RightScale Roadtrip - ICAP customer presentation

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Lawrence Sica, Cloud Architect for ICAP, will discuss the broker's cloud-first strategy, methodology for evaluating its global portfolio of legacy applications, approach to financial industry compliance and risk requirements in the cloud, and goal for self-service IT.

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New York!Sept 18th 2013

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Using the Cloud in the Enterprise!Lawrence Sica, ICAP, Cloud Architect

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About Me – Lawrence Sica!•  Cloud Architect

•  Experience: •  15 years experience engineering solutions •  Responsible for defining and implementing ICAP’s

global cloud strategy.

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ICAP processes $1.3 trillion in trade volume daily for clients.

Offices in 32 countries. 70 locations world-wide.

5000 employees world-wide.

20% of staff is in IT.

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Case One!Front End Downloads

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30 days start to finish

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Case Two "!Front End Preferences Server

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•  Co-located Server - $$$$$

Moved to the cloud - $$

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Adopting the Cloud!

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Involve all stakeholders early.!•  IT

Compliance Business

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Case Three!ETC in the Cloud

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What is it?!•  VDI in the cloud •  Trading applications •  Starting with new customers

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•  Desktop Deployment Connectivity

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•  On-premises cost prohibitive •  Cloud allows growth organically with demand. •  Small number of customers to cover costs. •  Revenue Generating - not a cost center!

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Cloud First!!But only sometimes.

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Services

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Defining Our Cloud Criteria!

•  Technology

Compliance Business Risk Impact

Cost

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No one definition!•  Case by Case Basis for Suitability

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Cost Management

Self-Service

Faster lifecycle Easy prototyping

Transparency

Capacity Recovery

High Availability

Rapid Scaling

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The Right Tools are Critical to Success!

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Well suited for!•  Separation of duties •  Large IT Shops •  Self-service to non-IT

Not well suited for!

AWS Console is !

•  Devops teams •  Small IT Shops •  Self-service to IT groups

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Ticketing System

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Why We Chose RightScale!Process Governance Multi-Cloud

Auditing Automation