Cloud Computing – HOA at Digital CRMSubhamoy Chakraborti

17th April, 2015

What would we talk about?

1. What is Cloud?

2. Are you using Cloud?

3. Is Cloud mainstream yet?

4. Cloud & the service models

5. Why should you move to Cloud?

6. Before you jump into Cloud…

7. Case Study: Cloud story at a leading NBFC in India

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What is Cloud?

Note:

1. On-Demand IT Infrastructure

2. Delivered over Internet

3. Pay-as-you-go

4. Ride on the economies of scale

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Are you using Cloud?

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Is Cloud mainstream yet?

2009 2014

Gartner Hype Cycle – 2009 & 2014 @csubhamoy 5

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From Phase of Inflated Expectation Towards Slope of Enlightment

Cloud & the service models

IaaS

• AWS

• Microsoft Azure

• Google Compute Engine

PaaS

• Force.com

• Google App Engine

• Azure Services

SaaS

• SFDC

• Google Apps

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Infra on premise

Infra at DCInfra over

CloudService model

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Why should you move to Cloud?

1. Increased Speed of execution – wait time for server goes down

2. Ease of horizontal scalability – don’t design for max concurrency

3. Reduced CAPEX – convert to on-demand Opex

4. Focus on core business – less time in IT infra setup

5. “Culture of Innovation” – ease of experimentation and fail-fast strategy

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Before you jump into Cloud…

• Did you create a Cloud Strategy for the organization?

• Did you get a positive Cost-Benefit Analysis?

• Did you ensure Security?

• Did you check your country’s Regulations regarding data residency?

• Did you Train your team?

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Case Study: Cloud story at a leading Indian NBFC

• 25 year old non-banking finance company focused on Indian rural & semi-urban market primarily in Asset based financing

• Challenges:

• Aging Infrastructure

• Higher turn around time of hardware vendor

• Business Growth resulting in huge demand on IT Apps

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• Benefits:

• Faster server provisioning – from months to hours

• Cost rationalization

• Ease of access of UAT server to development partners

• Lower cost of experimentation

• Steps:

• CBA definition & buy-in

• Platform choice

• Training

• Transition of non-core and UAT of core applications

• Ongoing optimization of infra

• Applications on Cloud:

• UAT environment of Core Application

• UAT of HRIS

• Project Management, Code repo, Portals

• Performance test environments

• Other Satellite Applications

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Thank You@csubhamoy