1) Gartner recommends virtualizing applications and components before moving them to the cloud, and looking at data concerns separately. Service level agreements should also be carefully reviewed to understand availability, backup, and remediation guarantees.
2) Monitoring tools are critical as most existing tools won't extend to the cloud. Enterprises should monitor their applications and cloud providers themselves to ensure compliance with business needs rather than relying solely on providers.
3) Key considerations before moving to the cloud include having the right monitoring processes and tools in place, understanding service level agreements, and changing the role of IT staff from technology administrators to service brokers between business units and cloud providers.
As the cloud wave crashes through the IT community, how are IT leaders steering their own cloud implementations? What projects have gone well and what ideas have washed out to sea?
Catch a rare glimpse into the minds of three leading IT executives as they walk you through their cloud implementations and lessons learned.
Topics covered include:
*Cloud implementation stories and use cases
*Key lessons learned
*Post-implementation cloud plans
Download these slides to discover what to look for and what to avoid when implementing your own cloud configuration.
The Cloud! Oh how we love this IT catchword!
Yet many IT professionals still find themselves wondering what exactly it can do for their unique enterprise. Sure it offers agility, flexibility and cost savings, but how about seeing it in action in today’s businesses?
In this exclusive resource, check out real-world, surprising cloud computing observations on the following topics:
How IT departments are actively employing these services
The reactions to both public and private cloud initiatives
What the cloud means for future IT decisions
And more
http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/
Moderator:
Richard Villars,
Vice President, Information & Cloud
IDC
Panelists:
Curt Aubley,
VP & CTO Cyber Security & NexGen
Innovation
Lockheed Martin
Jeffrey R Deacon,
Chief Cloud Strategist,
Terremark
Joe Weinman,
Senior Vice President, Cloud Services and Strategy
Telx
Michael Kollar,
Global Cloud CTO, ATOS
Petteri Uljas,
Capgemini Finland, CEO
Capgemini Infra3 (Eastern Europe and India), Unit Head Capgemini
As the cloud wave crashes through the IT community, how are IT leaders steering their own cloud implementations? What projects have gone well and what ideas have washed out to sea?
Catch a rare glimpse into the minds of three leading IT executives as they walk you through their cloud implementations and lessons learned.
Topics covered include:
*Cloud implementation stories and use cases
*Key lessons learned
*Post-implementation cloud plans
Download these slides to discover what to look for and what to avoid when implementing your own cloud configuration.
The Cloud! Oh how we love this IT catchword!
Yet many IT professionals still find themselves wondering what exactly it can do for their unique enterprise. Sure it offers agility, flexibility and cost savings, but how about seeing it in action in today’s businesses?
In this exclusive resource, check out real-world, surprising cloud computing observations on the following topics:
How IT departments are actively employing these services
The reactions to both public and private cloud initiatives
What the cloud means for future IT decisions
And more
http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/
Moderator:
Richard Villars,
Vice President, Information & Cloud
IDC
Panelists:
Curt Aubley,
VP & CTO Cyber Security & NexGen
Innovation
Lockheed Martin
Jeffrey R Deacon,
Chief Cloud Strategist,
Terremark
Joe Weinman,
Senior Vice President, Cloud Services and Strategy
Telx
Michael Kollar,
Global Cloud CTO, ATOS
Petteri Uljas,
Capgemini Finland, CEO
Capgemini Infra3 (Eastern Europe and India), Unit Head Capgemini
In this eBook, we will uncover the specifics of how a
hybrid cloud solution can transform IT management so
that you can become the leader your business needs.
We will compare traditional and hybrid requirements with
respect to three critical areas: how you’ll govern the
system, the management tools you’ll need, and what
your management opportunities will be.
The 2014 Future of Cloud Computing Survey was conducted in partnership with 72 Collaborators. The survey is the most widely endorsed survey of its kind in the industry. To tweet individual slides, please note the banner on the upper right hand corner of each page. Visit the Blog on http://mjskok.com/resource/2014-future-cloud-computing-4th-annual-survey-results and follow us @futureofcloud #futureofcloud to join the conversation.
Converged IoT Systems: Bringing the Data Center to the Edge of EverythingDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the rapidly evolving architectural shift of moving advanced information technology (IT) capabilities to the edge to support Internet of Things (IoT) requirements for operational integrity benefits.
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the
accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive
and economic landscape? To find out, we spoke in person with 622
Midmarket CIOs, spanning growth and mature markets. These in-person
conversations, along with our statistical analyses of responses, underscore
the evermore vital role of the CIO.
Learn how to leverage software on premise infrastructure and public cloud to automate common IT and business processes, create a better user experience and save money
Splunk’s machine learning framework mixed with Splunk’s Event Management capabilities gives operations teams the opportunity to proactively act and automate on an event before it becomes an IT outage. This session will detail and demonstrate how to predict a health score of your business service, proactively take action based on those predictions and publish to your collaborative messaging and automation solutions.
Booz Allen's Cloud cost model offers a total-value perspective on IT cost that evaluates the explicit and implicit value of a migration to cloud-based services.
Enterprises have been embracing hybrid IT infrastructures that combine on-premises and public cloud capabilities, and more and more enterprises are expected to adopt this strategy in the future. But, is it right for your business?
Find out if hybrid cloud services are a winning fit for your company: https://www.oneneck.com/cloud/hybrid-it-a-winning-strategy
2019 Performance Monitoring and Management Trends and InsightsOpsRamp
Join 451 Research's Senior Analyst Nancy Gohring and OpsRamp's Vice President of Marketing Darren Cunningham as they discuss the latest trends in IT monitoring and management.
This interactive webinar will review the latest research and feature a live Q&A on what's hot, what's new, and what's next in this dynamic and distributed market. Sponsored by OpsRamp, this webinar will also provide an overview of OpsRamp's service-centric AIOps platform and how OpsRamp customers are controlling the chaos with a new approach to IT operations as a service.
To learn more, visit https://www.opsramp.com/about-opsramp...
Also, follow us on social media channels to learn about product highlights, news, announcements, events, conferences and more -
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/OpsRamp
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsramp
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OpsRampHQ/
In this eBook, we will uncover the specifics of how a
hybrid cloud solution can transform IT management so
that you can become the leader your business needs.
We will compare traditional and hybrid requirements with
respect to three critical areas: how you’ll govern the
system, the management tools you’ll need, and what
your management opportunities will be.
The 2014 Future of Cloud Computing Survey was conducted in partnership with 72 Collaborators. The survey is the most widely endorsed survey of its kind in the industry. To tweet individual slides, please note the banner on the upper right hand corner of each page. Visit the Blog on http://mjskok.com/resource/2014-future-cloud-computing-4th-annual-survey-results and follow us @futureofcloud #futureofcloud to join the conversation.
Converged IoT Systems: Bringing the Data Center to the Edge of EverythingDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the rapidly evolving architectural shift of moving advanced information technology (IT) capabilities to the edge to support Internet of Things (IoT) requirements for operational integrity benefits.
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the
accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive
and economic landscape? To find out, we spoke in person with 622
Midmarket CIOs, spanning growth and mature markets. These in-person
conversations, along with our statistical analyses of responses, underscore
the evermore vital role of the CIO.
Learn how to leverage software on premise infrastructure and public cloud to automate common IT and business processes, create a better user experience and save money
Splunk’s machine learning framework mixed with Splunk’s Event Management capabilities gives operations teams the opportunity to proactively act and automate on an event before it becomes an IT outage. This session will detail and demonstrate how to predict a health score of your business service, proactively take action based on those predictions and publish to your collaborative messaging and automation solutions.
Booz Allen's Cloud cost model offers a total-value perspective on IT cost that evaluates the explicit and implicit value of a migration to cloud-based services.
Enterprises have been embracing hybrid IT infrastructures that combine on-premises and public cloud capabilities, and more and more enterprises are expected to adopt this strategy in the future. But, is it right for your business?
Find out if hybrid cloud services are a winning fit for your company: https://www.oneneck.com/cloud/hybrid-it-a-winning-strategy
2019 Performance Monitoring and Management Trends and InsightsOpsRamp
Join 451 Research's Senior Analyst Nancy Gohring and OpsRamp's Vice President of Marketing Darren Cunningham as they discuss the latest trends in IT monitoring and management.
This interactive webinar will review the latest research and feature a live Q&A on what's hot, what's new, and what's next in this dynamic and distributed market. Sponsored by OpsRamp, this webinar will also provide an overview of OpsRamp's service-centric AIOps platform and how OpsRamp customers are controlling the chaos with a new approach to IT operations as a service.
To learn more, visit https://www.opsramp.com/about-opsramp...
Also, follow us on social media channels to learn about product highlights, news, announcements, events, conferences and more -
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/OpsRamp
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsramp
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OpsRampHQ/
Top 3 Reasons to Move Existing Applications to the CloudVMware
This slideshow presentation highlights the top three reasons businesses should consider moving their existing applications to public cloud with vCloud Air. The presentation features the business value benefits of using vCloud Air to move applications without change, gain seamless bi-directional application portability, and maintain full control of managing applications in the cloud.
Is Hybrid Cloud becoming the default?
If you are a CIO, CTO, Head of Technology, CEO, CFO or any interest in Cloud Infrastructure you have to see this report, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Nutanix
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
Este informe de la consultora Forrester le ofrece las claves para maximizar los beneficios que le ofrece la implantación de una cloud privada si se tienen en cuenta todas las funcionalidades clave necesarias para el negocio. Además, podrá conocer las tendencias claves en el mercado de la nube privada y cómo abordar el salta a la misma contando con una metodología que permita hacerlo con éxito.
Cloud Usage in Business Today and Tomorrowrftclouds
Reach for the Clouds, Inc. was formed to organizations migrate to the cloud with One Solution, One platform, one with your customer.
http://bit.ly/1wqmNX3
NJVC Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal AgenciesGovCloud Network
This paper outlines the essential steps to constructing a solid cloud computing roadmap.This paper outlines the essential steps to constructing a solid cloud computing roadmap.
Download Free Complete Guide to Cloud Migration to LearnJennifer Lawrence
Ready to elevate your business to new heights in the digital realm? Look no further! Download Free comprehensive "Complete Guide to Cloud Migration" and embark on a transformative journey towards a more agile and efficient future. Download the Free eBook from here - https://www.compunnel.com/complete-guide-to-cloud-migration/
How You can Leverage Cloud Platforms to Transform Digital ExperienceAlaina Carter
Cloud computing is one of the valuable innovation in the IT industry. It is the best way to turn ideas into functional software. Read more to know how you can leverage cloud platforms to transform the digital experience.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
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Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
2. Flying Blind into the Cloud whitepaper
Executive Summary Are you more cost efficient
with the cloud?
A recent ChangeWave Research survey showed more than 1 1,165 respondents involved in their company’s
buying decisions participated in this survey:
in 3 respondents plan on increasing their overall public cloud
spend while only 1 in 100 plan to decrease this spend. The Cloud spending is decreasing 21%
company’s budget for other IT products
shift is clear; the amount of budget spent on cloud computing is and services
actually decreasing the amount spent on other IT products and
Cloud spending is increasing company 15%
services for 1 in 5 respondents. But as you move to the cloud, budget for other IT products and services
are you sure you’re not “flying blind”? Could spending is having no effect on 49%
company budget for other IT products
and services
This white paper discusses the requirements enterprises have
Don’t know 12%
for the cloud. Whether forming a strategy for an existing cloud,
Source: ChangeWave Research – a service of 451 Research
or creating a strategy to move to the cloud, there are a number
of key considerations for success. John Enck, Managing VP at 37% report they plan to increase their public
cloud spending over the next 6 months:
Gartner, and Antonio Piraino, CTO at ScienceLogic, provide
specific recommendations to be used in the evaluation phase, Companies currently Current
using public cloud survey
during the actual move, and once your cloud is operational to
July ‘12
set yourself up for success.
Increase overall spending 37%
Decrease overall spending 1%
As companies navigate to the cloud they may be flying blind.
With resources and services on premise and in the cloud, the right No plans to use cloud computing in 8%
next 6 months
management processes and tools become critical to maintaining
Remain the same 54%
service levels and operational efficiency. But what are the key
Source: ChangeWave Research – a service of 451 Research
considerations to make before, during and after migration to the
cloud? What type of cloud service provider should you use? And
what staffing considerations do you need to make?
This whitepaper addresses those questions by summarizing the answers given by leading experts John Enck,
Managing VP at Gartner, and Antonio Piraino, CTO at ScienceLogic. Watch the video for their full responses to
help you determine the right selection for your cloud computing needs.
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Antonio Piraino, CTO John Enck, Managing VP
ScienceLogic Gartner
Why Cloud?
Will the move to cloud computing result in the
“Most of the tools that you have
movement of all IT infrastructure and services to
in place to do monitoring of your
external service providers? existing infrastructure won’t
At Gartner, we think the norm is going to extend into the cloud.”
be that everybody will have a mix of
John Enck, Gartner
on-premise equipment and also a mix of
consuming cloud services. Where the
equipment exists is an interesting debate;
however, the more interesting question is what happens to the IT staff, what happens to the people.
If all of my equipment goes into the cloud or if even half of my equipment goes into the cloud, does that mean I
reduce my IT staff, does that mean I have no IT staff? We think that the role of the IT staff is still very important,
even in cases where all of the equipment moves to the cloud. Now having said that, I must clarify and say that
we think it’s important, but the role of the IT staff must change. IT must go from being a technology administrator
and monitoring the silos and the technology to more of an IT service broker. IT must be in a position to be able to
negotiate between the business units and the different cloud providers to deliver those services.
What are the biggest trends in corporate IT? Why is cloud computing so important today?
Antonio Piraino says most enterprises hope to accomplish one or two things that cloud computing
can give them today but not all of the things that perhaps an external service provider who’s
really focused on this cloud computing game can offer them: formal flexibility and agility,
automation, and orchestration capabilities.
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Fundamental to all of this is the management of all of those systems because there’s a realization that the
underlying infrastructure’s fast becoming commoditized but the person who is able to best have a grasp of
all of that IT infrastructure and how it works is going to be best positioned to exploit this movement into cloud
computing going forward.
I’ve previously observed this move to cloud computing over the past four-and-a-half years as the head of Tier1
Research, and it’s really the reason why I moved to ScienceLogic: this realization that there was going to be such
a massive need for enterprises and service providers alike to manage this entire transition of IT into the cloud.
Getting Ready
What does Gartner recommend for selecting and planning the move of an application to the
public cloud?
John Enck says there are two types of moves you need to distinguish:
• In the first type, you’re replacing an on premise application with the new application in the
cloud. In that case, you simply need to make sure the application is feature compatible, or
even better compatibility than the existing on premise one, and you also need to make sure
you can get the existing data migrated to the application in the cloud.
• The second case is when you’re actually migrating an application from on premise into the cloud. This is the
more common case that we think about and it’s what most people think about when we talk about moving
into the cloud. Gartner recommends that the first step is to virtualize the application and all the components
of use. We also recommend you look at the data concern separately.
The next aspect to look at is the service level agreements. What are they going to guarantee? Are they going to
give you availability guarantees? Are they going to give you guarantees for backup? What kind of remediation
are they going to have? Take a hard look at the contract.
And finally, once you’ve done that contract, the question is, who’s going to monitor all that? Are you going to let
the service provider essentially watch itself and tell you when it’s out of SLA compliance or tell you when it’s in a
contractual violation?
We suggest a better alternative: you be the watchdog; you come up with tools that are going to allow you to monitor
your applications; you monitor the cloud to make sure that the cloud provider is in compliance with your business needs.
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What needs to be in place before moving to the cloud?
If you’re an enterprise organization today and you’re not executing or evaluating your cloud plans
right now, you’re in deep trouble. You have to consider a number of things before you do move to
the cloud. The way of thinking about this is really from the top down, so the business services that
you’re trying to accomplish, who you’re trying to accomplish them for. But you have to understand
the context within which you’re making this giant leap into the cloud.
The things that you want to consider are: what is your budget today that you’re operating under, what is your
internal IT competency, and what are your corporate governance needs in which you need to operate all these
things. Once you have that context refined, you then have to look at your internal assets. You may want to have
a management tool in place today that really comes in and says, “These are the assets I have, here is the stock I
have, here’s how everything is functioning and here’s how it starts to function if I move it externally.” And that’s
why management tools are so critical today in making these decisions.
Day 2 Management
What are the long-term consequences of cloud computing on management tools
proliferation? Will IT be forced to maintain two toolsets for traditional data center and cloud
computing?
Instead of having a bunch of discreet tools that just monitor the application or just monitor the
platform, Gartner is seeing vendors create tool sets, where I can have one tool that is going to
monitor my complete cloud environment. We always prefer fewer tools. If I can have one tool that
monitors my cloud environment, that is going to be far superior because it’s less complex than
having ten tools to do the same.
Enck recommends a proof of concept. He says to bring the tool into your environment, run some testing on it,
because you will very quickly see if that tool is well-integrated or poorly-integrated. You will see how well it fits your
environment and if you can see cracks between the different modules, then it’s probably not the right tool for you.
How important is it to have a holistic view into what makes up the service before it can be
managed adequately in the cloud?
Gartner thinks the holistic view is extremely important because managing infrastructure in silos
just doesn’t work. Trying to have a silo of server technology, of storage technology, or network
technology, of database technology, really isn’t effective.
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I may show green lights on all my servers, I may show green lights on all my storage equipment, I may show
green lights on all my networks; however, I may have significant application problems and that’s because there
is so much connective tissue between these different silos that just by looking at the silos, you can miss a lot of the
interactions between them. Therefore, we prefer a service view that aggregates the components and resources of
the silos and all that connective tissues and monitors at the application level or the business service level.
How will migration to the cloud impact IT staff?
Research has shown that there has been push back from a lot of people that feel very unsure
about whether their jobs are secure as their corporation and IT services move into an external
cloud computing environment.
In my years dealing with service providers and enterprises who have gone through this transition,
I’ve only come across one person who actually reduced his staff headcount because he felt that he may or may
not have needed that staff as he moved to a cloud computing environment.
In fact, he told me the biggest problem he had was the dissent from cultural change internally, so it was really
about his IT staff not willing to accept the new tools and responsibilities that they were going to be handed.
More and more responsibility is actually going to go to the IT provider to take responsibility for the way in which
those services operate from a cost-effective manner to make sure that all business units are more productive, that
they can be more flexible and agile. It’s no longer about losing your job, but simply converting the way you think
and realizing you have more responsibility in the organization today.
In fact, our independent research has shown that most organizations today, when looking at their staff, are not
looking to augment their staff or change their staff but make use of their current staff today.
What are the pitfalls and impediments to be concerned about when moving to the cloud?
We continue to hear over and over, as people have moved to the cloud, the things they worry
about the most are simplicity, control, cost, and security. Even though we keep hearing about
cultural change and acceptance internally, even on an ongoing basis, the three big ones are
really around: don’t create more work for me, continue to make this simple for me going forward
as I keep operating in that cloud environment and moving things there.
Demand that your service provider make things visible to you so you can understand how everything is
operating. Make sure that you have the tools in place that will give you all of that visibility.
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It’s easy today, and it’s something ScienceLogic does very
well over a single code base; giving you that visibility
Demand that your service
and control that you deem necessary from your service
provider make things visible to
provider if they’re not giving it to you. you so you can understand how
everything is operating.
What does Gartner recommend for monitoring
Antonio Piraino, ScienceLogic
the performance of applications in private
clouds?
Enck says most of your existing investments
and tools aren’t going to work. Most of the tools that you have in place to do monitoring of your
existing infrastructure won’t extend into the cloud.
Most cloud providers do provide monitoring tools. However, you can’t rely on those as your sole
source of monitoring. You really need to invest in additional tools that are cloud-specific and able to drill into the
cloud and use all the APIs and all the interfaces that are available. Look for a tool that is going to give you the
depth of monitoring and a level of visibility that you need to make sure that your applications are functioning
well. You want something that really meets the needs of what it is that you’re looking to monitor.
What is the number one need for enterprises and service providers as they move to the cloud?
One thing for sure is that we’re finding internal enterprise IT departments are acting more and
more like service providers themselves with the same responsibilities for the top line and the
bottom line. Yet at the same time, we realize that there’s this great fluidity that’s come to being
with cloud computing today. Your applications and workloads can find themselves in any given
environment – on-premise, off-premise, physical, or virtual – and there is a massive need to
manage all of those things.
Here at ScienceLogic, we’re extremely proud of the work we’ve done building a brand new, unified code base,
which means you don’t have to pull bits and pieces of different code together in order to get a holistic view of
this very flexible and fluid environment. It gives all your constituents the ability to be far more collaborative, far
more agile, in deploying these services at the end of the day, and all through one, unified space that really adds
validity to what you’re trying to accomplish with your business services.
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Watch the video to see the full responses to these questions
“Most cloud providers do provide
and to learn the answers to:
monitoring tools. However, you
• Is enterprise IT becoming more like a service broker? can’t rely on those as your sole
Is the industry ready for this shift? source of monitoring.”
• What guidelines are there for evaluating cloud service
John Enck, Gartner
providers?
• And more
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