Getting Started on your Cloud Journey - Presidio

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Getting Started On Your Cloud JourneyHumberto Pina – Senior Enterprise Consultant

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© 2012 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.August 2012 Cisco + Presidio Cloud Journey

Agenda

- First Understand Why Cloud Computing

- Steps to Get Started

- Case Study

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Why Are CIO’s Thinking About These Things?1. Analytics and Business Intelligence2. Mobile Technologies3. Cloud Computing4. Collaboration/Workflow Technologies5. Legacy Modernization6. IT Management7. CRM8. ERP Applications9. Security10.Virtualization

-Gartner Dec. 2011



Our World Is Changing…People around the world are connecting through new technologies and web services…

This is changing how companies:

• Interface with customers

• Understand their needs

• Sell and market the products

• Make the products

• Deliver the products



IT Organizations Must Adapt to New Social Business Models and New TechnologiesTransform data into new valuable business knowledge

Channel dynamic information flows that enhance value chains

Making information easier to access and share by minimizing device and distance boundaries



How Can IT Meet These Challenges?

IT as a Service• Convert present day physical and logical IT build-to-order (BTO)

processes into online cloud services• Convert virtual machine (template) configure-to-order ( CTO) into

a service item on a cloud service catalog• Create new on-demand services to support new innovation and

software technologies.• Turn IT organization into a service oriented organization

continuously adapting to new technologies and innovation

BTO – Build application server from individual components upon IT request. (Build server, network, storage , OS, application software)

CTO – Use a base template to create a fixed repeatable configuration that never changes



Innovation Is Happening Faster…

Mainframe Era• Expensive • Centralized Processing• Complex Organization• Tightly Managed Resources• Proprietary Technology

PC.s, Distributed Serverand Web 1.0 Era:• Less Expensive• Decentralized Processing• Loose Organization• Siloes of Resources• Build to order chaos

Virtualization and Web 2.0 Era:• Cost Effective Consolidation• Scale UP/Out Processing• Structured Organization• Shared Resources• Rigid Template Based Configurations

Monolithic Compute

Cloud Computing Era:• Business and Value Driven • On Demand Services• Service Oriented Organization• Recyclable Resources• Agile Service Catalog• Elastic Infrastructure

Build to OrderCompute

Configure to Order Compute

Agile and Automated Services that Enable Innovation

1950s-80s1980s-2000s 2000s-Now

Now-Future

Laptops

PDAs

Smart phones

TabletsxPads

Computer Terminals

Personnel Computers

Workstations

1. Analytics and Business Intelligence

2. Mobile Technologies3. Cloud Computing4. Collaboration/Workflow

Technologies5. Legacy Modernization6. IT Management7. CRM8. ERP Applications9. Security10. Virtualization

Web Services

Video Apps

Mobile

Apps

Monolithic

ApplicationsClient/Server

Applications


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Is Your Company In Sync With Innovation? Task and Program Bound

Architecture and Policy Bound

Synchronized with Human Innovation

IT runs monolithic programs/batch jobs

IT structure and control limits choices and ideas

IT creates services inspired by ideas



Cloud Computing is the Best Way to Support Manageable Continuous Innovation

Hardware and Software Infrastructure Stack:• Reference Architectures

• Tiered Resource Pools• Reliability• Performance• Capacity

• Standardized Platforms• Organizational Alignment• Process Driven• Management Layers• Build to Order Servers• Configure to Order

ServersHardware and Software

Virtualization Technology

Management

Automation and Orchestration

Service Creation

Service Publication

Services InnovationService and Innovation Stack:• Agile Development• New Products• Market shifts• Speed of Business• New Growth Spurts• Peak demands• New technologies• Life Cycle Management

The New Cloud Era Delivers the Best of All Era’s



Start your Journey

HybridCloud

Automation

VirtualizationConsolidation

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

We Help Our Customers Along



Best Practice Steps to Success

Executive Consensus

Roadmap

Readiness Assessment

Planning & Design

Implementation Phase 1

Implementation Phase n



Executive Workshop

Why Cloud?

Understand Cloud?

Benefits?Organization

Impact?

Phases?

Service Portfolio?

Readiness?

Secure?

Financials?

Facilitate an executive level workshop to build a common understanding of cloud opportunities and benefits Who Will

Lead?



Cloud Roadmap

Time

Virtualized

ResourcesComputeNetworkStorage

Basic Service

Catalog, On-

demand Self-

service Storefron

t

Advanced Use Cases:

PaaS, Hybrid Cloud

Integration w/ 3rd

Party Systems, Roll out

Additional Services

Automated Provisionin

g

Capabili

ties

Integration w/

Metering and

Chargeback

Establish the business case to obtain budget and to define goals, projects, a high level execution plan and timeline



Readiness Assessment

• Inspect facilities• Inventory current infrastructure• Understand organization• Profile OS, platforms and applications• Map out current processes• Analyze application workloads• Evaluate service and operations

management• Gather security and compliance policies

Assess the current environment to evaluate what systems are candidate for reuse and integration and what will be new



Planning and Design

• User Interface Experience• Service Catalog• Automated Workflows• Life Cycle Management• Operations Management Integration• Service Management Integration• Infrastructure Performance and Capacity• Service Level Management • Security and Compliance• Onsite and/or offsite facilities• New organization roles and process

alignment

Choose technology, organize project team, map out services and create design



Case Study• Integrated Environmental Solutions Company

National, 45,000 employees • Cloud Initiative Objectives:

Accelerate infrastructure provisioningReduce operational costsSupport innovationOptimize and automate existing business processes

• ResultsReduced infrastructure provisioning times from 60 days to approximately 20 minutes Reduced development costs by increasing efficiency and eliminating manual provisioning tasks Enhanced security, infrastructure reliability, and service quality



Case Study Phase 1

Install Cisco Process Orchestrator

Install Cisco Cloud Portal

Install Cisco Automation Packs

MS Active Directory Integration for pre-fills

Cisco Cloud Portal basic branding with logos and corporate colors

Basic dynamic IP Address Management - management of pre-allocated range

Provisioning of Virtual Machines (VMs) from templates

De-provisioning a VM

Phase 2• Cisco Process Orchestrator

to vCloud Director Integration

• Add vCPU, vRAM, and Storage

• Upload an OVF image

• Lease Management

• Threshold Management for CPU, Memory, and Storage

• Dynamic Error and Exception handling

• MS Active Directory Integration (Authentication)

• Power Cycle and Snapshot Operations

• Configure End User Portal as the main self-service interface

Phase 3

• Additional capabilities, for example:– Virtual Datacenter (VDC)

– Provisioning of VM’s through vApps from templates

– Role differentiation in portal

– 3rd party IP address management

• Extend capability to Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Extend to hybrid cloud



Summary• Why Cloud

Keep Up with Speed of Business Necessary to Synchronize with Innovation

• How to Start Executive Support Financial, Organization and Technical Roadmap Assess Organizational Maturity and Technical Readiness Create Services, Architecture Design and Plan

• How to Implement Phased Approach and Start Simple Service Oriented Organization and Management Approach


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