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SPOT101: Cloud Readiness 101: Analyzing and Visualizing Your IT Infrastructure

Florian Vogler, panagenda

Franz Walder, panagenda

Agenda

Getting started

– Introduction

– What can you expect from this session?

– What is The Cloud and why are companies “moving there”?

Making your infrastructure transformation a success

– Key factors identified and explained

– User activity analysis (who uses what and how?)

– Application design analysis (identifying scope and feasibility constraints)

Summary: Infrastructure as a whole

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Introduction

Florian Vogler, CEO and CTO

– Over 20 years of experience in Notes / Domino

– Focus on IBM Notes Client optimization in the past 10 years

– Lives in Germany and travels A LOT

Franz Walder, Product Manager

– 15 years experience in (what used to be) the Lotus universe

– Administrator, developer, virtualization enthusiast

– Lives in Austria (hence the funny accent)

What can you expect from this session?

Understanding how moving to the cloud is best approached

in an IBM Domino environment

– Findings are equally valuable for choosing the right application modernization strategy

Ways to identify and measure critical success factors involved,

in order to be able to calculate expected effort

An idea of how panagenda helps their customers to tackle challenges like that

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Getting started What is The Cloud, and what other “destinations” are important?

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The “Why?”

– Costs (Capex / Opex)

– Flexibility

• Integration

• Scalability

– Easier Upgrades

– Speed

The “How?”

– That is what this session is all about

– There is no “Move to cloud”–button …

– “Adapting a Cloud strategy” is a key driving factor for many companies nowadays

in their process of transforming the existing IT infrastructure

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Getting started What is The Cloud and why are companies “moving there”?

Getting started Evolution of IT projects: From static projects …

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Getting started Evolution of IT projects: … to ongoing agile transformation!

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Getting started Evolution of IT projects: From static projects to ongoing agile transformation!

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Segmentation!

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Making your move a success

Key factors identified and explained

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Key factors identified and explained Clarifying why you do it and for whom

– Understand the motivators of your stakeholders

(Management / Governance, Technical, Business)

– Why you do it has a big influence on setting your goal

and how you measure success

User Activity Analysis

– Demand Characteristics

• Usage (Reads, Writes, Users)

• Load (Transactions, CPU, Memory, …)

• Availability / Reliability / Performance

– Geographies / Topologies

• Bandwidth (demand vs. availability)

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Key factors identified and explained

Application Design Analysis

– Cross Linkage of Mail, Apps & Business Processes

– Dependencies

• Features & Functions (e.g. Telephony integration, Archiving, …)

• Interfaces (Fax, Files, Printers, Dongles, …)

Tying those findings to organizational structures

– Has its foundation in user activity

– Evaluate infrastructure utilization by cost center rather than technical by user or DB

– Identify areas with special significance

• e.g. databases which are mainly used by VIPs

• activity benchmarks across departments

Making your move a success

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Increasing

Consulting

Demand

Decreasing

Risk for

Customer & IBM

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User Activity Analysis

Who uses what and how?

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User Activity Analysis Overview

What can user activity tell you?

How to get the data without 3rd party tools (log.nsf, catalog.nsf, …)

DEMO: Activity analysis customer example

Activity analysis conclusion

User Activity Analysis What can user activity tell you?

Read vs. Write traffic

Mail vs. Apps

Transactions (Server load)

High impact users and applications

Excessive usage

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User Activity Analysis How to get the data without 3rd party tools

DB Activity: LOG.NSF – documents with form type “Activity”

• View selection formula: SELECT FORM = "Activity"

• Add columns that are interesting in your scenario

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User Activity Analysis How to get the data without 3rd party tools

DB Activity: LOG.NSF – database activity details

• Note there is a 1400 activity entry maximum per database (FIFO)

• There is also a 64K size limit for the user activity

• More details in IBM Technote #1086245

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User Activity Analysis How to get the data without 3rd party tools

DB Activity: CATALOG.NSF

– related information, but different focus

– Full text index details

– Replication information

– ACL overview

Note: Domino does not distinguish

between user, server or

maintenance tasks activity at this level

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User Activity Analysis How to get the data without 3rd party tools

User Activity: LOG.NSF – basic information is easy to extract

• File → Export → Comma Separated Value

• Combine results of multiple servers in spreadsheet calculation software

IBM Domino Doublecheck – and beyond

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IBM Domino Doublecheck

DNA iDNA

One-off engagement

Processed off site

Fixed set of topics

Ongoing solution

Deployed on premises

Customized topics

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User Activity Analysis DEMO: Activity analysis customer example

What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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Off premise

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Traffic jam

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What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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User Activity Analysis Conclusion

How does user activity suggest what to do?

– Number of users showing activity

– Reads/writes in sessions and network traffic

– Possible destinations

• Web application (e.g. XPages)

• Mobile application

• Notes browser plugin

• Hybrid

• ...

Enriching raw activity information

– Geographic data: Which applications are used from where?

– HR data: Which applications are used by VIPs, field agents, etc.?

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Application Design Analysis

Identifying scope and feasibility constraints

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Application Design Analysis Overview

Why design analysis and what are the factors?

Geography and Topology considerations

DEMO: Design analysis customer example (Tableau)

Design analysis conclusion

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On premise

Application Design Analysis Overview

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Application Design Analysis DEMO: Design analysis customer example

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Application Design Analysis Conclusion

How does application design suggest direct where to go?

– Dependencies on hardware (e.g. dongle, mobile phone, etc.) or software (e.g. DLL)

– Standard applications (Mail, Teamrooms) often migratable wiht very low effort

– Design complexity may make transformation (e.g. Web, Mobile) „unaffordable“

Possible destinations

– Web application (e.g. XPages)

– Mobile application

– Notes browser plugin

– ...

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Infrastructure as a whole

Understanding the big picture

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Summary: Infrastructure as a whole Understanding the big picture is the key to success

Combining usage and design analysis is essential

Organizational considerations

– Who owns and “will pay” for migrating an application?

– Combination with HR data (evaluate based on department)

Compare efficiency of infrastructure consolidation vs transformation

IBM Domino Doublecheck is a great foundation

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Questions?

Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any:

– Web or mobile browser

– Connect Online kiosk onsite

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