The document summarizes Rackspace IT's journey to cloud computing. It discusses the challenges Rackspace IT faced with increasing demand and complexity. With the help of Rackspace Advisory Services, Rackspace IT developed a strategic plan to move applications to the cloud over two years using the IT Transformation Framework. This involved assessing applications and moving some like SharePoint to the cloud in the first phase while planning for how to move the remaining 250 applications. Rackspace IT experienced benefits like reduced costs and improved ability to manage their increasingly complex IT environment by leveraging cloud technologies.
Proposte ORACLE per la gestione dei contenuti digitali e per la ricerca scien...Jürgen Ambrosi
Agenda
gli obiettivi della collaborazione Oracle / CRUI; overview delle soluzioni proposte
l’evoluzione dell’offerta Oracle, on prem e in Cloud
certificazione CSP Agid e modello di pricing su Cloud
le soluzioni per la Comunicazione “Digital” (prodotti, servizi e formazione)
Redazione collaborativa e gestione dei contenuti digitali; integrazione con strumenti di produttività come Office365 e Google
Sviluppo rapido e self-service di micrositi e API per front-end digitali
Assistenti Digitali
le soluzioni per la Ricerca Scientifica e l’Innovazione tecnologica
Il Cloud Oracle per l’HPC
soluzioni on-premise e Cloud per BigData e Data Science / Deep Learning
soluzioni in Cloud per IoT, Blockchain
Survey
Q/A
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence
In this webinar, Storage Switzerland's George Crump and SimpliVity's Adam Sekora compare and contrast the suitability of SANs vs. hyperconverged architectures; examine the benefits of consolidating and reducing the number of discrete IT devices in lieu of hyperconverged infrastructure; and discuss the merits of simplified IT and its impact on technology refresh initiatives.
Proposte ORACLE per la gestione dei contenuti digitali e per la ricerca scien...Jürgen Ambrosi
Agenda
gli obiettivi della collaborazione Oracle / CRUI; overview delle soluzioni proposte
l’evoluzione dell’offerta Oracle, on prem e in Cloud
certificazione CSP Agid e modello di pricing su Cloud
le soluzioni per la Comunicazione “Digital” (prodotti, servizi e formazione)
Redazione collaborativa e gestione dei contenuti digitali; integrazione con strumenti di produttività come Office365 e Google
Sviluppo rapido e self-service di micrositi e API per front-end digitali
Assistenti Digitali
le soluzioni per la Ricerca Scientifica e l’Innovazione tecnologica
Il Cloud Oracle per l’HPC
soluzioni on-premise e Cloud per BigData e Data Science / Deep Learning
soluzioni in Cloud per IoT, Blockchain
Survey
Q/A
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence
In this webinar, Storage Switzerland's George Crump and SimpliVity's Adam Sekora compare and contrast the suitability of SANs vs. hyperconverged architectures; examine the benefits of consolidating and reducing the number of discrete IT devices in lieu of hyperconverged infrastructure; and discuss the merits of simplified IT and its impact on technology refresh initiatives.
Proposte ORACLE per la modernizzazione dello sviluppo applicativoJürgen Ambrosi
Argomenti trattati nella sessione:
•gli obiettivi della collaborazione Oracle / CRUI; overview delle soluzioni proposte
l’evoluzione dell’offerta Oracle, on prem e in Cloud
•certificazione CSP Agid e modello di pricing su Cloud
•le soluzioni per la modernizzazione dello Sviluppo Applicativo (prodotti, servizi e formazione)
•Database “Multi-Modello” (relazionale, non relazionale / json, REST): le novità del DB Oracle
•Sviluppo rapido di API e UI “Digital” su Oracle DB: le novità di Apex 18.2
•Sviluppo “poliglotta” su Docker e Kubernetes, in Integrazione e Deployment continui
•Arricchire le applicazioni con funzionalità analitiche evolute, “in-database”
•Tecnologia e framework per gli adempimenti di base del GDPR
•Gestione federata delle Identità (SPID, Social Login)
•Survey
•Q/A
Why would you should trust Stack Harbor with your Data
The Most performance and security oriented Canadian cloud company.
Learn more about our all SSD instances comparable and outperforming AWS, Azure, soft layer, iWeb etc..
Introduction of Texperts\' value-added service tools using Virtualization and Cloud technology to achieve zero foot print in the SAP customer\'s data center and a Pay-as-you-Go flat cost structure. vUpgrade and vBreakFix are tools-as-a-service (taas) offerings through Texperts\' private cloud and aim to increase business agility, cost reduction and optimization while facing an SAP upgrade. These solutions are built on VMware software and supplement the technical SAP upgrade process. It accelerates the SAP upgrade process and at the same time increase the flexibility by means of providing independence of fixed timelines as well as controllable costs. This is possible due to innovative SAP upgrade services injected with Virtualization and Cloud technology.
Founded in 2003, Focus is recognised by Deloitte as one of Europe’s fastest growing and most successful tech companies and is one of only twenty Cisco UK Elite Partners delivering digital transformation projects across the globe.
OpenITSM - IT Service Management with Open SourceJulian Hein
Building a infrastructure for modern systems management can be a very expensive project - with commercial software. But Open Source can be an alternative, because today there are tools for all important service management processes available. The speach gives an overview about the most mature tools for Incident & Problem Management, Event Management, Operations Management, Service Desk and CMDB.
IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
Make sure to attend Varrow Madness - a one of a kind technology conference on March 20 at the Westin in Charlotte - http://madness.varrow.com for more details and to register.
Let me know on Twitter or via email (amiller @ varrow . com) if would like the file to send to people inside your organization.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
Business benefits are tangible, and projects are outcome driven when IT infrastructure deployment and monitoring is offshored to Progression.
The presentation helps you know how!
Proposte ORACLE per la modernizzazione dello sviluppo applicativoJürgen Ambrosi
Argomenti trattati nella sessione:
•gli obiettivi della collaborazione Oracle / CRUI; overview delle soluzioni proposte
l’evoluzione dell’offerta Oracle, on prem e in Cloud
•certificazione CSP Agid e modello di pricing su Cloud
•le soluzioni per la modernizzazione dello Sviluppo Applicativo (prodotti, servizi e formazione)
•Database “Multi-Modello” (relazionale, non relazionale / json, REST): le novità del DB Oracle
•Sviluppo rapido di API e UI “Digital” su Oracle DB: le novità di Apex 18.2
•Sviluppo “poliglotta” su Docker e Kubernetes, in Integrazione e Deployment continui
•Arricchire le applicazioni con funzionalità analitiche evolute, “in-database”
•Tecnologia e framework per gli adempimenti di base del GDPR
•Gestione federata delle Identità (SPID, Social Login)
•Survey
•Q/A
Why would you should trust Stack Harbor with your Data
The Most performance and security oriented Canadian cloud company.
Learn more about our all SSD instances comparable and outperforming AWS, Azure, soft layer, iWeb etc..
Introduction of Texperts\' value-added service tools using Virtualization and Cloud technology to achieve zero foot print in the SAP customer\'s data center and a Pay-as-you-Go flat cost structure. vUpgrade and vBreakFix are tools-as-a-service (taas) offerings through Texperts\' private cloud and aim to increase business agility, cost reduction and optimization while facing an SAP upgrade. These solutions are built on VMware software and supplement the technical SAP upgrade process. It accelerates the SAP upgrade process and at the same time increase the flexibility by means of providing independence of fixed timelines as well as controllable costs. This is possible due to innovative SAP upgrade services injected with Virtualization and Cloud technology.
Founded in 2003, Focus is recognised by Deloitte as one of Europe’s fastest growing and most successful tech companies and is one of only twenty Cisco UK Elite Partners delivering digital transformation projects across the globe.
OpenITSM - IT Service Management with Open SourceJulian Hein
Building a infrastructure for modern systems management can be a very expensive project - with commercial software. But Open Source can be an alternative, because today there are tools for all important service management processes available. The speach gives an overview about the most mature tools for Incident & Problem Management, Event Management, Operations Management, Service Desk and CMDB.
IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
Make sure to attend Varrow Madness - a one of a kind technology conference on March 20 at the Westin in Charlotte - http://madness.varrow.com for more details and to register.
Let me know on Twitter or via email (amiller @ varrow . com) if would like the file to send to people inside your organization.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
Business benefits are tangible, and projects are outcome driven when IT infrastructure deployment and monitoring is offshored to Progression.
The presentation helps you know how!
Scaling Xen Within Rackspace Cloud ServersRackspace
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - The Future of Applications with Ken Cochrane, Engineer...Rackspace
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Ken Cochrane, Engineering Manager at Docker, explains in this presentation from Rackspace::Solve NYC. For more information about Rackspace::Solve, visit http://www.rackspacesolve.com.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace::Solve NYC, Jon Hyman, CIO of Appboy and Prashanth Chandrasekar, GM of DevOps at Rackspace, discuss the role of DevOps in helping to solve the technical challenges that come with rapid growth.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Enterprise Open Cloud Forum: The Cloud is Making it RainRackspace
In this webinar our experts will discussed how enterprises are leveraging a cloud business model to maximize ROI and why traditional models that only focus on simple cost benefits overlook the real value.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn:
· How to think of ROI differently in the Cloud
· The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure your Return on Cloud
· How to utilize project based accounting for real-time ROI
· How the Cloud enables first-mover advantage to improve profit margins
· How flexibility in delivery models can maximize your cloud ROI
Discover how to make your investment yield greater benefits for your business and learn how to make it rain in the cloud through maximized ROI.
Enterprise Open Cloud Forum: Restructuring IT For Profit in a Cloud WorldRackspace
In this session of the Enterprise Open Cloud Forum you will learn:
-What an IT department should look like in a cloud world
-How to reallocate internal IT resources after partnering with a service provider
-How to turn IT into an innovation engine
-How to assess your in-house skill sets: skills to develop and new skills to hire
Most of all, you will learn how to redefine, reorganize and revise roles and responsibilities, to bring the most value to your business. There is a right and a wrong way to restructure your IT department in a cloud world… and we will show you how driving business value drives business profit.
Gerhard Pretorius, Cloud Architect, Rackspace Asia presented at the Accion Cloud in Practice event in Singapore, where he described how enterprises can benefit from adopting the cloud, and what they need to consider while doing so
Tearing Down Silos and Building Your Enterprise Dev/Ops EngineRackspace
Miss the latest installment of the Enterprise Cloud Forum? Not to worry here is a copy of the slides from Rackspace Sr. IT Strategist Brian Jawalka and Rackspace VP of Software Application Development Krishna Prasad with guest host Mark Majewski – Cloud Solution Architect discussed how enterprises need to approach Dev/Ops to ensure cloud adoption success.
A brief overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar is Canada’s leading IT solutions provider, focused on security, infrastructure, and cloud. Founded in 2004, Scalar is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Scalar was recently named to the CRN Fast Growth Top 150 List and listed on the PROFIT 500 for the seventh year running. In addition, Scalar was deemed a major player in the IDC MarketScape for Canadian managed security service providers and ranked the #1 ICT security company on the 2014 -2016 editions of the Branham 300. For further details, visit www.scalar.ca or follow Scalar on Twitter, @scalardecisions.
As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of change in IT has only increased. Add in Dev/Ops and the traditional sys admin and security processes just don’t work. How can you rapidly deliver servers and applications while making sure they are built reliably and securely. Rackspace has been developing a tool to help them design, deploy and security assess complex configurations for customers called Checkmate. This talk will cover the concepts behind and the architecture of Checkmate and how it helps minimize the time to deploy systems and verify they have been created to spec and in a secure state. A discussion of how Checkmate has inspired the concept of Test Driven Security based on the Test Driven Development model familiar to the development world.
Virtualization to Cloud Evolution “IT as a Service”Mohamed Shorbagy
The presentation is about how to start your career in the Cloud covering the process of going from physical to virtual to Cloud and finish with the definitions of what is a Cloud. So, if you interested to be a part of this field and take your first steps towards it, you are welcome in the "Inevitable Cloud" community,Join us on:
http://www.facebook.com/TheInevitableCloud
http://www.facebook.com/groups/InevitableCloud/
http://www.linkedin.com/company/2990722?trk=tyah
Thanks,
Inevitable Cloud Community
Innovate Faster in the Cloud with a Platform as a ServiceEngine Yard
Presentaion: "Innovate Faster in the Cloud with a PaaS" webinar
Presenter: Jacob Lehrbaum
Date: November 18, 2011
Recorded presentation:
http://pages.engineyard.com/InnovateFasterwithPaaS.html
If you are building a new application today you are likely considering a move to the cloud. If so, you should take a careful look at Platform as a Service (PaaS). Using a PaaS makes it fast and easy to deploy and run high-impact applications by relieving the developer from having to integrate, configure, test, and maintain the platform-level software necessary to run applications. It will also improve your uptime, help you scale with your business and can even save you money.
Amongst the various cloud technology vendors and certification bodies offering cloud training, cloud solution architecture (CSA) is by far the most commonly served area. Architecture is undeniably important, but what is it that makes cloud architecture so deserving of this attention? What changed for architects in cloud computing? How do IT professionals, and the trainers and consultants supporting them, make this transition to cloud architecture successfully?
We’re honored to have Mark Skilton, accomplished digital consultant, academic, and author of the CCC Professional Cloud Solutions Architect syllabus, provide the underpinning competencies critical for successfully transitioning to CSA.
Understand what aspects of cloud make architecture a critical area for re-skilling.
Discuss the evolution of cloud adoption and demand for qualified CSA.
Gain insights on the value and future outlook of cloud computing and architecture.
A Multi-Company Perspective: Enterprise Cloud and PaaSThoughtworks
Tech communities are always abuzz with the potential of Platform as a Service (PaaS). The promised ability to slash delivery times, allowing teams to iterate and release new features faster, has a growing number of organisations looking to implement PaaS in 2016.
In this presentation, industry leaders provide insights from the trenches by letting us enter the world of Cloud applications automation and PaaS. We also get a glimpse into why and how PaaS is widely adopted, as well as appreciate its constructs and challenges.
Further more, you can learn how build your delivery platform around AWS services, CloudFoundry or OpenShift and reflect on how best to create internal cloud and PaaS capabilities to change the way your organisation delivers software.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider.
CSRA’s Migration to AWS GovCloud (US): An All-In Case Study | AWS Public Sect...Amazon Web Services
As the pace of innovation accelerates in the private and public sector, government agencies and government contractors are leveraging the cloud to achieve their most critical business and mission objectives. Time to market and mission assurance are as critical as security and compliance. Learn firsthand how CSRA leveraged AWS GovCloud (US), AWS’s isolated region for sensitive and regulated workloads, to consolidate IT infrastructure, migrate to the cloud, and speed IT delivery to meet corporate business objectives, all while creating internal cloud expertise that it now leverages to better serve public sector customers.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a pro
Similar to Enterprise Cloud Forum Rackspace IT: Journey to the Cloud (20)
We're constantly reminded about how fleeting time is—but what if you had more time? What would you do? We decided to illustrate some of the answers we found on Twitter.
If you're looking to get some time back in your day, consider letting Rackspace manage your servers. We can focus on the tech so that you can focus on innovation.
Learn more about Rackspace: http://rackspace.com
Learn more about this project: https://blog.rackspace.com/moretime-question-ages
Learn how to overcome security challenges, such as: identity theft, spoofed transactions, DDoS business disruption, criminal extortion and more. You'll learn how a security strategy promotes confidence in the cloud.
6 Commonly Asked Questions from Customers Building on AWSRackspace
This session is ideal for IT/Infrastructure Manager, Application Developers, System Architects/Administrators and anyone who is growing their AWS footprint. We will uncover recent customer experiences at every stage while you can network with peers that face similar challenges.
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
Data is being generated at a feverish pace and forward thinking companies are integrating big data and analytics as part of their core strategy from day one. However, it is often hard to sift through the hype around big data and many companies start with only a small subset of data. Can smaller companies benefit from big data efforts? We will discuss several use cases and examples of how startups are using data to optimize their operations, connect with their users, and expand their market.
Deploy Apache Spark™ on Rackspace OnMetal™ for Cloud Big Data PlatformRackspace
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to Big Data. Apache Hadoop and Spark offer the promise to transform how businesses leverage Big Data, finding the right mix of flexible deployments, elastic scalability, and performance can be daunting.
Introducing Rackspace OnMetal™ for Apache Spark™ an industry first that combines the performance and efficiency of bare metal with the ease and flexibility of cloud. With Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform you can transform how you run Hadoop and Spark workloads:
•Deploy in minutes, not months
•Spin instances up or down on demand
•Process data in-memory for faster query times
•Get bare metal performance and say goodbye to virtualization taxes
Sign up and learn how Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform can rapidly move your organization from planning to deploying.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in New York City, the second of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicks off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Second Stage CloudRackspace
James Staten, VP and top Analyst at Forrester Research discusses tech adoption of cloud computing at Rackspace::Solve New York. Staten explains the Second-Stage Cloud, which means that the optimization phase of client-server is ending while we enter the rationalizations phase of cloud computing. This makes the cloud-competition today based on “service-value”, causing a hyper-growth for cloud services.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace Solve New York, Jon Hyman, CIO of AppBoy, shared how AppBoy uses Rackspace’s DevOps Automation Services to increase app engagement for their clients, including Urban Outfitters and Shape Magazine. With Rackspace’s managed cloud providing support, Appboy was able to excel rapid customer growth and scale through DevOps.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Architecting a DR SolutionRackspace
VMware’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster-recovery management product. It ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. However, it is not a turn-key DR solution. Architecting your SRM solution requires deep thought and heavy planning. This presentation will help you with planning and architecting your SRM solution as well as addressing specific configuration and installation challenges. Our goal is to help you deploy and maintain a solid SRM solution to enable your DR Plan.
Outsourcing IT Projects to Managed Hosting of the CloudRackspace
Is your organization looking to cut costs, reduce deployment time, or gain new capabilities that you find challenging to implement with traditional on-premises infrastructure? Then outsourcing IT may be right for you.
Nearly every IT leader these days is wresting with Shadow IT – the dynamic in which end users obtain IT solutions from cloud service providers without informing corporate IT.
Some IT initiatives, such as disaster recovery, are natural fits for cloud computing. Yet it can be challenging to know exactly where to begin when it comes to configuring self-managed recovery plans and replicating virtual machines (VMs) from on-premises to a cloud service provider.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
2. Your Hosts
Lisa Larson Rich Murr Arrian Mehis
Vice President Vice President Senior Practice Manager
Enterprise Technical Sales Rackspace IT Rackspace Advisory Services
Rackspace Hosting Rackspace Hosting Rackspace Hosting
lisa.larson@rackspace.com Rich.murr@rackspace.com Arrian.mehis@rackspace.com
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3. What were your IT challenges?
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4. The Challenge
• Demand for IT services exceeds supply
• The business expects near instantaneous delivery
• Recruiting and retaining talent is problematic
• IT is capital intensive
• Managing increasingly complex environments is difficult
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5. Did you have a vision?
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6. How did Advisory Services help?
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7. Driving Fanatical Support into the
strategic IT planning process…
And, creating end to end IT
transformation solutions for the
enterprise
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8. Who We Are…
A team of demonstrated industry thought leaders who build &
implement effective Cloud Strategies for the enterprise
Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Architects, Cloud Tool Specialists
Cloud Strategy Cloud Delivery Consultants
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9. How do we transform IT?
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10. The IT Transformation Framework
Customer
Data Center
Application Cloud Solution
IT Evolution Migration Environment
Profiling Readiness Engineering
Workshop Execution Realization
Exercise Assessment Engagement
Strategize Assess Plan/Build/Deploy On-Going Optimization
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11. How Did ITTF Apply to Rackspace IT?
Q3-1H Q4 2012 Q4 2012 – Q2 2013 Q2-Q3 2013
DISCOVERY PHASE 1: PHASE 3:
• Current IT Environment SharePoint
• Business Challenges Polaris • Move to Cloud
• Defining Success Utility grid
• Identifying Fears & Obstacles DEX
• Understanding Expected Org changes
• Maximizing ROI
PHASE 2:
• Building the Business Case
RSA
Key Areas of Consideration:
Core
The Strategic Plan: • Identify app dependencies
Prop Man
• 2 year roadmap • App refactoring requirements
eDir
• Parties involved • Plan for remaining 250 apps
AD
• Pragmatic Approach
Priv. Cloud
#1 Become Rackspace Customer
#2 Cloud Decision Drivers:
• Shadow IT
• Ease of implementation
• Lack of internal
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13. Why did we build Advisory
Services?
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14. How We Came to Be…
Who can help me build a How can I shift CAPEX to OPEX? Cloud computing
cloud business case? …where do I begin?
What are the benefits of a hybrid IT model?
Who can help me
How can I use cloud technology to reduce costs? understand compliance
requirements: HIPPA, SOX?
Can I avoid lock-in from
proprietary technologies?
How do I build skill sets for
Help…I’m running out
Cloud management within
of data center space!
my team?
How can I best leverage
the Rackspace Portfolio ? How can I best use my IT
resources?
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16. Our Approach to Cloud
ERVICE Provider Mentality
ANDATE for DEV/OPS
LLOCATE Resources
OI Maximization
AKE Control
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17. Get SMART on Cloud
Rackspace Advisory Services: Recommended Rackspace Resources:
Phone: 1-800-440-1249 • Cloud: Vision to Reality whitepaper (right side of page)
Email : advisory_services@rackspace.com • Cloud: Economics whitepaper (right side of page)
Website: rackspace.com/Advisory Services • Take the Cloud Readiness Self Assessment
• Use cases:
Recommended Industry Resources: – Hybrid Hosting: Dominos Pizza and watch the video
– RackConnect™: VEVO and watch the video
• The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr – Private Cloud: Lighthouse1
• Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud
Computing, Joe Weinman
• www.Cloudability.com Rackspace
Knowledge
• http://gigaom.com/ Center
• www.gartner.com
• www.forrester.com
“Our goal is to create the most
• www.idc.com CLOUD SAVVY
customers in the industry”
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