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Securing the modern data centre
Infront, established in 1998 as a systems integrator, focuses on hybrid cloud solutions and continuous improvement to meet evolving business demands. Their services include enterprise storage, virtualization, data protection, and modern data center infrastructure to support government and business sectors. The company emphasizes innovation in the cloud, advocating for tools that enhance management and financial transparency in multi-cloud environments.
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- 1. 1 The Hybrid CloudCompany
- 2. THE INFRONT JOURNEY INFRONT Infrontwas formed in 1998 as a systems integrator supporting local business and small government agencies. WHAT’S NEXT? A passion for continuous improvement, Infront is challenging the status-quo to answer What’s Next? ENTERPRISE STORAGE Storage became a specialist data centre service that helped us dominate the government sector VIRTUALISATION Virtualisation disrupted market norms and formed the core of our consolidate, virtualise and automate strategy. DATA PROTECTION Business continuity services formed a critical offering of our data centre practise.
- 3. Powering Innovation with HybridCloud Business Demand for Innovation Capability for Innovation on Traditional Platforms Innovation Gap
- 4. 124 Billion Infrastructure Platform Software CLOUD ISGROWING EXPONENTIALLY
- 5. 2016 WORKLOADS WILL CONTINUE TOTRANSITION TO CLOUD Cloud Native IaaS SaaS Business Critical ONPREMISE
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- 11. WHY INFRONT? “It’s notthat I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” Albert Einstein
- 12. BECOME A BROKER OFIT OUTCOMES M O D E R N I S E D A T A C E N T R E I N N O V A T E B U S I N E S S Identity Management Converged Infrastructure Multi Cloud Choice ? P R O T E C TM AN A G E S E C U R E G O V E R N Policy Control
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- 24. Thank Allan King You +61 262398400 allank@infront.net.au
Editor's Notes
- #2 Welcome/introductions
- #3 In our 18 years of data centre experience, we’ve always had a view of what new technology means to the customer. Three and a half years ago, “cloud” first entered the enterprise vernacular. At that time is was predicted that 50% of large enterprises would be engaged in hybrid cloud computing by 2017. But what was cloud? We needed to understand the impacts of the move to cloud. So we embarked on a journey to find out everything there was to know so that we could work with our customers to find the right cloud solutions for their business. So what did we learn?
- #4 Innovation is something that every organisation needs to thrive and to continue to meet it’s audience’s needs. There is a large innovation gap that continues to grow. The innovation gap is created by the business demand for innovation, which is growing, and the capability for innovation on traditional infrastructure, which is decreasing. Hybrid Cloud can close the innovation gap by: Decreasing cost so you can experiment more. Freeing up time for IT to do the experimenting. Making it easy and quick to install and configure tools you need. Cloud can be rapidly provisioned and released with ease and minimal management effort. This phenomenon turns traditional IT on it's head and should help with innovation. The innovation gap should be filled by efficiency, developer productivity and business agility. IT needs to adopt architectures and technologies to close this innovation gap. Hybrid cloud does this.
- #5 We learnt that the Hybrid cloud blend will evolve. Businesses will be looking for more things to move to cloud. But some infrastructure will need to be left on premise – a bimodal way of operating. Need for some functions to be highly available, etc. will help determine what goes where. Some things you can’t just lift and shift. Can tailor some (e.g. so don’t run 24/7 to lower costs). We’ve spent a lot of time studying the processes and have concluded that value is in HC for efficiency, cost and the ability to have the right thing in the right place.
- #6 We learnt that the Hybrid cloud blend will evolve. Businesses will be looking for more things to move to cloud. But some infrastructure will need to be left on premise – a bimodal way of operating. Need for some functions to be highly available, etc. will help determine what goes where. Some things you can’t just lift and shift. Can tailor some (e.g. so don’t run 24/7 to lower costs). We’ve spent a lot of time studying the processes and have concluded that value is in HC for efficiency, cost and the ability to have the right thing in the right place.
- #8 Hybrid cloud gives you the best of both worlds. This is about maximising the efficiency of on-premise vs optimising on cloud. Currently, about 70% of IT budget is spent on current system maintenance (“keeping the lights on”). The other 30% is generally spent improving the same infrastructure for the future. At the same time, about 85% of new apps are being deployed on the cloud. We need to reduce the 70%.
- #9 Along our journey we have identified 3 barriers to entry to the cloud for businesses. 1. Choice Multi-cloud is complicated – it’s hard to understand how to deploy over multiple clouds. There is a lack of experience in managing multi-cloud, including managing costs, moving things back on premise temporarily, etc. 2. Governance Lack of visibility Lack of control Hard for finance to see where the money is going and hard to reconcile. 3. Control Some of our customers have invested millions of dollars in their current IT and are reluctant to change or risk that investment. Some are concerned about sovereignty once they move things off premise to cloud. This is really about operational consistency – will they be able to keep running their business as usual with the same level of control they had before?
- #10 Why Hybrid Cloud?
- #11 Why Hybrid Cloud?
- #12 Why Hybrid Cloud?
- #14 Innovation is something that every organisation needs to thrive and to continue to meet it’s audience’s needs. There is a large innovation gap that continues to grow. The innovation gap is created by the business demand for innovation, which is growing, and the capability for innovation on traditional infrastructure, which is decreasing. Hybrid Cloud can close the innovation gap by: Decreasing cost so you can experiment more. Freeing up time for IT to do the experimenting. Making it easy and quick to install and configure tools you need. Cloud can be rapidly provisioned and released with ease and minimal management effort. This phenomenon turns traditional IT on it's head and should help with innovation. The innovation gap should be filled by efficiency, developer productivity and business agility. IT needs to adopt architectures and technologies to close this innovation gap. Hybrid cloud does this.
- #26 We needed to understand the impacts of the move to cloud. So we embarked on a journey to find out everything there was to know so that we could work with our customers to find the right cloud solutions for their business. So what did we learn? Through almost 4 years of research and development in cloud, testing and myth busting we have many learnings. Here are some highlights.