Presentation for the Cloud Summit 2013. Some tips and views on how to transition to Cloud services cleanly and quickly start seeing ROI improvement in your business. This presentation promotes a hybrid view of Cloud deployment from initial , through transition and even in end state where IT assumes the role of a Cloud Services Broker to the organisation

1. Integrating Cloud resources with
existing architecture
A Smooth transition to the Cloud
Hrusostomos Vicatos
4th Cloud & Virtualisation Summit Africa 2013 - Johannesburg, South Africa

2. Introduction
• Cloud Promises a Lot !!
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Quick Provisioning
“Pay for what you want when you need it”
Ubiquitous Access
Greater Efficiencies
• Journey to Cloud not as quick for some
– The cost of Change underestimated
– ROI not as immediate
• How do we tap into the benefits of Cloud while
managing and operating our current IT
environments??

3. Enterprise Concerns Moving to Cloud
• Security: Cloud Provider must secure your Data at rest and in motion,
especially with multi-tenanted architectures , multiple user IAM and PKI
management
• Culture: Organizations generally oppose change - overcoming cultural
challenges within your group are important.
• Cloud model: Several models and providers are available, each with
distinct benefits - Difficult to decide
• Compatibility Issue: Disconnect between what’s in-house and the service
offered across different CSP’s
• Reliability Issue: cloud applications not all the same in how self-healing
or resiliency services are provided to applications that have not been
designed “for fail.”
• Network Issue: often a big roadblock (especially where bandwidth is
expensive). Network bandwidth and reliability is often one of the more
frequently used reasons (or excuses?) to not adopt public cloud services.

4. Enterprise Concerns Moving to Cloud (2)
• New investments needed to adopt off premise resources: cost to move
variable workloads to clouds, both in terms of human expertise and
management tools, is major financial and management concern
especially as incremental to existing Infra
• Control: Storing sensitive & proprietary data on external environment
carries risks.
• Compliance: CSP’s need to facilitate the Customer compliance
requirements
• Visibility: Quickly scaling up can be difficult to manage and track.
Costing and reliability measurement tools, can improve visibility and
ensure alignment over the cloud resources purchased
• Fixed vs. variable costs: Cloud offers best cost results for variable
workloads, as well as for certain consistent workloads
• Lifecycle automation and knowledge management: launching and
closing public cloud servers over the different lifecycle stages such as
PoC, test, staging, and production is required
• ISV Support: Application and database OEM’s still not coming to the
party!

5. The Journey to Cloud
Cloud
Virtualization in
Scale Leveraging
Automation for
improved Efficiency
Standardize
Degree of Virtualization
Broad adoption of
virtualization as
defacto standard
Your
Environment
Expand
Increased adoption
of virtualization for
capital and
operational savings
Explore
Simple
consolidation of
nonproduction
environments
Compliance?
Control?
Your
Environment
Security?
Manageability?
Performance?
Availability?
Interoperability?

6. The Journey to Cloud
Cloud
Virtualization in
Scale Leveraging
Automation for
improved Efficiency
Standardize
Degree of Virtualization
Broad adoption of
virtualization as
defacto standard
Your
Environment
Expand
Increased adoption
of virtualization for
capital and
operational savings
Explore
Simple
consolidation of
nonproduction
environments
Your
Environment
Compliance?
Control?
Your
Environment
Security?
Manageability?
Performance?
Availability?
Interoperability?

7. Assess & Choose Best Fit
• Which Elements of my Infrastructure?
– Consider the Different Stakeholders from a
systems management perspective
• People, Process, Systems, Data
• It’s not “All or Nothing”
– Some Elements will remain unchanged
– Elements will transition at different times
• Not “One size Fits All”
– You must consider mix of different Cloud Solutions
– You must be able to work across different Cloud
Service Providers

8. Jericho Forum® Cloud Cube Model
• Parts of your IT Infra move to
Cloud they reposition
• Your IT Systems are spread
across different Quadrants
– Need Manage Carefully which IT
elements move to which
Quadrants
• Need to manage
– Movement from base state to new
state
– Movement between different new
states
– Rapid ability to roll back to base
state
• Need to Monitor performance,
availability & SLA’s
• Need to Audit Compliance &
Security
https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/

9. Jericho Forum® Cloud Cube Model
• Parts of your IT Infra move to
Cloud they reposition
• Your IT Systems are spread
across different Quadrants
– Need Manage Carefully which IT
elements move to which
Quadrants
• Need to manage
– Movement from base state to new
state
– Movement between different new
states
– Rapid ability to roll back to base
state
• Need to Monitor performance,
availability & SLA’s
• Need to Audit Compliance &
Security
https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/

10. The IT Systems Landscape
• The Infra and App landscape coverage still the same
SaaS
IaaS
Data Centre
Outsource

11. The IT Systems Landscape
• The Infra and App landscape coverage still the same
Db.aaS
Web
Filt.
St.aaS
BaaS
Email
Sec.

12. Some Cloud Concepts to ponder
• Hybrid Cloud
• Personal Cloud
• Cloud Brokerage

13. Hybrid Cloud
• Gartner Definition: “the coordinated use of cloud services across isolation
and provider boundaries among public, private and community service
providers, or between internal and external cloud services. Like a cloud
computing service, a hybrid cloud computing service is scalable, has
elastic IT-enabled capabilities and is delivered as a shared service to
customers using Internet technologies. However, a hybrid cloud service
crosses isolation and provider boundaries”
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Hybrid cloud computing can take a number of forms
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Mix of IaaS,PaaS,SaaS
Mix of Private, Public, Community
Infrastructure Computing Elements Mixed
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Dynamic Workload placement and Runtime Optimization leveraged
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Example: Dev/Testing in Public Cloud, Production on Private Cloud
Business Continuity Services
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Cloudbursting !
Management of SDLC using Hybrid Cloud
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Example: Storage is Private and Local, but Backup in the Cloud
Distaster Recovery or High Availability Site in the Community Cloud but Production on Private Cloud
Services composition: solution with a portion running on internal systems, and another portion delivered
from the external cloud environment
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Example: Mashups where public cloud-based services are combined with internal application components to create a
composite application

14. Personal Cloud
• Personal cloud is the individual's collection of digital
content, services and apps, which are seamlessly
accessible across any device.
• Especially Relevant in a BYOD paradigm
– Applicable to Desktop Management
– Fast Becoming a Viable Alternative to Virtual Desktop
• The personal cloud is not a tangible entity as such, but
the realization of four different types of experience in
which users store, synchronize, stream and share
content on a contextual basis, moving from one
platform, screen and location to another
• Examples: SkyDrive, DropBox for File Storage
• Examples: Backblaze, Mozy for Backup

15. Cloud Service Brokers
• Cloud services brokerage is an IT role and business model
whereby a company or third party works on behalf of the
consumer of one or more cloud services to intermediate and
add value to the services being consumed combining
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Integration as a service
Governance
other value-added services like security, context and analytics
Service Aggregation
• The lack of adopted standards across CSP’s creates the need for
Cloud Brokers
• Some brokers specialize in integration between specific
providers such as Salesforce.com (CRM), Workday, and Google.
• Some integration will need to be done between cloud services
and on-premise software obtained from traditional when doing
a migration to Cloud
– In essence the CSB can manage across your Install Base as well as
the aggregated CSP’s

16. Gartner Viewpoint

17. IT Organisation redefined
Cloud Service
Broker
IT
Organisation
Personal
Cloud
Hybrid
Cloud
Benefits of
Agg

18. Cloud Management Capability
Enterprise
Cloud Services Broker
Personal
Cloud
Enterprise

19. CSB: Another View

20. More than $70 million in
venture capital funding
Vendors impacted- IBM uses
the Nirvanix cloud storage
technology in its SmartCloud
Enterprise.
Dell, HP, Riverbed, Symantec,
and TwinStrata source their
Cloud storage from Nirvanix
Founded 2007, cloud storage targeting
enterprises with public, hybrid, and private
cloud storage services

21. Considerations
• Skills / People
• Management Tools
• Systems Landscape
– Interfaces and Data Flows
– Database Size
• Geography
– Offices
– Mobility of users
– Systems Spread
• Your IT Services Portfolio
– What types of Services are / aren’t Cloud Friendly
• Service Management Obligations
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Business Continuity Management
Performance
Availability
Compliance
Security
Processes

22. In Conclusion
• Cloud Promises a can be realised !!
– But maybe not all at once!
• Plan the Journey
– Assess Correctly what, where, when, how !
• Leverage Cloud Brokerage
– Position IT Organisation as a Cloud Broker or,
– Leverage Cloud Brokers
– Tap into Other Cloud Service Types (Personal
Cloud) that can be cost effectively leveraged in the
Enterprise

23. Thank You!
To Contact Hrusostomos
Hrus.Vicatos@Victree.biz at +27 (0) 81 270 9315
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