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Virtustream and SAP have jointly developed a reference architecture for deploying SAP HANA. The reference architecture is based on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switches, and NetApp storage. It provides a model for hosting complex IT environments in Virtustream's cloud or a customer's data center. Virtustream's cloud service for SAP HANA offers virtual and physical SAP HANA environments in SAP-certified data centers managed by Virtustream's Cloud Management Platform software. Existing customers have experienced over 90% performance improvements for SAP ERP and 600x improvements for SAP BW on SAP HANA.
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This document provides a holistic survey of security aspects related to Database as a Service (DBaaS) in cloud computing. It discusses key features of DBaaS including data outsourcing, multi-tenancy, and resource sharing. The document identifies security as one of the most critical challenges for DBaaS adoption. It classifies common security limitations and reviews state-of-the-art mechanisms that address requirements like confidentiality, integrity and availability. Additionally, the document provides insights into future security perspectives for DBaaS.
CloudServiceManagement discusses strategic implications of cloud computing for IT service management. It provides an overview of cloud basics, industry dynamics, OpenStack as an open source cloud platform, and HP's approach and portfolio for helping customers adopt cloud. HP's Helion integration program maps requirements across three phases to deliver a virtual private cloud offering integrated with IT service management tools.
The document discusses concepts related to cloud enablement, including key definitions, explanations of cloud technology, and the primary strategy for enabling a cloud environment. It notes that full cloud enablement requires a multi-faceted process and fundamental paradigm shift. The primary strategy involves 5 key steps - assessing readiness, modeling architecture, implementation planning, deploying resources, and ongoing governance to transition infrastructure and applications to a public, private or hybrid cloud model.
Virtustream Enterprise Cloud provides an enterprise-class cloud built for mission-critical applications with improved efficiency and application-level service level agreements (SLAs). It offers a consumption-based pricing model for substantial cost savings. The platform is designed for mission-critical and input/output intensive applications along with full managed services including application expertise.
What is the role of clouds in driving substantial IT organizational change? Adopters of private clouds are looking for more agility and speed, according to IT market research highlighted in the presentation.
These business benefits are made possible by the adoption of cloud automation. The presentation examines automation advantages such as:
• Reducing management costs while also cutting cloud deployment time
• Cutting complexity via standardization
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Accelerating service delivery times.
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Virtustream and SAP have jointly developed a reference architecture for deploying SAP HANA. The reference architecture is based on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switches, and NetApp storage. It provides a model for hosting complex IT environments in Virtustream's cloud or a customer's data center. Virtustream's cloud service for SAP HANA offers virtual and physical SAP HANA environments in SAP-certified data centers managed by Virtustream's Cloud Management Platform software. Existing customers have experienced over 90% performance improvements for SAP ERP and 600x improvements for SAP BW on SAP HANA.
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This document provides a holistic survey of security aspects related to Database as a Service (DBaaS) in cloud computing. It discusses key features of DBaaS including data outsourcing, multi-tenancy, and resource sharing. The document identifies security as one of the most critical challenges for DBaaS adoption. It classifies common security limitations and reviews state-of-the-art mechanisms that address requirements like confidentiality, integrity and availability. Additionally, the document provides insights into future security perspectives for DBaaS.
CloudServiceManagement discusses strategic implications of cloud computing for IT service management. It provides an overview of cloud basics, industry dynamics, OpenStack as an open source cloud platform, and HP's approach and portfolio for helping customers adopt cloud. HP's Helion integration program maps requirements across three phases to deliver a virtual private cloud offering integrated with IT service management tools.
The document discusses concepts related to cloud enablement, including key definitions, explanations of cloud technology, and the primary strategy for enabling a cloud environment. It notes that full cloud enablement requires a multi-faceted process and fundamental paradigm shift. The primary strategy involves 5 key steps - assessing readiness, modeling architecture, implementation planning, deploying resources, and ongoing governance to transition infrastructure and applications to a public, private or hybrid cloud model.
Virtustream Enterprise Cloud provides an enterprise-class cloud built for mission-critical applications with improved efficiency and application-level service level agreements (SLAs). It offers a consumption-based pricing model for substantial cost savings. The platform is designed for mission-critical and input/output intensive applications along with full managed services including application expertise.
What is the role of clouds in driving substantial IT organizational change? Adopters of private clouds are looking for more agility and speed, according to IT market research highlighted in the presentation.
These business benefits are made possible by the adoption of cloud automation. The presentation examines automation advantages such as:
• Reducing management costs while also cutting cloud deployment time
• Cutting complexity via standardization
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Accelerating service delivery times.
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
The document discusses various Azure services for hosting applications and processing data. It provides a comparison chart of services like Virtual Machines, App Service, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Container Instances and Azure Batch. The criteria covered include application composition, density, minimum nodes, state management, web hosting, hybrid connectivity, local debugging, programming model, auto-scaling, load balancing and cost. It also lists suitable architecture styles for each service.
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
Datapipe Chief Technology and Security Officer Joel Friedman takes delegates at Cloud Expo Asia 2015 through the key pillars of a successful public cloud security approach.
This document discusses workload migration for planned maintenance on IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise platform. It provides an overview of workload migration concepts and best practices. The agenda includes discussing application types and challenges, migrating data, recommended tools, and case studies. Best practices emphasized include using standard virtual machine images, DNS aliases to refer to servers, and quiescing applications before taking systems offline to minimize downtime during maintenance.
This document provides an overview of Marlabs, Inc., a global IT services and consulting firm. It discusses Marlabs' services, partnerships, delivery model, and industry experience. It also covers key topics in cloud computing including definitions, service models, public vs private vs hybrid cloud, and considerations for achieving the right balance across availability, performance, and security in a hybrid cloud environment. The presentation aims to help organizations in the energy and utilities sector strategically adopt cloud technologies.
VMware's new vRealize Suite is a cloud management platform that provides unified management of hybrid clouds with automation, intelligent operations, business insights, and unified management capabilities. It addresses issues organizations face with lack of cloud agility and cost transparency by automating infrastructure delivery and application lifecycles, proactively managing performance and capacity, providing cost transparency and alignment of IT spending with business priorities, and using a single platform to manage resources both on-premises and in the cloud. The vRealize Suite aggregates products like vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Business to deliver these capabilities and control in hybrid cloud environments.
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
Webinar Fondazione CRUI Commvault:come adattare le strategie di data protecti...Jürgen Ambrosi
Nell'ambito del ciclo dei webinar CRUI, Commvault introduce il tema dell'adattamento delle strategie di data protection alle infrastrutture Cloud. Commvault tramite la propria piattaforma di Singular Information Management ha l’obiettivo di raggiungere un livello di protezione del dato il più elevato possibile. Abbinata alla piattaforma Microsoft Azure permette di trarre il massimo vantaggio possibile dal cloud e di garantire livelli di servizio convenienti, sicuri e flessibili. In un mercato in cui il cloud è il contesto di riferimento per la riduzione dei costi di capitale, l’uso della accoppiata Azure – Commvault permette di incrementare la velocità delle procedure, permettendo di risparmiare tempo e risorse.
La piattaforma Commvault è in grado di gestire semplicemente qualsiasi tipologia di ambiente composto da macchine fisiche, macchine virtuali, applicazioni,
desktop, laptop o cloud con la possibilità di accedere ai propri dati da semplici interfacce web o anche da applicazioni per smartphone e tablet.
Durante il seminario sono state illustrate le principali caratteristiche della piattaforma per valutarne la rilevanza per il Sistema dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca.
This document provides an overview and introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud computing. It discusses what cloud computing and AWS are, the benefits of using AWS like cost savings and agility, AWS global infrastructure and services, and how to get started with AWS. It also includes demonstrations of using AWS services like S3, CloudFront, EC2 and Lambda.
Learn about the challenges and the design patterns that will help you prepare your application for Azure.
.NET Core samples are available here: https://github.com/cmendible/dotnetcore.samples/tree/master/cloud.design.patterns
Organisations can find it more difficult to manage public cloud services than they originally expected and often they lack the skills and expertise necessary to do it properly.
Management becomes increasingly complex if using multiple cloud providers. Vendors are approaching cloud management in unique ways and in most cases tying you into specific cloud providers, making it difficult to compare select and even control public hybrid solutions
This session will look at tools and approaches that can assist your organisation to not only migrate workloads to the public cloud but also between the clouds, and toolsets designed to improve and control performance and flexibility in the cloud.
Dimension data cloud for the enterprise architectDavid Sawatzke
Dimension Data provides seamlessly integrated enterprise-class cloud services that accelerate business growth. Their Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) provides enterprise-level integration, control, reliability, security and orchestration capabilities required for critical workloads. The MCP offers both public and private cloud options that are managed through a single control plane. Dimension Data's cloud services have demonstrated superior performance compared to other providers in independent testing.
PECB Webinar: The alignment of Information Security in Service ManagementPECB
The webinar covers:
• Using ISO 27001 and/or COBIT as a framework
• Defining the proper KPI’s
• Information security in service management
Presenter:
This session was presented by Arthur Donkers, Managing Partner of ITSX and a PECB Certified Trainer with more than 30 years of experience.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/epYUd3mzKzo
Gartner report on cloud360 cloud management platformCognizant
Gartner Research has released a report emphasizing Cognizant Cloud360’s capabilities to empower enterprises in embracing cloud-enabled environments, with industry-leading platforms. According to Gartner, the key value adds of this product are cost-effective application management, seamless IT service delivery with self-service, enterprise compliance & governance and protection of existing IT investments. The report explicates why Cognizant’s Cloud360 becomes an ideal partner for enterprises planning operations in the cloud.
Learn more about Cloud360 here - http://www.cognizant.com/cloud/cloud360
Contact Us
cloud360@cognizant.com
Get your people ready For Cloud ComputingITpreneurs
Cloud computing is changing the way we work and the way we engage with our customer. Virtually every organization is now exploring their potential for cloud computing, searching for a higher agility, scalability and even new business opportunities.
With the help of cloud computing working becomes more socially interactive and unconstrained to location and time. However, many organizations are still struggling to adopt cloud computing to their full advantage, not anticipating the impact it has on the complete organization. Fear and uncertainty, as a result of a lack of a basic understanding of cloud computing often provokes internal resistance to change.
To help corporations overcome these challenges ITpreneurs, together with a review board of industry-leading organizations (including ING Group, Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM and Virtual Clarity) developed the Cloud Certification Program for IT professionals.
How News Corp Secured Their Digital Transformation through Identity and Acces...Amazon Web Services
News Corp secured their digital transformation through identity and access management by migrating from their legacy on-premises solution to Okta on AWS. The migration provided a better user experience, simplified access to cloud applications, and aligned with global identity standards. Over 9,000 employees were enrolled in Okta within two weeks without business disruption. News Corp benefited from faster enrollment, increased mobile authentication, and automated user lifecycle management.
RightScale Webinar: In this webinar we will discuss innovative hybrid cloud strategies being used to address common IT challenges. We will examine how you can take advantage of the scalability and efficiencies of the public cloud while addressing data security and compliance requirements through a private cloud.
Clarity in the virtual world - VMware vRealize Automation With vRealize BusinessAmcom
This document discusses vRealize Automation and vRealize Business, which provide tools for managing hybrid cloud environments. vRealize Automation allows for self-service provisioning of virtual machines on private and public clouds. vRealize Business provides dashboards and analytics for monitoring costs, service quality, and IT performance across multiple cloud platforms. It aims to help IT organizations run their operations like a business by providing visibility, accountability and benchmarking capabilities.
This document provides an introduction to cloud computing. It discusses key components of IT including server technology, storage technology, and computer networks. It then defines cloud computing and describes the different types of cloud computing including public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud. It also outlines the main service models of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Finally, it discusses some advantages of cloud computing such as agility, accessibility via APIs, device and location independence, and security.
The days of deskbound work are waning. Instead, employees, and especially younger employees, are looking for the same technology at work that they have at home. When asked about investment drivers, IT professionals prioritise location flexibility, including mobility and telework.
The document discusses various Azure services for hosting applications and processing data. It provides a comparison chart of services like Virtual Machines, App Service, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Container Instances and Azure Batch. The criteria covered include application composition, density, minimum nodes, state management, web hosting, hybrid connectivity, local debugging, programming model, auto-scaling, load balancing and cost. It also lists suitable architecture styles for each service.
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
Datapipe Chief Technology and Security Officer Joel Friedman takes delegates at Cloud Expo Asia 2015 through the key pillars of a successful public cloud security approach.
This document discusses workload migration for planned maintenance on IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise platform. It provides an overview of workload migration concepts and best practices. The agenda includes discussing application types and challenges, migrating data, recommended tools, and case studies. Best practices emphasized include using standard virtual machine images, DNS aliases to refer to servers, and quiescing applications before taking systems offline to minimize downtime during maintenance.
This document provides an overview of Marlabs, Inc., a global IT services and consulting firm. It discusses Marlabs' services, partnerships, delivery model, and industry experience. It also covers key topics in cloud computing including definitions, service models, public vs private vs hybrid cloud, and considerations for achieving the right balance across availability, performance, and security in a hybrid cloud environment. The presentation aims to help organizations in the energy and utilities sector strategically adopt cloud technologies.
VMware's new vRealize Suite is a cloud management platform that provides unified management of hybrid clouds with automation, intelligent operations, business insights, and unified management capabilities. It addresses issues organizations face with lack of cloud agility and cost transparency by automating infrastructure delivery and application lifecycles, proactively managing performance and capacity, providing cost transparency and alignment of IT spending with business priorities, and using a single platform to manage resources both on-premises and in the cloud. The vRealize Suite aggregates products like vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Business to deliver these capabilities and control in hybrid cloud environments.
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
Webinar Fondazione CRUI Commvault:come adattare le strategie di data protecti...Jürgen Ambrosi
Nell'ambito del ciclo dei webinar CRUI, Commvault introduce il tema dell'adattamento delle strategie di data protection alle infrastrutture Cloud. Commvault tramite la propria piattaforma di Singular Information Management ha l’obiettivo di raggiungere un livello di protezione del dato il più elevato possibile. Abbinata alla piattaforma Microsoft Azure permette di trarre il massimo vantaggio possibile dal cloud e di garantire livelli di servizio convenienti, sicuri e flessibili. In un mercato in cui il cloud è il contesto di riferimento per la riduzione dei costi di capitale, l’uso della accoppiata Azure – Commvault permette di incrementare la velocità delle procedure, permettendo di risparmiare tempo e risorse.
La piattaforma Commvault è in grado di gestire semplicemente qualsiasi tipologia di ambiente composto da macchine fisiche, macchine virtuali, applicazioni,
desktop, laptop o cloud con la possibilità di accedere ai propri dati da semplici interfacce web o anche da applicazioni per smartphone e tablet.
Durante il seminario sono state illustrate le principali caratteristiche della piattaforma per valutarne la rilevanza per il Sistema dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca.
This document provides an overview and introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud computing. It discusses what cloud computing and AWS are, the benefits of using AWS like cost savings and agility, AWS global infrastructure and services, and how to get started with AWS. It also includes demonstrations of using AWS services like S3, CloudFront, EC2 and Lambda.
Learn about the challenges and the design patterns that will help you prepare your application for Azure.
.NET Core samples are available here: https://github.com/cmendible/dotnetcore.samples/tree/master/cloud.design.patterns
Organisations can find it more difficult to manage public cloud services than they originally expected and often they lack the skills and expertise necessary to do it properly.
Management becomes increasingly complex if using multiple cloud providers. Vendors are approaching cloud management in unique ways and in most cases tying you into specific cloud providers, making it difficult to compare select and even control public hybrid solutions
This session will look at tools and approaches that can assist your organisation to not only migrate workloads to the public cloud but also between the clouds, and toolsets designed to improve and control performance and flexibility in the cloud.
Dimension data cloud for the enterprise architectDavid Sawatzke
Dimension Data provides seamlessly integrated enterprise-class cloud services that accelerate business growth. Their Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) provides enterprise-level integration, control, reliability, security and orchestration capabilities required for critical workloads. The MCP offers both public and private cloud options that are managed through a single control plane. Dimension Data's cloud services have demonstrated superior performance compared to other providers in independent testing.
PECB Webinar: The alignment of Information Security in Service ManagementPECB
The webinar covers:
• Using ISO 27001 and/or COBIT as a framework
• Defining the proper KPI’s
• Information security in service management
Presenter:
This session was presented by Arthur Donkers, Managing Partner of ITSX and a PECB Certified Trainer with more than 30 years of experience.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/epYUd3mzKzo
Gartner report on cloud360 cloud management platformCognizant
Gartner Research has released a report emphasizing Cognizant Cloud360’s capabilities to empower enterprises in embracing cloud-enabled environments, with industry-leading platforms. According to Gartner, the key value adds of this product are cost-effective application management, seamless IT service delivery with self-service, enterprise compliance & governance and protection of existing IT investments. The report explicates why Cognizant’s Cloud360 becomes an ideal partner for enterprises planning operations in the cloud.
Learn more about Cloud360 here - http://www.cognizant.com/cloud/cloud360
Contact Us
cloud360@cognizant.com
Get your people ready For Cloud ComputingITpreneurs
Cloud computing is changing the way we work and the way we engage with our customer. Virtually every organization is now exploring their potential for cloud computing, searching for a higher agility, scalability and even new business opportunities.
With the help of cloud computing working becomes more socially interactive and unconstrained to location and time. However, many organizations are still struggling to adopt cloud computing to their full advantage, not anticipating the impact it has on the complete organization. Fear and uncertainty, as a result of a lack of a basic understanding of cloud computing often provokes internal resistance to change.
To help corporations overcome these challenges ITpreneurs, together with a review board of industry-leading organizations (including ING Group, Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM and Virtual Clarity) developed the Cloud Certification Program for IT professionals.
How News Corp Secured Their Digital Transformation through Identity and Acces...Amazon Web Services
News Corp secured their digital transformation through identity and access management by migrating from their legacy on-premises solution to Okta on AWS. The migration provided a better user experience, simplified access to cloud applications, and aligned with global identity standards. Over 9,000 employees were enrolled in Okta within two weeks without business disruption. News Corp benefited from faster enrollment, increased mobile authentication, and automated user lifecycle management.
RightScale Webinar: In this webinar we will discuss innovative hybrid cloud strategies being used to address common IT challenges. We will examine how you can take advantage of the scalability and efficiencies of the public cloud while addressing data security and compliance requirements through a private cloud.
Clarity in the virtual world - VMware vRealize Automation With vRealize BusinessAmcom
This document discusses vRealize Automation and vRealize Business, which provide tools for managing hybrid cloud environments. vRealize Automation allows for self-service provisioning of virtual machines on private and public clouds. vRealize Business provides dashboards and analytics for monitoring costs, service quality, and IT performance across multiple cloud platforms. It aims to help IT organizations run their operations like a business by providing visibility, accountability and benchmarking capabilities.
This document provides an introduction to cloud computing. It discusses key components of IT including server technology, storage technology, and computer networks. It then defines cloud computing and describes the different types of cloud computing including public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud. It also outlines the main service models of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Finally, it discusses some advantages of cloud computing such as agility, accessibility via APIs, device and location independence, and security.
The days of deskbound work are waning. Instead, employees, and especially younger employees, are looking for the same technology at work that they have at home. When asked about investment drivers, IT professionals prioritise location flexibility, including mobility and telework.
At Logicalis, we see that the world is shrinking; becoming more complex, with increasing competition, a deluge of new technologies and a changing workforce.
The technology game plan is changing – and the ability to compete in the new marketplace depends on investment in IT for maximum business advantage.
In this review, Logicalis takes a world view of game-changing trends and identifies the technology developments that precede or follow these shifts.
It takes an open mind to embrace these changes and over the next few pages we hear from our customers and leading thinkers on how this technology revolution is changing the game plan for businesses and individuals alike.
Logicalis disruptive innovation for legal services brochureStuart Lewis
Logicalis UK Legal Services vertical brochure which, outlines how we help law firms achieve disruptive innovation by delivering business outcome focused strategies for:
- Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Workspace Transformation and Collaboration
- Agile DC and Cloud
Logicalis Cloud Briefing - get some "Cloud Clarity"!
Three perspectives on why and how to migrate to Cloud on your terms - change leadership, legal and technology considerations
Logicalis Cloud Workshops and AssessmentsLogicalisUS
Logicalis offers cloud workshops and assessments to help customers understand cloud strategies and determine readiness for cloud migration. Workshops are informal and educational, while assessments provide detailed analysis and recommendations. Key offerings include a free virtualization optimization assessment, a paid VMware healthcheck, a free cloud readiness workshop, and a paid cloud readiness assessment providing a migration strategy. Workshops and assessments are delivered by experts to qualify opportunities and provide strategic direction for cloud adoption.
Logicalis Backup as a Service: Re-defining Data ProtectionLogicalis Australia
The document discusses backup as a service (BaaS) solutions provided by Logicalis to address challenges clients face with traditional tape-based backup systems. It outlines two BaaS offerings - a Corporate Edition which backs up client on-premise data directly to Logicalis' cloud, and an Enterprise Edition which provisions local backup infrastructure with optional replication to the cloud. Case studies show how BaaS solutions helped ABB and Toyota meet SLAs, lower costs, remove risk and gain confidence in backup reliability. The document argues BaaS can provide a scalable, flexible OPEX solution to backup challenges across virtual and physical environments. It invites the next step of conducting a backup assessment.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing. It defines cloud computing as highly automated IT services delivered virtually over the internet. The key aspects covered are:
- Cloud computing delivers self-service compute, networking, storage and applications on-demand via the internet.
- The major cloud computing models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Cloud computing enables new business models and the flexibility to access applications and data from any device.
This document provides an overview of Logicalis, a global IT solutions and managed services provider. It summarizes Logicalis' revenues, employees, geographic presence and partnerships. It then describes Logicalis' data center vision and model, highlighting their business-focused solutions approach. The document outlines Logicalis' data center infrastructure practice and the services they provide, including assessment, design, build, operation and relocation/migration. It provides examples of solutions and customers they support.
Digital enablers: the challenges facing CIOs in an age of digital transformation. Research from Logicalis based on a global study of CIO pressures and priorities.
Ovum Information Management and Collaboration eventballantine70
The document discusses Imagination, a company that faced challenges with a geographically complex and idiosyncratic infrastructure. It implemented Google Apps and cloud services to enable more collaborative and global work. Key outcomes included migrating 596 email/calendar users to the new system, strengthening client relationships, deepening employee engagement, and maximizing value through lower costs and increased productivity. Lessons learned included getting business buy-in through ownership, focusing on business change over technology with SaaS, and needing a constant learning culture.
The document discusses how cloud computing and future IT trends will impact organizations. It outlines 5 practical approaches for organizations: 1) moving away from traditional IT projects to providing services, 2) avoiding rushing solutions and making things "stupider, faster", 3) providing technology as a service, 4) fostering innovation, and 5) moving towards an IT counselling role to advise organizations. The presentation argues that cloud computing requires rethinking how IT is delivered and its role in organizations.
The document discusses Imagination's transition to using Google Apps for collaboration. It describes Imagination's goals of strengthening client relationships, deepening employee engagement, and maximizing value. The transition involved defining business objectives, evaluating vendors, piloting with groups, migrating data and training users. Key outcomes were lower costs, improved collaboration both internally and with clients, and increased employee productivity and satisfaction. Lessons learned included the importance of business buy-in, letting SaaS experts manage the technology, and IT's evolving role in facilitating business change.
This document discusses why metrics used for social decision making are often inaccurate and subject to corruption. It notes that the more a quantitative indicator is used, the more likely it will distort and corrupt the social processes it aims to monitor due to corruption pressures. The document then provides 5 practical approaches to address these issues, including positive reinforcement, avoiding rushing metrics, providing a service, fostering innovation, and moving towards counseling.
5th Cloud Circle Forum - Cloud State of Playballantine70
The document discusses the changing landscape of technology and workplaces. It analyzes the state of cloud computing adoption and discusses how organizations are moving to hybrid models. It also examines common barriers to cloud adoption and the potential impacts of cloud computing on IT professionals over the coming years. Key questions are posed about an organization's stage of cloud adoption, biggest barriers, views on cloud benefits, and confidence in cloud knowledge.
The document discusses people-centric IT and outlines 5 practical approaches for organizations. The approaches are: 1) using positive reinforcement, 2) avoiding making processes "stupider, faster", 3) providing a service to users, 4) fostering innovation, and 5) moving towards counseling models where IT professionals act as trusted advisors. The presentation calls for green field thinking around IT and focusing on the needs and expectations of the future workforce.
The document discusses cloud computing and its benefits, including increased flexibility and reduced costs. It notes that cloud computing provides standardized offerings that can rapidly scale resources in a flexible and easy-to-access manner. The document outlines a strategy for developing a cloud architecture and implementation plan to help organizations manage IT challenges and realize the opportunities of cloud computing.
Cloud Computing – Opportunities, Definitions, Options, and Risks (Part-1)Manoj Kumar
Understand about current cloud market, cloud service providers - Azure or Amazon, cloud fundamentals, VM Virtualization, Cloud deployment models, IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS, Cloud Security and Risks.
System Center Datacenter Cloud Management Vision & RoadmapAmit Gatenyo
This document outlines Microsoft's vision and roadmap for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management. It discusses increasing pressures on IT from business users to provide services faster, cheaper, and more scalable. Microsoft is committed to bringing its experience from public clouds like Windows Azure to help customers build and manage private clouds. The future roadmap focuses on delivering common management experiences across private and public clouds through features like self-service provisioning, delegation and control, and application visibility. Key components will include capabilities for infrastructure and application management, automation, and integration across System Center products and clouds.
Making Sense Of Cloud Computing - by Mark RivingtonCA Nimsoft
1) The document summarizes key aspects of cloud computing including the 5-4-3 model of cloud characteristics, deployment models, and service offering models.
2) It discusses challenges of monitoring cloud environments due to their dynamic and elastic nature, and outlines different monitoring strategies for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
3) The presentation concludes by emphasizing that Nimsoft can help organizations manage services in the cloud.
The document discusses challenges facing today's enterprises including cutting costs, driving value with tight budgets, maintaining security while increasing access, and finding the right transformative capabilities. It then discusses challenges in building applications such as scaling, availability, and costs. The document introduces the Windows Azure platform as a solution, highlighting its fundamentals of scale, automation, high availability, and multi-tenancy. It provides considerations for using cloud computing on or off premises and discusses ownership models.
The document discusses Microsoft's private cloud computing roadmap. It defines cloud computing and outlines Microsoft's offerings including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It describes the evolution from traditional datacenters to virtualized datacenters to private and public clouds. It highlights key aspects of private clouds like application packaging, monitoring, and automation. It also discusses System Center 2012 and how it can help manage private and public clouds with common tools and deliver applications as a service.
Ibm cloud forum managing heterogenousclouds_finalMauricio Godoy
The document discusses managing heterogeneous environments including both physical and virtual infrastructure, platforms, and applications from various vendors. It outlines the key capabilities needed in an operational support system for a cloud platform, including configuration management, service automation management, virtualization management, provisioning, monitoring, asset management, request management, service level management, image lifecycle management, performance management, and incident/problem management. It also discusses requirements for self-service portals, service catalogs, automated provisioning, topology creation and deployment, platform/virtualization management, usage metering and accounting, multi-tenancy, security, standards, migration, hybrid cloud management and integration between on-premise and off-premise systems and applications.
2011.11.22 - Cloud Infrastructure Provider - 8ème Forum du Club Cloud des Par...Club Cloud des Partenaires
p8ème Forum du Club Cloud des Partenaires [dans le cadre de Partner VIP - 22 novembre 2011]. Deck de slides qui accompagnent l'atelier "Hébergeurs, infogéreurs, comment différencier votre offre Cloud" [animé par Florence Marcel]
2011.04.04. Les partenaires IBM et le Cloud Business - Loic SimonClub Alliances
Deck sur les Partenaires IBM et le Cloud Business préparé par Loic Simon à l'occasion de sessions de Formation délivrées aux responsables de la relation partenaires chez IBM.
How Can I Build a Landing Zone & Extend my Operations into AWS to Support my ...Amazon Web Services
1) A Landing Zone is a configured, secure AWS environment based on best practices that provides a foundation for an enterprise's migration journey.
2) The document discusses how to structure a Landing Zone, including account structure for billing visibility, environment isolation, and centralized services/logs, as well as identity and access management and VPC design.
3) It also discusses building versus buying a Landing Zone and how pre-migration discovery involves decomposing technologies into families and mapping migration strategies to consider specific implications for the Landing Zone.
The document discusses the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) which provides guidance for companies adopting AWS. It describes the common stages of a cloud adoption journey including planning, building, operating, and continuously improving cloud environments. The CAF also includes perspectives on people, processes, security, maturity levels, platforms, and operations to help customers develop cloud strategies and roadmaps.
RapidScale, a cloud services innovator, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art CloudOffice platform and market leading cloud solutions are the reason why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading telecommunications providers, VARs, MSPs, and agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service, but is also innovating advanced solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. Today, many of the top carriers, VARs, MSPs, and Master Agents across the globe are selling RapidScale’s cloud solutions to their customers. RapidScale’s market leading solutions include: CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale visit www.rapidscale.net.
VMworld 2013: Introduction to the vCloud Suite and the Software-Defined Data ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Edward Hsu, VMware
Arun Lal, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Software Association of Oregon Cloud Computing Presentationddcarr
The document discusses how cloud computing can provide new tools for innovation in quality assurance and testing. It provides an overview of cloud computing topologies and implications of testing in the cloud. Key benefits of cloud computing include flexible pricing models, elastic scaling, rapid provisioning, and increased efficiency. While some workloads are well-suited for cloud delivery, others may not be ready due to security, regulatory compliance, or customization needs. Case studies demonstrate significant cost savings and returns on investment from cloud adoption.
2011.11.22 - Comment développer un Business de Cloud Builder - 8ème Forum du ...Club Cloud des Partenaires
8ème Forum du Club Cloud des Partenaires - Dans le cadre de l'évènement Partner VIP du 22 novembre 2011 - Deck de slides exploités par Loic Simon pour l'atelier "Comment développer un Business de Cloud Builder"
An educational overview of the Cloud Computing Ecosystem or Framework. This presentation is geared toward those who are just beginning to understand Cloud Computing.
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session. After migrating the initial workloads, understand how to migrate at scale to the AWS cloud. Hear about real life experiences from the AWS Professional Services team and learn about common use case examples, frameworks, and best practices. Hear about what to avoid when migrating applications at scale to AWS and understand the tools and partner services that can assist you when migrating applications to AWS.
VMware Cloud Management Platform (CMP) provides tools to manage private, public and hybrid clouds. It enables IT organizations to act as brokers of IT services through a software-defined data center that provides automation, operations management and business insights. CMP includes vRealize Automation for automated provisioning and lifecycle management, vRealize Operations for visibility and optimization, and integrates with NSX and vSphere for network and security virtualization. This allows organizations to more efficiently deliver IT services, plan capacity, and provide transparency into costs.
Leveraging mobility - turning enterprise wireless into a business enablerLogicalis Australia
Mobility is no longer about the provisioning of remote access or BYOD. Mobility is about enabling organisations to communicate with customers in different ways, create new revenue streams, reduce infrastructure costs and obtain a competitive advantage in the market, without compromising on security or manageability.
It’s not about “picking the right cloud” but choosing the right strategy that matches workloads to the most appropriate delivery model. Logicalis provides an overview of some of the challenges of moving to “the Cloud” and how we help customer determine the most effective cloud model.
It’s not about “picking the right cloud” but choosing the right strategy that matches workloads to the most appropriate delivery model. Logicalis provides an overview of some of the challenges of moving to “the Cloud” and how we help customer determine the most effective cloud model.
The 6 steps to building a private cloud are:
1. Standardize and simplify infrastructure by choosing critical vendors to reduce management points.
2. Drive down I/O consolidation to reduce cables and switches through network collapse and native 10Gbps connectivity.
3. Improve storage efficiency through techniques like thin provisioning, deduplication, and thin replication to reduce costs.
4. Automate infrastructure through tools that configure attributes and rapidly provision resources like hypervisors do for operating systems.
5. Implement uniform scale through a single management entity that can scale resources linearly.
6. Orchestrate resources through self-service delivery, policy-driven provisioning, and model-based management to improve innovation.
Preparing an Effective BYOD or Mobility Strategy outlines a 5-step process for developing a BYOD strategy:
1. Develop a business case by calculating the costs and savings of a BYOD program.
2. Segment the workforce based on work styles and common use cases.
3. Map workforce segments to planned service offerings like laptops, VDI, or mobile devices.
4. Define BYOD policies around minimum device standards, entitlements, and rules of use.
5. Design a new support model where IT supports applications and OS, while users support hardware.
1. The document discusses how technology and business needs are changing in the "New Normal" environment, with trends like mobility, generational shifts, and big data growth.
2. It outlines both strategic and tactical steps companies can take to address these changes, such as deploying an agile infrastructure, adopting virtual workspaces, and outsourcing non-critical functions.
3. A key strategic consideration is how to leverage cloud computing - whether public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid models - to gain agility, reduce costs, and adapt IT to changing demands and technologies.
Work is something you do, not a place you go: flexible working means creating a a workplace model that enables communication and collaboration regardless of location or device.Done well, flexible working creates sustainable competitive advantage in the form of top talent retention and a reduction in the fixed-cost for property.
A presentation on the challenges around BYOD – and more importantly how to make a successful transition to the next-generation workspace that addresses the technology, security, legal and change management aspects.
This business briefing discussion focuses on:
What is this new IPv6 everyone is talking about?
What new features is IPv6 going to give us?
Technically, IPv6 offers very little that IPv4 cannot do presently. However, it does offer your business a chance for continual growth and expansion into areas that are developing rapidly, and a chance to have a business edge on some of your competitors.
In today’s consumer technology world,
the quality of the experience is
everything. So why shouldn’t the
business IT experience be as good as
the one we enjoy at home, during our
leisure time?
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
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Flavours of IaaS
There are two main flavours of IaaS Clouds:
Management
Server
Cluster
Server
Cluster
Server
Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
Software Defined Networks
(e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Elastic Block Storage
Enterprise Class IaaS
(ECI)
Commodity IaaS
(Commodity Cloud)
...it’s very important which types of workloads you are planning to host and in which cloud
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Commodity IaaS
Intended for “Cloud applications” (web-scale applications)
Designed for scale
VM failure acceptable
Limited high availability in zones/ POD’s
(No guarantee on zone reliability)
Applications required to be distributed across availability
zones for redundancy
Applications to be designed to handle node level failure
Software Defined Networks
(e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Elastic Block Storage
Concepts & highlights
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Enterprise Class IaaS
Intended for Enterprise class applications
Designed for performance
VM is protected
Highly availability network
Achieve significant reliability for applications running in
single zone
Achieve redundancy by replicating to secondary zone
Existing workloads will run reliably
Concepts & highlights
Management
Server
Cluster
Server
Cluster
Server
Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
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Cloud Workloads
Traditional Workloads Distributed (Cloud) Workloads
Reliable Hardware platform
High performance
Provides Disaster Recovery
capability
Expect failure. Build apps that
can withstand infrastructure
failure
Build application for multi-site
redundancy across zones
Expect failure. Design app for it.Expect reliability. Protect entire cloud.
Possible to categorise workloads into two areas
Enterprise Class IaaS (ECI) Commodity Cloud
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Elements of Cloud Computing Value
Computing, Network, Storage and
Applications resources
providing Cloud platform
Utility
Pricing
Elastic
Resource
Capacity
3rd Party
Owned
Economic Elements
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-grow
No CapEx
Architecture
Elements
Simple
Abstract Environment
Critical Services
Strategic Elements
Focus on your core business
Management
Automation
Self Service
Provisioning
Managed
Operations
Virtualised
Resources
11. 11
Invested in a Vblock solution in 2010 and have consolidated a large
percentage of their server environment using VMware vSphere
Highly Virtualised with approx. 106 Virtual Machines
Organisation delivers $750M annual revenue
No Effective Disaster Recovery
Primary customer Data Centre inadequate due to unreliable power
Data Centre Infrastructure Refresh due September 2013
Overextended IT Operational team
Use Case – Virtual Private DC
Customer Background
Customer Challenges
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Risk mitigation strategy for existing Data Centre
Risk mitigation strategy for business continuity
Leverage operating model of cloud and value-add services
Use Case – Virtual Private DC
Customer Requirements / Strategy
Logicalis Solutions
Migration of entire on-premise environment to Logicalis VPDC
Leverage VM Replication, Backup and Operational service
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Consolidated a large percentage of their server environment using VMware vSphere
Highly Virtualised with approx. 150 Virtual Machines
Currently own and operate 2 x DC’s – Primary and DR
Use Case – DRaaS
Customer Background
Customer Challenges
No Effective DR
Existing DR compute platform doesn’t support the DR capacity requirements
DR Infrastructure scheduled for refresh Q1 2014
Data Protection Challenges
Overextended IT Operational team
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Short Term
Risk mitigation strategy for business continuity
Data Centre infrastructure refresh avoidance (DR Site)
Provide a DR platform that scales inline with the production environment
Mid Term
Leverage Operating & Commercial model of cloud and value-add services
Operational outsourcing of infrastructure management
Transparent pricing allowing price per project or dept. chargeback
Address Data Protection challenges
Use Case – DRaaS
Customer Requirements / Strategy
Logicalis Solution
Leverage Logicalis Hybrid DRaaS
Meet short-term goals while reducing TCO for DR
Roadmap to migrate to Logicalis VPDC to accommodate mid-term requirements in future
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VPDC – What Does it Mean to You?
Dynamic Shared
Infrastructure
Network Services
FW, VPN, IDS, VLANs, IP
Compute Services
CPU, Memory
Storage Services
Performance Tiers
Virtualisation Services
Hypervisors
Service
Management
Capacity
Management
Availability
Management
Security
Management
Performance
Management
Service
Level
Management
Event
Monitoring
Asset
Management
Configuration
Management
Usage
Metering
Service
Level
Management
Business
Management
Customer
Information
Incident &
Problem Mgmt
Service
Analytics
Customer
Management
Chargeback
Billing
Financial
Analytics
Financial
Management
Application Workloads
Orchestration & Automation Layer
Cloud Portal
Policy Based
Controls
Services
Catalog
Request
Management
SLA
Dashboard
Service Order
Management
Customer
Registration
Authentication
& Authorisation
Service
Provisioning
Account
Management
A p p A p p A p p A p p A p p
Complete
Enterprise
Data Centre
18. 18
Will it allow IT to be run as a business?
Evolve from reactive to proactive?
IT as a business partner?
Will it allow IT to deliver more innovation to
stakeholders?
Reduce operational cost?
IT to deliver more business value?
Will it allow IT minimise fire fighting and reduce risk?
Will it allow IT do more, faster?
VPDC – What Does it Mean to You?
19. 19
What we see!
Allows organisations to implement an entire Enterprise Data Centre without the
large capital expense
Provides access to mature service and business management systems to assist
in service evaluation and financial analytics
Leverage complimentary services such as backup, replication and operational
management to allow the right level of protection to your workloads without the
complexities
Allows organisations to remove commodity aspects of operational management
Maintain control and privacy through SLAs and secure multi-tenant architectures
Reduce TCO
VPDC – What Does it Mean to You?
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Cloud Service Provider Selection
1. Do they provide the Cloud Service that meets you
needs? Commodity v. Enterprise
2. Do they have in-house Professional Services to assist
/ perform Cloud migrations?
3. Flexible Offering? Connectivity Options?
4. Data Sovereignty
5. SLA’s? Do they align to your business?
6. Pricing? Can they financially justify?
7. Security. Does their offering assist you in meeting your
industry regulation compliance? PCI-DSS, etc.
8. Help Desk Support? Service Desk Certification (ISO
20000, ITIL)
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Criteria for Cloud Service Provider Selection
Security
Regulation Compliance
Data Ownership &
Transferability
Privacy
Provider Transparency
Auditability
Company and Facilities
Financial Stability
Data Centre Locations
3rd Party Certifications
(eg. ISO, ITIL)
Network Services
Help Desk Support
Pricing
Pricing Metrics Comparisons
Fixed vs Variable Rates
In Use vs Inactive
Software Licensing Costs
and Models
Compatibility
Help Desk Support
Network Connectivity &
Bandwidth
Software Supported
Programming Language
Offerings
Transaction Performance
Application Availability
Data Accessibility
Processing Speeds
Load Balancing
Scaling Capabilities
SLA Offerings
Storage Performance
Storage Availability
Storage Type
Scaling Capabilities
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Migration Strategy
Q. What is the best way to connect to the
cloud? MPLS, VPN, Point-2-Point?
Q. How do I migrate my server
environment?
- Limit Risk
- Limit migration outage
Q. Can I re-use my Licenses in the Cloud?
Q. How can I be sure that my environment
will work in the Cloud?
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Cloud Migration Methodology
Assess & Plan
Design
& Build
Pilot Commission
• Assess Networks and
Security architecture
• Assess Applications,
workloads and
dependencies
• Determine Migration
requirements, rollback
plan and risks
• Develop high level
network architecture,
migration strategy and
rollout plan
• Develop network and
security design
• Determine VM server
configuration design
• Network
• Storage
• Backup
• Replication
• Document migration
schedule
• Deploy and configure
network and security
design
• Define Pilot objective
• Document Pilot test plan
• Migrate pilot servers
• Configure servers as per
configuration design
• Perform user acceptance
testing (UAT)
• Document pilot results
What is the best way to
connect to the cloud and
how do we migrate my
server environment?
What’s the best design to
meet my requirements
and what is the migration
schedule timeline?
How do we deliver on
time, within budget, to
our organisation?
Will the design and
migration strategy meet
my success criteria?
• Migrate servers as per
migration schedule
• Configure servers as per
configuration design
• Perform user acceptance
testing (UAT)
• Optimise environment
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Summary
Different types and flavours of Cloud. Choose wisely
that best aligns to your workloads.
Seven (7) Elements of Cloud Value – What resonates
with you?
What does Cloud mean to you?
Complete (Turnkey) Enterprise Data Centre
Reduce Risk
Remove commodity aspects of operational management
Strategic value to business?
Editor's Notes
WorkloadsTraditional Enterprise ApplicationsDev Labs & Test EnvironmentsHigh Performance Computing Batch ProcessingWeb / Mobile ApplicationsDisaster RecoveryCommodity CloudsApplication architected to take advantage of commodity cloudsTraditional applications are not particularly suited for commodity cloudsApplications can’t rely on infrastructure and they need to implement redundancy and high availability mechanismsEnterprise CloudsTraditional applications run reliably on Enterprise IaaSProvides highly available infrastructure to support applicationsProvides redundancy through replication
What is
A VPDC solution contains all the core elements to operate an enterprise-level data centre.A VPDC helps an organisation avoid the massive capital operational costs incurred for an in-house data center, while maintaining privacy and control over their cloud data center through service level agreements. Generally this includes % uptime and segregation of their rented data center resources from other clients.
Focussed on solving complex issues for customersVM Replication (DR) integrated into the core platform. Integrated Backup Optional Operational ManagementSingle pane of glass managementBased on Active / Active architectureBased on Enterprise grade equipment - Extension to current environment utilising common security and networking concepts.Certified Cisco Cloud Powered Cisco Virtual Context Firewall that either Logicalis, Customer or 3rd party can manageSelf service portal allows Customer to design their network / security preferred architectureGlobal Support Centre AccessAccess to a 24 hour, 7 day week manned Service DeskCentralised Call Management and Tracking, ensuring all IT related issues are accurately captured, controlled and monitoredISO 20000 (ITIL) auditable approach to service delivery