Simple steps to maximise your cloud strategy
SEEDING CLOUD CULTURES
April 12, 2023
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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
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expe
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Time
Typical Change Management
Continuous Integration & Deployment
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OWN THE BASE RENT THE SPIKETr
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Public Cloud Burst
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CLOUD MICRO-ECONOMIES
• If you look after the pennies…
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Time – 1 YEAR
1 Day
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Google Search Trends
Red Hat IISApache MySQL
WHAT GOT US HERE?
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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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Helping Your Drive to
an Open Cloud
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