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The Current and Future State of IT When, Where, and How To Leverage the Cloud

Created and Presented by:

Rand Morimoto, Ph.D., MCITP, CISSP Author, “Unleashed”-series / Sams Publishing President, Convergent Computing randm@cco.com http://www.cco.com

Internal / OnPrem Service Providers Global Providers

SalesForce.com

Oracle

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Software as a Service

Platform as a Service

Infrastructure

as a Service

The Cloud and the Players…

RackSpace

VMWare Amazon

Google Citrix VMWare

Equinix Cisco

CUSTOMER SERVICE PROVIDERS GLOBAL PROVIDERS

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Software as a Service

Platform as a Service

Infrastructure

as a Service

Where are Organizations Today?

LoB Application

“The Cloud” Not a decision of EITHER “The Cloud” -- or -- “On Premise”

Cloud is an alternative delivery mechanism for applications, platform, and infrastructure

Most organizations are settling on a ‘Hybrid Cloud” approach (some on-premise / some in the cloud). This satisfies the need for lowering costs and simplifying IT with cloud computing where it makes sense, and maintaining on-premise services when cloud does not meet the organization’s needs…

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Organization Want (Need) a Simpler, Integrated Solution

= +

+ +

Virtualization is Not Enough

Enterprise Data Centers Are Evolving

Cloud

Consumerization Any device computing (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone, thin client…)

Any make, model, brand or endpoint OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, etc…)

Mix of business and personal use on an endpoint device

Cloud User shouldn’t have to care “where” their information resides

Data should reside where it makes most economical and business sense for the organization (ie: Public cloud or Private cloud)

IT needs to be able to manage and support properties regardless where it resides (single view for all servers, data, and devices anytime, anywhere)

Development Management Virtualization

A Single View of Physical, Virtual, and Public and Private Clouds

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Identity

Traditional

Data Center

Highly Virtualized

Data Center

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The Microsoft Cloud Is…

All About

the App

Cross

Platform

From the

Metal Up

Best-In-Class

Performance

Cloud On

Your Terms

General Core Private Cloud Architecture

Service Providers

(Public Cloud) Self-Service

Portal

Private Cloud Private Cloud

Hypervisor

Compute/Storage/ Networking Converged Infrastructure

VM

Management

Cloud

Management VMs VMs VMs VMs VMs VMs

Microsoft Core Private Cloud Technologies

MS Private Cloud Service

Provider Program

Private Cloud Private Cloud

ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V, XenServer

Compute/Storage/ Networking MS Private Cloud Fast

Track

(HP, Dell, Cisco, …)

System Center

App Controller 2012

Service Manager

2012

Self-Service

Portal

System

Center

Virtual

Machine

Manager

2012

Cloud

&

VM

Management

VMs VMs VMs VMs VMs VMs

Which PC management solution is right for an organization today? Microsoft Offers Flexibility and Choice with Best-in-Class Management

Operating System Distribution

Full Group Policy Support

Mobile and Server Management

Active Directory Federation

Software Distribution

Alerts & Monitoring**

Remote Assistance

Hardware, software and license inventory

Malware protection

Update management

Key Benefits

On-Premises Online

Single Solution to manage all devices

Enterprise or Large Organizations

No infrastructure required

Delivers management essentials

Easily extends to unmanaged PCs

BRINGING TOGETHER CLOUD VERSIONS OF OUR MOST TRUSTED COMMUNICATIONS

AND COLLABORATION PRODUCTS WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF OUR DESKTOP SUITE

FOR BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES.

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AD to the cloud federation for single sign-on

FEDERATED IDENTITY

User benefits

• Same identity on-premises and in the cloud

• No need to manage separate passwords

Administrator benefits

• No sign-on application to manage across desktops

• Security control retained over user accounts

• No changes to enterprise deployment of AD

•Supports multi-factor

authentication for OWA

•Allows you to customize

the login page for web-

based applications

Users are authenticated

by local Geneva server

Addressing Security, Compliance Policies, IT Unification by doing

things like joining Macs to Active Directory

Why?

Same reason we setup Active Directory (or prior to that Novell Netware, Banyan Vines, Windows NT networks) long ago in the first place, to centralize logons / passwords / access

Active Directory password policies can apply to Mac users just like Windows users (ie: change every 30-days, force upper/lower case, force complex passwords, etc)

User logs on to Active Directory so they don’t need to enter in credentials to access drive shares, printers, “single sign-on”

With 3rd party plug-ins, IT can push down policies, patches and updates, software/apps, lock down systems, wipe systems.

Joining a Mac to Active Directory (con’t) Specific Settings:

Outlook 2011 for Mac – Same Look and Feel (and better compatibility)

Configurable to access Exchange (2003 / 2007 / 2010) Same look / features / options as Outlook for Windows Proven to provide best native Mac support to Exchange Blog Post: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/exchange-outlook-calendaring-problems-lost-me

Instant Messaging, Presence, Web Conferencing, Voice over IP (Telephony), Video Conferencing, etc

Native Lync Client for the Mac Tight SharePoint Integration with Macs Office 2011 for Mac has the added benefit of being able to work “within” Office and never have to go to the Web UI

Native support for Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS) for document encryption / protection

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Connecting iPads, iPhones, Android, Blackberry devices to a Microsoft-based Environment

Supporting Enterprisewide Mobile Device Mgmt

Enforce same corporate security / compliance policies to mobile devices as are on PCs, Laptops, etc Inventory, patch, and update mobile devices to maintain device consistency and security compliance Encrypt device and/or data to provide data leak protection and compliance notifications in case of a compromise of a device Minimize data corruption and “quirks” by maintaining consistent / known standards of applications on end point devices

Public Cloud Experience is Built into Windows Server 8

With Windows Server 8, you can:

Scale and secure

workloads & build a

private cloud

Efficiently manage

infrastructure

Build on an open and

scalable web platform

Support mobile and

flexible workstyle

All About

the App

Cross-Platform

from the Metal Up

Best-In-Class

Performance

Cloud On

Your Terms

Where do you to start?

How do you know when you get there?

Where are you headed?

Take what you did 5-years ago and remember why you did it (security, policies, standardization, compliance, management)

Step forward to today where you have a broader range of devices (Macs, iPads, tablets, BYOD, etc)

Apply the same standards to the current environment (attempting to do as much as you can with a single solution instead of multiple solutions)

Apply a cloud-based solution if the cloud offering does it better / cheaper / smarter than doing the same thing on-premise

Continue to evaluate technology offerings to evolve your IT strategy over time

Questions?

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The Current and Future State of IT When, Where, and How To Leverage the Cloud

Created and Presented by:

Rand Morimoto, Ph.D., MCITP, CISSP Author, “Unleashed”-series / Sams Publishing President, Convergent Computing randm@cco.com http://www.cco.com