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1. 7 Ways to Fast Track Private Cloud
& Avoid Pitfalls
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3. Featured Presenters
Our knowledgeable speakers today are:
Keith Basil
Principal Product
Manager, Red Hat
Thomas Anderson
Director of Red Hat
Consulting’s Cloud Practice

4. Newbies No More
• More than 60% of
enterprises run
private clouds
• 23% run two clouds
• Nearly a quarter are
managing multiple
implementations

5. Early Adopters Looked to
Proprietary Solutions
In the past, IT
professionals have
relied on cloud
technology vendors

6. Unintended Consequences
Proprietary cloud
solutions may create
challenges
surrounding
• Workload
interoperability
• Application
migration
• Internal skills

7. Industry Standards Support Next-
Gen Clouds
OpenStack and other
industry standards
help enterprises
overcome early cloud
challenges

8. 7 Ways to Fast Track Private Cloud &
Avoid Pitfalls
• Promote interoperability
• Capitalize on industry standards, such as
OpenStack
• Implement tools that automate and simplify
IT management
• Mitigate application migration problems
• Dynamically provision resources
• Bring new experts on board with open,
flexible approaches
• Choose a partner who will provide
professional services and training to
complement and build internal expertise

9. 9
POLLING QUESTION 1
• Are you on your first private cloud implementation or on
additional implementations?
• Answer choices
• First
• Second
• Multiple

10. 7 Ways to Fast Track Private
Cloud and Avoid Pitfalls
Tom Anderson, Director of Red Hat Consulting Cloud Practice
Keith Basil, Principal Product Manager, Red Hat
March 4, 2015

11. 1. What are some of the advantages of working with
open source solutions for building private clouds?

12. 2. Can you talk about some of the skills shortfalls
we have been seeing at large enterprises?

13. 3. What are some best practices consulting firms
use to mentor IT staff in overcoming some of the
challenges of deploying private clouds?

14. 4. When picking an OpenStack distribution, why
should I pick one versus another or why shouldn't I
use directly the upstream project?

15. 5. How is Red Hat helping its customers making the
right choices when deploying OpenStack, which is
known to offer tons of options?

16. 16
POLLING QUESTION 2
• For your current private cloud, how have you
implemented it?
• Answer choices
• Internally developed
• Purchased from a vendor
• Both internally developed and purchased from a vendor
• Do not have a private cloud

17. 6. What are the biggest drivers that you see toward
the adoption of an OpenStack driven private cloud?

18. 7. What are the standard steps that you recommend
to deploy and drive adoption of private cloud?

19. 8. Where do you see the next biggest improvement
to OpenStack?

20. 9. How can customers use the same tools to manage
public and private clouds?

21. FOR MORE INFORMATION
• Red Hat Consulting
• http://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting
• Suite of offerings include:
• Red Hat Consulting Discovery Session: Cloud Strategy
• Red Hat Consulting Assessment: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Red Hat Consulting Smart Start: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Red Hat Training and Certification for OpenStack
• http://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/openstack
• Lab-intensive training to quickly develop skills
• Performance-based certification to prove knowledge
• 12 days worth of OpenStack training content
• Courses and exams available on 5 continents, in 8 languages
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22. Thank you
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23. Questions?
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Keith Basil
Principal Product
Manager, Red Hat
Thomas Anderson
Director of Red Hat
Consulting’s Cloud Practice

24. Thank you for attending
Please visit our sponsor and any of the resources below:
InformationWeek’s full report “The State of Private Clouds”
http://twimgs.com/audiencedevelopment/JC/Logos/Papers/StateOfPrivateClouds.pdf
Infographic "How to Fast Track Private Cloud Success"
http://twimgs.com/audiencedevelopment/JC/Logos/Papers/Privatecloudinfographic.gif
Red Hat Consulting:
http://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting
Red Hat Training and Certification for OpenStack:
http://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/openstack