The document discusses how cloud computing can help IT organizations streamline business processes through automation while maintaining control and compliance. It outlines how cloud computing provides benefits such as pay-per-use models, agility, user centricity, and elasticity. The document also discusses different cloud characteristics, types of clouds including private, public and hybrid, and cloud delivery models including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

1. CLOUD FACTS

2. IT Organization Challenges
enablement of self service models of IT
consumption while maintaining control and
compliance

3. IT Transformation
From inefficient, manual processes to policy-
driven automation

4. IT function, objective and responsibility
• IT function: to streamline business processes
through automation
• IT objective: make business profitable through
improved productivity and better efficiency
• IT responsibility: ensures protection and
accessibility of information to improve business
advantage

5. CLOUD – VIRTUALIZATION –
CONSOLIDATION – DATA CENTER

6. You’re cloud-ready if:
1. you have standardized most commonly
repeated operating procedures;
2. you have fully automated deployment and
management;
3. you provide self-service access for users;
4. your business units are ready to share the
same infrastructure

7. Cloud Benefits for Business:
1. User centric: a feeling of being in control of
the business
2. Agility: Faster time to market without long
approval cycles
3. Pay-per-use: eliminate upfront investment
4. Simplicity: easy self service access

8. Cloud benefits for IT people
1. Control: Maintain control of IT Environment
2. Responsive: Greater visiibility into costs and
control over service levels
3. Elastic: Flexibility to acquire or release
capacity on demand
4. Efficient: Greater automation thru software
with lower admin to server ratio

9. Effects of IT to Business
1. IT changes the way business is done
2. IT changes the way business strategize
3. IT creates innovation in business

10. what is cloud computing
1. approach or way of doing computing to
provide service on demand
2. technique to deliver IT as a as service
3. new way to get information

11. Cloud Characteristics
1. on demand self-service
2. broad network access
3. resource pooling
4. rapid elasticity
5. measured service

12. Expectation from a cloud
1. Elastic Capacity
2. Improved resiliency
3. Transformation to IT as service
4. Business Growth

13. User experience from cloud
1. Self service
2. faster access to resources
3. unlimited pools of IT resources
4. Closer partnership with IT

14. Types of Clouds
1. private
2. public
3. hybrid

15. Benefits of hybrid cloud
1. Greater flexibility to react to changing
market conditions
2. Reducing resource waste
3. Enabling business continuity
4. Savings on CAPEX
5. Enabling innovation
6. Improving customer support or services
7. Gaining a competitive/ information edge
8. Expanding revenue opportunities

16. Cloud Computing Delivery models
1. Application or information (Cloud SaaS) -
wide ranging services delivered via varied
business models
2. Development (Cloud Paas) - application
development platform enable application
authoring and runtime environment
3. Infrastructure ( Cloud Iaas) - virtual hardware
made available for varied users

17. Why We need to master
Cloud/Virtualization
1. we are at the very beginning of the journey
2. it dictates the new way to get information