Cloud Systems’ Hidden Impact on IT Support Organizations

The Impact Will Be Greater Than You Think

INSIGHTS Presentation Series

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INSIGHTS Presentation Series – February

Who Will Win the Database Wars?

Relational Cloud

On Premises

Open Source

Ever Increasing # ofOf Competitors Commercial NoSQL

RDX Recommends

Evaluate OSDBMS Offerings as Potential Replacements for:

• Low risk applications

• Applications that don’t need all of the

functionality of a commercial product

• COTS applications

There are Many Different Cloud DBMS Offerings and Pricing Models

Cloud DBs are Architectures - Not Products

Offerings Range from Simple to Rocket Science

Cloud DBs Impact on Support > What Most Think

Not all DB Apps are “Cloud Friendly”

Auditing and Compliance

OS Configuration

Disk Configuration

CPUPricing Models

Monitoring

Memory

Administration

Access Mechanisms

Architecture Design

Policies & Procedures

Tools

Training Security

Edge Technologies

Backup/Recovery

Staff Roles

Redundancy

Provisioning

Tuning

Cloud DB Systems are Architectures, Not Products

Policies and Procedures

Impact on Existing Tools and Technologies

Training and Education

New Staffing Roles and Responsibilities

Change Management

Security

Cloud DBs Will Change the Way Your Organization Provides Support

Costing Models

You Will Need to Thoroughly Evaluate The Impact Those Changes Will Make

FullyInvestigate

Cloud Platform

Pricing ModelsRead Fine Print!Vendor Lock InDB FeaturesElasticityScalabilitySite LocationsTrack Record

StorageComputeProvisioningMonitoring ToolsAdmin ToolsBackupSecurityData Access

RDS EC2Apps Optimization ScalingHADB BackupsDB PatchesDB InstallsOS PatchesOS InstallsServer MaintenanceRack & StackPower HVAC, Net

Apps Optimization ScalingHADB BackupsDB PatchesDB InstallsOS PatchesOS InstallsServer MaintenanceRack & StackPower HVAC, Net

Sharing Security With Your Cloud Provider

DOESN’T MEAN YOU TURN TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY OVER TO YOUR VENDOR

SECURITY TEAMS WILL USE DIFFERENT SECURITY/AUDITING TOOLSEXISTING POLICIES WILL CHANGE AND NEW POLICIES WILL BE CREATED

YOU MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE BEING CHARGED FOR

Your Costing Models Will Change and May Become More Complex Storage

Compute# InstancesDedicated HostsElastic IpsData TransfersElastic Load Balancing

AmazonOracle

Microsoft

Amazon Cost Calculator (complex)

Azure Cost Calculator

(in between)

Oracle Cost Calculator (less complex)

YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO ADJUST YOUR CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES AND DOCUMENTATION

Cloud Databases Are Administered Differently than On-Premises Systems

Policies and Procedures Will Change

Security, disaster recovery, change management, monitoring, problem resolution, job scheduling, administrative best practices, repeatable processes, internal, industry specific, governmental regulatory compliance, naming conventions – add required documentation here…

THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE THAT VARIES ACCORDING TO VENDOR

Don’t Expect Your Staff to Become Cloud DBMS Experts Overnight

Cloud systems will require changes to your support team’s organizational infrastructure. DB and application architects play an important role in the selection, configuration and implementation of public cloud based DBMS platforms.

Personnel must be dedicated to learn and fully understand how to use the chosen vendor’s configuration, provisioning and administration services.

Cloud Database Systems Require New Roles and Responsibilities

CHOOSE THAT VENDOR WISELY

You Will Share Responsibility with a Third Party Provider for the Security, Availability, Performance and Recoverability of Your DBMS

Cloud Development, DB Admin and Monitoring Mechanisms Are Different than On-Premises

YOU WILL NEED TO IDENTIFY WHICH OF YOUR EXISTING TOOLSETS WORK – AND WHICH ONES DON'T

Coding, Administration and Testing

100% App Code Transportability

Database Features

Cloud DBMS Product Features and Functionality

Don’t Always Match On-Premises Counterparts

Oracle Hybrid Cloud Administration

Azure Hybrid Cloud

Administration

Hybrid’s Goal = 100% Seamless Cloud/On-Premises Support

The more interaction the DB has with on-premises systems, the more complicated support becomes

Flat File Loads

Input from other DB Apps

Large Output Files Sent to Other Systems

Output to Other DB Apps

Data Clones and Refreshes

NO DATABASE IS AN ISLAND

New Data TransferMechanisms

New Data TransferProcedures

THE HARDER IT IS TO SWITCH VENDORS

The More You Have to Tailor Your Database/Application to Work With Your Chosen Cloud Architecture

The Right Cloud DBMS Vendor and Strategy

Done Incorrectly andYour Mileage May Vary

Reduces DB TCO

App Will Perform as Expected

Have the Desired Functionality

Easily Monitored and Administered

Select the Appropriate Database Driven Applications for the Cloud

Have a Cloud Strategy: Migration/Testing/Ongoing Support Plans

Thoroughly Understand and Evaluate Competing Offerings

Recognize That They Are Supported Differently than On-Premises Counterparts

RDX Cloud DBMS Recommendations

Support best practicesSecurity proceduresBest architecture implementationsProduct selection, implementation and usageWhat products work togetherSoftware combinations (best Tech Stack)Recurring issuesProblem prevention

RDX’s Goal is to Become the Advisor

Our Customers Can’t Do Without

You may not want to do that…

Benefits All Customers

What We Learn From our Customers

Next Month’s Presentation – Who Will Win the Database Wars?Cloud vs On Premises, Open Source vs Commercial, NoSQL vs Relational, Industry Standards vs All Competitors, Amazon vs Oracle vs Microsoft (Cloud)

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