Moving to the cloud requires proper planning. There are many reasons to move to the cloud but without starting with a solid plan it will be difficult to achieve your objectives.
Are you prepared for the cloud?
In this webinar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Dale Tuttle discuss Making your Cloud Strategy Work in 2016, including:
- Learning the key steps to making a cloud strategy that works
- Determining how moving to the cloud impacts your staff & your business
- Learning how to align your goals with opportunities
Watch ReliaCloud and RedPath's presentation on the topic of "Developing Your Cloud Strategy". Cloud computing represents a major shift in the way that companies view infrastructure. The benefits of cloud computing are huge, but there are also some questions about security, location of data, and control that need to be addressed.
During this seminar, we will provide a quick introduction to cloud computing with a focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We will cover the five items you need to consider when putting together your cloud roadmap, including:
•Introduction to IaaS
•Developing Your Cloud Strategy
•The IaaS Decision Process
•Public vs. Private Clouds
•Case Study
In this presentation from the AWS Lab at Cloud Expo Europe 2014 you will find details of the six patterns that Enterprise organisations typically to follow when adopting Amazon Web Services as well as a summary of the licensing options available for running enterprise applications on Amazon Web Services.
(ENT305) Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Taking a "cloud first" approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You'll be diving into the deep end of hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organizational design.
Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In this session, we cover how the CAF offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organizations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
AWS Enterprise Professional Services offers a global consulting practice that can help your organization improve time-to-value and lower operational risks for your cloud projects.
Presented by Ken Sansom
Watch ReliaCloud and RedPath's presentation on the topic of "Developing Your Cloud Strategy". Cloud computing represents a major shift in the way that companies view infrastructure. The benefits of cloud computing are huge, but there are also some questions about security, location of data, and control that need to be addressed.
During this seminar, we will provide a quick introduction to cloud computing with a focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We will cover the five items you need to consider when putting together your cloud roadmap, including:
•Introduction to IaaS
•Developing Your Cloud Strategy
•The IaaS Decision Process
•Public vs. Private Clouds
•Case Study
In this presentation from the AWS Lab at Cloud Expo Europe 2014 you will find details of the six patterns that Enterprise organisations typically to follow when adopting Amazon Web Services as well as a summary of the licensing options available for running enterprise applications on Amazon Web Services.
(ENT305) Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Taking a "cloud first" approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You'll be diving into the deep end of hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organizational design.
Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In this session, we cover how the CAF offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organizations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
AWS Enterprise Professional Services offers a global consulting practice that can help your organization improve time-to-value and lower operational risks for your cloud projects.
Presented by Ken Sansom
As organizations begin their journey to the cloud, they often ask us what changes they need to make in their organizations in order to sustainably adopt cloud services. This webinar will educate attendees on charting their own cloud adoption journey by leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to sequence the transformational activities. We will go through the 7 key perspectives of the CAF that will shape your people, process, and technology strategy, and how they guide you through the 8-step journey into the cloud through the process of IT Transformation.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
The cloud has become table stakes for modern software architecture. Why do we still architect as though we are targeting our own data centers and try to force it to fit into cloud infrastructure?
This talk will focus on patterns and antipatterns to architect for the cloud, using Microsoft Azure as an example. We will cover:
Architectural Patterns
Design Principals
Cloud Design Patterns
Best Practices
Performance Antipatterns
You’ll leave with an understanding of how to architect for the cloud, along with my recommendations on how to think cloud-first.
Creating an Operating Model to enable a high frequency organizationTom Laszewski
Establishing an appropriate cloud operating model is critical to forming your organization’s successful adoption of cloud, and delivering greater business agility, increasing the cloud migration Return on Investment, and deliver a more secure, performant, reliable, and cost effective cloud computing environment. The impact of the cloud will be felt across your entire organization, including processes and people - not just Information technology. It will significantly affect, and be affected by, your organizational culture and Information technology delivery structures. This session will provide prescriptive guidance regarding the best approaches to evolving an operating model from projects to products, manual, process intensive governance to a ‘trust but verify’ model, long development cycles to continuous integration and deployment, silos between business and IT into a collaborative organizational structure, self-service processes, and continuous improvement. The recommendations in the presentation are based upon lesson learned, best practices, and anti-patterns from thousands of customer’s cloud transformation journeys.
Enterprise Adoption – Patterns for Success with AWS - BusinessAmazon Web Services
Enterprises are using AWS to both develop new sources of customer value as well as reinventing their core. In this session we will provide insights into the successful adoption patterns that have emerged. We will also discuss how enterprises have successfully navigated the people and processes challenges that initially inhibited enterprise wide adoption. Finally, we will provide you with a framework to assess where you are on your Cloud journey and tangible takeaways that will help you accelerate.
Speaker: Shannon O'Brien, Enterprise Sales Manager, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - Strategy&
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly, up from less than 5%. (Sky High Networks) It's clear that the cloud is no longer just a fad - it's here to stay, and 2015 will be a year full of continued cloud education and cloud adoption. Plan your cloud strategy now, with these tips.
Cloud Enablement Engine Role Definition and MappingTom Laszewski
Question: How do traditional roles map to cloud roles. As an operations person, what things will I do when the cloud is deployed.
Answer: The following slides provide an example of mapping of traditional roles to cloud roles. The content is a bit generic and was initially intended for a larger global enterprise, but the roles, skills and concepts may be helpful for discussion.
An Agile Approach to Accelerate Mass Migration | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The complexities of a cloud transformation program that involves the migration of hundreds or thousands of servers can present a significant challenge to program management and the coordination of IT teams tasked with the success and support of migration. This session outlines a highly collaborative agile approach to accelerate migration activities through automation of the iterative capture, sharing, and documentation of decisions and information, incorporated into a common DevOps solution.
Although the Cloud is now mainstream for many large Enterprises, organisations who truly aim to maximise the value of their cloud platform also focus on refactoring the model by which they operate their IT. In this session you will learn about the latest developments in operations within the cloud, including operational processes, architecture, governance, organisation structure, and monitoring tools to maximise agility. This session will highlight the features of a Cloud-enabled IT operating model and how AWS customers benefit from delivering a new approach to IT.
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - NAB
AWS Cloud Center Excellence Quick Start Prescriptive GuidanceTom Laszewski
This presentation is a practical playbook for defining, establishing, and implementing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE). It collates and summarizes the lessons learned and anti-patterns gathered from the CEE journeys successfully navigated at Amazon and other large enterprise companies. A lot has been written about the need to establish a CEE, the benefits of moving to a productization mindset, and the business value of tribes, guilds, and two-pizza teams. However, larger organizations are still struggling with a CEE 30-60-90 day plan, and the essential components of the CEE during its first six months in existence.
The prescriptive guidance in this presentation provides pragmatic and tactical advice for establishing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) – also referred to as a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) or Cloud Enablement Team. This presentation serves as a step-by-step guide for the initial setup activities, and the top ten best practices that have been extrapolated from working across a large number of customers. What not to do is as important as what to do. Therefore, the top ten anti-patterns are discussed.
A key focus of the CEE is transforming the IT organization from an on-premise operating model to a Cloud Operating Model (COM). The transformation to COM and the charter of a CEE are highly correlated and interconnected. During the nascent stage of the CEE, the focus of the CEE will be on the infrastructure components of a COM. This includes the operations, security & control, platform architecture & governance, and infrastructure provisioning & configuration management functions. AWS understands that enterprise (on-premises) operating models are based on ITIL. Therefore, the cloud transformation from an on-premises operating model to a COM will include mapping ITIL to a cloud, agile, and DevOps based capabilities and processes. Fortunately, ITIL 4.0 embraces DevOps, cloud, and agile.
This is a 2 hour strategy workshop developed by Predrag Mitrovic (http://mynethouse.se and http://cloudadvisor.se).
The workshop is intended for CIOs and roles close to business strategy formulation around technology. Feel free to use the material and develop it further, as long as you give me access to the updated materials.
Any questions can be directed to my e-mail: predrag[at]mynethouse.se
I hope that you enjoy this material and find it useful.
/Predrag a.k.a Cloud Advisor
Moving your IT to the Cloud with an Enterprise Cloud Strategymstockwell
Gaining business benefits from Cloud requires much more than just using a cloud provider because they're cheaper: You need an Enterprise Cloud Strategy. This presentation addresses why you need an Enterprise Cloud Strategy, what your strategy should encompass, and what benefits will be gained.
As organizations begin their journey to the cloud, they often ask us what changes they need to make in their organizations in order to sustainably adopt cloud services. This webinar will educate attendees on charting their own cloud adoption journey by leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to sequence the transformational activities. We will go through the 7 key perspectives of the CAF that will shape your people, process, and technology strategy, and how they guide you through the 8-step journey into the cloud through the process of IT Transformation.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
The cloud has become table stakes for modern software architecture. Why do we still architect as though we are targeting our own data centers and try to force it to fit into cloud infrastructure?
This talk will focus on patterns and antipatterns to architect for the cloud, using Microsoft Azure as an example. We will cover:
Architectural Patterns
Design Principals
Cloud Design Patterns
Best Practices
Performance Antipatterns
You’ll leave with an understanding of how to architect for the cloud, along with my recommendations on how to think cloud-first.
Creating an Operating Model to enable a high frequency organizationTom Laszewski
Establishing an appropriate cloud operating model is critical to forming your organization’s successful adoption of cloud, and delivering greater business agility, increasing the cloud migration Return on Investment, and deliver a more secure, performant, reliable, and cost effective cloud computing environment. The impact of the cloud will be felt across your entire organization, including processes and people - not just Information technology. It will significantly affect, and be affected by, your organizational culture and Information technology delivery structures. This session will provide prescriptive guidance regarding the best approaches to evolving an operating model from projects to products, manual, process intensive governance to a ‘trust but verify’ model, long development cycles to continuous integration and deployment, silos between business and IT into a collaborative organizational structure, self-service processes, and continuous improvement. The recommendations in the presentation are based upon lesson learned, best practices, and anti-patterns from thousands of customer’s cloud transformation journeys.
Enterprise Adoption – Patterns for Success with AWS - BusinessAmazon Web Services
Enterprises are using AWS to both develop new sources of customer value as well as reinventing their core. In this session we will provide insights into the successful adoption patterns that have emerged. We will also discuss how enterprises have successfully navigated the people and processes challenges that initially inhibited enterprise wide adoption. Finally, we will provide you with a framework to assess where you are on your Cloud journey and tangible takeaways that will help you accelerate.
Speaker: Shannon O'Brien, Enterprise Sales Manager, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - Strategy&
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly, up from less than 5%. (Sky High Networks) It's clear that the cloud is no longer just a fad - it's here to stay, and 2015 will be a year full of continued cloud education and cloud adoption. Plan your cloud strategy now, with these tips.
Cloud Enablement Engine Role Definition and MappingTom Laszewski
Question: How do traditional roles map to cloud roles. As an operations person, what things will I do when the cloud is deployed.
Answer: The following slides provide an example of mapping of traditional roles to cloud roles. The content is a bit generic and was initially intended for a larger global enterprise, but the roles, skills and concepts may be helpful for discussion.
An Agile Approach to Accelerate Mass Migration | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The complexities of a cloud transformation program that involves the migration of hundreds or thousands of servers can present a significant challenge to program management and the coordination of IT teams tasked with the success and support of migration. This session outlines a highly collaborative agile approach to accelerate migration activities through automation of the iterative capture, sharing, and documentation of decisions and information, incorporated into a common DevOps solution.
Although the Cloud is now mainstream for many large Enterprises, organisations who truly aim to maximise the value of their cloud platform also focus on refactoring the model by which they operate their IT. In this session you will learn about the latest developments in operations within the cloud, including operational processes, architecture, governance, organisation structure, and monitoring tools to maximise agility. This session will highlight the features of a Cloud-enabled IT operating model and how AWS customers benefit from delivering a new approach to IT.
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - NAB
AWS Cloud Center Excellence Quick Start Prescriptive GuidanceTom Laszewski
This presentation is a practical playbook for defining, establishing, and implementing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE). It collates and summarizes the lessons learned and anti-patterns gathered from the CEE journeys successfully navigated at Amazon and other large enterprise companies. A lot has been written about the need to establish a CEE, the benefits of moving to a productization mindset, and the business value of tribes, guilds, and two-pizza teams. However, larger organizations are still struggling with a CEE 30-60-90 day plan, and the essential components of the CEE during its first six months in existence.
The prescriptive guidance in this presentation provides pragmatic and tactical advice for establishing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) – also referred to as a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) or Cloud Enablement Team. This presentation serves as a step-by-step guide for the initial setup activities, and the top ten best practices that have been extrapolated from working across a large number of customers. What not to do is as important as what to do. Therefore, the top ten anti-patterns are discussed.
A key focus of the CEE is transforming the IT organization from an on-premise operating model to a Cloud Operating Model (COM). The transformation to COM and the charter of a CEE are highly correlated and interconnected. During the nascent stage of the CEE, the focus of the CEE will be on the infrastructure components of a COM. This includes the operations, security & control, platform architecture & governance, and infrastructure provisioning & configuration management functions. AWS understands that enterprise (on-premises) operating models are based on ITIL. Therefore, the cloud transformation from an on-premises operating model to a COM will include mapping ITIL to a cloud, agile, and DevOps based capabilities and processes. Fortunately, ITIL 4.0 embraces DevOps, cloud, and agile.
This is a 2 hour strategy workshop developed by Predrag Mitrovic (http://mynethouse.se and http://cloudadvisor.se).
The workshop is intended for CIOs and roles close to business strategy formulation around technology. Feel free to use the material and develop it further, as long as you give me access to the updated materials.
Any questions can be directed to my e-mail: predrag[at]mynethouse.se
I hope that you enjoy this material and find it useful.
/Predrag a.k.a Cloud Advisor
Moving your IT to the Cloud with an Enterprise Cloud Strategymstockwell
Gaining business benefits from Cloud requires much more than just using a cloud provider because they're cheaper: You need an Enterprise Cloud Strategy. This presentation addresses why you need an Enterprise Cloud Strategy, what your strategy should encompass, and what benefits will be gained.
Step Up to the Plate: Take Your Cloud Strategy from the Minor League to the M...Dave Roberts
Many enterprises are working on cloud computing strategies. Unfortunately, most are taking a tactical view of the situation and optimizing on the wrong things. In short, they are playing "small ball," which will result in suboptimal outcomes and possibly failed projects. To ensure your cloud project has the best chance of success, you'll need to think through a larger strategy. You'll need to step up to the major leagues. This presentation can help.
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
We heard plenty of new buzz surrounding the digital workplace transformation at Microsoft Ignite and we're excited to share it with you. Microsoft's journey to greater collaboration and productivity continues to evolve.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO, and Dale Tuttle, COO of Portal Solutions look back on the happenings at Ignite and share with you the latest from Microsoft.
Shift Happens is a blog that focuses on how transformational technology changes (cloud computing, social networking, social media, etc) present big challenges and opportunities for many of us. We'll discuss specific steps that we can take today to take advantages of changes.
Describe services offer by Guppers for Cloud and Mobile. It allows small or medium businesses migrates to cloud incrementally, access the data from any cell phone, and do some integration.
Boosting Team Productivity By Getting Them Addicted to POTAndy Harjanto
The way we work today is vastly different that 10 years ago. Mobile, Cloud, Social Networking shape the way we work today. Yet, many collaboration tools stuck in 1990s decade. POT is a new model that embraces these changes and take the productiviity into a new level.
How To Get Your Team Participating and Collaborating More EffectivelyAndy Harjanto
Prescriptive guideline on how team collaboration can be enhanced. Special focus is given to the technology portions. Human behaviors are a very important part, but they're not part of this presentation scope.
How To Connect To Your Customers, Partners Securely, Privately and EffectivelyAndy Harjanto
One of the hardest problems technically is to allow external collaborators to work with internal team effectively. Security and privacy are the chief concerns. With the new paradigm shift, it brings big opportunities for us to do this correctly.
Multiple cloud storage platforms. Hybrid environments. File shares. Cloud storage. Are you struggling with migrating from one platform to another while maintaining several cloud platforms?
In this informative webinar with Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO at Portal Solutions, and Doak Williford of SkySync, learn how to easily migrate from DropBox to Office 365, while maintaining hybrid on-premise and cloud environments. Ease the pain of cutover migration.
No matter your industry or the department you lead, if you're a decision-maker you must measure the health of your department and business. Ready to move from using manual, non-automated, disparate data to an easy to use modern business intelligence solution? Transform your department's data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize so you can focus on what matters most to you.
Discover how Microsoft Power BI enables managers and executives the ability to visualize data in a meaningful way based on KPI’s or specific use cases. It's time to reduce risks, increase rewards and unlock insights to make more informed decisions.
You started out with the best of intentions. Then things started to go wrong.
You wanted to deploy an intranet solution to improve communication and collaboration. You had dreams of engaged employees easily sharing and managing their content. But then things started to go wrong. If your intranet is failing, it's likely that your intentions were sound, but your expectations were unrealistic.
In this webinar Daniel Cohen-Dumani, founder and CEO of Portal Solutions and OneWindow Workplace, tells us about the 7 Signs Your Intranet is Failing (...And How to Fix It).
We discussed:
- The seven signs of a failing intranet
- Using the right tool(s) for your organization's needs
- Governance planning
- Setting goals and measuring ROI
- The overwhelming importance of having a plan
SharePoint 2016 is coming and with it, Microsoft puts the focus on hybrid solutions.
What do you need to know?
In this webnar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Jill Hannemann discuss SharePoint 2016, including:
- What is a hybrid solution?
- How has hybrid grown in importance?
- What new hybrid capabilities are coming?
- How will hybrid solutions impact the future of SharePoint?
- What other changes should we expect?
Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2007-2014 - Gartner
Top 10 Xu Hướng Chiến Lược Công Nghệ 2007-2014 - Gartner.
A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. These technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
You may have heard the buzz - Microsoft has announced their release of a new messaging app for Office 365 - Microsoft Teams. This release is in response to the competitor in the collaborative chat service field, Slack.
Microsoft Teams fully integrates with Office 365 and is highly customizable. The new app has the ability to start an online meeting with your team, schedule a meeting, gather your thoughts, brainstorm, and collaborate on documents.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Joshua Steiner talk about why these types of apps are so popular, what makes Microsoft Teams unique and how the new app will impact your Office 365 experience.
Twitter and Facebook are the new phenomena. Many Facebook users and other users fail to understand how Twitter could be used, especially if Facebook has done a wonderful job connecting to friends and family. This presentation clears up the confusion and unveils opportunities in front of you.
What do you need to consider when moving to the cloud? Whether you are new to the cloud or if it’s part of your existing strategy, it’s crucial to understand the business impact to be successful and achieve your goals. In this webinar, we discussed the impact moving towards the Microsoft Cloud will have on your business. Understanding and managing these changes will help you reduce the costs of these changes and improve the business value of your cloud investments.
Digital workplace expert, Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO of Portal Solutions, and Dale Tuttle, Founder of Porter Briggs Consulting, discussed how to prepare, plan and successfully move your organization to the cloud.
Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale – Chris Wegmann, ...Amazon Web Services
At the end of this session participants will learn how to assess their enterprise application portfolio and move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion. Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively to ensure a strong ROI.
Moving to the cloud in regulated environmentsKev Miller
Moving to the cloud in regulated environments - presentation by Astrix President, Dale Curtis at Lab Informatics Summit - details the process for moving from traditional premise-based lab tech to the cloud
Time is an illusion, cloud time doubly so!Fujitsu UK
Ian Mitchell's presentation from the Cloud Computing World Forum - see also http://blogs.ts.fujitsu.com/uk-ie/cloud/2011/06/time-is-an-illusion-cloud-time-doubly-so
The System Administrator Role in the Cloud Era: Better Than Ever (ENT212) | A...Amazon Web Services
With developers and business leaders driving the charge into cloud computing, where does this leave the IT department and, to put it bluntly, me, the sysadmin? Fear not, IT operation skills are highly relevant and in demand in the cloud era, but it might take a little repositioning on your part to get the opportunity. In this session, Forrester analyst James Staten shares how the leading sysadmins are engaging the business on their cloud journey and what they have done to evolve their role, advance their skills, and position themselves as IT change agents and leaders for the next generation.
Organizations need a plan for moving from their current state toward cloud models based on standardized and consolidated platforms, shared services, self-service and metered use. How can organizations get started on the evolution to cloud computing? This webcast explores how enterprises can create a roadmap to cloud computing, including developing the business case; financial models; governance considerations; security considerations; organizational, policy and process considerations; and technical architecture considerations.
Agile IT: Filling in the Gaps in the Azure vs. AWS debateJoel Brda
This presentation discusses how licensing and business services can be a strong decision point, how existing staffing skills and culture make a difference, and how to align business and technical directives with the vendor. It also touches on 2 key technical decisions: staffing and technical directions. Visit www.agileit.com to learn more.
A managed journey to the cloud requires that IT Leaders:
- Engage Lines of Business leaders as partners
- Establish a cloud migration strategy that meets the needs of the business
- Enlists their key technology providers' commitment to that strategy
Hear more at the 2016 Quest Executive Forum in Las Vegas on April 12.
Best Practices for Working from Home During Time of Crisis – How Microsoft 365 Can Help
In this informative webinar to learn about best practices for managing working from home and how to leverage the power of Microsoft 365 to improve business continuity, productivity and security during a crisis.
Whether you are already utilizing Office 365 or are planning to move, it's important to understand the ever-changing security threat landscape and how you can protect your digital estate.
Don't miss our webinar to learn how to proactively safeguard your company against threats with the help of Microsoft 365.
Int his webinar we address the security challenges we are seeing in 2020 and show you areas of Microsoft 365 that can help you:
- Protect and govern data where it lives
- Identify and remediate critical insider risks
- Investigate and respond with relevant data
Have you heard of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) yet? It may be viewed as a simple equation, IPA = BPA (Business Process Automation) + RPA (Robotics Process Automation) .
BPA represents the long standing traditional way of automating processes over the years using technology to streamline activities and tasks and RPA being the emerging technology that seeks to employ Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to extract repetitive and mundane handled by human actors to that of ro-“bots” who’s job it is to improve efficiencies and reduce potential errors and omissions.
In this webinar, we show you various cross sections of approaches especially around the Microsoft Stack and Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) like K2, on how you can achieve rapid success within your organization with a combination of what you may already own and what you can easily acquire to take your work processes to the next level.
You’re all in. Whether you just have Office 365 – or the whole suite of Microsoft 365: Windows 10, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, you’re likely using an intranet built on Office 365, or are planning on it. Over the last 15 years we’ve seen what employees MUST HAVE to continually rely on a corporate Intranet.
In this session, Microsoft MVP, Adam Levithan, discusses the most important pieces that your Intranet can have to build culture, centralize knowledge and help employees be productive.
Are you one of the 200,000+ organizations that have rolled out Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams has been Microsoft's fastest growing business applications in company history, and for good reason! The power of teamwork and real time collaboration in the digital workplace using Microsoft Teams has been making a huge impact on productivity. In this session we discuss what Microsoft Teams is and how to use it, as well as how organizations are saving time and improving collaboration and communication using the product.
Microsoft Teams just appeared for many Office 365 subscribers. Since then, it’s been “On,” but has not been officially rolled out. Many are lacking the enterprise plan for how Teams should be used, and as a result, users have gone rogue and started creating Teams and using it without any formal policy.
In this webinar, Jill Hannemann goes over Administration policies you should care about, how to rein in existing Teams, and set forth communication on governance moving forward.
This is your governance guide to enterprise roll outs for Microsoft Teams!
Every project manager seeks organization, engagement with their team, timeliness of work completion, and success for their project.
Some projects are very complex and need to use some of the heavy project management tools such as Microsoft Project. Others are less complex and can easily be managed with Microsoft Teams and Planner integration. The ease of communication and collaboration in Microsoft Teams combined with the time saved getting work done quickly make it a powerful toolkit for project managers.
In this webinar, we talked about:
- Ideas for how you can use Microsoft Teams to manage you projects successfully
- How to use Planner right within Microsoft Teams
- Information about other project management related third party apps that can be leveraged within Microsoft Teams
In today's world of business, the need for video conferencing solutions has never been greater. With the combination of Microsoft and Logitech, it couldn't be any easier.
In this webinar with experts from Withum and Logitech see how easy and inexpensive it is to utilize Logitech's video conferencing solutions with Microsoft's Teams and Skype for Business. Learn about the fundamentals for planning a video conference room as well as what equipment will turn your room into a high quality, fully functioning, video conference center.
You'll learn:
-Key points on designing a video conference room
-How to install and set up your video conferencing equipment
-How easy it is to join a conference using Logitech SmartDock
Each year tech professionals from all around the world gather for the Microsoft Ignite conference to check out the latest technology, tools and announcements from Microsoft.
Didn't make it there or just want a good summary of everything that went on? A few of our digital workplace experts were in attendance and share everything you need to know in this on-demand webinar
This year Office 365 turns 5. Has it really been that long? Never before in our technical language has one word "Modern" taken on so many different meanings!
Starting in 2013, Office 365 took on the basic form we know today. Through these 5 years Office 365 has seen many changes, with one of the latest being Modern pages, sites, framework etc. Yes, Modern is not only about look and feel but how Office 365 is being built and how it can simplify how your employees collaborate and communicate.
In this webinar, Microsoft MVP, Adam Levithan looks at:
- Major differences between Classic vs. Modern experiences
- What modern means to an everyday employee
- Future roadmap of Office 365 features
Organizations are changing. People want to work in a more efficient and digitalized way allowing them to be successful at their day to day job.
Business users want to be involved in the decision around the systems and platforms that are being implemented. However, the pace of change that IT is able to handle might not be in sync with that the business users are asking for. When the IT strategy ignores this movement, shadow IT and employee retention can be impacted negatively.
In this webinar, Withum's Fabian Williams, MVP and Jethro Seghers of SkySync, discuss how workforce modernization can help you avoid the issues that might rise with this movement.
In this webinar we cover:
- How do you make content transparently available for the right users within the right tools?
- How do you enable content integration between the different platforms without having to recreate content?
- How to implement automation over these disparate data sources into your line of business processes and/or employee interactions
- How organizations can embrace change without sacrificing corporate culture & policies.
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Make your cloud strategy work for 2016 webinar 1.13.16
1. Making Your Cloud Strategy Work in 2016
Presenters: Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Dale Tuttle
2. Daniel Cohen-Dumani
@dcohendumani
Founder
and CEO
14+ years of SharePoint Expertise
SharePoint Visionary
Interests: Productivity in the
Digital Workplace. Work 2.0
Started working with SharePoint
when nobody could spell it
About Daniel
4. About Portal Solutions
We deliver Digital
Workplace Products
and Solutions that help
organizations share
what they know and
find what they need by
connecting people,
data, and content.
5. Tech Trends
Cloud Adoption
The Microsoft Cloud
Achieving Your 2016 Cloud Strategy
Practical Steps
Architectural Impacts
Agenda
7. Infrastructure: “Prepare For 2020: Transform Your IT Infrastructure And Operations Practice.” Forrester Research. Oct. 24, 2012
Apps: Gartner: “Predicts 2013: Business Impact of Technology Drives the Futures Application Services Market.” Nov. 21, 2012
Devices: “Info Workers Will Erase Boundary Between enterprise And Consumer Technologies.” Forrester Research. August 30, 2012
IoT: Paraphrased from "The Impact of the Internet of Things on Data Centers." Gartner Research, Feb 27, 2014
Data: Big data: Compiled from IDC digital universe forecasts
DEVICES
>50%
information workers
across 17 countries
using 3+ devices
THINGS
26B
IoT units by 2020,
creating large amounts
of data and generating
>$300B in revenue
APPS
25%
external app
implementation spend
will be on mobility,
cloud, analytics &
social by 2016
DATA
40ZB
the size of digital
universe by 2020, of
which 90% will be
unstructured data
INFRA
~50%
total IT spend will be
cloud-related by 2020
9. Why are you considering a move to the cloud?
Poll
10. The Microsoft Cloud
The right
personal
experience in a
trusted cloud
Open
platform for
development
flexibility
Rigorous
security and
compliance
Flexible,
hyper-scale
HybridEnterprise
grade
Hyper-scale
A complete
cloud designed
for the
enterprise
CRMOL
O365
Azure
11. Microsoft Cloud
PRODUCTIVITY
• Configure Your Own SaaS
Applications
• Manage Relational Data
• Build Custom Applications for
your business
• Documents
• Email, Cal, Tasks
• Power BI
• Social/Collaboration
PLATFORM
BUSINESS APPS
• IaaS
• PaaS
• Compute, Application and
Data Services
Active
Directory
Azure Azure
12. Azure: Comprehensive Cloud Services
FrameworksInfrastructure
Automated
Managed resources
Elastic
Usage based1 2 3
North America Region
Asia Region
Japan Region
Australia Region
China
Region
Latin America Region
Europe Region
Brazil S
Central
US
S. Central
West US
East US
US Gov
VA
N. Central
N. Europe
W. Europe
Japan
E
Japan W
SE Asia
E Asia
Australia SEAustralia E
India Region
US Gov
Iowa
Services
*Not meant to be a comprehensive list of all services, for a complete list please visit azure.microsoft.com
APP SERVICES
NETWORKING & AUTOMATION SERVICES
DATA SERVICESCOMPUTE SERVICES
Azure Web
Site
Web
roles
Worker
roles
Virtual
Machines
Azure Mobile
Services
TFS or
VS Online + GIT
Azure
AD
Multi-Factor
Auth
Azure
Cache
Access Control BizTalk
Services
Media
Services
Service Bus Notification
Hub
Scheduler
Azure Site
Recovery
StorSimple
Virtual
Appliance
Backup
Service
Gallery
OS images
VHD VHD data
disk
MySQL
database
SQL
Database
SQL Data
Sync
HDInsight
(Hadoop)
storage
queue
storage
blob
storage
table
Virtual network Automation CDN
Availability Set
Azure load
balancer
Auto-scale
Traffic
Manager
14. Step 1: Understand Your Context
Do You have an existing Cloud Strategy?
What steps has your firm already taken?
Most firms have adopted some sort of cloud technology
Business Apps (Office 365, Google for Work, etc.)
Email perhaps one of the most common cloud technologies
So what happens without a good strategy?
Uneven adoption
Unable to achieve tactical objectives
You will complicate your IT operations
16. Step 2: Understand Your Business Drivers
To be successful, you need to know:
The compelling business reasons/drivers to move to the Cloud
How stakeholders align with those drivers
How your existing strategy aligns with your 2016 adoption plans
The three most common drivers
Improve agility of business
Transform IT Ops (not necessarily cost-driven)
Reduce Costs (IT or business costs)
17. Common Cloud Business Drivers
Increase
Business Agility
Reduce IT
Footprint
Improve Agility
Increase IT ROI
Involve business
in development
Reduce time-to-
develop
Transform IT
Operations
Control HW/SW
Sprawl
Reduce IT Costs
18. Most Impacts are Non-Technical
People (including Organizational)
Business Processes
Governance Policies
Budgets
Some are Technical
IT Architecture (Hybrid Environment)
These Ultimately Impact ROI
Must be Carefully Managed
Step 3. Know the Impacts of Cloud Adoption
Initial Move to the
Cloud
Aligning with an
Existing Cloud
Strategy
19. People
Required Developer Skill Sets will Change
Developers will Need Cloud Programming
Skills
Integration Skills for Hybrid Environments
Understand Cloud Security
Mobile
Infrastructure Support Staff
Must be able to Manage Hybrid
Environments
Requirement for Infrastructure Support
Skills will Decrease Over Time
Organizational/Governance
IT Organization will Change
Shift from On-Premise Service Provider to
Managing a Hybrid Environment
Composite App Provider
Manage On-Prem and Cloud Vendor
Relationships
Governance and Policy Changes
Need Policies and Governance for the
Hybrid Environment
Impacts on People and Organizations
20. Impacts On Business Processes
Processes may be Eliminated, Changed, or
Added
• Dependent on Types of Services Moved to the Cloud
Identify and Analyze how Core Processes
are Affected
Keep In Mind
• Changes to Processes will Normally Incur Costs
• Will Impact on People (Feedback Loop)
21. Impacts On Budgets
Moving to the Cloud Shifts Costs from Capital Costs
to Operational Costs (Capex to Opex)
• This is usually a concern for larger firms
Don't Forget to Assess Your License Commitments
• Time Your Move to the Cloud with HW/SW License Renewal
Cycle to Extent Possible
Understand How Cloud Charges are Incurred
22. IT Environment Impacts
Hybrid Environments Becoming the Norm
Imposes Changes to:
Administration
Governance/Policies
Developers
All Need to be Factored into Costs and Budget Planning
23. Understanding Architectural Changes
As you adopt the Cloud…you will probably build a hybrid environment
"Most Enterprises are not Migrating Apps to the Cloud –They are Evolving
Them"
James Staten, VP Principal Analyst at Forrester
Why and How Firms are Adopting Cloud Platforms (February 18 2015)
Currently Chief Strategist: Cloud + Enterprise Division
Cloud Vendors (often different ones) will have to integrate with your
environment
24. Don’t Have One?
Get One: Template coming soon!
Clearly identify goals of the
Overall Strategy
Simplify IT?
Reduce Costs?
Adjust the strategy based on
actual experiences
Step 4: Create or Adjust Your Cloud Strategy
Increase
Business
Agility
Reduce IT
Footprint
Improve
Agility
Increase IT
ROI
Involve
business in
development
Reduce time-
to-develop
Transform IT
Operations
Control
HW/SW
Sprawl
Reduce IT
Costs
25. Select cloud services that align with
your strategy
Create a practical 2016 Roadmap
Pick low-risk, high-payoff Cloud
services
Gain experience with those
services
Understand the impacts these
services will have
Step 5: Create Your 2016 Roadmap
Increase
Business
Agility
Reduce IT
Footprint
Improve
Agility
Increase IT
ROI
Involve
business in
development
Reduce time-
to-develop
Transform IT
Operations
Control
HW/SW
Sprawl
Reduce IT
Costs
26. 1. Move Dev/Test to the Cloud
Get on the Dev/Ops bandwagon
Azure is a great Platform to do this
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
2. Use Office 365 for
Collaboration/Social
O365 a great way to start with the
cloud
Bundled SaaS tools
Practical Steps
27. Dev/Test in the Cloud
Easy to implement
Can leverage Azure as IaaS or PaaS
(depending on your level of cloud
maturity)
Opens the door for dev/ops
This could revolutionize your
business and IT operations
Office 365
True SaaS capabilities
Brings extensive capabilities using
the cloud approach
Allows you to gain experience with
SaaS operating model
Practical Steps
29. Why Planning Matters
Responding Ad Hoc to Changes and Impacts of Cloud Adoption Places You
Behind the Curve
Scrambling to find the Developers, Managers, and Other Staff with the
Skills You Need
Creating Non-standard Governance, Development, and Other
Administrative Procedures
Decreases Efficiency
Introduces Opportunity for Security Issues Downstream
Delays ROI and Business Value
30. Inputs
Stakeholder Expectations
Business Drivers and Goals
Identify and Quantify Impacts to:
People
Organizations
Governance/Admin Policies
Budgets
IT Environment
Understand Costs
ROI for Each Investment
Assets
Statement of Business Objectives
Future IT Vision (Cloud Strategy)
Roadmap
Each Subsequent Project/Migration
Requires Validation Against these
Strategic Assets
2016 Planning Process
31. Identify and Quantify Changes and
Impacts
Incorporate into Your ROI Projections
Get the Right People to Deal with
Hybrid Environments
Benefits
Better Cost Control
Better Planning
Realistic ROI Projections
Greatly Improved Business Value
Anticipate The Coming Changes
32. How We Can Help
Cloud Strategy and Readiness Assessments
Overall strategy or tactical decision-making
Identify Stakeholders and Business Needs
Assess Options and impacts
Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Planning
Identify Stakeholder and Business Needs
Specifically Identify Impacts Based on Context of Your Deployment
Create Key Assets to Guide Your Move to the Microsoft Cloud
This Helps You:
Minimize Business Disruptions
Minimize Costs of Impacts
Achieve Business Value
Realize Your ROI Targets
33. Get A FREE Cloud Strategy
and Readiness Assessment
For Your Organization
Next Steps
33
To request your
free Impact Assessment go to
www.portalsolutions.net/impact-assessment
Thank you.
Editor's Notes
Adam Edit
Just a quick 30 seconds to level set who we are and what we do. Portal Solutions designs and delivers digital workplace solutions using Microsoft technologies. Our legacy has been in the sharepoint space, developing custom sharpoint solutions over the last 11 years, with hundreds of deployments. We have more recently been working with our customers to move them to Office 365, helping them with planning/roadmap, user experience design, technical architecture(particularly around hybrid deployments), implementation and support. We have offices located here in the Washington DC area and Boston.
At the end of presentation we will provide some specific on our approach to quickly and cost effectively setting up pilot programs on Office 365.
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So, before we jump into the meat of the session here today, we’d like to take a very quick, one-question poll to determine your motivations moving to the cloud. This will help us tailor the presentation a bit.
We are going to start the poll now so you should see a question pop up on your screen.
Core tenants
At our core, Microsoft has always been a productivity and Platform Company. We want to use that strength and experience in enterprise software development to expand our vision for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Our goal is to empower every individual in every organization on any device running any OS.
We think about productivity we think about it very broadly – it’s not just word, ppt and excel and it’s not just about the individual but about teams and business processes in a world where we continually blur the line between work and life. Today we have the most comprehensive and ubiquitous SaaS application portfolio with O365 and CRMOL. We are working to bring that alive for our US government customers today.
Mobility is no longer about the mobile device but about the mobility of the individual and the ability of that individual to be productive on any device running any OS.
Take for example Delve and Power BI - team discovery and business insights/information management
To power these SaaS applications we have built a hyper scale cloud that provides both IaaS and PaaS capabilities called Azure.
And in the center to tie this all together we have Azure AD – Azure AD integrates directory services, identity governance, security, and application access across server and cloud.
Ask Dale a question: Why this is important?
Azure AD and Access Control services– single sign-on, integrated hybrid identity
SQL Azure – not just virtualized SQL
HD Insight based on Hadoop
Express Route networking services
Azure web sites – PaaS web site creation capabilities
Media Services – Last Olympics used a solution based on this service for live streaming and on demand video.
Virtual machine hosting that supports not just Windows server but multiple Linux distributions including Ubuantu, SuSe etc…
Multiple OSS development frameworks and languages….
So, before we continue we’d like to take another very quick, one-question poll to determine your organization’s position.
We are going to start the poll now so you should see a question pop up on your screen.
Daniel to jump on first bullet
Dale to ask Daniel, do your customers do enough planning when we move to the cloud?