This document discusses cloud computing options and dispels common myths about the cloud. It presents a cloud maturity model and suggests that CIOs should focus on reducing costs, attracting customers, and stimulating innovation. The document advocates evaluating different computing options based on needs and observing the evolving maturity of cloud computing. It warns of risks like dependency on vendors and issues with migrating systems. Overall, the document provides an overview of cloud computing and advice for CIOs on developing strategies regarding the cloud.

1. What the *cloud* is my CIO thinking?
Miha Kralj
Senior Architect, Platform Architecture Team

2. Cloud Computing options
Awareness and Choice

3. Evolution of IT options:
1. Simplicity
2. Complexity
3. Informed Simplicity

4. Dispelling the cloud Myths
1. Cloud computing is an architecture or
an infrastructure.
2. Every vendor will have a different
cloud.
3. SaaS is the cloud.
4. Cloud computing is a brand new
revolution.
5. All remote computing is cloud
computing.
6. The Internet and the Web are the cloud.
7. Everything will be in the cloud.

5. Evolution of Business
1. Build & Expand
2. Play by the rules
3. Experiment & reinvent
IT must evolve as well!

6. IT Zeitgeist
the spirit of the age

7. 1. Myth-based
2. Wizards-driven
3. Magic of mighty computers
Ancient era

8. Wizards and the Cloud
More Magic!

9. Classical era
1. Order & Geometry
2. Frameworks & Structures
3. Everything has its place
place for everything

10. Pythagoras and the Cloud
More Order!

11. Medieval era
• Religion-based
• Dogmas & holy wars
• Evangelism & martyrdom

12. Knight Templars and the Cloud
A New Crusade!

13. Renaissance era
1. Art, beauty and Aesthetics
2. Pretty & User-friendly
3. Consumer-driven, Croudsourced

14. DaVincis and the Cloud
More Beauty!

15. Modern Era
1. Mixing & Matching
2. Relativity & Interdependency
3. Functionality over Form

16. Scientists and the Cloud
More Choices!

17. Cloud Maturity Model
Market
utilities can
be brought
Utility together over
the Internet
Self-service to create an
provisioning open
Automation and de- competitive
provisioning, marketplace
remove metering and
manual labor SLA
Abstraction needs for the monitoring
run-time
decouple the operation
workloads and
Consolidation payloads from
the physical
reduce infrastructure
redundancy
and wasted
space

18. CIO and priorities
1. Reducing the Enterprise Cost
2. Attracting & Retaining Customers
3. Stimulating Innovation
4. Improving Business Processes

19. Focus on the past
• Vendor management
• Problem management
• Project management
Purveyors of Applications

20. Application Segmentation
1. Must-have apps
2. Have-to-have apps
3. Nice-to-have apps
4. Playground (Could-have apps)

21. Focus on the Present
• Process Improvement
• Lobbying
• Talent Recruiting
Purveyors of Architectures

22. Maturity Segmentation
1. Hand-built & Owned
2. Custom-Built by 3rd party
3. Customized COTS
4. Commodity COTS

23. Focus on the Future
• Innovation
• Conceptualization
• Venture management
Purveyors of Wisdom

24. Probability Segmentation
1. No-fail Solutions
2. Plausible Concepts
3. Sound Ideas
4. Wild Dreams

25. The Most important skill
of an IT leader:
Being process-oriented,
not product-driven

26. The dark side of the cloud

27. Separation of Developers
and IT Professionals
Where did all my admins go?

28. Migration and reversal
(in)abilities
Once you open the gate…

29. Risk of hard dependency
Going down is never in style!

30. Cherry-Picking
Leave no leftovers behind!

31. Building IT masterpieces
Is a Cloud a valid tool?

32. Meet a Trailerpark Joe
Not Everyone needs a masterpiece!

33. Just Right vs. Magnificent
There is an aesthete in each of us

34. Can a good IT system ‘sing’
to our hearts?
Should it?

35. Suggested next steps
1. Today and Tomorrow:
Evaluate various forms of
Computing against your needs
2. Next week:
Create a model to segment your IT
portfolio
3. In the future:
Observe the maturity of the cloud

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