Phil Van Etten CEO, GOING TO THE CLOUD. INTRODUCTION Former CEO, President of Sygate and Azaleos...

Phil Van Etten

CEO,

GOING TO THE CLOUD

INTRODUCTION Former CEO, President of Sygate and Azaleos

currently CEO of Netmail - Netmail cloud

Cloud Adaption Huge

65% Of American Companies Have Multiple Clouds88% Will Increase Cloud Usage66% Still cite security concerns as a blocker to cloud adoption (IDG)

The Rapid Adoption By Amazon Cloud Services From

Book Seller To $10 Billion Cloud Service Company

Session Goals and Objectives

1.Assess the risk of adoption cloud service;

2.Compare different cloud provider offerings;

3.Obtain assurance from selected cloud providers;

4.Reduce the assurance burden on cloud providers;

Is the cloud right for you?• Analyzed the cost savings

• Is your application ready for the cloud

• Security

• Data sovereignty

• The right vendor(s)

• Scalability/Lock-in

• Contract execution

Considerations for cloud deployment • Selection of cloud provider. Requirements, reputation, cost.

• Determination for managed service provider.

• Nature and sensitivity of data (data sovereignty).

• SLA, Responsibility Matrix, Response Time, Specific Application Matrix

• Security

• Time of deployment

THE TECHNOLOGY WORLD IS DIVIDED INTO TWO

WORLDS

ON – Premise Applications

OFF – Premise Applications

Future: How To Connect The Two Worlds

Public CloudVersus

Private Cloud

Cost/Cloud Economics Versus Data Risk

A TALE OF TWO CLOUDS

Plan

User

DataSecurity

Considerations for planning a move to the cloud

• About managing the people.

• Show that you are going to a better place!!…

• Show that management is behind it.

• Make it a movement.

• Set expectations.

USERS

Plan Your Cloud Adoption

• What Applications • Big Bang Approach | Migration of

Data• Calendar The Event • Economics• Back-up Plan• Data Protection

Single MigrationLess Disruption to users / Lower Migration Costs

Cost Reduction

Evaluate your Infrastructure

AD

Am I structured

properly?

If its built or configured wrong it will surely fail

Plan your Device Strategy

• Security And Bandwidth

Plan for Operations Afterwards

The Responsibilities Shift From Managing An It Environment To Managing a Vendor

Clean-up Before You Go

Old users, inactive users, resources, object naming, proxy

access/delegates.

Potential Security Exposure

Data Movement StrategiesDATA

Its all About The Data

SECURITY• Gateway security/Authentication and access • Cloud security/Malicious insider

• How vulnerable Are You?

• Loss of governance

• Data protection/Incomplete data deletion

3rd Party Assessments Work