Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud: Selecting your Enterprise Strategy

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Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud:

Selecting your

Enterprise Strategy

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Agenda

Cloud Computing

The Business Case for Cloud

Computing

Technical Considerations in the

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Technical Considerations in the

Decision

Summary

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As Vice President, Client Services at mindSHIFT Technologies, Bob Lamendola is responsible for delivering network infrastructure solutions for clients.

Speaker Speaker

Bob Lamendola

Vice President, Client Services mindSHIFT Technologies

Mr. Lamendola is a graduate of Bloomsburg University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science.

About mindSHIFT:

About mindSHIFT: mindSHIFT Technologies is a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering managed IT services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), VoIP, compliance and professional software-as-a-services to

organizations around the world.

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Some of Our Customers

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Cloud Computing Definitions

•• Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing - “Scalable and elastic IT-enabled

capabilities are delivered as a service to customers using

Internet technologies.”

•• Private

Private

- where service access is limited or the customer

has some control/ownership of the service implementation

•• Public

Public

- when the

•• Public

Public

- when the

customer does not see

the implementation and

the provider doesn’t care

who the customer is

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Cloud Computing Deployments

Infrastructure Infrastructure Managed By (1) Managed By (1) Infrastructure Owned Infrastructure Owned By (2) By (2) Infrastructure Infrastructure Located (3) Located (3) Accessible and Accessible and Consumed Consumed By (4)By (4) Public

Public _{i.e., Amazon, VPS Hosters}3rd Party Provider _{i.e., Amazon, VPS Hosters}3rd Party Provider

3rd Party Provider i.e., Amazon, VPS Hosters Untrusted Private Private// Community Community Provider

Customer Customer Premise

Trusted

or or

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Community

Community Provider or or Trusted

Provider Hosted

Hybrid

Hybrid _{Customer & Provider}Both _{Customer & Provider}Both _{On-Premise & Hosted}Both Trusted & Untrusted

1. Management includes: governance, operations, security, compliance, etc.

2. Infrastructure implies physical infrastructure such as facilities, compute, network, & storage equipment

3. Infrastructure location is both physical and relative to an organization’s management umbrella and speaks to ownership versus control 4. Trusted consumers of service are those who are considered part of an organization’s legal/contractual/policy umbrella including employees,

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing vs. Traditional IT

vs. Traditional IT

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Business Case for the Cloud

You know you need to use the cloud OR you know you want to try the cloud

There’s a cost - a CFO issue – so start with the business decision:

Compare to in-house or traditional outsourced hosting

Implementation

Factor

In

In--house

house

Cloud

Start

Start--up Costsup Costs Significant/CAPEX Minimal/OPEX

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Is there a positive return on investment?

OS & VMware Licensing

OS & VMware Licensing CapEx Included

Initial Turn

Initial Turn--upup Several Months Hours/Days/Weeks

Ongoing Cost (Staff, HW Ongoing Cost (Staff, HW Maintenance, etc.)

Maintenance, etc.) Significant & Variable

Fixed and predictable

Disaster Recovery Site

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Business Case for the Cloud

Not a clear $ win? Not a clear $ win? Are there operational reasons to use the cloud?

Speed of implementation for your applications

Flexibility – startup and stop servers quickly

Enterprise quality:

Geographically diverse operation

Data center environmentals and redundancy

Uptime and backup for DR and business continuity

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Uptime and backup for DR and business continuity

Compliance

24x7 support

…depending on the provider you choose

Does your organizational culture push you to be on the cutting edge? Test and experiment at low risk

Expand your institutional knowledge and skill set

It’s coming anyway, so learn it now at low risk, and prepare for the future

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Technical Considerations

• Single most important factor in determining the appropriate architecture.

Security Security Requirements Requirements

• Sarbox, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc. • Of your industry: finance, media,

government, healthcare, manufacturing, etc. Compliance

Compliance Requirements Requirements

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• Cloud is not right for every application Resource Resource requirements for requirements for processor intensive processor intensive applications applications

• Choices are varied and diverse

• Know what you need before meeting with vendors

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Technical Considerations

The top questions you need to ask:

“How much of what’s in your data center is ready for the cloud? How much of it will have to be reconfigured, → Which applications?

→ Network architecture, Open or Closed?

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have to be reconfigured, rebuilt or re-architected…?”

- Frank Hayes, “The cloud issue you really can’t ignore,” Computerworld, Sept. 27, 2010

→ Network architecture, Open or Closed?

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Summary

• Understand the marketplace

• Understand all considerations

• Determine security restrictions

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• Evaluation technologies

• Make a decision

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Q&A

Thank you!

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Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud: Selecting your Enterprise Strategy