HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
ALIGNING FOR THE
FUTURE
Jack Wilson
Senior Client Consultant
Coretek Services
Cloud is not a religion
Terminology:
Private Cloud
Is a virtual infrastructure that exists with your
organization’s or a hosted datacenter
Public Cloud
Is a virtual infrastructure that exists outside of your
organization in a large remote site, not owned by you
Hybrid Cloud
Is a combination of the above, some applications/data in
a Public Cloud site and some in your site.
The popularization of the term “Cloud Computing”
can be traced to 2006 when Amazon.com introduced
the Elastic Compute Cloud
Software-defined data
center (SDDC) is the phrase used to
refer to a data center where all
infrastructure is virtualized and delivered
as a service.
“Every twelve to eighteen months,
computers double their
capabilities, and so do the
information technologies that use
them.”
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Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella
promised a “mobile first, cloud first” strategy
As Microsoft turns 40, CEO Satya Nadella looks
beyond Windows to the cloud / April 4th 2015
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Where are the major players going?
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The only installed apps will soon only be your legacy
applications
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The key is to move from the Complex Distributed
Legacy to a Streamlined Virtual architecture
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Preparing for a Cloud Future
First Step
Where are you now?
-solid assessment of the
evolved infrastructure
-”Legacy Drag”
-traditional distributed architecture
-maybe some server virtualization
-maybe some endpoint virtualization
-maybe using one or a few SaaS
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Second Step
Where do you want to go?
-Target environment
Flexible agile technology architecture
web-based delivery
anywhere, any device access
lower cost
easily supportable or better yet let
someone else support
Hard to make one big leap
It usually takes a
process to move
from an organic
evolved
architecture to a
more thoughtful
cloud strategy
Moving a mess,
won’t work
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Best Practice Approach
Virtualize & Streamline current environment
Two key components
Virtualize the servers and endpoints
Desktops, applications and
data are in your datacenter
you’ve created a
PRIVATE CLOUD
Preparing for a Cloud Future
What steps are involved?
Discover all the application in your environment
discard what not being used (save $)
consolidate redundant functions
what are the core client facing applications
own and control these
what are the common function applications
no competitive advantage
routine functions
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Rationalize your applications portfolio
Streamline “Southwest Airline”
approach
Discover all the applications in your environment
(not an easy task, but necessary)
discard what’s not being used (save $)
consolidate redundant functions
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Left are the applications your business needs
Key decision
what are the core client facing applications
own and control these
keep and support these in your
Private Virtual Cloud (at least for now)
what are the common function applications
no competitive advantage
everybody needs and has them
move to SaaS model in the
Public Cloud
Centralized Virtualized Desktop
The Private Cloud Applications are published to a virtual
desktop, supported in one central location
The Public Cloud Applications are accessed by a browser on
the virtual desktop, vendor maintains and supports
Everything is accessed via a browser
Ready for an eventual all web-based world.
Endpoints are irrelevant
Mobile devices can access desktop and applications
BYOD is now possible
All data is now in the Private or Public cloud not on
the endpoint
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Now you have a Virtual / Hybrid Cloud architecture that
positions you for the future, while being transformative right
now.
Business agility
Access anywhere,
Anytime, Any Device
Better Security
Lower cost
Focus on Critical applications and new functionality
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Now you positioned to look at PaaS or IaaS
Both of these are maturing technologies that are still in the
Pioneer stage for the most part.
You can now develop web replacements for your Critical
legacy applications in a PaaS environment
Since you have created a centralize private cloud, you could
get out of the datacenter business and move that to a hosted
datacenter or an IaaS environment in the future
Preparing for a Cloud Future
Few issues to consider
All Public Cloud vendors are not equal
Check security,
you’re now in a shared environment
Who owns the data?
you or the vendor
Interface between public cloud and private cloud
(now in different locations)
Vendors business continuity/disaster recovery
Exit options (if any)
Thank you / Questions
Jack Wilson
Senior Client Consultant
[email protected]
248.766.4869
Project Success
NO Exceptions
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