Do you know how the cloud is
impacting your IT group today?
Regardless of how much or how little you are using the cloud today, it's having an impact on how your users consume IT and your view your services. Emerging trends in the IT and cloud industry will have profound impacts on how you deliver IT services to your users in 2013.
This presentations covers:
- How to take advantage of shifting IT delivery models
- Detailed real-world examples of organizations like your shifting IT from a cost center to an internal service provider
- How metering IT resource consumption gives you the foundation to massively improve your IT efficiency
- How you can make better decisions about where and how IT workloads are deployed
Do you know how many software as a service (SaaS) applications have been deployed in your company, and in which departments?
Do you know how data from those applications is interacting with data behind your firewall?
Do you know how long these data integration requests currently take?
Find out about cloud integration in the era of “hybrid IT.”
Self-Service Data Integration: How to balance the need for agility without sacrificing governance and data stewardship.
Security & Administration: What is the impact of cloud integration and how does it fit into your current architecture?
Business Intelligence and Compliance: Can you deliver cloud application data to your BI teams as well as meet regulatory compliance requirements?
Cloud Master Data Management: How does this fit into your cloud application on-boarding strategy?
Do you know how many software as a service (SaaS) applications have been deployed in your company, and in which departments?
Do you know how data from those applications is interacting with data behind your firewall?
Do you know how long these data integration requests currently take?
Find out about cloud integration in the era of “hybrid IT.”
Self-Service Data Integration: How to balance the need for agility without sacrificing governance and data stewardship.
Security & Administration: What is the impact of cloud integration and how does it fit into your current architecture?
Business Intelligence and Compliance: Can you deliver cloud application data to your BI teams as well as meet regulatory compliance requirements?
Cloud Master Data Management: How does this fit into your cloud application on-boarding strategy?
In this session, AWS technology evangelist Jinesh Varia discusses common best practices for adopting cloud computing in your business. Tap into the shared learning of hundreds of thousands of customers, as we talk about how to create the right technical and business policies for adopting the cloud, migration hints and tips, and how to develop employees skills around the cloud computing ecosystem. This session includes customer examples from McGraw Hill and Nokia Siemens on how they successfully grew their usage of cloud computing while staying agile and keeping costs low.
From HR to marketing, finance to sales, all types of departments need intelligent workflow solutions. Backlogged paperwork, criss-crossing excel sheets and emails cost employees time, which ultimately costs a company money. Just as importantly, manual solutions are prone to error due to manual re-entry mistakes, wrong versions being used... With RunMyProcess, you can create and implement solutions to even the most complicated workflow situations.
Giga om 6fusion webinar iaas marketplaces - final for slideshareValencell, Inc.
GigaOm Research held a webinar on IT infrastructure marketplaces and the impact of utility computing. Paul Miller moderated a panel that included:
David Linthicum, SVP at Cloud Technology Partners
Jo Maitland, Cloud Research Director, GigaOm
Rob Bissett, VP Product Management, 6fusion
It was an open dialogue that covered a range of topics in the emerging arena of IaaS marketplaces, including:
Why do we need a market for IaaS?
How markets succeed… and fail
Comparing apples, oranges, and straight bananas
How do we get there?
In this session, AWS technology evangelist Jinesh Varia discusses common best practices for adopting cloud computing in your business. Tap into the shared learning of hundreds of thousands of customers, as we talk about how to create the right technical and business policies for adopting the cloud, migration hints and tips, and how to develop employees skills around the cloud computing ecosystem. This session includes customer examples from McGraw Hill and Nokia Siemens on how they successfully grew their usage of cloud computing while staying agile and keeping costs low.
From HR to marketing, finance to sales, all types of departments need intelligent workflow solutions. Backlogged paperwork, criss-crossing excel sheets and emails cost employees time, which ultimately costs a company money. Just as importantly, manual solutions are prone to error due to manual re-entry mistakes, wrong versions being used... With RunMyProcess, you can create and implement solutions to even the most complicated workflow situations.
Giga om 6fusion webinar iaas marketplaces - final for slideshareValencell, Inc.
GigaOm Research held a webinar on IT infrastructure marketplaces and the impact of utility computing. Paul Miller moderated a panel that included:
David Linthicum, SVP at Cloud Technology Partners
Jo Maitland, Cloud Research Director, GigaOm
Rob Bissett, VP Product Management, 6fusion
It was an open dialogue that covered a range of topics in the emerging arena of IaaS marketplaces, including:
Why do we need a market for IaaS?
How markets succeed… and fail
Comparing apples, oranges, and straight bananas
How do we get there?
Managing highly virtualized environments - Presented by Softchoice and VMwareSoftchoice Corporation
This presentation was delivered during the February and March Discovery Series events titled “Managing Highly Virtualized Environments” sponsored by VMWare.
The presentation covers how you can:
Improve service quality with proactive, automated management, reduce operational costs of management, deliver simple, cost-efficient business-continuity for all applications, minimize risk and maintain compliance simply and effectively.
If you have any questions about the content or the event, please contact @scTechEvents
Emulex and Enterprise Strategy Group Present Why I/O is Strategic for Virtual...Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the second in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Bob Laliberte, senior analyst from ESG, will present the importance of I/O to virtualized environments. As they continue to mature and become more flexible and dynamic, I/O becomes critical to a successful deployment.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a pro
CompTIA’s 2nd Annual Trends in Enterprise Mobility study builds on previous CompTIA research in the mobility space and further explores mobility trends, challenges and opportunities. Understand the variables and trade-offs involved in a company’s decision on provisioning devices; ascertain benefits realized from using mobile/remote work solutions; identify the challenges in supporting and managing mobile/remote work; and
gauge the need for training and/or standards.
What’s Driving Enterprise Cloud Adoption? The Buyers Speak Out | WebinarEverest Group
Everest Group and Cloud Connect conducted a first of its kind assessment of the major driving forces behind enterprise cloud adoption. This survey was unique in that it examined the perceived benefits and pain points among cloud buyers and compared the results with those of service providers and third party consultants. The results are surprising and indicate some shifting market drivers and surprising disconnects between cloud buyers and sellers.
On January 10, Everest Group and Cloud Connect hosted a webinar that covered enterprise cloud adoption trends.
Everest Group and Cloud Connect conducted a first of its kind assessment of the major driving forces behind enterprise cloud adoption. This survey was unique in that it examined the perceived benefits and pain points among cloud buyers and compared the results with those of service providers and third party consultants. The results are surprising and indicate some shifting market drivers and surprising disconnects between cloud buyers and sellers. The survey also examined:
Current and future adoption patterns across cloud layers – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaaS, Current and future adoption across cloud hosting models – Public, Private and Hybrid, Adoption trends by application workload, & Stakeholder involvement in cloud investments
The Cloud and Mobility Pivot - How MSPs can retool for the next 5 yearsJay McBain
The Managed Services model continues to grow and evolve. This presentation makes the case for building a cloud and mobility practice on top of the recurring revenue MSP model to drive success over the next 5 years. Supported by data from CompTIA, the cloud and mobility opportunity is very real in all customers segments and industries. The Channel is well positioned to take advantage of the consulting, policy and compliance services as well as the ongoing management and infrastructure needs of this emerging opportunity.
Keynote presentation from Cloud Connect Chicago 2012 summarizing results from a joint Everest Group - Cloud Connect survey on enterprise cloud adoption
RightScale Webinar: 451 Research Webinar - Cloud Dos and Don'tsRightScale
What do successful migrations to the cloud have in common? What are the common pitfalls? How can you craft a robust cloud strategy that meets all of your business requirements - financial, security, availability, and visibility?
Learn from the experts. Join 451 Research and RightScale for a strategy-focused webinar to examine the dos and don’ts of designing, deploying, and managing your cloud infrastructure. Whether you are c-level, an IT pro, or new to the cloud, you will benefit by hearing from experts who have deep experience with cloud computing.
Attend this webinar to:
- Understand the key components of a successful cloud strategy - public, private, or hybrid
- Get a reality check on the cloud landscape and current trends
- Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of migrating to the cloud
- Hear specific customer use cases and cloud solutions
William Fellows, Research Vice President at 451 Research, is a leading analyst on cloud who has closely tracked the industry since 2007. In this webinar, he will share key insights and trends in the cloud computing landscape.
Josh Fraser, Sr. Vice President of Business Development at RightScale, has helped customers build the largest cloud deployments in the world. He will take you through Dev/Test and self-service IT use cases and show how each customer was able to tailor their cloud architecture to meet their unique application needs.
This session will teach you how to leverage virtualization and advanced management technologies from Novell to build an internal cloud infrastructure. You'll be able to build an infrastructure that allows your IT organization to package, price and promote IT service capabilities to your internal customers while giving them exceptional visibility into how those services are performing against SLA targets. Learn what an enterprise cloud is, and why having a virtual infrastructure isn't enough. Understand how the concept of an internal cloud can help you work better and more efficiently with your customers, improve communication, boost utilization and speed delivery of new IT services.
VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetAppNetApp
This ESG Lab Validation describes the hands-on testing of a VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp solution with a focus on the value of integrated manageability, policy-based provisioning and automation, and data management for business continuity.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
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
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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/
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.
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Top 5 Ways the Cloud is Impacting Your IT
1. Top 5 Ways the Cloud is Impacting Your IT
Today
William Fellows, VP Research
2. Top 5 Ways the Cloud is Impacting Your IT Today
1 The Rise of Cloud
2 Phase Transition in Cloud Usage
3 Cost Center to Service Provider
4 A Multi-Cloud World
5 The Impact of IT Metering
3. A Perfect Storm Contributing to Cloud
Profound economic uncertainty
Do more with less (again, and again)
Consumerization of IT
Shadow IT
4. Cloud Computing Evolution
Internet of Things
Vertically
Proliferation of integrated Horizontally federated –
monolithic clouds and cloud brokering, marketplaces
ecosystems
5. What is driving adoption?
• Consumerization of IT
• Faster, more flexibility, more devices
• Proxy for IT transformation
• The new normal
• CIO: Chief Innovation Officer
• Virtualization first cloud first?
7. Cloud Market Evolution
Phase 2: Management of Cloud Environments
$12.8
PRODUCTS
Initial Cloud Engagements Cloud-as-a-Service
Focused on Infrastructure Revenue: 44% CAGR
2011-2015
CUSTOMERS
Developers, SMBs
FOCUS
WORKLOADS Greater Traction with
Test & Development PHASE TRANSITION Management Products &
Project Based Investments, product intros & Vertical Offerings
"Public Clouds Dominate" new deals point to: Increase in
private activity,
Higher-end data,
Shift up the stack CUSTOMERS
Enterprise Adoption
(*) usage
WORKLOADS
Production & Mission
$1.7 Critical "Focus shifting to
Private/Hybrid Clouds
Phase 1: On-Demand Infrastructure
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
8. Phase in Journey to the Cloud
Internal Private Cloud External Public Cloud
47%
38%
35%
21%
16% 15%
4% 6% 4% 6% 4%
3%
Implementation Operational Assessment of IT Audit Identification No Plans
Strategy Cost/Benefit
Planning
Cloud Computing
n=68. Industry Profile - 1H ‘12
9. Current State of Application Deployment
Q: For each of the following, what percentage is deployed on the different service delivery platforms?
ERP 64% 26% 8%
2%
90% of Workloads Remain Financial Management Software 61% 29% 8%
2%
In-House… Structured Data Storage and… 57% 38% 5%
Batch Workload Execution 55% 36% 9%
Online Transaction Processing… 54% 39% 7%
1%
Private
Cloud Unstructured Data and Storage… 52% 44% 5%
40%
Productivity/Collaboration 50% 41% 6%
2%
IT Systems Management 49% 44% 5%
1%
ITO/ Human Capital Management 49% 30% 12%8%
Hosting
Dedicated 8% Business Continuity and/or… 48% 35% 16%1%
Physical
50% Public Custom-built Applications 43% 49% 6%
2%
Cloud
3% CRM 41% 34% 10%14%
Application Servers (Non-… 39% 53% 5%
3%
Development and Test 34% 58% 3%
5%
Dedicated Physical Private Cloud ITO/Hosting Public Cloud
Cloud Computing
Industry Profile - 1H ‘12
10. Top Cloud-related Projects
What are your organization's top two cloud-related projects in the next 12 months?*
Internal Cloud 42%
Public Cloud Assessment 27%
SaaS 15%
Cloud Email 10%
Public Cloud Implementation 8%
Internal Storage 5%
Internal Management 5%
Management 3%
Internal Cloud Migration 3%
Hybrid Cloud 3%
Cloud Storage 3%
New Data Centers 2%
Migration 2%
Internal Hardware Expansion 2%
Disaster Recovery 2%
Other 15%
Cloud Computing
n=62. *Note that due to multiple responses per interview, total may exceed 100%. Industry Profile - 1H ‘12
11. Cost Center to Service Provider
Cost Center to Service Provider
12. Cloud adoption snapshot: drivers
Biggest Motivation for cloud usage
Cost savings on hardware/…
Flexibility in scaling IT up and down
Quicker time to market
Cost Savings on IT Staffing/Admin
Improved Productivity
Disaster recovery/business continuity
Self service delivery
0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0%
Source: The 451 Group Cloud End User Survey 2011
13. Unlocking your inner service provider self
What IT organizations can learn from
service providers
Elasticity
Multi-tenancy
Billing and chargeback
Cost discipline
Open source expertise
Customer service
14. Private Cloud Enablement
Imitate Turn your own datacenter
Emulate into a cloud that works like
Replicate Amazon, Rackspace…
Advantages:
Security and compliance
Leveraging existing investment in datacenters
Powers new IT-as-a-service model inside organizations
New IT refresh cycle for suppliers!
But
Private cloud is ring-fenced and finite
Doesn’t reproduce elasticity of hosted cloud
16. A multi-cloud world
Cloud service providers and hosting partners will be required
Hybrid model is dominant:
Virtualized, automated on-premise infrastructure with a
hosted elastic option
Rackspace, Amazon, VMware, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and
others acknowledge this
Managed service providers, co-lo, datacenter operators
Converged infrastructure – big investments e.g. VCE
Community, partner, vertical
17. Energy: Internal service delivery via private cloud
Goals:
The prize: greater agility, save money
Overcome CFO scepticism with business case for cloud
Private cloud for most apps with hybrid for ‘infinite scale’ scale
Manage as one system
Business challenges: Benefits:
Thousands of guerilla AWS users Enfranchise vs outlaw
Public cloud not ready, not cheaper Move to in-house private cloud for
Inappropriate for many apps, insecure most apps
Until DCs are depreciated there’s no Use more SaaS – controlled by IT
driver for change Most savings will come from hybrid
Eco reality: internal budgeting based IaaS over multiple years for ‘infinite
on ‘how much will you use next year scale’
PaaS – some PoCs, no use case
18. Financial Services: service provider to the business
Goals:
Become a service provider to the business
‘Big Four’
Four-year journey - 2,500 servers in 2011
Australian
bank Using cloud orchestration layer to manage hybrid
Security is way behind – “pulling the regulator with us”
Organizational transformation Benefits:
Standard platforms, reusable Time to market
components
40% cost savings
Enterprise services = manufacturer
Roll out across all units, geographies
Flexibility
Sourcing from multiple clouds No new datacenters
Inject and control virtual firewall into No longer rely on one
cloud sourcing partner
19. Life sciences: Amazon IaaS, hybrid cloud
Goal: To become an internal cloud hoster
and service provider using public/private
clouds, featuring self service, best
execution venue
Business challenges: Cloud solution:
Save money. Not build new Multiple apps, users and groups
datacenters for near-term, raw capacity on EC2
More predictable cost model Using VPC tactically for massive
Time to results, market scale
Get benefit of public clouds Testing cloud on-ramps to EC2
internally and others clouds (IT ops)
Testing private cloud (IT ops)
21. What are the characteristics of IT Metering? Propaganda vs Reality
Know where you are before you know how to get
where you’re going
You can’t improve what you can’t measure
Measuring what matters
Comparing across environments
Best Execution Venues
Foundation of an IT utility
22. Cloudonomics
IT cost center to IT as a service
Benchmarking against Amazon
• AMI a de facto standard?
• VMware in the enterprise
Cost allocation - it’s a rate card
Budgeting – run wild/consumption vs allocation
Support Opex vs Capex decisions
Showback and shadow billing
Budgeting reality, depreciation
Is the organization ready?
23. So how do you make it happen?
Rob Bissett
Vice President, Product Management
rbissett@6fusion.com
25. A Utility Requires Normalized Metering
• This applies to all utilities & commodities - example: electricity meters are
calibrated in common billing units, the standard being the kilowatt/hour
• Normalized cloud/IT metering is critical to seamlessly and transparently
quantify & cost capacity and measure individual usage & aggregate demand.
Native in vCenter Fusion of 6
CPU in Mhz
IT metrics
MEM in MB
DISK I/O in KBps
LAN I/O in Kbps
Metering - Billing
mCloud WAN I/O in Kbps Showback - Chargeback
STORAGE in GB Utilization Profiling
Cloud Interoperability
28. Cloud Resource Meter
1. Real-time IT consumption – virtual & physical infrastructure
2. Insightful reporting – capacity & consumption – trending
3. Internal chargeback – export data to excel or current IT cost accounting system
4. External cloud costing – accurate costing of public workload deployment
5. Simple installation – VMware vApp or agent for physical machines
6. Hypervisor agnostic - API-based 6fusion adaptor connects to hypervisor
vCenter Console
View usage
data in either
kWAC
Enables IT to pivot from departmental cost center into an internal line-card
service provider with measurable and predictable business & IT ROI
29. What This Means For You
You are now competing with some
1 The Rise of Cloud of your IT vendors
Where you are in the transition
2 Phase Transition in Cloud Usage will determine your next steps
Get on the path to becoming an
3 Cost Center to Service Provider
internal service provider
You have to have the flexibility to
4 A Multi-Cloud World deliver resources in the best
venue
IT metering gives you a foundation
5 The Impact of IT Metering for under
30. Real World Example of IT Metering
• Challenge
• Couldn’t get clear comparison of efficiencies Major US University
across environments – public and private – System
for IT investment decisions
• Solution
• 6fusion Cloud Resource Meter for IT
metering, cost comparison and usage
showback
• Results
• Accurately managing resources and
comparing competing solutions
“The faculty tends to believe that his on-campus services are expensive. This is partly
because they compare his charges to ‘the basic price of an EC2 instance on the Amazon
website,’ without factoring in additional charges for getting data in and out of Amazon.
The WAC helps make these comparisons more accurate.”
- Metered IT: The Path to Utility Computing
Paul Miller
31. Thank You!
Go to http://www.cloudresourcemeter.com
Sign up today for immediate access to Cloud
Resource Meter. Use the code “451webinar”
and get $100 in free computing!*
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