorial:
1. What Is Cloud?
2. Cloud Computing Patterns
3. Cloud Service Models
4. What Is Azure?
5. Azure Platform
6. Azure Services
7. Demo
Check out our Playlists: https://goo.gl/A1CJjM
This is a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure cloud. I used these slides in an intro session for developers. I did few demos during the session that not included in the slide. Brand name and logos are properties of their respective owners.
With so many different cloud providers and solutions, how can organizations know which one meets their needs? Check out this presentation and learn more about this essential decision.
How deeply can you understand what is happening inside your application? In modern, microservices-based applications, it’s critical to have end-to-end observability of each component and the communications between them in order to quickly identify and debug issues. In this session, we show how to have the necessary instrumentation and how to use the data you collect to have a better grasp of your production environment. On AWS, CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services. With AWS X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your microservices communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high-availability for your applications.
This is a 2 hour strategy workshop developed by Predrag Mitrovic (http://mynethouse.se and http://cloudadvisor.se).
The workshop is intended for CIOs and roles close to business strategy formulation around technology. Feel free to use the material and develop it further, as long as you give me access to the updated materials.
Any questions can be directed to my e-mail: predrag[at]mynethouse.se
I hope that you enjoy this material and find it useful.
/Predrag a.k.a Cloud Advisor
Staying Secure When Moving to the Cloud - Dave MillierTriNimbus
Presentation from Toronto's 2016 Canadian Executive Cloud & DevOps Summit on Friday, November 4th.
Speaker: Dave Millier, Chief Executive Officer, Uzado, Inc.
Title: Rogue Development: Staying Secure When Moving to the Cloud
This was presented by Supratik Ghatak, Co-Founder Blazeclan, at the AWS Summit Mumbai 2013. CIO pain points, cloud migration reasons and strategies are the key focus of this presentation. CIOs and CTOs can gain insights into various ways of leveraging the AWS cloud. The presentation also talks about the priority areas for CIOs & CTOs to look at while using the cloud as well as how to plan their strategies around AWS cloud. Further case studies are depicted that show how organization
can benefit from AWS Cloud.
Welcome to everything the cloud has to offer. Now, you need to keep your apps and workloads secure, without compromising the speed and flexibility of the cloud. This is the new economics of cloud security.
Learn more: https://www.alertlogic.com/neweconomics
Learn how cloud is the "New Normal" and the benefits of a cloud environment, with benefits for every industry, customer type, and stage of cloud adoption.
Data and business systems are crucial to your daily operations, business insights and competitiveness. This puts intense pressure on IT professionals to avoid financial and operational exposure to significant downtime and data loss due to any planned or unplanned outage. We will share how to migrate, protect and recover your workloads between hypervisors, storage platforms and the cloud, with near zero downtime and risk-free while keeping your data protected up to time.
Derek Ewell, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, ASEAN
Alexander Pak, Solutions Architect, Vision Solutions
AWS provides a range of security services and features that AWS customers can use to secure their content and applications and meet their own specific business requirements for security. This presentation focuses on how you can make use of AWS security features to meet your own organization's security and compliance objectives.
View a recording of the webinar based on this presentation on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/rXPyGDWKHIo
AWS re:Invent 2016: Identifying Your Migration Options: the 6 Rs (ENT311)Amazon Web Services
Learn about the 6 Rs of migrating, migration patterns, and how to map your portfolio to the patterns. Discover how your business drivers and overall IT strategy determine the migration patterns you need, and learn best practices for selecting the appropriate Rs.
Overview of SaaS and online services and the business reasons why organisations should be considering these. Delivered by Ben Kepes at Intergen's ON seminar series in May 2010.
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.
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 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.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 preview
Distinguishing, Evaluating, and Selecting Cloud Service Providers
1. Distinguishing, Evaluating, and
Selecting Cloud Service Providers
Frances Karamouzis
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4. Why Cloud and Alternative Delivery?
A Number of Inconvenient Truths
Explosion of Change
From the Status Quo
• Plan for peak = • Shelfware • 1:10 ratio
more resources ($1 software, $10 services)
• Custom solutions • Delivery process
• Low server
utilization rates • Not user-friendly complacency
• Huge capex • People-based =
• Low agility levels human error
• High energy costs
Hardware Infrastructure Software Services
5. Key Issues
1. What is a cloud service provider and how
does it differ from traditional outsourcing
providers?
2. How will the approaches to evaluate and
select among these providers differ?
3. How does the business case analysis
differ?
6. Framework
Demand Side Supply Side Support or Enabling
Business of Business of Business Side of Business
Process
Sample Process — Prospect to Cash
Application Portfolio
Java, .NET SAP, Oracle, Exchange COBOL
Applications
Layer Composite Applications Packaged Applications Legacy Applications
Message-Oriented Middleware Transaction Middleware Portals
Application Servers Database Management
Web Services Application Components Systems
Data Center
Database Admin. Help Desk
Infrastructure
Network Desktops/Clients
Storage
Security
7. Industry Nomenclature
NIST Additional The consumer accesses,
Categories Gartner configures and/or
Categories extends the service and
builds everything needed
SaaS above the service
Service PaaS
boundary — or just uses
the service.
providers
can be IaaS
Mgmt. and Security
Business Services
service Information Services
consumers Application Services
at the same App. Infrastructure Services
Cloud
time. System Infrastructure Services
Enablers
The provider optimizes everything below the
service boundary, and hides implementation
details & complexity from the consumer.
8. A Look at Just One Slice: Permutations
Abound
Application Services
SaaS
PaaS
Application Infrastructure Services
System Infrastructure Services
IaaS
V-Cloud
9. Aggregation of Cloud
New World Outsourcing Solutions & IT Services
Demand Side Supply Side Support or Enabling
Business of Business of Business Side of Business
Process
Sample Process — Prospect to Cash
Application Portfolio
Java, .NET SAP, Oracle, Exchange COBOL
Applications
Layer Composite Applications Packaged Applications Legacy Applications
Transaction Middleware Portals
Application Servers Database Management
Web Services Application Components Systems
Data Center
Database Admin. Help Desk
Infrastructure
Network Desktops/Clients
Storage
Security
10. Standard Risks + Cloud Impact
Risk Heighten Cloud Impact
Service Structure Transparency, reliability, redundancies,
(Manage and Operate) legal capabilities
Breach detection, traceability, audit
Security and IP availability, remedy and recovery
Governance New competency requirements,
decision-making process, execution
Performance Structure Links to business drivers, compliance
requirements
Metrics
(Reporting and Analytics) Definitions and design structure, baselines
Agility Business shifts, new products or services,
regulatory changes
11. New Cloud-Specific Risks
Risk
Black Hole Effect
(Obscured Structure & Delvery)
Immature Vendor Landscape
Hidden Costs
Data Ownership, Portability & Location
Service Remediation
Configurability
12. Key Issues
1. What is a cloud service provider and how
does it differ from traditional outsourcing
providers?
2. How will the approaches to evaluate and
select among these providers differ?
3. How does the business case analysis
differ?
13. Selecting an IT Service Provider
Define Scoring Determine
Determine Criteria System Weightings
Criteria for Evaluation Scoring Level Weighting Risk
Industry and Process Expertise • Significantly 20 • Key focus on
exceeds the source of
Technology Expertise and requirements risks
Provided Solution 20
• Somewhat exceeds • Highlight all
Critical Success Factors requirements scores less
(cultural fit, contracting practices, • Meets requirements 20 than 7 and
key personnel, time to market) begin risk
• Somewhat below management
Project-Specific (RFP requirements
adherence, price points) 20
• Significantly below
requirements
Vendor Organizational Profile 5
Reference Checks 15
Evaluating and selecting the IT service provider is
only one portion of a multifaceted decision.
14. Selecting Software (ERP Suite)
Business Functionality Support — Depth & Breadth
User-Specific or Enterprise-Specific Processes
Functional Enterprise-Specific Industry Requirements
Core Application Suite and Process Integrity
Process Continuous Innovation, Improvement Business-Oriented Application
Delivery
Strategies
Industry Ability to Support Process Standardization and Global-Scale
Competitiveness
Support for Information Users
Model-Driven Packaged Applications
Ease Embedded Analytics
Support for Information Users
Integration Social Applications
Technology
Mobile
Strategy
Interoperability Modular Independence
SaaS and Cloud Technologies
Channels Business Networks (such as RFID, Multienterprise Processes)
Support for Information Users
Life Cycle Long-Term TCO
Life Span
Strategy Support, Services and Ecosystem
15. Now the Twist… Selecting a Solution-Based
Service (Cloud Aggregated Option)
When clouds roll in, you must
concurrently evaluate and select:
(1) Software
(2) Middleware
(3) Infrastructure
(4) IT Service Options
(5) Delivery Models
16. Evaluation Cycle
Traditional 6 to 12 months Cloud-Enabled
3 to 5 months
Market Analysis 6-12 weeks
RFP 8-16 weeks
Vendor
Evaluation Responses,
6-12 weeks
References
Service
Requirements
8-16 weeks
Terms and
Conditions
4-8 weeks
Due Diligence 4-12 weeks
Contracting
Negotiate 4-12 weeks
Award Contract 2-4 weeks
New
Solution Transition 4-24 weeks
17. Evaluation Cycle
Market Analysis
Vendor
Evaluation
RFP 8-16 weeks
Time Savings
Responses,
6-12 weeks
References
Service
Requirements
8-16 weeks New Steps
Terms and
4-8 weeks
Conditions
More Diligence
Due Diligence 4-12 weeks
Contracting
Negotiate 4-12 weeks Unforgiving!
Award Contract 2-4 weeks
New
Solution Transition 4-24 weeks
18. Critical "Heightened" Steps
Business & Risk "Configured” Due Diligence
Technical Assessment Gap Analysis
Architecture
Strategy • Define • Business • "Comprise" • Proof of
Compressed Assessment Concept
• Technical •
Processes & New • Pilot
Bundling • "Disentangle" Governance
Options Required
• References
• Agility
Scope • Delivery • Baseline • Configuration/ • Private Cloud
Capabilities Customization Option
• IT Service
Options • Hidden Cost Required • SLA and OLA
Analysis • Integration w/ Analysis
• Infrastructure
• Software • Obscurity Business Case Applications, • Audit
Factor Infrastructure,
• Middleware and Data
19. Key Issues
1. What is a cloud service provider and how
does it differ from traditional outsourcing
providers?
2. How will the approaches to evaluate and
select among these providers differ?
3. How does the business case analysis
differ?
20. First Step …
Building the Business Case Analysis
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
Base Costs Traditional Cloud Hybrid
Options
Infrastructure Traditional
Assets portion
Infrastructure Item 1 Servers, Storage,
Infrastructure Item 2 Network, Desktops
IaaS
Applications
Application Layer Enterprise Apps.
Application Element 1 Databases PaaS
Middleware
Application Element 2 Operating Systems
SaaS
People, Resources for IT Services
Initial Deployment & Bus. Consulting
Ongoing Management IT Consulting Aggregation/
Systems Integration Brokerage
Outsourcing
Hidden Costs
21. Building the Business Case Analysis
Base Cost Analysis
Option 1 Option 2
Base Costs Traditional Cloud
Infrastructure Traditional Not a direct
Assets portion
Infrastructure Item 1
one-to-one
Servers, Storage,
Network, Desktops comparison
Infrastructure Item 2
IaaS
Applications
Application Layer Enterprise Apps.
Application Element 1 Databases PaaS
Middleware
Application Element 2 Operating Systems Imperative:
SaaS
IT Services Total Cost of
People, Resources for
Initial Deployment & Bus. Consulting Sourcing
Ongoing Management IT Consulting Aggregation / Comparison
Systems Integration Brokerage
Outsourcing
Additional Costs
22. Example 1: Wipro: Provisioning of
Infrastructure
Self service portal for automation of server provisioning
Parameters Before After
Server Provision cycle • 46 days • 35 mins
Avg Server Cost • $2000 • $800
Utilization • <10% • 40%
Reprovisioning of Assets • Nil • Reduce capex 30%
Silos • Physical machines and • Removed silos with 500+
application silos virtual machines
License Management • Highly Inefficient • Effective
Network bandwidth • Increased network • 1 NIC cords for 32 servers
bandwidth
Energy Cost • High • Lower
21
3/10/2010
23. Example 2: Cloud E-Mail vs.
On-Premises E-Mail, Circa 2012
On-Premises Cloud
5 to 10 Thousand Scale Tens of Millions
Higher-Touch Ops Model Lights Out
$120/User/Year Cost $24/User/Year
SAN & DAS Storage Type DAS
$25/GB/Year Storage Cost $3.75/GB/Year
500MB Storage Amount 6GB
Yes Tape Backup No
Fat Client Thin
24. Total Cost of Sourcing
Factoring Risk-Adjusted Cost (RAC)
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year N
Base Costs
Technology Assets
(Hardware and
Software)
People, Resources for
Cost Initial Deployment &
Ongoing Management
Additional Costs
Information Security &
Risk Management
Risk
Country Risks
Maturity Risk
Competency Risk
Operations Risk
25. Total Cost of Sourcing
Factoring Risk-Adjusted Cost (RAC)
Base Costs Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year N
Technology Assets On- Off- On- Off- On- Off On- Off-
(Hardware and premises premises premises premises premises premises premises premises
Software)
People, Resources for
Initial Deployment &
Ongoing Management Optional
variables:
Additional Costs include or
exclude
Information Security & one-time
Risk Management costs
Country Risks
Maturity Risk
Competency Risk
Operations Risk
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29. Distinguishing, Evaluating, and
Selecting Cloud Service Providers
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