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.
Cloud Migration: Cloud Readiness Assessment Case StudyCAST
Learn more about Cloud Migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
Review this case study of a CIO migrating applications to Microsoft Azure to see how a cloud readiness assessment help to identify obstacles preventing the organization from moving faster to Azure. Learn how to gain quick visibility through an objective assessment of your core application's cloud readiness, before you plan your cloud migration.
Learn more about Cloud Migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-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:
You are interested in the cloud, and you want to start learning more about cloud computing with Amazon Web Services. In this webinar, we will answer the following questions:
• What is Cloud Computing with AWS and its benefits?
• Who is using AWS and what are they using it for?
• What are AWS’s products and how do I use them to run my workloads?
Webinar aws 101 a walk through the aws cloud- introduction to cloud computi...Amazon Web Services
Whether you are running applications that share photos or support critical operations of your business, you need rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. The term "cloud computing" refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are a start-up who wants to accelerate growth without a big upfront investment in cash or time for technology or an Enterprise looking for IT innovation, agility and resiliency while reducing costs, the AWS Cloud provides a complete set of web services at zero upfront costs which are available with a few clicks and within minutes. Join this webinar to learn more about the benefits of Cloud Computing and:
- The history of AWS and how a global online retailer got into cloud computing
- The concepts of utility computing and elasticity and why these are important to a cost-effective, scalable and reliable IT architecture
- The AWS service portfolio and the global footprint on which it is delivered
- The value proposition of the AWS Cloud
- Use cases to help you relate cloud based infrastructure to your own needs
- Busting the myths around cloud computing
- No prior experience is necessary, so join us for an overview of the AWS cloud services, and a discussion on how cloud computing can help accelerate innovation in your company.
Cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are considered across the entire organization, and that stakeholders across all organizational units are engaged in these changes. This session will introduce participants to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to help organizations take an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption. Participants will be exposed to consideration, guidance, and best practices that can be used to help their organizations develop an efficient and effective plan to realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.
Cloud Migration: Cloud Readiness Assessment Case StudyCAST
Learn more about Cloud Migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
Review this case study of a CIO migrating applications to Microsoft Azure to see how a cloud readiness assessment help to identify obstacles preventing the organization from moving faster to Azure. Learn how to gain quick visibility through an objective assessment of your core application's cloud readiness, before you plan your cloud migration.
Learn more about Cloud Migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-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:
You are interested in the cloud, and you want to start learning more about cloud computing with Amazon Web Services. In this webinar, we will answer the following questions:
• What is Cloud Computing with AWS and its benefits?
• Who is using AWS and what are they using it for?
• What are AWS’s products and how do I use them to run my workloads?
Webinar aws 101 a walk through the aws cloud- introduction to cloud computi...Amazon Web Services
Whether you are running applications that share photos or support critical operations of your business, you need rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. The term "cloud computing" refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are a start-up who wants to accelerate growth without a big upfront investment in cash or time for technology or an Enterprise looking for IT innovation, agility and resiliency while reducing costs, the AWS Cloud provides a complete set of web services at zero upfront costs which are available with a few clicks and within minutes. Join this webinar to learn more about the benefits of Cloud Computing and:
- The history of AWS and how a global online retailer got into cloud computing
- The concepts of utility computing and elasticity and why these are important to a cost-effective, scalable and reliable IT architecture
- The AWS service portfolio and the global footprint on which it is delivered
- The value proposition of the AWS Cloud
- Use cases to help you relate cloud based infrastructure to your own needs
- Busting the myths around cloud computing
- No prior experience is necessary, so join us for an overview of the AWS cloud services, and a discussion on how cloud computing can help accelerate innovation in your company.
Cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are considered across the entire organization, and that stakeholders across all organizational units are engaged in these changes. This session will introduce participants to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to help organizations take an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption. Participants will be exposed to consideration, guidance, and best practices that can be used to help their organizations develop an efficient and effective plan to realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.
This session provides a holistic framework that can be used to build a Cloud Strategy that is tailor made for your organization. The Cloud Strategy covers 7 different perspectives of consideration including Business, People, Process, Operations, Security, Maturity, and Platform.
Cloud Migration Checklist | Microsoft Azure MigrationIntellika
This checklist walks you through the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, and offers resources to help you move to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.
Learn more - https://www.intellika.in/cloud-migration/
Organizing for faster innovation - People, process, culture, and technologyTom Laszewski
Organizing for faster innovation through people, process, culture, and technology transformation. Best practices, lesson learned, and a prescriptive approach to evolving and disrupting a company's people, process, culture, and technology during a digital and cloud transformation.
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.
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.
AWS is an internet-based computing service in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources.
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that
offers opportunities for organisations to hire precisely those ICT
services they need (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS). Small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) can benefit a lot from software services that
are managed in a professional way. Cloud computing enables
them to overcome restrictions from low budgets and limited
resources for ICT. However, cloud adoption is challenging and
requires a clear cloud roadmap. Organisations lack knowledge of
cloud computing and are usually challenged by the adoption of
cloud services. In most cases, SMEs do not know what aspects
they have to take into consideration for a sound decision in
favour or against the cloud. A cloud readiness assessment is a
general approach to facilitate this decision-making process.
The presented study focuses on the development of an assessment framework for cloud services (SaaS) in the domain of enterprise content management (ECM) and social software (ecollaboration).
Visit http:aws.amazon.com/hpc for more information about HPC on AWS.
High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex science, engineering, and business problems using applications that require high bandwidth, low latency networking, and very high compute capabilities. AWS allows you to increase the speed of research by running high performance computing in the cloud and to reduce costs by providing Cluster Compute or Cluster GPU servers on-demand without large capital investments. You have access to a full-bisection, high bandwidth network for tightly-coupled, IO-intensive workloads, which enables you to scale out across thousands of cores for throughput-oriented applications.
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 session provides an introduction to the AWS platform and services. It explains how you can get started on your cloud journey and what resources you can use build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. The session also covers the benefits customers are enjoying by moving to AWS cloud; increased agility, faster decision making and the ability to fail fast and innovate.
There are many questions on what are the best steps and ways to migrate to the cloud better. Enterprises need to have specific steps to follow when migrating to the cloud.
In this solution, we identify those specific steps and processes and how it can be adapted best.
To know more, please get in touch with us at info@blazeclan.com
Reduce Costs and Build a Strong Operational Foundation with the AWS Migration...Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Romulo Gapuz, Solutions Architect, AWS
Up to 80% of enterprise IT budgets are spent on maintaining existing workloads and keeping the lights on versus focusing on new products and services to better serve customers. Migrating existing workloads to the cloud provide a lever to do that, providing efficiencies and benefits on your existing workloads.
What if you could focus your attention and resources on differentiating your company in the marketplace? What if you could innovate at startup-like speed? And finally, what if you could dramatically reduce the risks inherent in your present infrastructure?
Understand the core concepts of Cloud Computing. Whether you want to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources.
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.
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.
This session provides a holistic framework that can be used to build a Cloud Strategy that is tailor made for your organization. The Cloud Strategy covers 7 different perspectives of consideration including Business, People, Process, Operations, Security, Maturity, and Platform.
Cloud Migration Checklist | Microsoft Azure MigrationIntellika
This checklist walks you through the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, and offers resources to help you move to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.
Learn more - https://www.intellika.in/cloud-migration/
Organizing for faster innovation - People, process, culture, and technologyTom Laszewski
Organizing for faster innovation through people, process, culture, and technology transformation. Best practices, lesson learned, and a prescriptive approach to evolving and disrupting a company's people, process, culture, and technology during a digital and cloud transformation.
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.
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.
AWS is an internet-based computing service in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources.
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that
offers opportunities for organisations to hire precisely those ICT
services they need (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS). Small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) can benefit a lot from software services that
are managed in a professional way. Cloud computing enables
them to overcome restrictions from low budgets and limited
resources for ICT. However, cloud adoption is challenging and
requires a clear cloud roadmap. Organisations lack knowledge of
cloud computing and are usually challenged by the adoption of
cloud services. In most cases, SMEs do not know what aspects
they have to take into consideration for a sound decision in
favour or against the cloud. A cloud readiness assessment is a
general approach to facilitate this decision-making process.
The presented study focuses on the development of an assessment framework for cloud services (SaaS) in the domain of enterprise content management (ECM) and social software (ecollaboration).
Visit http:aws.amazon.com/hpc for more information about HPC on AWS.
High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex science, engineering, and business problems using applications that require high bandwidth, low latency networking, and very high compute capabilities. AWS allows you to increase the speed of research by running high performance computing in the cloud and to reduce costs by providing Cluster Compute or Cluster GPU servers on-demand without large capital investments. You have access to a full-bisection, high bandwidth network for tightly-coupled, IO-intensive workloads, which enables you to scale out across thousands of cores for throughput-oriented applications.
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 session provides an introduction to the AWS platform and services. It explains how you can get started on your cloud journey and what resources you can use build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. The session also covers the benefits customers are enjoying by moving to AWS cloud; increased agility, faster decision making and the ability to fail fast and innovate.
There are many questions on what are the best steps and ways to migrate to the cloud better. Enterprises need to have specific steps to follow when migrating to the cloud.
In this solution, we identify those specific steps and processes and how it can be adapted best.
To know more, please get in touch with us at info@blazeclan.com
Reduce Costs and Build a Strong Operational Foundation with the AWS Migration...Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Romulo Gapuz, Solutions Architect, AWS
Up to 80% of enterprise IT budgets are spent on maintaining existing workloads and keeping the lights on versus focusing on new products and services to better serve customers. Migrating existing workloads to the cloud provide a lever to do that, providing efficiencies and benefits on your existing workloads.
What if you could focus your attention and resources on differentiating your company in the marketplace? What if you could innovate at startup-like speed? And finally, what if you could dramatically reduce the risks inherent in your present infrastructure?
Understand the core concepts of Cloud Computing. Whether you want to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources.
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.
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.
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.
Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable consolidation of multiple applications on clustered server and storage pools-providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability. Learn how these technologies can be used to consolidate your databases onto a private cloud—and realize the efficiencies of mixed workload consolidation, workload and resource management, and dynamic provisioning for elastic scalability.
An online catalogue of platforms, tools and apps for teachers, trainers and e...TheSoFGr
Sofie De Cupere (editor),
School on the Cloud,
ICT Key Action 3 European Project
Working Group 2 (i-teacher) has initiated and developed an online catalogue of recommended Cloud-based concepts (platforms, technology, applications and tools) for teachers. As getting access to state-of-the-art information is very difficult for teachers, this Working Group uses the annual conferences to ask participating members to identify and share concepts, tools and apps for i-Teacher. The group will establish meta-data for the catalogue. This catalogue will be continually updated by members of the working group as new products, apps and updates appear. The catalogue will be disseminated through the project blog, newsletters and via social media. A hard copy of the latest tools will be printed (on demand) for circulation at dissemination events.
Emerging Technology in the Cloud! Real Life Examples. Pol Mac Aonghusacatherinewall
Set up in March 2008, the Dublin Cloud Center was created by IBM Software Group to provide a real-life laboratory for IBM Cloud Computing. Since then the Dublin Center has engaged around the world in delivery, development and research on the Cloud. A broad range of IBM, Client & Research projects provide a real-life insight into IBM 'Smart Infrastructure' in action.
Pol will provide a range of experiences and insights into Cloud Computing – from a practitioner's perspective. In this respect, Pol brings a unique, 'hands-on' perspective to IBM Cloud Computing capability and how it is being used in 'the wild'. This workshop is an opportunity for discussion and debate at a deep, paractical & technical level that will compliment the other workshops. The intention of the workshop is to illustrate IBM Cloud Computing in action!
In addition, Pol will also discuss emerging technologies using the Cloud platform and architecture in research and development projects in the Dublin Center. An interesting range of projects from High-performance, Pervasive & Mobile Computing coupled with research into topics such as active energy & green computing in the Cloud will provide insights into some of the next generation of solutions to use Cloud Computing.
This is the firs presentation I created for training IBM EBIS community on cloud computing and apporach to cloud sales and projects. All the materials come from IBM internal documentation and precedent classes slide.
(CMP202) Engineering Simulation and Analysis in the CloudAmazon Web Services
"Building great products, ones that are aesthetically appealing as well as functionally sound, requires cutting-edge design and engineering. Given the high cost of physical testing prototypes, engineering organizations are turning to simulation and analysis using digital models, but compute requirements for these have traditionally required expensive on-premises infrastructure. But now, engineering organizations can use high-performance computing services from AWS and solutions from AWS technology partners to innovate at scale globally, with no up-front capital infrastructure investment.
In this session, AWS Partner Ansys shares how they help customers of all sizes design and engineer better products through digital simulation and analysis using HPC on AWS."
Not all Microsoft Office 365 migration partners are equal. We've collected best practices and key considerations when evaluating a great migration partner.
Technology is growing increasingly complex by the day, so how are today’s financial institutions managing change? Our latest study on cloud technology and IT outsourcing uncovers how banks and credit unions are leveraging cloud technology and hosted financial applications to alleviate the burdens associated with managing IT. The study reveals trends related to migrating systems to cloud-based environments, IT regulatory guidance and cloud technology benefits.
Scaling SQL and NoSQL Databases in the Cloud RightScale
Database performance is the number-one cause of poor performance for scalable web applications, and the problem is magnified in cloud environments where I/O and bandwidth are generally slower and less predictable than in dedicated data centers. Database sharding is a highly effective method of removing the database scalability barrier by operating on top of proven RDBMS products such as MySQL and Postgres as well as the new NoSQL database platforms. In this session, you'll learn what it really takes to implement sharding, the role it plays in the effective end-to-end lifecycle management of your entire database environment, why it is crucial for ensuring reliability, and how to choose the best technology for a specific application. We'll also share a case study on a high-volume social networking application that demonstrates the effectiveness of database sharding for scaling cloud-based applications.
FROM ON-PREMISE TO THE HYBRID CLOUD WITH MICROSOFT AZUREDotNetCampus
L’ Infrastructure as a Service è la possibilità di creare macchine virtuali nel Cloud, senza dover affrontare i costi legati all'acquisto di nuovo hardware, con il vantaggio della flessibilità e del Pay-as-Use. Durante questa sessione vedremo come creare le Virtual Machine su Microsoft Azure, come gestirle e come metterle in comunicazione con la propria infrastruttura. Creeremo quindi un Hybrid Cloud e ne valuteremo tutti i vantaggi.
BluePi has done numerous migrations for large enterprises and SMBs alike. Based on this experience we have documented the considerations an organization needs to make before embarking on their journey to the cloud. Feel free to download - http://bluepiit.com/white-paper/
A perspective on cloud computing and enterprise saa s applicationsGeorge Milliken
A perspective on Cloud computing and SaaS for Enterprise applications by a SaaS industry veteran.
Please make sure you read the speakers notes, there's a significant amount of content there.
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.
To Cloud or Not to Cloud - If you're in a transaction production environment, should you move to the Cloud? What does the Cloud mean for transaction document operations? For transaction archives? For customer support and end user access to transaction documents?
What do you need to know about The Cloud to make the decisions whether To Cloud or Not To Cloud?
"Wipro is one of India's largest publicly traded companies and the seventh largest IT services firm in the world. In this session, we showcase the structured methods that Wipro has used in enabling enterprises to take advantage of the cloud. These cover identifying workloads and application profiles that could benefit, re-structuring enterprise application and infrastructure components for migration, rapid and thorough verification and validation, and modifying component monitoring and management.
Several of these methods can be tailored to the individual client or functional context, so specific client examples are presented. We also discuss the enterprise experience of enabling many non-IT functions to benefit from the cloud, such as sales and training. More functions included in the cloud increase the benefit drawn from a cloud-enabled IT landscape.
Session sponsored by Wipro."
From the Amazon Web Services Singapore & Malaysia Summits 2015 Track 1 Breakout, 'The Journey to Digital Enterprise' Presented by Daniel Angelucci, CTO, CSC AMEA
Advancing Cloud Initiatives and Removing Barriers to AdoptionRightScale
RightScale User Conference NYC 2011 -
Michael Crandell - CEO, RightScale
Brian Adler - Solutions Architect, RightScale
Cloud misconceptions and corporate inertia often surface as the greatest inhibitors of enterprise cloud adoption. In this session, we'll share successful enterprise use cases and give you practical tips on addressing legitimate concerns to accelerate cloud adoption within your organization. We'll discuss specific issues that enterprises often encounter when using cloud-based resource pools, such as managing security, visibility, and control through infrastructure audits.
Cloud Computing Realities - Getting past the hype and setting your cloud stra...Compuware APM
Companies are increasingly demanding that Web applications "move to the cloud" to reign in IT costs, reduce server sprawl and perhaps most importantly, help to ensure that your infrastructure is tuned to deliver an exceptional end-user experience for your customers. The challenge is to reap those benefits while ensuring top performance, keeping IT operations and development on the same page, and delivering enterprise level capabilities and scalability.
Join 3 cloud computing experts Forrester Principal Analyst, James Staten; Savvis’ Chief Technology Officer, Bryan Doerr; and Gomez’s Chief Technology Officer, Imad Mouline as they discuss the cloud landscape, application performance in the cloud and successful cloud adoption strategies.
What you will learn:
* How to determine which applications are best suited for cloud deployments
* A game plan for cloud adoption for the next 90 days and beyond
* How to use Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery models to test more efficiently and better leverage internal computing resources
* Which techniques can improve your lifecycle management of cloud based applications
* Best practices to ensure optimum end-user performance of your cloud environment
Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Enterprise Assets In The CloudDr. HJ Raza, Ph.D/MBA
Time to market and rapid response to market demands are now utmost priorities for any size organization. When compared to conventional internal infrastructure, Cloud-based solutions meet this requirement better than ever. Cloud-based solutions are easy to implement, more cost efficient, and robust enough to meet enterprise demands such as auto-scalability, disaster recovery, and fail-over.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
Azure Migration
Azure migration is the process of moving your workloads to the Azure cloud. This can include migrating your infrastructure, databases, and applications. Azure migration can help you improve your scalability, reliability, and security, while also reducing your costs. Csharptek is a trusted microsoft solution partner in Digital and Innovation (Azure)for Azure migration. We have a team of experienced and certified Azure professionals who can help you with every aspect of your migration. We offer a variety of services to meet your needs, and we're committed to helping you achieve your business goals.
From Consolidation to Enterprise Private PaaS - Cloud Expo General SessionRex Wang
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing? Learn why building a private PaaS based on shared infrastructure and shared services is a natural strategy for enterprise IT departments. Learn how to get started with consolidation and standardization onto shared and elastically scalable platforms. This session discusses how enterprises can move toward a cloud computing model, building on a foundation of virtualization, engineered systems and management automation.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud - Revolutionizing Data Center ConsolidationRex Wang
A significant challenge to enterprises attempting to consolidate sprawling datacenters is finding a platform that supports a broad range of workload types with enterprise reliability and performance. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a complete system built with hardware and software engineered together for extreme performance, reliability, and scalability for the widest possible range of enterprise mission-critical workloads. Join this webcast to learn all about Exalogic—what it is and how it will revolutionize your data center through the highest performance and dramatic application consolidation.
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, driven by compelling advantages of higher efficiency and lower costs, rapid deployment and elastic scalability, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. How can organizations get started on the evolution to cloud computing? This presentation explores how enterprise IT can move toward a cloud computing model, building on a foundation of virtualization, engineered systems and management automation.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
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Planning A Cloud Implementation
1. Planning a Cloud Implementation Dr. James Baty VP, Oracle Global Enterprise Arch. Pgm.
2. The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle.
3. Cloud Business Case Cloud Computing Capabilities Cloud Computing Effectiveness Cloud Computing Roadmap
4. What is Your Cloud Business Case?Top Private Cloud Challenges Reported: 2010 IOUG Survey* Creating the business case & funding model Adequately provisioning server capacity Implementing process, policy and role changes Gaining cross-organization support or participation Building awareness of available services Adequately provisioning Storage capacity Loss of visibility / control % * IOUG ResearchWire member study on Cloud Computing, conducted in August-September 2010.
5. Cloud Drivers Reduce Complexity Reduce time to Market $ Green Change IT Cost Structure Strategic Tactical Scale on Demand Optimizing dev / test environments Metering and Chargeback Virtualization
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7. Where do you fall on cost savings vs business agility? (just one or both and if both, what priority?)Pay only for what you use Source: IDC eXchange,”New IDC IT Cloud Services Survey: Top Benefits and Challenges“ (http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=730) December 15, 2009
8. ‘Enterprise’ Private Clouds are Different SaaS Saa I N T R A N E T NIST identifies 5 essential cloud characteristics On-demand self-service, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured service, Broad network access But private clouds are different from public clouds… E.g., On-demand self service Public developer cloud – unrestricted resources provisioned in minutes, but with no controls or corporate governance Enterprise private cloud – need provisioning controls, standards enforcement, prioritization, approvals, etc. I.e., Enterprise cloud faster to deploy than traditional IT, but probably slower that public cloud There are other criteria with similar differences Security, governance, high availability, global access …. PaaS Paa IaaS Iaa
9. Why Choose Private Cloud vs. Public?Results from IOUG Survey Respondents cite Security, QoS & Long-term Cost as key reasons to choose a Private Cloud over Public Clouds * IOUG ResearchWire member study on Cloud Computing, conducted in August-September 2010.
10. Cloud Business Case Cloud Computing Capabilities Cloud Computing Effectiveness Cloud Computing Roadmap
11. Profile Applications & Workloads First Inventory Your Applications Suitable for cloud now Time based Very parallel (i.e. batch) Spiky traffic Capital intensive (especially startup) Proof of Concept Low utilization Less deployment costs High bandwidth costs / high real estate Not as suitable for cloud Vertically scaled applications Consistent load levels Latency sensitive applications Insecure applications Hardware device dependent (e.g. fax server, SNA gateway) ISV unsupported Per CPU licensed applications
22. Private Database Cloud Architectures Common Building Blocks are Shared Server & Storage Pools CRM DW ERP ERP DW CRM ERP DW CRM OS OS OS DB DB DB DB DB DB DB Hypervisor Hypervisor OS OS OS OS Operating System Share server pool Real Application Clusters Server Deploy in dedicated VMs Server virtualization Database Share database instance Real Application Clusters
23. Which Apps for Which DB Cloud? Each Architecture Serves Different Workloads
24. Database Cloud PlanningIdentification of Applications to Migrate New applications are deployed to the Cloud Existing applications are migrated based on: Difficulty ROI Suitability The benefits and difficulties of consolidating existing applications in the Cloud will vary Applications with highly varying peaks will show greatest benefit The “lowest hanging fruit” should be migrated to the Cloud first
36. case ROI Example – U.S. State Government Major Savings in Staffing & Software study
37. Cost +Share out the amortized cost to internal tenants Maybe a minimum floor price since there is an ultimate fixed cost of internal assets Market RateMatch the open market rate e.g. compare with AWS Market rate+Since private cloud offers added benefits e.g. security Value+What is estimated value to the internal customer? Provides additional tax/profit to pay for platform investment May lose out to external competition Private Cloud Pricing Models
38. Cloud Business Case Cloud Computing Capabilities Cloud Computing Effectiveness Cloud Computing Roadmap
62. Tactical – Wide deployment of a limited technology (e.g. virtualization), often focusing on cost reductionCloud Adoption
63. Key Business/IT Transformations Current Approach Cloud Approach IT Architecture designed up front (early binding) IT operations developed and performed by the IT department Systems and application management was specific to select systems and applications Build out infrastructure up-front, expand later IT will move to building up-front operational functions for a self-service model. The cloud ‘control plane’ has to be architected as a general service
64. Key Logical Abstractions to Consider Clouds Require New ‘Models’ Separation of roles (e.g., Cloud Provider vs Service Developer) . Deployable Entities (aka VDCs) include Service Templates and Service Context (e.g. – OVAB ‘Assemblies’) Logical resource ‘pools’ abstraction of physical resources
65. Roadmap to CloudMulti-Dimensional Journey Optimize Automate Consolidate Standardize Achieve new operational models & greatest efficiency Reduce the manual tasks for managing IT Reduce the footprint of deployed applications Define a single solution for a given problem Individual enterprises or applications may join the roadmap at different points
70. JavaArch11 – Virtualized, automated creation, on-demand resources, end-to-end experience PaaS has allowed the business to invest in developing new capabilities rather than Infrastructure study
72. Planning Your Cloud – Summary Decide what kind of cloud is under consideration Infrastructure, Platform… , Private, Hybrid…. Identify measurable benefits Use appropriate ROI models Evaluate organizational readiness Develop a clear roadmap for deployment Identify key IT and business transformations
76. What is the business case (ROI)?B. DC ECONOMICS C. DC Technology roadmap D. Workload analysis Oracle Insight for Data Center Technology aims to resolve these challenges and create impactful deliverables using a tailored process http://www.oracle.com/insight
IDC Cloud Services Survey from the last two years group of these motivations into two area - Reduce costs / increase business agility.Interestingly last survey (Oct2009), pay per use passed easy to deploy as the top benefit.most enterprises want to do both And in most enterprises have multiple cloud projects or initiatives In each case (whether small project or major transformation) first decide what is the business goal
There is a lot knowledge about existing public cloudsBut internal enterprise private clouds may be different.Consider the 5 NIST characteristics - On-demand self-service, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured service, Broad network access.For each of these characteristics an enterprise private cloud may be quite different from what comes to mind for public cloudsConsider ‘on-demand self service’ - at AWS it may take minutesto deploy an instance of Oracle database 11g - there is no IT department controlling that deployment But an enterprise has enterprise standards, authority and budget requirements,governance issues, etc. So enterprise private cloud user self service may mead hours instead of minutesBut that’s better than weeks of the old wayEach characteristic may have it’s own ‘enterprise cloud’definitionSecurity another one. – e.g., customer data subject to regulatory issues, private clouds different from public clouds
And these differences are why organizations choose private cloudsSecurity (and related compliance issues) is at the top of that list of concerns, along with QoS issues / reliability / availability. For these reasons it may be easier to turn existing services into an internal cloud, Creating shared resource pools is faster path to cloud than moving applications and data outsideAnd ultimately most enterprises want to able to deploy hybrid clouds
What are common use cases we seeAugmentation – handling peak load or anticipated spikes in demand for services in the cloud. Attractive , but may be difficult.dependent on the statefulness of the application and the interdependence Shared Services –the logical extension of SOA movement, shared databases, middleware, security services, Development and Test –perhaps the easiest cloud use-case Shared Infrastructure – Cloud Computing modern evolution of IT consolidation projects, with the Cloud’s capabilities for self service.
cloud computing for shared services drill downmany different levels from a shared portal and front end infrastructure to shared data services. you’ve heard about Oracle’s Middleware as a Service and Database as a Service capabilities ExaLogic and Exadata. You’ll hear later about Shared Security and Identity Infrastructure. In each area there are specific trade-offs to achieve the potential benefits.
What kind of opportunities are we talking about for cost savings from moving to consolidated shared services.Credit Suisse a Private Cloud using Oracle technology for Middleware and Database.220 applications on pool of 400 servers,just 15% of the previous of 2800 systems.in line with industry surveys that show 12-15% IT utilization.this architecture precededengineered systems but the end result and the architecture are comparable.
Let’s drill down a bit further on Database as a Service as a consolidation target. Here we have illustrated 3 different architectures You have seen in the keynote three different architectures mentioned Shared Server, Shared database and Shared Schema. There are potential benefits in both cost saving, the ability to rapidly scale and the self service nature of the database cloud. Each architecture has specific advantages. For an enterprise with common database standards, consolidation to a shared single database instance, may be relatively easy With large database heterogeneity a shared server design provides freedom of choice but there is more administrative overhead and scaling is limited to the server size.A shared operating system design on a database cluster model provides increased scaling and availability, coupled with the ability to run multiple database instances for performance or versioning requirements.Choose the right one or more for your needs
The key considerations Savings in HW and licenses reduced system management – though you still have db mgmtShared Database is appropriate where there already exists a common hardware/operating system and db version mixed workloads may be better served by deployment of individual VMs in a shared server consolidation.The Shared operating system design is appropirate for Mission critical applications they benefit from the availability architecture of a RAC cluster, while still having the advantage of independent database instances.there is no single best DB consolidation architecture, it depends on the workload and related application architecture, and most enterprises are likely to want to run more than one of these models.
Having decided which cloud architecture for which applications – what is the migration planGiven that there are usually some migration costs – apps may be selected by assessing suritability, difficulty and ROIa common general strategy is to migrate apps that are peaky, have potentially frequent changes and are likely to see future investment.those applications are probably the early targets for migration as it is easier to demonstrate a positive ROI for the resulting shared infrastructure. Of course all the new development can be moved to the cloudAnd this can happen even it there are migration delays for existing apps
Achieving cost reduction implies some model for measuring and tracking costs, both direct and indirect costs. power, cooling, and real estate costs, may be allocated in facilities budgets outside the IT organization.And achieving business flexibility implies existing measures of agility, such as the overall time-to-deploy new functions.where adequate models don’t exist or aren’t tracking current costs … - consideration should be given to implementing cost measurement and tracking before begin the cloud implementation. - to achieve the maximum benefits of cloud computing model may mean changing the way the enterprise calculates and allocates costs of services. Perhaps first consider a new more comprehensive cost model and how cloud computing charge backs could be distributed across the IT user base. Oracle’s Enterprise Management cloud infrastructure products are evolving to support not just the management of the cloud, but also the reporting to achieve cloud efficiency and cost allocation.
direct savings of reduced hardware investment are obvious, but the biggest benefits may be in operations and licensingSimilarly it can be difficult to measure indirect service level benefitsMore importantly - These benefits may be beyond the enterprises current measurement or cost allocation schemas. Moving to higher cost and performance visibility can be a parallel project to the actual physical implementation of the proposed cloud infrastructure. Where these service levels aren’t being currently tracked, then a pilot sample can be done by tracking a current implementation workflow.
this Oracle customer saved almost 400,000$ over 5 years in hardware and environmental costs by implementing a database as a service over their existing database operations, but as previously noted this is dwarfed by the savings on software and operations.
Having developed an ROI case what is a desirable pricing model for an enterprise cloud?The simplest model is simply to take cost and amortize it out to the participating business units or applications.On the other hand many enterprises may choose to go farther in implementing a more involved ‘pricing’ or cost allocation model.This could include some form of market rate pricing. Esp if there is a plan to move to some form of hybrid cloud Then the pricing/cost model could then accommodate the rationalization of internal vs external resources.This may go farther to provide some form of value pricing that provides a tax or base to accommodate future investment. This of course would imply a price advantage to an external cloud, unless the enterprise cloud pricing model provided a similar tax on external hosting contracts
As noted cloud computing may require transforming existing operational procedures, Is the organization readyFor example cloud self-service implies automating operational procedures. Are the existing procedures well documented? Are there existing planning models and tools? Similar consideration should be given to other areas such as IT governance and architecture. Does the current security model support adequate user permission for the proposed cloud model?The enterprise should consider a framework for evaluating the current organizational readiness
Given a business case and planned architecture – how will the cloud be rolled out – including organizational changesCloud computing implies ‘sharing’. Sharing across applications, department and business units.For example - Will you start with a project and then extend it across the enterprise
Whichever cloud strategy is selected it is apparent that cloud computing represents some key changes in IT culture. Architecture -Up front vs late bindingIT operations focussesvs self serviceManagement of systems vs cloud control plane (ie., hybrid ready
The process of creating a roadmap to move to cloud typically involves phases that are parallel to traditional IT consolidationFirst standardizeIdentify all the current implementations of asolution and then Architect a single solution / versionSecond Consoidate – Analyse and review all instances running on the same platform version – plan and then carry out the migrationUse Oracle migration planning services and integration products – GoldenGate, ETL tools etc.May deployment and migration to Exalogic and Exadata or the use of OVM and associated servicesThird AutomateIdentify the deployable units and meta-data, develop the required scripts, and then implement the supporting provisioning tools and workflowe.g., development of custom automated deployments for OVM images and MW platforms, and perhaps the use of SOA and BPM tooling for workflow Finally OptimizeDeploy tools and dashboards and present usage, Capture the metrics and relate to usage, Adapt pricing to demand and evolve new business modelsThis phase may include the deployment of CRM and billing apps to manage charging for usageThis is non-linear / continual
Here is a customer example implementing a Platform as a ServiceThe company is Norther Trust and their example illustrates a multi-year journey to build this cloud serviceThe result is called“JavaArch” and currently supports 200 applications in 90 WebLogic groups across three separate WebLogic clusters duplicated in 2 live/live data centersThis architecture is designed to provide Improved Time to Market – with a hosting pre-build shared services that every applicationBetter Service Levels – with one model and one set of tools across the enterpriseReduced Costs – the 12 year graph shows % investment in App Dev vs. Infrastructure.The inflection point mid graph is where the JavaArch platform picks up, and infrastructure spend takes a nose diveGetting to this Java based shared services multi-year journey rather than an overnight phenomenon.The four phases depicted are:JavaArch 1.x - The first component JavaArch1.x shared service Web SSO.Web2000 - introduced co-hosting and additional services beyond security.JavaArch8 - Based on WebLogic introduced Automation,templating and scriptingJavaArch11 - the newest environment – adds virtualization for true elastic resource demand withfully automated environment creation. Architecture, repeatable design patterns and platform metrics were essential to this multi-phase roadmap
Finally let’s summarize the points we have made today :Decide what kind of cloud is under consideration – Infrastructure, Platform… , Private, Hybrid….Identify few select, measurable benefits…. And the potential risks and challengesUse what models may be appropriate to evaluate ROI Evaluate the required areas of organizational readinessDevelop a clear roadmap for organizational deploymentIdentify key transformations
Speaker Notes:Message #1:Oracle offers you an examination of your most vital data center processes. The Oracle Insightfor Data Center Technology is a program that links leading industry advisors with yourexecutive team to develop a comprehensive process-oriented approach to achieve Data Centerexcellence. Oracle Insight for Data Center Technology provides a consistent, consultativeprocess to assess current state of IT database foundation and the optimum path forward. Thiscomplimentary service to Oracle’s customers brings to bear Oracle’s extensive technology andindustry experience in a highly focused activity that provides a catalyst for data centertransformations.Oracle Insight delivers a strategic assessment of process capability, prioritized roadmap basedon multiple scenarios, and quantifiable economics of strategic decisions. This powerfulcombination delivers a common vision to your executive team with a pragmatic plan ofexecution. With Oracle Insight for Data Center Technology, you have a partner in acceleratingvalue identification and benefits capture from your Data Centers.Message #2:Oracle Insight for Data Center Technology utilizes benchmark practices and an analysisframework based on the industry’s leading standards and practices. We will work with yourexecutive team to customize the program to achieve your objectives. The typical OracleInsight for Data Center Technology has the following steps.1. Data center industry perspective. Oracle facilitates an interactive discussion withyour executives about Oracle’s data center experiences and key industry trends. Inthis phase a scope of analysis and key hypothesis of your data center is developed.2. Discovery. Collaboratively analyze your current business processes and review yoursupporting applications technology through a series of one-on-one and workshopsessions. Opportunities are mapped to technology and process enablers to illustratethe effort required to attain higher-level capabilities. These findings are summarizedin the solution priority map. Oracle identifies the highest-value opportunities anddevelops a prioritized business case with both qualitative and quantitative benefits.3. Solution design. Oracle recommends best-practice business processes andsupporting technology with a road map that includes time-to-benefit analysis and ahigh-level implementation plan for the areas we jointly agree upon.4. Solution presentation. In partnership with you, the Insight team prepares anddelivers a presentation that includes industry trends and key supporting technology,business benefits, and value drivers, as well as a phased implementation plan androad map for the highest- priority opportunities.Message #3:The Oracle Insight program is a global program and leverages the same methodology globally for the benefit of key strategic customers. Message #4:It is also no-cost program for the customer.