IT organizations are challenged with making tradeoffs between innovation and maintenance of legacy systems. These decisions are often made transactionally without a framework for modernization and a visionary roadmap. Cloud computing offers IT organizations innovation capabilities with Platform as a Service and opportunities of reducing the cost of operating legacy systems with Infrastructure as a Service offerings.
Navantis & Microsoft "Find Your Silver Lining in the Cloud" Event SlidedeckNavantis
The document discusses challenges with modernizing IT systems and how Microsoft Azure can help address those challenges. It outlines common modernization problems such as outdated technologies, high maintenance costs, and the need for innovation. It then presents Azure solutions such as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that can help modernize applications and infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Specific Azure services like SQL databases, web roles, and storage options are compared to on-premises alternatives. The document aims to demonstrate how Azure can help organizations reduce complexity and costs while improving agility through ongoing modernization.
The document discusses several eCommerce solutions developed by Create for clients. It describes solutions for a ticket sales system, an eCommerce site for Renova, an in-development site for Vista Alegre Atlantis, and the Pestana.com and Pousadas.pt sites. The solutions integrate features like content management, online payments, order management, and customization. They are built on technologies like Azure, SQL databases, and payment gateways and allow both cloud and on-premise deployment.
This document discusses how a large Asian low-cost airline migrated their web frontend to AWS public cloud to gain scalability. During quarterly sales promotions, the airline's website would go down within minutes due to a surge in traffic that exceeded their existing infrastructure capacity. By using AWS, the airline was able to automatically provision over 60 servers within 25 minutes before each promotion to handle the increased load. This improved site availability and helped convert more customers, while reducing promotion infrastructure costs by 40%. After each promotion, the extra infrastructure was turned off to avoid unnecessary costs.
This document describes a hybrid cloud management solution that provides:
1. Application management across private and public clouds using a single management point.
2. Role-based access and delegation of access to cloud subscriptions and resources through templates and quota enforcement.
3. Service management capabilities for both cloud consumers and providers including service catalog, request offerings, and support for the cloud consumer.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing including its essential characteristics, service models, and deployment models. It discusses the cloud computing model as composed of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The service models are described as software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The deployment models covered are public, private, hybrid, and community clouds.
This document discusses the role of Hyper-V in implementing the NIST cloud computing model. It provides an overview of Hyper-V features and architecture. It also outlines the NIST definition of cloud computing, including its essential characteristics, service models, and deployment models. Finally, it describes how Microsoft implements a private cloud solution using Hyper-V as the hypervisor along with System Center for management and orchestration.
Navantis & Microsoft "Find Your Silver Lining in the Cloud" Event SlidedeckNavantis
The document discusses challenges with modernizing IT systems and how Microsoft Azure can help address those challenges. It outlines common modernization problems such as outdated technologies, high maintenance costs, and the need for innovation. It then presents Azure solutions such as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that can help modernize applications and infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Specific Azure services like SQL databases, web roles, and storage options are compared to on-premises alternatives. The document aims to demonstrate how Azure can help organizations reduce complexity and costs while improving agility through ongoing modernization.
The document discusses several eCommerce solutions developed by Create for clients. It describes solutions for a ticket sales system, an eCommerce site for Renova, an in-development site for Vista Alegre Atlantis, and the Pestana.com and Pousadas.pt sites. The solutions integrate features like content management, online payments, order management, and customization. They are built on technologies like Azure, SQL databases, and payment gateways and allow both cloud and on-premise deployment.
This document discusses how a large Asian low-cost airline migrated their web frontend to AWS public cloud to gain scalability. During quarterly sales promotions, the airline's website would go down within minutes due to a surge in traffic that exceeded their existing infrastructure capacity. By using AWS, the airline was able to automatically provision over 60 servers within 25 minutes before each promotion to handle the increased load. This improved site availability and helped convert more customers, while reducing promotion infrastructure costs by 40%. After each promotion, the extra infrastructure was turned off to avoid unnecessary costs.
This document describes a hybrid cloud management solution that provides:
1. Application management across private and public clouds using a single management point.
2. Role-based access and delegation of access to cloud subscriptions and resources through templates and quota enforcement.
3. Service management capabilities for both cloud consumers and providers including service catalog, request offerings, and support for the cloud consumer.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing including its essential characteristics, service models, and deployment models. It discusses the cloud computing model as composed of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The service models are described as software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The deployment models covered are public, private, hybrid, and community clouds.
This document discusses the role of Hyper-V in implementing the NIST cloud computing model. It provides an overview of Hyper-V features and architecture. It also outlines the NIST definition of cloud computing, including its essential characteristics, service models, and deployment models. Finally, it describes how Microsoft implements a private cloud solution using Hyper-V as the hypervisor along with System Center for management and orchestration.
NIC 2013 - Configure and Deploy Private CloudKristian Nese
This document discusses configuring and deploying a private cloud using Microsoft technologies. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing concepts like deployment models, service models, and characteristics of cloud computing. It then discusses considerations for building a private cloud with Windows Server 2012, including high availability, scalability, storage, networking, security, automation, and manageability. The bulk of the document focuses on using System Center 2012 SP1 to configure and deploy a private cloud infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager, including creating a Hyper-V cluster from bare metal servers and constructing a private cloud with pooled, abstracted resources. It also discusses life cycle management of cloud services, monitoring applications across public and private clouds, and demonstrates creating private clouds and services in V
Achieve Cloud Scale by Implementing Elastic Load Balancing, Asset Deployment,...WSO2
This document discusses how to achieve cloud-scale by implementing elastic load balancing, asset deployment synchronization, and tenant-aware architectures. It outlines challenges of scaling services across clouds and regions, and proposes solutions like dynamic clustering, private service clouds, and deployment synchronization to maintain availability and balance load as services and tenants expand. The presentation recommends a cloud-aware reference architecture including load balancers, deployment synchronizers, and other components to enable elastic scalability in public and private clouds.
This document discusses how System Center provides an integrated platform for managing applications, services, and infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It allows for:
1) Standardizing application deployment using templates to ensure consistent configurations.
2) Creating cloud abstractions that allow resources to be managed across different virtualization platforms from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix.
3) Providing flexibility through delegation and control by allowing administrators to delegate self-service access and control utilization of cloud resources.
Manage for Peak Performance with AWS discusses how RightScale helps companies optimize their use of AWS. RightScale provides cloud management tools that allow companies to forecast costs, operate efficiently at scale, and outage-proof their applications on AWS. The document also describes how RightScale helped photo sharing company PhotoMerchant scale reliably on AWS to handle thousands of high-resolution images per hour and millions of user requests.
The document discusses NASA's views on cloud computing. It notes that NASA currently has many websites running on different platforms, which results in high costs, long provisioning times, security issues, and other problems. NASA is interested in cloud computing because it could help the agency focus more on its missions and science rather than infrastructure. The document then provides NIST's definition of cloud computing and outlines five key cloud attributes. It introduces NASA's Nebula hybrid cloud platform, which is designed for science, collaboration, developers, and partners. Finally, it discusses federal cloud computing standards and governance.
Cloudforce Essentials 2012 - Understanding Force.com in 60 Minutes or LessSalesforce_APAC
This document provides an overview of the Force.com platform. It discusses how Force.com eliminates the need to manage hardware infrastructure through its cloud-based platform as a service (PaaS) model. It then outlines the key components of the Force.com platform including its development platform, cloud database, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Finally, it briefly discusses some of the declarative and programmatic tools available for application building on Force.com.
This document discusses the development model for cloud computing platforms. It provides an overview of computing history from Turing machines to modern application platforms and servers. It then discusses how cloud computing aims to further reduce complexity by providing hosted services, software, and platforms. The document compares traditional on-premise application development with challenges to the cloud development approach using services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, and Salesforce Force.com platform. It analyzes commonalities and differences between these platforms in terms of abstraction levels, application capabilities, and developer experience.
The document discusses the core benefits of Intalio|Cloud, which delivers the benefits of cloud computing behind a company's firewall. It provides deployment versatility by supporting virtual private and private cloud models. It helps reduce risks inherent to public cloud computing by allowing for on-premises deployment and backups. Intalio|Cloud is also described as being vertically integrated with all necessary software, hardware, and services. It packages infrastructure, platform and software layers into an integrated stack and allows for comprehensive and scalable cloud deployments on-premises.
Making of a Successful Cloud Business:
Current Status & Future Requirements
Rajarshi Bhose and Sumit Kumar Bose
Infosys Technologies Limited
Delivered as part of Cloud symposium, at ACM Bangalore COmpute 2009.
The document summarizes new features in Project Excalibur, the technology preview of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. Key points include:
- Unified management of desktops and apps with a single architecture and tools.
- Simplified configuration with intelligent wizards and delegated administration.
- Support for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and mobile access optimization.
- Automated personal desktop provisioning and profile management.
- Improved monitoring, troubleshooting, and multi-site support capabilities.
This webinar discussed how server-side application virtualization can be used to build a private or hybrid cloud. It explained what private and hybrid clouds are, and how application virtualization allows applications to be easily migrated between on-premise and cloud environments. It also described how applications can be packaged into virtual application appliances (VAAs) and deployed in a private cloud, including how VAAs can be layered and reused. The webinar highlighted benefits like increased flexibility, reduced costs, and avoidance of vendor lock-in when using application virtualization in a private or hybrid cloud.
Codestrong 2012 keynote jonathan rende, appcelerator's vp of productsAxway Appcelerator
The document discusses Appcelerator's Titanium mobile application development platform and Appcelerator Cloud Services. It provides an overview of new features in Titanium 3.0 like the Alloy framework and command line interface. It also demonstrates how developers can build, connect, release and analyze mobile apps using Appcelerator's products and services.
Get ready to deliver Windows desktops and apps like a cloud provider with Pro...Citrix
At Synergy in San Francisco, Citrix announced a bold new project aimed at enabling enterprises and service providers to deliver Windows desktops and apps as a true cloud service. Project Avalon promises to revolutionise the delivery of IT services by enabling enterprise customers to build and leverage private, public and hybrid clouds to deliver access to desktops, apps and data anywhere. Join us to learn what you can do to prepare for Project Avalon.
This lecture was given by Professor June Sung Park at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in the 2012 Cloud Conference held in August 2012 by Electronic Times in Korea.
CumuLogic provides a private Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that was launched in June 2012. It was founded by Sun alumni and is funded by Citrix. CumuLogic is launching new Cloud Services in January 2013 that will integrate with CloudStack and support additional programming languages beyond Java. The services will provide capabilities like logging, messaging, storage, compute, monitoring, backup/restore and more to avoid "empty cloud syndrome." CumuLogic 2.0 screenshots show the services and dashboard capabilities. CumuLogic aims to provide a suite of fully managed cloud services above the IaaS APIs in an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model.
Fórum E-commerce Brasil 2010: Jinesh VariaiMasters
Amazon operates three main businesses - consumer retail, seller services, and developer services. The consumer retail business has over 80 million active customer accounts across seven countries. The seller services business allows over 1.3 million merchants to sell on Amazon websites and leverage their fulfillment network. The developer services business provides on-demand infrastructure and tools for building scalable web solutions to hundreds of thousands of customers.
You have built a IaaS cloud and can deliver compute, storage and bandwidth to your customers. Is that enough to hold on to your customer base, or do you wish to deliver value added services such as platform services and databases? Join us our session and we will demonstrate how you could deploy higher margin services such as Database-as-a-Service, Caching-as-a-Service, Load Balancing-as-a-Service, MongoDB-as-a-Service, and many more - instantly without high capital investments. In this session, we will also cover different services that your customers will like and how you can make them available on your cloud and integrate them with your metering, billing and other business processes.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud.
NIC 2013 - Configure and Deploy Private CloudKristian Nese
This document discusses configuring and deploying a private cloud using Microsoft technologies. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing concepts like deployment models, service models, and characteristics of cloud computing. It then discusses considerations for building a private cloud with Windows Server 2012, including high availability, scalability, storage, networking, security, automation, and manageability. The bulk of the document focuses on using System Center 2012 SP1 to configure and deploy a private cloud infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager, including creating a Hyper-V cluster from bare metal servers and constructing a private cloud with pooled, abstracted resources. It also discusses life cycle management of cloud services, monitoring applications across public and private clouds, and demonstrates creating private clouds and services in V
Achieve Cloud Scale by Implementing Elastic Load Balancing, Asset Deployment,...WSO2
This document discusses how to achieve cloud-scale by implementing elastic load balancing, asset deployment synchronization, and tenant-aware architectures. It outlines challenges of scaling services across clouds and regions, and proposes solutions like dynamic clustering, private service clouds, and deployment synchronization to maintain availability and balance load as services and tenants expand. The presentation recommends a cloud-aware reference architecture including load balancers, deployment synchronizers, and other components to enable elastic scalability in public and private clouds.
This document discusses how System Center provides an integrated platform for managing applications, services, and infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It allows for:
1) Standardizing application deployment using templates to ensure consistent configurations.
2) Creating cloud abstractions that allow resources to be managed across different virtualization platforms from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix.
3) Providing flexibility through delegation and control by allowing administrators to delegate self-service access and control utilization of cloud resources.
Manage for Peak Performance with AWS discusses how RightScale helps companies optimize their use of AWS. RightScale provides cloud management tools that allow companies to forecast costs, operate efficiently at scale, and outage-proof their applications on AWS. The document also describes how RightScale helped photo sharing company PhotoMerchant scale reliably on AWS to handle thousands of high-resolution images per hour and millions of user requests.
The document discusses NASA's views on cloud computing. It notes that NASA currently has many websites running on different platforms, which results in high costs, long provisioning times, security issues, and other problems. NASA is interested in cloud computing because it could help the agency focus more on its missions and science rather than infrastructure. The document then provides NIST's definition of cloud computing and outlines five key cloud attributes. It introduces NASA's Nebula hybrid cloud platform, which is designed for science, collaboration, developers, and partners. Finally, it discusses federal cloud computing standards and governance.
Cloudforce Essentials 2012 - Understanding Force.com in 60 Minutes or LessSalesforce_APAC
This document provides an overview of the Force.com platform. It discusses how Force.com eliminates the need to manage hardware infrastructure through its cloud-based platform as a service (PaaS) model. It then outlines the key components of the Force.com platform including its development platform, cloud database, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Finally, it briefly discusses some of the declarative and programmatic tools available for application building on Force.com.
This document discusses the development model for cloud computing platforms. It provides an overview of computing history from Turing machines to modern application platforms and servers. It then discusses how cloud computing aims to further reduce complexity by providing hosted services, software, and platforms. The document compares traditional on-premise application development with challenges to the cloud development approach using services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, and Salesforce Force.com platform. It analyzes commonalities and differences between these platforms in terms of abstraction levels, application capabilities, and developer experience.
The document discusses the core benefits of Intalio|Cloud, which delivers the benefits of cloud computing behind a company's firewall. It provides deployment versatility by supporting virtual private and private cloud models. It helps reduce risks inherent to public cloud computing by allowing for on-premises deployment and backups. Intalio|Cloud is also described as being vertically integrated with all necessary software, hardware, and services. It packages infrastructure, platform and software layers into an integrated stack and allows for comprehensive and scalable cloud deployments on-premises.
Making of a Successful Cloud Business:
Current Status & Future Requirements
Rajarshi Bhose and Sumit Kumar Bose
Infosys Technologies Limited
Delivered as part of Cloud symposium, at ACM Bangalore COmpute 2009.
The document summarizes new features in Project Excalibur, the technology preview of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. Key points include:
- Unified management of desktops and apps with a single architecture and tools.
- Simplified configuration with intelligent wizards and delegated administration.
- Support for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and mobile access optimization.
- Automated personal desktop provisioning and profile management.
- Improved monitoring, troubleshooting, and multi-site support capabilities.
This webinar discussed how server-side application virtualization can be used to build a private or hybrid cloud. It explained what private and hybrid clouds are, and how application virtualization allows applications to be easily migrated between on-premise and cloud environments. It also described how applications can be packaged into virtual application appliances (VAAs) and deployed in a private cloud, including how VAAs can be layered and reused. The webinar highlighted benefits like increased flexibility, reduced costs, and avoidance of vendor lock-in when using application virtualization in a private or hybrid cloud.
Codestrong 2012 keynote jonathan rende, appcelerator's vp of productsAxway Appcelerator
The document discusses Appcelerator's Titanium mobile application development platform and Appcelerator Cloud Services. It provides an overview of new features in Titanium 3.0 like the Alloy framework and command line interface. It also demonstrates how developers can build, connect, release and analyze mobile apps using Appcelerator's products and services.
Get ready to deliver Windows desktops and apps like a cloud provider with Pro...Citrix
At Synergy in San Francisco, Citrix announced a bold new project aimed at enabling enterprises and service providers to deliver Windows desktops and apps as a true cloud service. Project Avalon promises to revolutionise the delivery of IT services by enabling enterprise customers to build and leverage private, public and hybrid clouds to deliver access to desktops, apps and data anywhere. Join us to learn what you can do to prepare for Project Avalon.
This lecture was given by Professor June Sung Park at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in the 2012 Cloud Conference held in August 2012 by Electronic Times in Korea.
CumuLogic provides a private Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that was launched in June 2012. It was founded by Sun alumni and is funded by Citrix. CumuLogic is launching new Cloud Services in January 2013 that will integrate with CloudStack and support additional programming languages beyond Java. The services will provide capabilities like logging, messaging, storage, compute, monitoring, backup/restore and more to avoid "empty cloud syndrome." CumuLogic 2.0 screenshots show the services and dashboard capabilities. CumuLogic aims to provide a suite of fully managed cloud services above the IaaS APIs in an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model.
Fórum E-commerce Brasil 2010: Jinesh VariaiMasters
Amazon operates three main businesses - consumer retail, seller services, and developer services. The consumer retail business has over 80 million active customer accounts across seven countries. The seller services business allows over 1.3 million merchants to sell on Amazon websites and leverage their fulfillment network. The developer services business provides on-demand infrastructure and tools for building scalable web solutions to hundreds of thousands of customers.
You have built a IaaS cloud and can deliver compute, storage and bandwidth to your customers. Is that enough to hold on to your customer base, or do you wish to deliver value added services such as platform services and databases? Join us our session and we will demonstrate how you could deploy higher margin services such as Database-as-a-Service, Caching-as-a-Service, Load Balancing-as-a-Service, MongoDB-as-a-Service, and many more - instantly without high capital investments. In this session, we will also cover different services that your customers will like and how you can make them available on your cloud and integrate them with your metering, billing and other business processes.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud.
AD214 What's Next? Application Modernization Roadmap for Socializing IBM Note...John Head
Some organizations neglect or under-utilize one of the greatest IT assets in their portfolio - the line of business application. Most were built 10+ years ago with no Web, mobile, or social. This session describes the application revolution taking place, covering the options and best practices required for success. Migration and new development will be compared and contrasted. Real-world data will demonstrate the positive potential return on investment. We will discuss PSC's Application Modernization Center and how it helps move customers from merely maintaining Notes applications to increasing their value with XPages. If your organization is considering a migration or an XPages solution for your Notes/Domino investments, this session is for you!
Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS: Best Practices & Techniques (ENT303...Amazon Web Services
This session discusses strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating enterprise software systems to AWS. We consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves; they are frequently customized; they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise; and they often have large associated databases. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits. We identify success factors and best practices.
This webinar discusses RISO Inc.'s experience migrating their on-premise data center to the AWS cloud with assistance from Apps Associates. [1] Apps Associates designed and implemented the new infrastructure on AWS, migrating applications like Oracle ERP and SQL servers. [2] This provided benefits like a 35% reduction in backup costs, 50% fewer IT vendors, and the ability to relocate offices without interrupting operations. [3] The webinar explores considerations for cloud migrations and the hybrid cloud model.
Cloud Migration Cookbook: A Guide To Moving Your Apps To The CloudNew Relic
The process of building new apps or migrating existing apps to a cloud-based platform is complex. There are hundreds of paths you can take and only a few will make sense for you and your business. Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan for a successful app migration.
Capgemini Cloud Assessment - A Pathway to Enterprise Cloud MigrationFloyd DCosta
Capgemini Cloud Assessment offers a methodology and a roadmap for Cloud migration to reduce decision risks, promote rapid user adoption and lower TCO of IT investments. It leverages pre-built accelerators such as ROI calculators, risk models and portfolio analyzers and provides three powerful deliverables in just six to eight weeks:
Cloud computing refers to accessing computational resources like applications and data storage over the internet instead of locally. There are several types of cloud services including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Cloud computing provides advantages like reduced costs, increased reliability, and accessibility from any device with an internet connection. However, there are also risks like dependence on cloud providers and potential performance issues. The future of cloud computing is expected to include continued cost reductions and increased adoption across organizations of all sizes for both public and private cloud solutions.
The document outlines Square's business proposition of providing a simple and low-cost way for merchants to accept credit card payments using a mobile device. Key points include:
- Square charges merchants a flat 2.75% fee per transaction with no setup costs or monthly fees.
- The company has experienced rapid growth, processing over $1 million in payments per day.
- Square targets small businesses and individuals by offering a simple interface and device that plugs into smartphones.
- Backed by experienced founders and investors, Square aims to become the dominant platform in mobile payments by acquiring new merchants through wide exposure and competitive pricing.
Imaginea's take on how an organization can seamlessly migrate to Cloud. Aligning your IT strategy accordingly and move to cloud step by step is explained here.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
This document provides an overview and guides for using Cloud Foundry, an open platform-as-a-service. It discusses what Cloud Foundry is, the languages, frameworks and services it supports, and its architecture. It also covers development guides for Spring applications on Cloud Foundry, including auto-reconfiguration, the Cloud Foundry namespace, and Spring profiles. The document reviews deployment guides, accessing services, and using Micro Cloud Foundry. It concludes with resources for Cloud Foundry and things to learn about cloud development.
This document discusses hybrid applications that utilize both on-premises and cloud-based resources. It outlines some common scenarios for hybrid applications, such as using the cloud for data storage and archival while keeping computing resources on-premises. It also discusses concerns around security, regulatory compliance, and only moving parts of an application to the cloud that provide clear benefits. The document introduces Windows Azure services like Service Bus that can help enable hybrid applications by allowing communication between on- and off-premises components.
The document discusses Microsoft's Live ID identity services. It provides an overview of Live ID and its advantages, such as taking care of authentication and authorization infrastructure. It also describes the different types of authentication supported, including web authentication, delegated authentication, and client authentication. The document outlines how developers can integrate with Live ID through SDKs and controls.
SQLUG event: An evening in the cloud: the old, the new and the big Mike Martin
Belgian SQL UG talk On Windows Azure SQL Database and CO: The last couple of months have been very exciting times for Microsoft fans. With the release of the central flagship, SQL Server 2012, and the new and improved Cloud offering on Windows Azure, Microsoft managed to change the IT Landscape dramatically. During this talk we want to take you through all the SQL Server features in the Windows Azure Environment in either the full cloud spectrum or hybrid scenario’s. We’ll cover subjects like SQL Databases, IaaS, provisioning, integration, migration and touch some of the more computing topics in the Windows Azure when it comes to data. Going from the pure basics of all SQL related to the more advanced stuff you can do with this magnificent cloud platform.
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 PredictionsFlexera
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 Predictions by Amy Konary, Director, Software Pricing and Licensing, IDC
Presented at SoftSummit 2010
IBM - Massimo Leoni, Cloud Computing, Milano 2 luglio 2009Manuela Moroncini
IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of cloud computing solutions and capabilities:
- IBM provides consulting services, implementation services, and operation services to help enterprises transform their IT using cloud computing.
- IBM's cloud solutions include CloudBurst which provides a pre-integrated cloud platform, WebSphere CloudBurst for deploying WebSphere applications in the cloud, and LotusLive which offers collaboration software as a service.
- IBM has capabilities in service management, virtualization, image management, and security to help customers build and manage cloud environments and applications.
Patterns of Cloud Applications Using Microsoft Azure Services PlatformDavid Chou
The document describes Microsoft's Azure Services Platform, which provides IT services through a global network of Microsoft data centers. It offers infrastructure, platform, and private cloud services that are managed at different levels, from fully managed platform services to customer-managed private infrastructure. Key services include compute, data, networking, development platforms, identity management, and more. It also provides high availability, security, and usage-based pricing. The platform supports various application patterns including cloud web applications and composite services applications built with Azure services.
Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It allows developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft-managed data centers. The key services include compute, storage, networking, and development tools. Architectural principles for building reliable cloud applications on Windows Azure emphasize statelessness, redundancy, loose coupling between components, and scaling automatically based on demand.
The document discusses the Planets Interoperability Framework, which defines a service-oriented architecture for digital preservation. It implements common services like authentication and authorization. It also provides a workflow enactment service and engine. The framework allows jobs to be submitted to grid/cloud resources for improved scalability. Experimental results show that performance scales with the number of nodes, though open issues around security, reliability and standardization remain. Map-reduce is proposed as a model for migrating large digital objects across multiple nodes in a distributed manner.
Presented at MPLS 2010 Oct 24-27 Washington D.C.
Monique Morrow, Cisco Distinguished Consulting Engineer, discussed the role of the network in developing as a base for cloud computing in developing XaaS models across a private backbone vs offering Cloud-based services over the Internet.
The presenter further presented the potential evolution of Cloud Computing in the form of Private, Hybrid and Inter-Cloud.
Service Level Management and Security are also highlighted themes in this presentation.
An overview of the various standards organizations and forums that may be specific to cloud computing and emerging inter-cloud was also provided
Discussion and takeaway - the value of these models to your business.
A view on architectural considerations and models for the emerging context of software plus services and in view of technologies such as Windows Azure.
VENUS-C is the first European distributed computing infrastructure to adopt a User-centric approach to Cloud Computing, putting the needs of end-User communities of researchers and small businesses at the forefront of development.
1. The Java project developed a sales and distribution management system for an enterprise, migrating from a legacy Cobol/CORBA/DB2 system to a new Java/J2EE/Oracle architecture.
2. A quick ship shipment and tracking system for the shipping industry was developed using GWT, Spring, a custom ORM, Oracle RAC, and JBoss with integrated mapping, reporting and tracking features.
3. Both projects improved processes, centralized data access, and increased efficiency through redesigned architectures and user-friendly interfaces.
Cloud architecture and deployment: The Kognitio checklist, Nigel Sanctuary, K...CloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012 Track 2 - Build and Run
by Nigel Sanctuary, VP Propositions at Kognitio (www.kognitio.com)
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#nigelsanctuary
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/wQrHQNOMlKc
Compuware provides application performance management solutions to help optimize the performance of business-critical applications. Their solution monitors applications across customers, users, devices, infrastructure, and locations. It provides rapid issue notification and insight into how issues affect business metrics. The solution has over 4,000 customers worldwide and is recognized as an industry leader by analysts.
21st Century Service Oriented ArchitectureBob Rhubart
Service Oriented Architecture has evolved from concept to reality in the last decade. The right methodology coupled with mature SOA technologies has helped customers demonstrate success in both innovation and ROI. In this session you will learn how Oracle SOA Suite’s orchestration, virtualization, and governance capabilities provide the infrastructure to run mission critical business and system applications. And we’ll take a special look at the convergence of SOA & BPM using Oracle’s Unified technology stack.
(As presented by Samrat Ray at Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Chicago, October 24, 2011.)
The document discusses the Live Framework which provides building blocks for handling user data and connecting applications to hundreds of millions of users. It includes information on Live Services, the Live Framework resource model, and how developers can get started using Live Framework.
Instant Agility in Oracle Fusion Middleware through Design Time @ Run Time (O...Lucas Jellema
Agility is about ability to adapt. Enterprises need to quickly respond to changing circumstances and requirements. Agility is a state of mind (“embrace change”) that must be supported by process and technology. This session will demonstrate how Fusion Middleware provides a substantial dose of instant agility through its design time @ run time facilities. Application Management evolves into Application Composition as BPM and SOA Suite applications allow run time editing of business logic, human tasks and process definitions. Likewise, ADF applications, especially when integrated with UCM and WebCenter, support run time editing of content, page composition and even security, data sources and visualizations - even customized per user group.
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Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
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9. THE TRADEOFF PROBLEM
66% of CIOs stated they
are being asked to cut costs.
Maintenance
Innovation 56% of CIOs regard IT as
a strategic asset for their
company.
2012 IT Budgets
10. “By 2017, CMOs will
spend more on IT
than their counterpart
CIOs”
Laura McLellan, Research VP, Gartner
18. PAAS EXAMPLE (COUPLED)
Legacy 3rd Party Modern Mobile Solution
Service Management
Mobile Field Worker
(Native Device App)
Browser
REST/Integration
(Azure Web Role)
Database Queries SOAP APIs
App Services Microsoft Azure Platform
19. PAAS EXAMPLE (DECOUPLED, ROBUST)
Legacy 3rd Party Modern Mobile/Cloud Solution
Service Management
Mobile Field Worker User Administration
(Native Device App) (Browser)
Connected Data
Admin Website
Browser Services &
(Azure Web
Notifications (Azure
Role)
Mobile Services)
Triggers Publish
Incoming Queue Outgoing Queue
Changes Azure Queue Integration Pictures / Signature
Temporary
Services (Blob Storage)
(Azure Worker Role)
Database Queries & Changes SOAP APIs
AMS DataBase
(SQL Azure)
App Services Microsoft Azure Platform
20. PRICING COMPARISON
Coupled DeCoupled
• 2 Medium Web Roles • 1 Web Site
• 2 Instance Mobile Service
• 200 GB Transfer • 100 GB Transfer
• $368.77/month • 1 Small Worker Role
• 1 2Gb SQL Database
• 100GB Blob/Queue Storage
• 14 Million Transactions
• $158.59/month
26. MODERNIZATION ENGAGEMENTS
Strategy & Organizational Program Governance
Governance Roadmaps Management Model
Platform
Application Azure/Cloud
Tactical Assessment(s)
Assessments
Readiness
(e.g. SQL)
Price based on scope of work
27. SUBSIDIZED AZURE POC-IN-A-BOX
2 weeks of Azure
PaaS POC Mobile Field OnPrem Architect/Development time
Worker Integration
Currency OnPrem Migration
SQL Azure Assessment POC
IaaS OnPrem to Cloud SharePoint
We are talking cloud, but in the context of IT ModernizationWe have a key note from the CIO of MS Canada who will talk about his perspective on the problem. Then we’ll have Navantis, a MS partner, who provides a number of services, but more recently has been providing an offerring of strategic consulting services for IT Modernization to large customers such as Cenovus, TD Bank, MTO, and how they see Azure as a strategic component to help IT organizations modernize, stay current, and innovate aligned with their business.
Cindy, need Picture, something about SQL or DatabasesTalking Points SQL Currency Oracle vs. SQL Costs of heterogenousdbms systems Dependencies of applications that sit on top, custom, 3rd party, other databases, BI on top of that.
Talking Points of this: Windows XP SQL Currency – custom support agreements Y2K Don’t so much as motivate to modernize, they force us to modernize. Security issues that are obvious motivators But do we leverage the new capabilities of the new version Are we looking at benefits, or just the costs, minimize the disruption. Banks won’t go to the latest & greatest, we won’t go early adoption, lengthy certification processes. Is your style reactive, proactive.
The catch 22 trap? Server product, or 3rd party that is bound to an older version? How many you can’t upgrade to, version timelinesWhat if you have a BYOD strategy?Strategy to align with Adoption/Usage trendsDo you worry about the last 10% of laggards, 10% of early adopters or the 80% of those currently using?How do you take the browser out of the equation? Delivering your app a different way? Maybe you use native mobile apps?
Talking PointsPlatform technologies: VB6, Classic ASP, Older Java, Cobol, PB, Delphi, SharePoint 2003, Older CMS = Live Link, Lotus NotesResources are harder to findScarcity drives up costsBeing held hostage by key resources who are afraid to move, no mitigation strategy, how to avoid the trap?Who will bite that bullet?If you are just maintaining but not moving a head, then this is lost money
Talking Point: network, server, storage, switches, load balancers, cooling, power physical access security, growth, back up & recovery strategy, fail over, disaster recovery security hardening Managing vendor relationship Procurement costs, acquisition costs, delivery times Implementation & testing Are you able to remain agile when you manage your own infrastructure? Are you able to scale up, easily? Down? Are you able to drive efficiencies as you scale up? Virtualization has started to help with all of this. What is your strategy for leveraging the cloud?
Summary Slide We have talked about a number of modernization challenges These are just a few, there are others, and they creep into our information technology assets. But broadly, we can think about where our IT budgets are
Talking Points Almost 80% of IT budgets focus on maintenance of existing capabilities. These do not add additional benefits to the organization. When we put into place these legacy technologies, the capital investment was justified by the business benefits. Do you still get annualized benefits that merit the costs? 66% of CIOs stated that they are being asked to cut costs. But when costs are being cut, where are they being cut from? If you cut 20% of your innovation budget, that’s 20% of 20%, only a 4% net savings. But if you could cut 20% of your maintenance costs that would represent 16% of your total budget. For every 1% of your maintenance budget you reduce is equal to 4% on the innovation side. 56% of CIOs IT is regarded as a strategic asset. What side of these investments is strategic?
Talking Points: Business Changes rapidly Is IT not able to keep up? How can they be more agile to meet Business challenges Continue to have important influence in the budgeting process Is IT a disabler? Does your business look forward to collaborating with IT or do they prefer to stragegically look for other solutions SaaS We are seeing more and more business groups come to us for help Is IT proactive or reactive to the business? Are you in front of the business changes? is your Thought leadership backed up by an agile ability to react quickly. Agile isn’t chaos, it’s disciplined, continuous delivery. Dev Ops Trends
Talking pointsAre my IT investments being directed toward innovations that are strategic to my company’s competitve advantage?Or are my IT investments being spent on “lights on”, commodity infrastructure? During industrial revolution, factories generated their own power? But when that became a commodity, you move away from that service and focus on unique business advantages, outsource, buy commodity elsewhere
Talking Points IT organizations can be agents of change
Modernization Important, but it’s not a one time thing. It’s ongoingIt’s hard to do this once, then wait to do it again.Do you have to wait for big budget allocations to fix big problems, or you can invest incrementally every year.Framework for portfolio management which includes roadmap for modernizationAllocate a portion of “maintenance” for legacy debt reduction.. Legacy debt reduction, is not really innovation, it’s smart maintenance.If you are maintaining roads, make it cheaper to maintainHow do you avoid adding to your problems with the money you are spending on innovation.
Here are examples of where new innovation strategic investments are going. Are you investing in theses? Are able to make these investments smartly, decoupled from the legacy, avoid dependency?Many of these innovations can require an elasticity typically available in an on premiseMobile devices may require a lot of firewall punching?Extending capabilities beyond your typically employees.Working with larger & larger data sourcesDo this while remaining agile. Raif can talk about Cenovus
We’ve dangled a few opportunities in front of you, but also explained the challenges to modernization.But there is a silver lining? After the break we want to delve into 2 key areas:We want to introduce you to Windows Azure and have you think about dealing with modernization challenges. With the cloud in mind, you will have a multi-dimensional toolkit for creating a modernization strategy. Secondly, we want to share with you a framework and approach to modernization we use with our in a strategic engagement to help you untangle your modernization challenges and unlock more innovation within your organization.
There are lots of challenges for modernization, there are lots of opportunities for innovation. Approaching these challenges & opportunities with cloud in mind, will give you a multi-dimensional toolkit for creating a modernization strategy.
Iaas: SP/App Farm in one cloud service, AD/DNS in another cloud service, virtual network
Paas: Mobile extension into azure with AMS
Paas: Mobile extension into azure with AMS
There are lots of challenges for modernization, there are lots of opportunities for innovation. Approaching these challenges & opportunities with cloud in mind, will give you a multi-dimensional toolkit for creating a modernization strategy. After the break, Peter will introduce us to Windows Azure.
We have holistic approach Operations Infrastructure ALM Governance & Business / IT Alignment Service/App Assessments Application – top Down Platform – Database, CMS, ERP Modernization Roadmap to fit the culture of the organization
Dependency AnalysisCranfield Business Benefits Dependency MapRationalizationReplatforming
Rationalization: Consolidate, Decommission, ReplaceInfrastructure Reduction: Minimize Patterns, Technologies – minimize process & skill varietyGovernance is effective in Agile. Eliminate Shadow IT. If you are the CIO running your IT department, drive better service offering, but your are in competition with your business groups who are outsourcing. This will shrink your innovation, loses you economies of scale. Are you a strategic asset? Business Alignment is an important agreement. You can do it all yourself. Maybe your business wants to, vendor management, solution managements. What is your key competitive advantage.