The document discusses cloud computing and key considerations for investigating cloud solutions. It provides examples of how various companies have benefited from cloud-based solutions, including cost savings, flexibility, and improved collaboration. The document outlines factors to consider when evaluating cloud options such as workloads, data security, and return on investment areas. Cloud computing allows for automation, standardization, and labor leverage that can reduce IT costs.

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1 A view of the Cloud
2 Companies harnessing the Cloud
3 What to consider with investigating
Cloud solutions
a) Key questions to ask
b) Return on Investment areas
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Chargeback & transparent billing on
usage
Converging PUBLIC
Speed & flexibility of on boarding HYBRID
enterprise and
PRIVATE
Lack of internal skills to properly secure
and proactively monitor our ecommerce consumer
applications
computing
Cost of communicating & collaborating Self-Service
effectively across the globe
Sourcing Options
Uncertainty of information backup and Flexible charging
restore
“Factory” IT Services
Cloud computing is the provisioning of dynamically scalable, virtualized resources
“as-a-Service” over the Internet (Public Cloud) or Intranet (Private Cloud).
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IBM IBM
Automation required to allow them to deliver services Secure development
faster. environment for disperse
Developers saw IT as a bottleneck whenever they developers and testers
interacted with it. First there were the manual process for
requesting new services and the long delays in approval. Improve access to resources
anywhere, anytime
2 weeks to setup a single test configuration
6 to 8 weeks to deploy images across 5 environments Lower maintenance and
support costs via remote
desktop management and
IBM CloudBurst – A pre-packaged private cloud offering user support
that integrates the service management system, server,
storage and services needed to establish a private cloud Flexible and scalable
addressing application development and test infrastructure to support
requirements peaks in resource demands
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IBM IBM
An Australian financial services group supporting 4,000 financial
300,000 employees need to collaborate Low cost and rapid deployment will advisers and 700 staff across Australia
Largest Japanese electronics producer provide cost savings.
Immediate access across all regions
Improve access to development resources Secure development
Global decision to bring all Brands under the one to a set of cloud collaboration tools across Australia and overseas environment for disperse
collaborative platform Connecting global project teams for
Need end user environment that can support developers, testers and users
Greater efficiencies and competitive advantage product research, development and developers, testers, users without local support anywhere, anytime
Reduce costs due through consolidation sales and giving Panasonic an staff Lower maintenance and
edge over competitors. Solution must be secure, provide remote support costs via remote
desktop management & support, flexible and desktop management and user
scalable support
Adopt IBM's LotusLive cloud collaboration services to enable its workforce to communicate and Flexible and scalable
collaborate more efficiently with its global network of customers, partners and suppliers. Plan, design and implement IBM’s innovative
and unique Smart Business Desktop Cloud infrastructure to support peaks
Migrate employees from Microsoft Exchange or other collaboration software to LotusLive Notes and
LotusLive iNotes for email, calendaring and contacts.
troughs of resource demands
Thin-Clients
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IBM
Claims Management Application
Global insurance company with eight high touch
point customer web applications First Scan 82
To build and deliver applications that do not have Second Scan 27
exploitable vulnerabilities“
Biscayne Aquaculture is an industry leading construction company specialising in Number of
aquatic filtration systems. Clients includes Zoo’s, resorts and water parks Scan all mission-critical applications over the course of Third Scan 29
High Issues
2008/2009
Forth Scan 10
Prepare for looming natural disaster, Hurricane Frances in 2004 post crisis, Introduce security testing into SDLC
integrate on-demand data protection best practices into business
Secure and protect 3 years of business critical and archive data in less than 48 Additional Application
hours to a disaster recovery site several hundred miles from the danger zone IBM’s Rational Appscan On Demand
SEVERITY
Using IBM’s Information Protection Service, Biscayne uploaded and protected High 8
Scanned 8 production applications Number of Issues
data in a matter of hours; today they protect over 145 GBs
Medium 8
- App1: 80% reduction in High issues
Corporate piece of mind
- App2: 100% reduction in High and Medium issues First Scan 24
Business continuity milestone reached. Low
Second Scan 24
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1997 Now
IT Transformation ✔ Data Centre Efficiencies CIOs 128 1
Virtualised and consolidated thousands of Host data
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Have reaped $4 billion servers onto approximately 30 IBM
centers
Web hosting
80 5 Service Automatic Automated
over seven years. centers
System z™ mainframes.
For every dollar invested, Additional virtualisation using System p,
Network 31 1
Catalogue Provisioning Divisional
we saw a $4 cumulative System x and storage. Applications 15,000 4,700
Billing
benefit. Savings include energy, software and
system management and support.
On Demand IT Delivery
Energy Savings
Virtualized environment uses 80% Self-service for 3,000 IBM
less energy and 85% less floor researchers across eight
space. countries.
In 2010, will have doubled existing Real time integration of
capacity without increasing information and business services.
consumption or impact.
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Infrastructure Leverage
Workload: 1 Virtualisation of 2 Utilisation of
Hardware Infrastructure
What workloads are appropriate?
Virtualised environments only
Drives lower capital
get benefits of scale if they
requirements
Topology: are highly utilised
Where does the service need to reside?
Data:
Labour Leverage
Where will my data be, who will own it and which laws will it be
bound by? 3 Self Service 4 Automation of 5 Standardisation
Management of Workloads
Clients who can “serve
Security: Take repeatable tasks
Lower complexity = more
themselves” require less
automation possible =
How rigorous are the protections and processes? support and get services and automate services
reduced IT labour costs
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Cloud is the some of all parts to date
Cloud is an evolution and not a revolution
Many varied companies from separate industries are
benefiting from Cloud based solutions
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ibm.com/au/ibm/cloud
Broad range of Return on Investment focus areas to
investigate
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