This document discusses how cloud computing can provide enterprises with new levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings. It outlines four key actions every CIO should take to capitalize on cloud computing: 1) build on-premises cloud services, 2) consume off-premises cloud services securely, 3) manage and secure applications and cloud assets across delivery models, and 4) transform legacy infrastructure and applications. The document also summarizes HP's cloud services portfolio and solutions that can help enterprises implement a hybrid cloud delivery model.
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Cloud computing is revolutionizing many ecosystems by providing organizations with
computing resources featuring easy deployment, connectivity, configuration, automation and
scalability. This paradigm shift raises a broad range of security and privacy issues that must be
taken into consideration. Multi-tenancy, loss of control, and trust are key challenges in cloud
computing environments. This paper reviews the existing technologies and a wide array of both
earlier and state-of-the-art projects on cloud security and privacy. We categorize the existing
research according to the cloud reference architecture orchestration, resource control, physical
resource, and cloud service management layers, in addition to reviewing the existing
developments in privacy-preserving sensitive data approaches in cloud computing such as
privacy threat modeling and privacy enhancing protocols and solutions.
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Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT-enabled capabilities over the Internet to offer business agility and growth. It works on the pay-as-you-go pricing model, and it has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. Read this complete cloud computing guide to know more.
The future of cloud computing is rapidly entering the phygital world. The cloud has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. However, only a few organizations have been able to optimize this powerful tool, and others misunderstood and underutilized this. Here is a complete guide on Cloud Computing. https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/what-is-cloud-computing/
For the past few years, the evolution of cloud computing has been potentially becoming one of the major advances in the history of computing. But is cloud computing the saviour of business? Does it signal the demise of the corporate IT functionality entirely? However, if cloud computing has to achieve its potential, there is a need to have a clear understanding of various issues involved, both from the perspectives of the providers and the consumers related to the technology, management and business aspects. Objective of this research is to explore the strategic business, management and technical challenges existing in cloud
systems. It is believed that adopting a methodology and suggesting a corresponding architectural framework would serve as a potential comprehensive conceptual tool, which shows path for mitigating challenges and hence effort are put in bringing in by mentioning a suitable methodology and its brief description. It concludes that International Business Machine Common Cloud Management Platform is one
way to realize the combined features of various models such as Hub & Spoke Model as a quality of Governance model; Gen-Spec Research Methodology design for semantic and quality research studies into one in the form of Reference Architecture. However in order to realize the full potential of the Customer- Respond-Adapt-Sense-Provider (conceptual) methodology for dealing with semantics, it is important to
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Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing : A Survey of Recen...csandit
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Cloud computing is revolutionizing many ecosystems by providing organizations with
computing resources featuring easy deployment, connectivity, configuration, automation and
scalability. This paradigm shift raises a broad range of security and privacy issues that must be
taken into consideration. Multi-tenancy, loss of control, and trust are key challenges in cloud
computing environments. This paper reviews the existing technologies and a wide array of both
earlier and state-of-the-art projects on cloud security and privacy. We categorize the existing
research according to the cloud reference architecture orchestration, resource control, physical
resource, and cloud service management layers, in addition to reviewing the existing
developments in privacy-preserving sensitive data approaches in cloud computing such as
privacy threat modeling and privacy enhancing protocols and solutions.
New Strategies Emerge to Stem the Costly Downside of Todayâs Unwieldly Cloud ...Dana Gardner
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Transcript of a discussion on what causes haphazard cloud use, and how new tools, processes, and methods are bringing actionable analysis to regain control over hybrid IT sprawl.
What is Cloud Computing? A Complete GuideAlaina Carter
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Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT-enabled capabilities over the Internet to offer business agility and growth. It works on the pay-as-you-go pricing model, and it has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. Read this complete cloud computing guide to know more.
The future of cloud computing is rapidly entering the phygital world. The cloud has turned out to be the foundation of a successful digital enterprise. However, only a few organizations have been able to optimize this powerful tool, and others misunderstood and underutilized this. Here is a complete guide on Cloud Computing. https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/what-is-cloud-computing/
For the past few years, the evolution of cloud computing has been potentially becoming one of the major advances in the history of computing. But is cloud computing the saviour of business? Does it signal the demise of the corporate IT functionality entirely? However, if cloud computing has to achieve its potential, there is a need to have a clear understanding of various issues involved, both from the perspectives of the providers and the consumers related to the technology, management and business aspects. Objective of this research is to explore the strategic business, management and technical challenges existing in cloud
systems. It is believed that adopting a methodology and suggesting a corresponding architectural framework would serve as a potential comprehensive conceptual tool, which shows path for mitigating challenges and hence effort are put in bringing in by mentioning a suitable methodology and its brief description. It concludes that International Business Machine Common Cloud Management Platform is one
way to realize the combined features of various models such as Hub & Spoke Model as a quality of Governance model; Gen-Spec Research Methodology design for semantic and quality research studies into one in the form of Reference Architecture. However in order to realize the full potential of the Customer- Respond-Adapt-Sense-Provider (conceptual) methodology for dealing with semantics, it is important to
consider Internet of Things Architecture Reference Model where in the resources are translated into Services.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look likeâboth in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
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A thesis presentation on Cloud computing & its future: On the perspective of Bangladesh. This presentation was presented by Tahsin-Ul-Abrar (Tahsin Abrar) & Hasan Imam (Shahed) and supervised by Md. Javed Hossain.
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: How to Streamline Hybrid Cloud MigrationJulia Smith
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Cloud computing is a widespread phenomenon that promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility, scalability and innovation. By 2014, IT organizations in 30% of Global 1000 companies will integrate and customize two or more cloud services for internal and external users. This white paper examines the hybrid cloud environment and identifies solutions that make migrating into and between cloud environments an automated process.
White Paper: What's on Your Cloud? Workload Deployment Strategies for Private...EMC
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This white paperâjointly sponsored by EMC, CSC, and Ciscoâdescribes workload deployment strategies for private and hybrid clouds, enabling IT as a strategic business partner.
Citrix and HPE Team to Make Sense of the Core-Cloud-Edge ArchitectureDana Gardner
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Transcript of a discussion on how Citrix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are aligned to bring new capabilities to the coalescing architectures around data center core, hybrid cloud, and edge computing.
Cloud computing of late has become the new buzz word joining the ranks of terms including; grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. However the problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition..
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ESDS Cloud Services ticks all the boxes, offering reliability, performance, flexibility, security, and innovation. With ESDS, businesses can rest assured that they have a partner committed to supporting their digital transformation journey every step of the way. So, take the leap into the cloud and let ESDS Cloud Services
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look likeâboth in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
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In a rapidly changing technology landscape, are your virtualized systems taking full advantage of the cloud? Read about how these solutions can be leveraged for production, development and disaster recovery.
Cloud Computing & its future - On the perspective of BangladeshTahsin Abrar
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A thesis presentation on Cloud computing & its future: On the perspective of Bangladesh. This presentation was presented by Tahsin-Ul-Abrar (Tahsin Abrar) & Hasan Imam (Shahed) and supervised by Md. Javed Hossain.
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: How to Streamline Hybrid Cloud MigrationJulia Smith
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Cloud computing is a widespread phenomenon that promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility, scalability and innovation. By 2014, IT organizations in 30% of Global 1000 companies will integrate and customize two or more cloud services for internal and external users. This white paper examines the hybrid cloud environment and identifies solutions that make migrating into and between cloud environments an automated process.
White Paper: What's on Your Cloud? Workload Deployment Strategies for Private...EMC
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This white paperâjointly sponsored by EMC, CSC, and Ciscoâdescribes workload deployment strategies for private and hybrid clouds, enabling IT as a strategic business partner.
Citrix and HPE Team to Make Sense of the Core-Cloud-Edge ArchitectureDana Gardner
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Transcript of a discussion on how Citrix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are aligned to bring new capabilities to the coalescing architectures around data center core, hybrid cloud, and edge computing.
Cloud computing of late has become the new buzz word joining the ranks of terms including; grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. However the problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition..
How Cloud Services Drive Digital Transformation (2).pdfmanoharparakh
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ESDS Cloud Services ticks all the boxes, offering reliability, performance, flexibility, security, and innovation. With ESDS, businesses can rest assured that they have a partner committed to supporting their digital transformation journey every step of the way. So, take the leap into the cloud and let ESDS Cloud Services
How Cloud Services Drive Digital Transformation (2).pdfmanoharparakh
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ESDS Cloud Services ticks all the boxes, offering reliability, performance, flexibility, security, and innovation. With ESDS, businesses can rest assured that they have a partner committed to supporting their digital transformation journey every step of the way. So, take the leap into the cloud and let ESDS Cloud Services
How Cloud Services Drive Digital Transformation (2).pdfmanoharparakh
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ESDS Cloud Services ticks all the boxes, offering reliability, performance, flexibility, security, and innovation. With ESDS, businesses can rest assured that they have a partner committed to supporting their digital transformation journey every step of the way.
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ESDS Cloud Services ticks all the boxes, offering reliability, performance, flexibility, security, and innovation. With ESDS, businesses can rest assured that they have a partner committed to supporting their digital transformation journey every step of the way.
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Netmagic talks about the increasing preference for hybrid cloud computing and why it is the future of IT. Know more information from Netmagicsolutions.com
A cloud revolution is brewing, and it promises to radically transform the way we compete, collaborate, and consume business services. Indeed, in an economy as volatile and hypercompetitive as todayâs, the cloudâs potent mix of simplicity, security, faster innovation, and lower operating costs is proving increasingly attractive. For many businessesâsmall, medium, and largeâthe time to adopt this game-changing approach is now.
"The transition of companies to cloud-based will be quicker for some and slower for others depending on their individual circumstances, But the change will happen."
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Choosing the right cloud provider can be a daunting, with so many options available. Learn what factors to consider when selecting a right cloud service for your business needs
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. Whatâs changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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đĽ Speed, accuracy, and scaling â discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Miningâ˘:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing â with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs â GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
đ¨âđŤ Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
đŠâđŤ Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
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Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projectsâ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, youâre 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 âEssentials of Automationâ 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.
Hereâs what youâll 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.
Weâll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Donât miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But thereâs more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, youâll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the âApproveâ button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
Butâif the âRejectâ button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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1. If you manage technology today, you know the story: everything is
mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. Expectations
are high.
On any given day, itâs all about service delivery. You need to
provide technology-enabled services to your people whenever and
wherever they need themâand you need to do it cost-effectively,
securely, and quickly.
This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in cloud computing.
Cloud computing can provide new levels of collaboration,
agility, speed, and cost savings for enterprises of any size
and type.
Finding the right cloud solutions
for your organization
Business white paper
2. Table of contents
Executive summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
An âInstant-Onâ world demands hybrid delivery . . . . . . 3
The cloud offers new choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Capitalizing on the cloud: four actions every
CIO should take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How we see the cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
What analysts and others are saying . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Typical challenges that enterprises face when
moving to cloud solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The HP cloud services portfolio for hybrid delivery . . . . 7
Solutions that help you build cloud services . . . . . . . . 8
Services that help you consume cloud resources . . . . . 8
Software and services that help you manage
and secure your environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Services that help you transform your infrastructure . . . 9
Our outlook for the future of cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Who is already gaining from cloud initiatives? . . . . . . 10
Why HP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Take the next step with cloud computing . . . . . . . . . . 11
HP cloud services portfolio for hybrid delivery . . . . . . 12
3. 3
Executive summary
If you manage technology today, you know the
story: everything is mobile, connected, interactive,
immediate, and fluid. Expectations are high.
On any given day, itâs all about service delivery. You
need to provide technology-enabled services to your
people whenever and wherever they need themâand
you need to do it cost-effectively, securely, and quickly.
This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in
cloud computing. Cloud computing can provide new
levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings
for enterprises of any size and type.
But getting the most out of the cloud is not a simple
exercise. All services are not created equal. Each
has its own requirements in terms of performance,
security, control, and availability. You need a clear
understanding of where and how cloud computing
can most effectively be applied to your portfolio of
services. That means you need to weigh cloud against
traditional delivery models and select the best service
delivery method to get what you need doneâat the
right cost and in the right amount of time. Delivery
models include traditional IT, private cloud, and
public cloud.
An âInstant-Onâ world demands
hybrid delivery
IT is no longer just a supplier of applications and
other resources, but now a key service broker as
well. Todayâs smartest enterprises weave technology
services into everything they do, so they can respond
faster to their usersâ demands. These agile enterprises
focus on the possibilities of an âInstant-Onâ world
and whatâs coming next. They donât simply adapt to
trendsâthey create them.
HP is driving the evolution of what we call the
Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds
technology into everything it does to better serve
citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe
that todayâs Instant-On Enterprises need to think
differently about how they source and deliver services
that are enabled by technology. They need to take
advantage of a hybrid delivery modelâone that truly
optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud,
and public cloud.
Tomorrowâs leading enterprises will
be those that master the art of service
sourcing and service delivery today.Â
4. 4
The cloud offers new choices
Cloud computing brings with it the promise of choice:
choice in how you source and deliver services to drive
out cost, in how you ramp up delivery time, and in
how you achieve higher quality. But choice typically
comes with complexity, raising questions like these:
How do I know which services are right for cloudâ˘
and which are not?
What is the most effective way to build a privateâ˘
cloud for today and tomorrow?
What is the appropriate mix of private cloud andâ˘
public cloud, and how does it change over time?
How secure are my cloud services?â˘
How do I manage my service portfolio to see thatâ˘
I get the benefits I expected?
How do I build a flexible environment that canâ˘
adjust rapidly to changing business requirements?
Capitalizing on the cloud: four
actions every CIO should take
The best cloud solutions are designed to help you and
your IT organization become the builder and broker
of servicesâmaintaining control, building value, and
leveraging the power of private and public clouds.
Most enterprises are creating a hybrid service
portfolio comprising services from many sourcesâ
traditional, private cloud, and public cloud services.
Itâs critical that you align the right model to the right
service. And to be able to do that, you have to build,
consume, and manage appropriate cloud services in
an effective and secure way.
We believe that every CIO should take four key
actions associated with enterprise cloud computing.
Wherever you are in the transition to cloud-based
solutions and services, a clear focus on these actions
will help frame your decision-making.
Build1. cloud services. Deploy an on-demand hybrid
service delivery environment that provides easy
access to self-service resources from a secure,
on-premises environment.
Consume2. new cloud services so that they can
quickly and easily make the connections that
improve data flow and service quality while
reducing the capital outlay in comparison with
alternative sourcing options.
Manage and secure3. the entire service portfolio to
effectively govern across a flexible, hybrid delivery
model. Integrated processes and technologies
let you match each service to the best source
according to its needs. The result is an enterprise
that dynamically leverages technology to meet
changing market demands.
Transform4. legacy IT operational models to adapt
to a service-centric, hybrid delivery model. Both
applications and infrastructure services take on
new, shared characteristics that can help drive
new efficiency and opportunity.
Capitalizing on Hybrid Delivery Cloud
Transform legacy
infrastructure and
applications
Build on-premises
cloud services
Manage and
Secure across
legacy applications
and cloud assets
Consume
off-premises
services securely
5. 5
âThe significant benefits of agility and cost savings
delivered by cloud computing are too compelling
to ignore. Forward-thinking enterprises are
answering the questions of cloud computing not
with an âifâ but with a âwhen.â The challenge is to
understand, based on a risk/reward evaluation,
what cloud services are appropriate for adoption,
when they are appropriate, and the best
practices, technologies and vendors that should be
employed.â
â Gartner, Inc., Cloud Computing: The Why, When
and How of Adoption, November 2010
How we see the cloud
Cloud computing is a delivery model for technology-
enabled services that provides on-demand access
to an elastic pool of shared computing assets. These
assets include applications, servers, storage, and
networksâall of which can be rapidly provisioned
with minimal service provider interaction. The entire
pool can be scaled up or down as needed on a pay-
per-use basis. In other words, these assets can now be
consumed âas a service.â Offerings such as software
as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service
(IaaS) are the two prominent examples of making
assets available in this new and flexible way.
Deployment models
There are currently two deployment models for
cloud computing services. A set of core attributes
characterizes each model in a successful enterprise
cloud service.
Private cloud1. . Cloud assets are operated solely
for a single entity and may be located on or off
premises. They may be owned and managed by
that entity or by a third party.
Public cloud.2. Cloud assets are shared, and service
is provided on a pay-per-use basis to multiple
entities. All assets are owned and operated by the
provider.
What analysts and others are saying
Without exception, industry analysts across the globe
are weighing in on cloud computing definitions,
predictions, and measurements of success.
Gartner, for example, defines cloud computing as
a style of computing in which âscalable and elastic
IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service to
consumers using Internet technology.â Gartner defines
the five characteristics of a cloud service as follows:
service-based, shareable, scalable and elastic,
metered by use, and delivered via the Internet.
IDC defines cloud computing as âan emerging IT
development, deployment and delivery model, enabling
real-time delivery of products, services, and solutions
over the Internetâ (i.e., enabling cloud services).
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Forrester focuses more on the âutilityâ usage model
of cloud computing, calling it âa standardized IT
capability (services, software, or infrastructure)
delivered via the Internet in a pay-per-use and self-
service way.â
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) believes that cloud computing is a model for
enabling convenient, on-demand network access to
a shared pool of configurable computing resources
(for example, networks, servers, storage, applications,
and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.
At HP, weâve leveraged the knowledge gained from
years of global technology and service engagements
to define the unique needs of the enterprise. Our view
is distinctly different from others because we focus
heavily on what we believe the enterprise needs in
cloud servicesâand on the specific business benefits
these can help achieve.
Enterprise-class attributes for successful cloud
solutions
We believe that a successful cloud solution for any
enterprise must be:
Secure⢠âdelivering agreed-upon security levels
(for example, threat protection, privacy, compliance)
and data and intellectual property protection
Open, not locked in⢠âcomprising modular
infrastructure and services that support
heterogeneous environments
Automated⢠âincorporating policy-based automation
and management that integrates cloud with legacy
assets and services to provide integrated service
catalogs and end-to-end service quality
Resilient⢠âproviding sure delivery of agreed-upon
availability, quality, and performance service levels
Seamless⢠âcombining public and private cloud
services with traditionally deployed services and
outsourced services to deliver a seamless experience
Electricityâan apt analogy
âNineteenth-century use of electricity is an apt analogy for considering
how companies use cloud computing. The 1800s was a time when
companies spent significant resources, time, and energy thinking about
how best to create their own electricity on private infrastructure. Today,
by contrast, notwithstanding the fact that electricity is more important than
ever, we simply plug in and use it as a service. This allows companies to
concentrate on how best to use electricity to meet their customersâ needs,
as opposed to how actually to generate it. While companies moved from
generating 90% of their own electricity to consuming 90% from public
utilities over a span of just 50 years, many scientists predict that the move
to cloud computing will occur much more quickly.â
âCloudsourcing: Consero Insights
Cloud Computing, SaaS, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Aggregators, September 24, 2010
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Typical challenges that enterprises
face when moving to cloud solutions
In working with enterprises like yours to design and
deploy cloud solutions, weâve learned quite a bit about
the challenges that can hinder the success of cloud
delivery. Typical challenges that you may encounter
include the following:
Limitations of a virtual infrastructure
A defining characteristic of a cloud platform is the
ability to deliver applications and all the resources
required to support them quickly. Many businesses
have applications running on virtual machines, but
these are typically backed by a database running on
a physical server. Todayâs virtual-only environments,
which automate virtual machine provisioning and
monitoring, address only a fraction of whatâs needed
to provision a complete application. They are a
stepping-stone to the next phaseâevolving to the
cloud. Virtual infrastructure investments must be
extended to automate provisioning and monitoring
of application and physical infrastructure, providing
end-to-end lifecycle service management and security
across applicationsâboth virtual and physical.
Closed environments
Other approaches proclaimed as âcloud-in-a-boxâ
are siloed solutions that are isolated and simply
canât scale beyond the box. They limit your choice
of applications, operating systems, databases, and
hypervisors. In this âproprietary cloudâ approach,
clients are locked into one vendor solution from top
to bottom. Once capacity limits are reached, such an
approach lacks the flexibility to scale up and down
or to incorporate additional services and resources
beyond the data center. Because of this, you lose
one of the biggest advantages of cloud computing:
elasticity. Enterprises require a unified architecture
that brings legacy investments forward, is open to any
application, and can scale resources elastically from
the best sourceâinside or outside the data center.
Cloud sprawl
With multiple types of internal and external cloud
platforms supporting the enterprise, CIOs face âcloud
sprawlââwith no way to unify control of services,
monitor service levels, or achieve compliance. Multiple
cloud types, each with different (siloed) management
tools and processes, introduce risks to the business
and can quickly consume resources needed for
innovation. CIOs need a standard way to guarantee
security, governance, and compliance to protect data,
reduce risk, and ensure service quality at the right
levels for various business functions.
The HP cloud services portfolio
for hybrid delivery
HP delivers the industryâs broadest cloud solution
portfolio, backed by world-class cloud consulting
services. Our hybrid delivery model enables you to
deploy the right service sourceâtraditional IT, private
cloud, or public cloudâto add immediate value to
your organization without sacrificing your existing
investments.
Weâve aligned our services and solutions around the
four key initiatives we believe an enterprise should
follow when adopting cloud computing:
Build1.
Consume2.
Manage and secure3.
Transform4.
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Solutions that help you build cloud services
Whether youâre a large corporation or a service
provider, when you are ready to build cloud services
for your enterprise, we can assist you with platforms
and solutions that are secure, open, scalable, and
cost-effective.
HP CloudSystem is the most complete, integrated
system to build, manage, and consume services across
private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
HP CloudSystem combines the strength of
HP Converged Infrastructure with the established
leadership of HP Cloud Service Automation software.
This offering delivers unified security, governance,
and compliance across applications, as well as
physical and virtual infrastructure. It supports
HP Cloud Maps, an industry first that automatically
provisions and optimizes application and infrastructure
resources by leveraging preconfigured catalog
objects. HP CloudSystem allows new cloud services
to be up and running in minutes.
Services that help you consume cloud resources
Many enterprises find that it makes the most sense
to consume cloud resources on a flexible basisâ
scaling and adding capacity as needed. HP
infrastructure and application services help you
do just that, assisting you in designing and building
the right cloud platforms and technologies to support
your organizationâs business needs.
HP Enterprise Cloud ServiceâCompute is a
highlighted offering in this category. It makes bundles
of server, storage, network, and security available to
be consumed as a service. Enterprises can access IT
capacity that rapidly adjusts within a range that they
specify, paying only for the resources used within
that range. It lets businesses and government entities
scale their cloud capacity as much as they like within
a range that they can define. It provides the resources
needed to run the applications and processes that
make up core business workloads, and to access them
securely over a network, 24x7, from an HP data center.
âBy 2014, the overall market for
public cloud services will be worth
more than $55 billionâmore than
three times the 2009 estimated
market worth of $16.5 billion.â
â IDC, November 2010
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Software and services that help you manage
and secure your environment
Security and management are key concerns of any
enterprise moving to a public or private cloud. We
can help you deploy solutions that take the worry out
of managing, testing, and securing your applications
and infrastructure.
HP Cloud Service Automation enables one-touch
infrastructure and application ordering, provisioning,
and management from a single self-service portal,
across a hybrid delivery cloud environment.
Services that help you transform your
infrastructure
We deliver a broad selection of professional services
designed to help you plan and implement your use of
private and public clouds. From initial assessment to
design and implementation, our services experts work
with you to find the right solutions for your unique
needs. Start with the following service:
HP Cloud Discovery Workshop provides information
and discussions to help get your key decision-makers
(CIO, key management, and business owners) aligned
on taking the journey to cloud solutions.
Our outlook for the future of cloud
Without a doubt, cloud computing is here to stay, and
it will gain increasing momentum in the next three to
five years. Those who gain the most success from their
adoption of cloud computing will be those who focus
on the quality of service delivery.
For the foreseeable future, enterprises will use a
hybrid delivery model that combines traditional IT,
private cloud, and public cloud. Infrastructures will
continue to be complex and heterogeneous, requiring
careful planning and testing prior to the deployment
of cloud solutions and services. The transition to cloud
computing is very similar to other major IT transitions
we have seen (the move to client/server computing,
for example).
The number of technological solutions for private and
public clouds is growing fast, as is the number of
creative ways to deliver IT applications as a service.
As these choices continue to multiply, it will become
increasingly difficult to manage tomorrowâs highly
complex data center environments. New management,
automation, and security solutions will assume
increasing importance. Enterprises will look to partner
with highly experienced cloud-solution providers
with the staying power and expertise to guide them
through choices in cloud infrastructure, applications,
and services.
10. Who is already gaining from cloud
initiatives?
Weâve worked with several leading enterprises across
the globe to design and deploy cloud solutions, and
they are achieving measurable results. Below are two
examples.
FICOâa leader in predictive analytics solutions
that drive smarter decisions
Challenge: an array of disparate defect- and test-
management tools spread across numerous product
linesâa consequence of FICOâs acquisitions-based
growth
Solution: private cloud transformation, plus a suite
of integrated tools for global enterprise management
Benefits:
Improved audit compliance to meet businessâ˘
objectives
Audits that had taken 15 to 20 hours nowâ˘
took minutes
Achieved a 21% improvement in change-processâ˘
compliance
Lowered QA expenses by approximatelyâ˘
33% in one year
Reduced the number of QA administratorsâ˘
from 8 to 2
GS1 Canadaâinternational association for
supply chain standards
Challenge: develop a standardized process and
protocol for communicating product recall information
between businesses
Solution: HP Cloud Optimized Infrastructure,
HP Cloud Platform, and HP and partner services
Benefits:
Reduced cost of managing recall processesâ˘
Improved quality of recall informationâ˘
Decreased tracking errors with audit pointsâ˘
throughout the system, providing a record of each
recall
10
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Why HP?
You need a partner that has the experience to know
which service models are right for your business and
how best to source, build, deliver, and manage them.
HP solutions allow you to implement cloud in the way
thatâs right for your enterprise, by leveraging your
existing technologies to build private cloud, consume
enterprise cloud services, manage and secure all
services to gain competitive or service advantage, and
transform applications and infrastructure.
Few cloud vendors truly understand the unique needs
of service design and delivery for the largest companies
in the world. HPâs experience in running these services
in complex, multi-application environments allows us to
avoid significant management issues once all services
in a hybrid delivery environment are in place. And
our unique delivery of enterprise cloud services sets
us apart from other vendorsâbecause enterprises
know that our solutions are secure, open, automated,
resilient, and seamless.
Take the next step with
cloud computing
Work with us to discover the next important step in
deploying cloud solutions for your enterprise. The
HP Cloud Discovery Workshop is perhaps the best
way to get your key decision-makers (CIO, key
management, and business owners) aligned on
taking the journey to cloud solutions. Contact your
local HP representative for more information.
www.hp.com/services/cloud
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www.hp.com/go/getconnected
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HP solutions for better business outcomes
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Scalable private and public cloud
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Flexible, secure, pay-as-you-go
cloud services
Service management, automation,
and governance solutions
Professional services to
plan, design, and implement
transformation to the cloud
Scalable cloud solutions
⢠HP CloudSystem
Enterprise cloud extensions
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Compute
Infrastructure servicesâ˘
(utility services)
Application servicesâ˘
Industry-specific servicesâ˘
Application developmentâ˘
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HP Cloud Service Automationâ˘
HP Cloud Assureâ˘
Application test SaaS offeringsâ˘
Comprehensive security, threatâ˘
analysis, and management
HP BTO Management Suiteâ˘
for heterogeneous environments
HP Cloud Discovery Workshopâ˘
HP Cloud Roadmap Serviceâ˘
HP Cloud Applicationâ˘
Transformation Services
HP Cloud Infrastructureâ˘
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