being positioned to exploit and understand the cloud applications and services that can benefit your...
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Despite the hype, few businesses are in a position to move their IT requirements wholesale to the cloud at any time soon. However, this does not mean that there are not benefits to be had from embracing such a services. Whether this is moving the use of certain utility applications over the specialist providers or boosting infrastructure requirements at peak times, cloud services make IT delivery more flexible and used judiciously can free IT staff from many mundane day-to-day tasks. However, there is another side to the use of cloud applications and services; whether IT departments like it not, users and lines-of-business will invoke cloud application for themselves and overlooking this can lead to a loss of control of corporate data. That said, wholesale blocking of certain user invoked applications is not pragmatic either, some of them are probably already embedded in business processes even if IT departments are not aware of this.TRANSCRIPT
Clive Longbottom, Service Director, Quocirca Ltd
Cloud readiness Being positioned to exploit and understand the cloud applications and services that can benefit
your business
Bob Tarzey Analyst and Director, Quocirca October 19th, 2011
© 2011 Quocirca Ltd
Courtesy of 2e2
Traditional IT
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
You
man
age
Platform (as a Service)
Managed by vendor
You
man
age
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data
Software (as a Service)
Managed by vendor
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data
Infrastructure (as a Service)
Storage
Servers
Networking
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
Managed by vendor
You
man
age
O/S
What is the cloud?
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Cloud based services
© 2011 Quocirca Ltd
Other “clouds”
• Private clouds
• Consumer cloud services (web 2.0)
•G-Cloud
Public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds
Corporate firewall
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Private infrastructure Public cloud infrastructure
Cloud service provider
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Private cloud
Cloud service provider
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Hybrid cloud
Total global IT spending 2011 = $1.5Ttn (Economist)
~4%
~10%
CIO view of cloud
ISACA - UK organisations cloud computing plans (April 2010)
Mission critical ITservices
Only low risk ITservices
No plans for any ITservices
No formalised plans
Not aware of anyplans
Growth in use of cloud – source Nov 2009, Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey
The commodity cloud
Sell capacity Buy capacity (save 60%)
Do you allow employees to use their own devices to access data and certain applications?
Consumer cloud services
Value
Cost Risk
Drive UP
Drive DOWN
Drive DOWN
+ environmental dividend
A value proposition for the cloud
The business process triangle
Risk Value
Percieved risk Security Integration Regulatory requirements Data backup/disaster
recovery/business continuity Availability Cost Performance No customisable Bringing back in house Moving work loads
Increasing concern (approx)
Cloud risk – IDC 2008
18
Savvis 2010 survey
Risk - 2 years of change – a rough guide
• Ultimately the security and compliance issues regarding your organisations data are your responsibility
• Either, it should be clear that a cloud service provider is: 1. Providing an SLA that provides adequate cover 2. That the SLA is being adhered to
• Or, your organisation must take the necessary measures itself
Who owns the risk?
Don’t over look risk reduction
• Access to enterprise class data centres
• Better business continuity • Mundane aspects of IT
outsourced to experienced 3rd parties
VALUE Collaboration
Mobility Business process
benefits
• The use of cloud based services is now widespread
• The tide is flowing in one direction • There is growing acceptance of the
“cloud” value proposition • The positive and negative aspects of risk
need to be communicated • Laggards will lose competitive edge
Conclusion
Free Quocirca reports at www.quocirca.com
Don’t forget the network The data sharing paradox Carrying the can (BYOD) Next Generation Datacentres Index Cloud Computing - Taking IT to Task
Thank you All Quocirca reports freely available at: http://www.quocirca.com
Bob Tarzey [email protected]
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