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Presenter:
Joe Davis Applications Manager
McCarter & English
L.A.Hoffman CIO
Goodwin Procter
Jamie Engelhard CTO
Helient Systems
• Establish what the Cloud has to offer
• What is the business case? Are there economic benefits?
• How to choose vendors.
• How to think about security.
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Goals
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• Smart phone sync
• Home PC backup solutions
• Personal email
• Chat / Social / Messaging
• File Sharing
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Overview
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Source: Albert Barron, Software Client Architect at IBM, “Pizza as a Service”, LinkedIn.
• Mobility
• Convenience
• Productivity
• Data protection
• Platform independence
• Ubiquity
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Drivers
• Establish inventory of services on premises
• Establish fully loaded cost structure
• Hardware, software, labor, HVAC, power, space, etc.
• Establish needs
• Application workloads, technical requirements
• Match needs with market offerings
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Process – How Have We Gone About this?
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Application Workloads
Web Server App
Server Database MSSQL
Mail Exchange
VDI
Description Light, front end server. Mostly static content.
Primary compute node. Does the work for web server.
Primary database. Active reporting and warehousing.
3000 mailboxes, 2000 active.
Windows 7 Desktops, 1070 full images.
CPU 1 2 4 16 2
Memory (GB) 2 8 16 32 3
IOPS Range 20-60 50-120 200-900 1200-3000 60-180
Storage (GB) 50 100 500 18000 70
Resource Utilization (%)
15 25 40 80 25
• Extended AD to one major Cloud provider, testing Office 365
• Variety of apps and test environments already moved off premises
• Cloud based solutions offer “utility” pricing
• Cloud based test environments can be acquired for under 1/10th of
the cost of provisioning on premises
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Cloud case #1: Test environment
• Looking at SaaS for 2015
• HR, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Management
• TCO over 5 years: SaaS model was 40% cheaper
• Main cost driver: multi-tenancy model with faster set up
• 9 months vs. 18 months
• Lower contractor spend associated with set up
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Cloud case #2: Software As A Service
• Old EAS Archive was end-of-life
• Goal #1 - Leave only 1 year of email live on premises
• Goal #2 - Enhanced search capabilities
• Goal #3 – Remote/mobile access to ALL email
• Results: Migration to SaaS Cloud vendor underway
• Cloud solution was 40% of replacement of hardware/software on
premises over 5 years
• Office 365 and Exchange Online testing to begin in 2015
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Cloud case #3: Archiving
• SaaS Cloud pilot to begin shortly – expect to migrate in 2015
• Primary driver is functionality, not cost
• SaaS model has huge installed base and eco-system
• Focuses Legal Marketing on Business Development via
Opportunity/Pipeline and Campaign management
• Rapid configuration and lower maintenance
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Cloud case #4: Marketing
• Infrastructure
• Platforms
• Applications (with data)
• Storage
• Desktops
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What else is out there?
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• Market is evolving quickly
• DR and network integration still immature
• Computing and Storage are a commodity
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The cloud marketplace
• Connectivity
• Reliability
• Financial strength
• Data locality
• Compliance / certification
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How to choose the right providers
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• Security
• Get off of my cloud: changing providers
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Sticking points
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• Focus on financial benefits vs. costs
• Don’t forget implementation costs
• Shifts IT from CapEx to OpEx model
• Focus on network management, not hypervisor management
• Strong planning discipline is required
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Lessons learned