This document provides a case study and roadmap for moving an organization's IT infrastructure to the cloud. It begins by defining public, private and hybrid clouds as well as common cloud services. It then discusses considerations for the cloud decision such as compliance, costs, technology architecture and operations. Next, it outlines a process for evaluating an organization's current and future state to determine gaps and solutions. The document concludes by comparing the costs and benefits of the organization's current on-premise infrastructure versus a private cloud solution.

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Level Set: Cloud Defined
Types of Clouds Cloud Services
Public (AWS)
Private (API)
Hybrid (API)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Commodity Cloud Services (AWS)
Custom Cloud Services (API)
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Decision Considerations
Audit / Compliance Interpretation…solution architecture is important
Financial
• CapX v OpX
• Fixed v Variable Cost Model
Technology / Architecture….EOL? Denovo (easiest)? HA / Redundancy?
• Windows / Linux (AWS)
• AIX / IBM i / AS400 (API)
• Hybrid (API)
Operational Integration: Process complexities integrating Cloud with existing
Production / Disaster Recovery
• Scalability…mitigate the approval process for add’l resource
Scarce Resource Focus: Core business initiatives, versus
• Patching / Release Levels
• Licensing
• Environmentals
• Ease Compliance
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4. 4
Getting to a Decision
Where are you today? Future? Roadmap…
Business
Organization
Current State Future State Roadmap
• Core business
• Performance
• Major Initiatives
• Documentation
• Run Books
• Change Control
• Training and skill development
• Single points of risk (flight)
• Identify gaps / potential solutions
• Resource deployment
• Certifications
• Mentorship
Technology
• Key application linkages to process
• Dashboard, reporting and analytics
• User satisfaction / feedback
• Improvement opportunities / enhancements
• Challenges: Missing data / functionality
• Identify gaps, and potential solutions
Core Processes
Governance
• How success is defined
• Financial / budget
• Inventory Management
• KPI identification and automation
• Mission Critical Areas
• Major improvement opportunities
• Competitive Landscape / Technology Enablement
• Incident Mgmt / Escalation
• Security
• Communication Flows / Decision Processes
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5. Ex…Key Diagnostic Points: Shared Exec Vision
Common Language between IT (CIO) and Business (CEO / CFO)
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Current Cloud Roadmap/Comments
Business
Growth & Client Retention Healthcare growing; Financial Services is stable
Major Initiative: Expense Reduction Growing pressure in security, compliance with lack of IT resource
Core Process & Technology Areas
Core Processing Hardware end of life; Scalability. Positive: Test & Dev separate
Data Center Audited and compliant
Disaster Recovery (compliant, practical?) Multiple failure points / risk; Recovery long and partially tested
ITIL Processes (incident, change mgmt) Technology available; human capital constrained
Scalability and Performance
Desktop (good technology, field constrained) Ongoing projects to modernize; Lack field tech staffing
Analytics Using I-Solutions for early out; Set foundation with HDA at n/c
BI / Data Warehouse / Reporting Expensive; Lacks flexibility and responsiveness
Organization 25% RIF in March 2014; Resource constrained
24x7 Support Already support constrained for lack of breadth
Depth and Breadth of IT Talent Skill gaps and flight risk (ie Sys Admin / DBA); Contractors costly
Governance Strong / knowledgeable team; Resource constrained
Compliance Successfully passed audits; Audits getting more stringent / cost
IRS 1075 Needs environment segregation and dual factor authentication
Proactive Security Program Limited proactive security; Limited technology, people & process
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6. • Backup Reliability: Tape less reliable/not real time
• Multiple Failure Points: Network, tapes, backups, etc
• Days to Recover: 48+ hours/loss work/limited functionality
• Uncertain Performance: Partially tested
Ex…Confirmation of Core Issues
Keep it Simple
High Risk: HP Production
Server Infrastructure
• Staffing Risk: 25% reduction in IT staff March 2014
• Flight Risk: Expensive resident SysAdmin/DBA/UNIX person
• No 7x24 Support: Resource constrained; Weak off hrs
support
Compliance
Increasing Cost / Risk
Disaster Recovery
Support Needs…& Growing
Resource Constrained
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• Revenue Risk: Requirements becoming more stringent
• TCS 2012: Sufficient for now; evaluating upgrade to TCS
2014
• Weak Proactive Security: Need technology, process &
people
• Test & Development Separate: Positive
• Stability / Cost Risk: 3+ year old HP-UX server hardware;
HP-UX patches and increasing maintenance
• Scalability: Growth constraints with current approach
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Current API Proposed
Location Central office – HP Itanium Hardened data center: Louisville
SSAE-16 Audited / Compliant
Disaster Recovery SunGard – 48+ hours downtime
Major revenue impact in an outage
Limited functionality/recoverability
Chicago
Mirrored site 500+ miles apart
Near real-time recovery
Compliance Inadequate audit logging Robust audit logging capability
Environment No high availability architecture
No Journaling
Multiple single points of failure
Current IBM Hardware / Rel levels
High availability architecture
TCS Version No journaling for disaster recovery Fully supported on current release
Support Level Limited hours/Limited capabilities
Costly to attract & retain
Unable to deploy on high value projects
7x24 TCS experienced team
7x24 infrastructure support
Tier 3+ hosting
Lump Sum Purchases
(CapX)
Periodic large CapX for upgrades No capital expenditures (CapX)
OpX/variable cost model
Scalability Not scalable – constraint on HP HW Scalable up and down
Ex…Infrastructure Solution Comparison
More Simple
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• Eliminate CapX
• Facilitate Compliance
• Near Real-Time DR
• High Availability
Architecture
Ex…Private Cloud Solution
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Attribute Current (Est.) Cloud Solution
UNIX Production Infra (Compute, Storage, Ent. Flash, Virt.) 225,000 Included
UNIX DR Infra (Compute, Storage, Virtualization) 220,000 Included
Infrastructure Setup and Migration 61,250 Included
Periodic 3-5 Years (CapX) $ 501,250 $ 0
Hardware + Software Maintenance at 15 pct annually 5,000 Included
Data center: Power, space, bandwidth (incr. DR) 1,000 Included
Support Resources
CUBS / Universe DBA/SA Support
Strategy 7 UNIX SA Support
24x7 Systems Management / Break Fix / Support Overhead
Proactive System Monitoring Technology
Network Support (Firewall)
10,500
500
2,000
Marginal
Marginal
Included
Included
Included
Included
Included
High Availability Architecture Not in Place Included
Disaster Recovery Support
Backups
13,029
1,833
Included
Included
Comm – MPLS (redundant MPLS to Louisville, VPN) N/A 3,000
Veeam + VMWare Licensing Increase N/A 714
Total Monthly $ 33,862 $ 30,217
CAPEX Financial over 60 Months 8,350 0
Total Monthly (5-year CapX included) $ 42,112 $ 30,217
Ex…Financial: Current vs. Cloud Solution
Less Monthly, No Upfront, Avoid $500K CapX
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