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Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera&
Ralph Loura, Chief Technology Officer at Rodan + Fields
December, 7th 2016
IT Modernization Doesn’t MeanYou Leave Your Legacy Apps Behind
Today’s Speakers
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Mark ThieleChief Strategy OfficerApcera@mthiele10
Ralph LouraChief Technology OfficerRodan + Fields@ralphloura
Rodan + Fields
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Rodan + Fields® is a prestige anti-aging skincare brand built on innovative dermatology-
inspired skincare products, combined with a unique go-to-market model known as social or
community commerce.
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What’s the Challenge with Legacy Applications?
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Why is Modernization Important?
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๏ Fulfills demand for innovation‣ Speed and agility‣ Competition in the market place
๏ Controlling Costs‣ Licensing costs‣ Infrastructure costs‣ Opportunity costs
๏ Need for IT to be proactive‣ Legacy apps require “keeping the lights
on” or “fire fighting” approach
๏ New ways to consume information
“Optimizing Application Development and MaintenanceCan Cut Costs by More than 50 Percent”
-Gartner
Modernization refers to the conversion of the application, its architecture or its environment to improve performance, innovation and cost.
Modernization Affects More Than Just the Application
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Legacy Application Modernized Application
Unique build, deployment and configuration Standardized build, deployment and configuration
Infrastructure dependencies Infrastructure agnostic
Rarely uses automation Based heavily on automation
Tend to have siloed, waterfall lifecycle management More fluid, agile DevOps lifecycle management
Modernization can impact infrastructure, processes, culture and the customer experience. Technology is merely an enabler of modernization.
Beware of the Modernization “Cargo Cult”
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Identifying Applications for Modernization
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๏ Every application is different and has a different impact on the business.๏ Determine target state for your legacy applications.๏ Prioritize applications that have significant impact on the business.๏ Prioritize applications that are easier to modernize.
๏ Some applications are NOT worth modernizing.
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PLAN DESIGN EXECUTE RUN
Modernization Approaches
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A Platform for the Modernizing IT Organization
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๏ Cloud-Native & Legacy‣ One platform for all your applications.
๏ Secure By Default‣ No open doors. Ever.
๏ True Hybrid‣ All your infrastructure as a single cluster.
๏ Advanced Networking‣ Isolation and control at the workload level.
๏ Full Stack‣ Everything you need in a single solution.
๏ Turnkey‣ Production ready out-of-the-box.
The Apcera Container Management PlatformFor Cloud-Native and Legacy Applications
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Any Application
Any Infrastructure
Composition, Orchestration & Deployment
Networking + Nano-Segmentation
Application Service Management
Policy & Enforcement
Cloud-Native + Legacy๏ Linux-based x86๏ Including Docker
3rd Platform
Commerce, Analytics, Digital Marketing and API
Supply Chain & LogisticsPLM QMS
Conversation as a Platform
Cognitive Computer Machine Learning Virtual Reality IoT
Hybris & SFDC, etc. Data Lake Advanced Analytics API Capabilities
ERP System Operational Reporting
Rodan + Fields Platform Strategy
DifferentiatedCustomer/ConsultantExperience
ERP & Reporting
Parity with Luxury Brands Differentiated for Direct Channel
reHABIT @ focus
In a public cloud platform, different tenants use pooled shared
physical resources.
In a multi-tenant cloud platform,a single instance of a software application
serves multiple customers.
In a private cloud,all of the computing resources are ours.
This was our approach until 2016.
MONITOR
POLICYENFORCEMENT
SECURITY
PROCESSPLAYBOOK
DEVOPSTOOL CHAIN
Rodan + Fields Compute Strategy
Results from the Apcera Platform
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๏ SAP Hybris — Packaged E-commerce Application‣ Reduced infrastructure footprint by over 50% (24 servers to 7)‣ Fourteen F5 Load Balancers no longer needed‣ Deployment now in under 10 minutes‣ Increase the number of deploys from 4 to 8 per day
with
