Cloud Forecast 2014 - Seeding Cloud Cultures

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How do we manage the gap between expectations and reality in cloud? How do we ensure we implement business transformations learning from DevOps without making technology switches? Caution - also includes Gnomes.

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Simple steps to maximise your cloud strategy

SEEDING CLOUD CULTURES

April 12, 2023

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INTRODUCTIONS

Rackspace Chief Technologist

chris.jackson@rackspace.co.uk

@chriswiggy

+44 (0) 7712 854462

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THE ETERNAL PROBLEM OF IT

How do I go faster?

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THE RECIPE FOR CLOUD

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THE PERFECT BUSINESS PLAN

Cloud

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THE MATURING CLOUD ISSUE

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VIEW FROM THE CIO

Operational Savings

Efficiency Savings

Software Savings

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

74%

59%

74%

41%

35%

63%

EXPECTED VS ACTUAL RESULTS FROM CLOUD ADOPTION

Actual Expected

HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THE GAPS?

Research by Coleman Parkes commissioned by Alsbridge Nov’2013

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THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP

ARE YOU BRINGING CLOUD TO YOUR BUSINESS?

OR ARE YOU BRINGING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE CLOUD?

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SAN Storage

Servers & Networking

App

Current Enterprise Virtualisation

Cloud Applications

SAN

Servers & Networking

Application Refactor

Consolidate

BEWARE TECHNOLOGY SWITCHES

App

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BUSINESS DRIVER FOR FASTER

You are behind your competitors

Mar

ket

expe

ctat

ions

Time

Typical Change Management

Continuous Integration & Deployment

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OWN THE BASE RENT THE SPIKETr

affic

Time – 1 YEAR

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Clo

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Public Cloud Burst

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CLOUD MICRO-ECONOMIES

• If you look after the pennies…

Traf

fic

Time – 1 YEAR

1 Day

2004

2005

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2011

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2013

Google Search Trends

Red Hat IISApache MySQL

WHAT GOT US HERE?

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2005

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2011

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2013

Google Search Trends

PowerShell GitHubNginX MongoDB

WON’T GET US THERE

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TRANSFORMING TO A CLOUD BUSINESS

PEOPLE & CULTURE

APPLICATIONS

INFRASTRUCTURE

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Seeding Cloud Cultures

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The Role of DevOps

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BREAKING DOWN SILOS?

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UNLIKELY CANDIDATESLIKELY CANDIDATES

Where Is Your Catalyst?

DEVELOPERSYSADMIN

LEADER

We need to be DevOps!

I just put our Payment Gateway

in Public Cloud!

The Cloud won’t work

for us!

PROCUREMENT

I want a CAPEX spend for this cloud thing…

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Are You Ready?

OUR FIVE TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL CLOUD TRANSFORMATION

1. SCOPE – Start small, create autonomy and sponsor their change

2. GOALS – Create buy-in for your goals and metrics from top to bottom

3. MEASURE – Measure everything, expose the data and collaborate

4. COMMUNICATION – Aim to break down silos and drive co-operation

5. VELOCITY – Move quickly, break things, analyse and move again

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WE’RE HERE TO HELP

Rackspace’s Advisory Services

Helping Your Drive to

an Open Cloud

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Chris Jackson – Chief Technologist

@chriswiggy

chris.jackson@rackspace.co.uk

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