Moving Your IT to

the CloudDEVELOPING AN ENTERPRISE CLOUD STRATEGY

Thought Exercise: What if all your IT was in the

Cloud?

Reduced or eliminated capital expenses

Rapidly met computing demands

Increased IT responsiveness

Reduced operating costs

We’re talking public cloud, as in your company no longer has a data center

But there are challenges to an all-Cloud

approach!

Business regulations

Support for legacy systems

Security

Service level agreements (SLA)

Demand management & cost control

IT governance

Provider lock-in

To name a few. There’s also long-term provider viability, organization change, changes to

procurement and payment methods, etc.

You need an Enterprise Cloud Strategy !

Offers a Framework for selecting

cloud providers

• Costs analysis

• Provider lock-in risks

• Data ownership, workload mobility

• Service Level Agreements

• Innovation

Transforms your data center to a

private cloud

• Design for scale & flexibility

• Vendor support & future viability

• On-premise, co-location, & managed

service model

• Network cabling, green computing,

refresh cycles, etc.

Balances your approach to Cloud

• All private = missed opportunity for cost

reductions & innovations

• Too few public = no leverage, missing

capabilities & innovations

• Too many public = operations &

management complexities, reduced

buying power

Integrates within context of your

overall IT strategy

• Alignment to business

• Supporting new capabilities (big data,

mobile, social, etc.)

• Mergers & Acquisitions

• Decisions potentially lasting 5-10+

years!

Benefits of an Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Produces the business and financial requirements for cloud solutions

Establishes the criteria for selecting and implementing cloud

solutions

Consists of justifiable and defensible business cases for:

Migrating, replacing, or augmenting current IT systems and services to

the Cloud

Transforming existing data center(s) into private clouds

Integrating cloud solutions (hybrid cloud model)

Retiring, modernizing, or living with “deep” legacy systems (e.g.

mainframe COBOL apps)

Delivers sourcing strategies for cloud solutions and supporting

activities (e.g. migration work, network updates, training, etc.)

Produces roadmaps, programs, and project plans for aligning

people, processes and technologies into cloud-based solutions

Determine what stays in your data center

and what moves to the Cloud

Cloud-centric application

rationalization and profiling• Governance, risk, compliance &

security (GRC-S)

• Performance & availability

requirements (SLA, OLA, etc.)

• Architecture for scaling

• Migration costs & risks

Cloud decision process

• Replace with SaaS

• Migrate to IaaS

• Migrate to PaaS

• Redevelop with Cloud architecture

• Retire, status quo, etc.

Address “0-tier” infrastructure

• Domain controllers

• Network services – FW, LB, DNS,

DHCP, etc.

• Identity & access management

• Backup, recovery, archive

Ability to provide ongoing support

• IT operations and maintenance

• Provisioning and day-2 activities

• Application development and

maintenance (ADM)

Inevitably some, much, or all will stay in your

data center…for now…

Not all applications and services run more cheaply in the

Cloud

Many legacy systems are not architected for the Cloud

Performance requirements, SLAs, network latencies may

prohibit running in the Cloud

Compliance with regulations and standards may be issue

or risk in the Cloud

Operational visibility may be obscured in the Cloud

Potential for licensing and support issues in the Cloud

Organization may not be ready for significant changes

So we transform your data center into a

private cloud

Gain benefits of the Cloud, at

smaller scale, but with full control

• Pooled resources for efficiencies &

operational cost reductions

• Instantly scale to meet demand

• Resiliency through high availability

and fault-tolerance

• Fully retain security and governance

Critical infrastructure decisions

• Reuse exiting infrastructure?

Necessary upgrades to networks?

• Greenfield? Procure converged or

hyper-converged infrastructure?

• Architecting: scale up, out, both?

Procuring, installing and configuring

virtualization and cloud software

• Domain controllers

• Network services – FW, LB, DNS, DHCP,

etc.

• Identity & access management

• Backup, recovery, archive

Organizational impact

• New roles and responsibilities

• New relationships

• Training and knowledge transfer

• Interfacing with vendors, integrators,

and providers

And integrate your private cloud with

public cloud solutions

Develop or acquire a cloud management platform (CMP)

Ability to “stretch” your network into the cloud, e.g. network

virtualization, VPN,VPC, cross connections with providers

Develop or acquire ability to move workloads between private and

public clouds

Centrally track usage and gather costing information

Enabling, and possibly automating, consistent governance process:

what apps permitted in which clouds, and keeping it that way

Federating users access

Compliance monitoring, security, patching and upgrades

Remember to plan for operations and

management of your enterprise cloud

Organizational considerations

Roles & responsibilities

Procedures, processes, and tasks

Operational reporting: SLA, financials, systems status

Integrating with ITSM, ITIL, COBIT, etc.

Training

Transition to contractor and integrator support

Do you have an enterprise cloud

strategy?

There’s a tremendous amount of work involved with getting Cloud

right! You’re busy doing mission critical IT stuff. That’s where Digital

Peak Consulting comes in. We focus on helping clients leverage the

Cloud, in all its flavors, shapes, and sizes, to lower TCO and improve IT

capabilities.

Mel Stockwell, Principal

Digital Peak Consulting

720.624.9087