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Public clouds allow businesses to benefit from technology without buying more hardware and support servicesTRANSCRIPT
Cloud Best Practices: what does it mean really? Judith S. Hurwitz
President
What are companies doing?
Public Clouds Capacity on demand Test/develop Short term projects Departmental projects Collaborations
Virtualization Server consolidation Improving efficiency Desktop efficiency
Private Clouds Internal purpose built
environment Improvement of existing
data center automation
Hybrid Environment Combination of public
services with private cloud Some test/dev; some
SaaS; some private cloud services
What does this mean to your business?
What is the Cloud all about?
An economic model based on defined repeatable workloads Scaling workloads supporting highly predictable workloads
(email, storage, repeatable service-based applications) Environment optimized – hardware, power, operating system,
management framework) Self-service – provisioning and billing Scale up and down
A service management discipline Managing and monitoring performance, availability, security, and
compliance. Monitoring quality and reliability
View from Top Management
Public clouds allow businesses to benefit from technology without buying more hardware and support services
IT takes too long to execute It can respond more quickly
to changing business needs Google and Amazon can do
things mostIT organization can’t do
It can cut expenses dramatically
Focuses on innovation
The Reality of the Public Cloud
Good for highly scalable, simple, predictable workloads
Appropriate for services based models (payment services, customer management)
Costs can be high as companies scale
Are you locked in?
Compliance can be an issue
How trusted is the brand?
When do companies consider Private clouds?
You have a virtualized, economical data center already
Your business is IT-centric You are a service provider
to your customers You need to support a
community site You can create a revenue
model for services You must support a
dynamic partner ecosystem?
Your compliance requirements are stringent
Clouds will be Hybrid
The world is never black and white – shades of gray
Organizations have a huge variety workloads to support
Organizations must support lots of legacy hardware, operating systems, customized applications
Public Clouds are most effective for highly scalable, lower risk, predictable workloads
Compliance and regulations will help dictate decisions
The Front Office Implications for the Cloud
Shifting focus from basic back office needs (develop/testing, capacity, etc.)
New focus on innovative business processes
Focus on customer experience in new ways
Is it really about security?
How secure is the cloud?
How secure is your data center?
How will you secure endpoints?
Can you track compliance in a hybrid world?
How will you manage cloud computing?
Do you have a service management strategy across your data center, public cloud services, and private cloud?
What type of SLA does your provider offer? Read the fine print
What is your governance model?
What type of quality of service do your customers, suppliers, and customers expect and demand?
Cloud computing requires planning
What is your cloud strategy? Where should you start? Which workloads are most
economical for the cloud? Can you trust your cloud
provider? Can you move your workload
from one provider to another? Where does your data live, how
is it secured, and how is it governed?
Who owns your data?
Cloud computing requires planning
How will you integrate data and applications across clouds and the data center?
What is the way to get started? What is your security and compliance
strategy? What type of SLAs do you need both
internally and externally? How will you manage your cloud assets as
they expand? How will you monitor the performance of
suppliers?
Interoperability?© Steve Carter
Elements to Create a Secure Cloud
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