Secrets of getting Legacy to Cloud

David Terrar | Agile Elephant | EuroCloud UK| 14 May 2015

Issues and solutions around one of the IT industry’s biggest obstacles

Setting the scene David TerrarFounder & CXO, Agile Elephant

Secrets of getting legacy to Cloud – ERP Vendor Perspective Richard ColeHead of Cloud Sales (UK and Ireland), UNIT4 Business Software

Moving Legacy Workloads to the Cloud (The Easy Way) Chris De Vere vCloud Air Business Development Director, VMware

Three Simple Changes for SaaS Transformation Tom SadlerStrategic Propositions Manager, Experian Data Quality

Legacy to CLOUD – Planning to FAIL? Floyd GrantOPM Platform Services & Transition, T-Systems, A Deutsche Telekom Group Company

Migrating to Cloud - Lessons Doug ClarkeCloud Leader, IBM UK and Ireland

Announcing the EuroCloud 2015 Awards Programme Lindsay Smith, Secretary General, EuroCloud UK

Panel Session – Q&A Moderated by David Terrar

Agenda

"Move bits, not atoms."

January 1995

Forums – Usenet in the 70s, web based forums & bulletin board services start ‘94 – online journals ‘94 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Being Digital – Nicholas Negroponte – moving atoms to bits – published Jan ‘95Wikis – Ward Cunningham installs first wiki Mar ‘95

Blogging – term “weblog” John Barger Dec ’97, “blog” used as noun and verb Peter Merholz Apr ‘99Wikipedia – opens Jan ‘01

WordPress – first released May ‘03LinkedIn – launches May ‘03

Flickr – launches Feb ‘04, acquired by Yahoo Mar ‘05 Facebook – launches Feb ‘04

iPhone – announced Jan ‘07, available Jun ‘07

iPad – launches Apr ‘10

Twitter – 1st tweet Mar ‘06, SXSW Mar ’07, Apr ‘07

Instagram – Oct ‘10Snapchat – Jul ‘11

Tumblr – Feb ’07WhatsApp – Feb ‘09

Pinterest – Mar ‘10

20 years of a World Gone DigitalThe development of social media, social networks and mobile computing

YouTube – launches Feb ’05, acquired by Google Oct ‘06

Skype – launches Aug ’03, acquired by eBay ‘05, Microsoft May ‘11

Your business model is under threat!

The Digital Enterprise Wave

The shift - what are we calling it today?

Nexus of forces

Sage and Salesforce Announce Global Strategic Partnership

“Sage Life is fully customizable, cloud based and can be used on any device, from smartphones to smart watches and from tablets to the desktop. With its mobile control centre, employees can view data in real time and react as one team. With social networking at its core, Sage Life allows seamless interconnections between colleagues, customers, partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders.”

“Traditional” IT

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

2010 2015 2020

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Where the market is…

Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Kevin O'Connell

Why Cloud Adoption Is Accelerating In The Enterprise

Accelerating time-to-market & differentiation

0.57

Alinging IT to Business Strategies

0.18

Keep IT Centralized 0.04Increase respons-

iveness and quality of service

0.09

Reduce costs 0.1

Other 2%

FACTORS DRIVING Cloud Adoption - Q1, 2015(Source: Software Strategies Cloud Adoption Survey, Q1, 2015;

Gartner, IDC)

• The race to scale new business models

• A strong catalyst for delivering the revolution your customers want

• Enterprises becoming collaborators in creation

• Manufacturing finds meaning in customer-driven metrics

• Expiry dates on legacy systems has passed

Source: Enterprise software spend to reach $620 billion in 2015: Forrester http://www.zdnet.com/article/enterprise-software-spend-to-reach-620-billion-in-2015-forrester/

Key Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth In the Enterprise

• 84% of enterprises expect to have multimode clouds by 2017 (hybrid, public and private cloud services).

• 81% of U.S.-based companies are using some form of cloud services today, prioritizing marketing (45%), sales (43% and HR (40%).

• 17% of CIOs are piloting private clouds, 1% are piloting hybrid cloud architectures & 30% are actively researching them.

• Hybrid cloud is trailing private cloud adoption by 3+ years or more.

Bottom line: Cloud platforms are transforming IT from an island to the center of customer-centric growth.

Source: "Riding the Cloud Computing Wave; RHT down to Sell," Goldman, 13 Jan 2015.

Key Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth In the Enterprise

Thank you !

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Special thanks to Louis Columbus - Forbes, iBASEt