Technology
Cloud Platform: the Intelligent
Infrastructure Approach
Valerio Romano
Communications, Media, High Tech Cloud Global Lead
Cloud Confex at Gitex Technology Week Dubai, 21 October 2013
It’s time to change the conversation
No more a trickle here, a dabble there. It’s time to look at your
organization holistically and create a strategy for using cloud computing to your advantage.
Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the landscape of
technology and business, allowing its adopters to better harness
other emerging technologies such as social media, mobility, big
data and advanced analytics to transform business.
How?
By doing things cheaper, faster, with more computing power, and with a level of
customization customers previously could not have expected
The conversation should not be about cloud.
It should be about solving your business challenges.
So if you’re still talking about the cloud as something
separate from your business rather than talking about solving business problems with the latest technologies, it’s time to change the
conversation. Welcome to your digital future.
En route to the digital future: Navigating the hybrid world
While companies are flocking in ever-increasing numbers to cloud’s “everything-as-a-service” promise, a reliance on traditional, in-house IT systems and applications
still exists.
Cloud + legacy systems = A hybrid world
Legacy systems and cloud computing will coexist for foreseeable future Range of services from outside
providers, third-party providers and internal IT
Organizations will rethink their
Enterprises will face a mix of Cloud deployment models
Migration of IT applications and services to the cloud will depend of their characteristics (Is it cost-effective? Is it secure? Is it core? Is it fast enough?)
Enterprises will need to release some control to Public Cloud Providers but at the same will need to retain control of the business critical services
An intelligent Cloud infrastructure will be needed to ensure control and smooth execution
The mix of private and public clouds creates key challenges to be solved, especially in terms of orchestration & integration capabilities
Putting Cloud to Work
The Cloud-Enabled Enterprise
A sampling of cloud benefits
Speed
Rapid Application Development Tools and Methods
Agility
Infrastructure ready when you need It
Service not Software
Changes are configured, not programmed
Knowledge
Real-time analytics
Collaboration
Connecting people, businesses and industries
Compliance
Processes address new regulations
Access
New devices automatically accommodated
App Store
A cloud-enabled enterprise will be an agile, fierce competitor
Current
… Cloud is the “on-ramp” to the Agile Enterprise
The Agile Enterprise
• Fixed Costs • Cumbersome • Capital Intensive • High Maintenance
and Run Costs • Security Issues • Business Lagging • Outdated
• ‘Pay by the Drink’ • Responsive
• Capital Light
• 40%+ Lower Maintenance and Run Costs
• Managed Security • Business Leading • New Technologies
Hierarchy of opportunities: Value-add on three levels IT Business Value Value Today
2. Optimize current business processes & model using Cloud
1. Optimize existing IT Potential
Value
Time
Value
Value
Value
2. Use elastic services to change the way business processes are executed and unlock constrained
opportunities
3. Create new Cloud-enabled business model(s)
1. Leverage IT capabilities to provide more efficient and elastic services to the business
3. Let the CEO explore new business models that surpass the limitations of the traditional non-cloud model
Accenture Cloud Offers
Accenture is uniquely positioned to help
organizations navigate cloud opportunities and challenges.
Accenture Cloud Platform accelerates cloud adoption with the integration and orchestration of cloud services
Accenture Cloud Platform is a place to go to get enterprise-ready cloud services
• Aggregate. Comprehensive catalog of services are offered through a centralized, online storefront
• Integrate. Cloud provider and value-added services are pre-integrated and available via self-service to users
• Automate. Services are automated and orchestrated for on-demand request and fulfillment
• Manage. Services are monitored and managed with online dashboards, and metered and charged-back centrally
Accenture Cloud Platform enables accelerated cloud adoption and integration for enterprise customers
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
• Services are metered and pay-by-use – shifting cost structure from capital expenditures to operating expenditures
• Provides ability to scale not only infrastructure, but enterprise class management services - without long-term IT staff commitments
Increased Business Agility
• Improve speed of delivery to users
• Capacity and services when the business needs it
• Ability to consume pre-integrated services from the catalog, or to accelerate the creation of new services leveraging our cloud platform and tools
Simplicity of Oversight and Stronger Governance
• One stop shop to request and provision pre-approved services • Consistent mediation of service
delivery across multiple services and providers
• Transparency of usage,
Accenture Cloud Platform’s deployment model is flexible
“We want to consume ACP
On-Demand service(s).”
“We want our own platform
to customize services and integrate with our existing IT
systems.”
“We need to provide
customers with an external
service catalog that integrates our own and public cloud
