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@daveshac
CONSTRUCTION
MONETIZATION
DISRUPTION
ADAPTATIONLIFE
AS ATELCO
Scale Acquisitions
TELEPHONY NETWORK IS THE PLATFORM
DATA NETWORK IS THE PLATFORM
Attribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises
DATACENTER IS THE PLATFORM
PEOPLE ARE THE PLATFORM
Attribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises
Scale Acquisitions
MARATHONDEVELOPMENT CYCLES
TRICKY TROUBLESHOOTING
PLATFORMPROLIFERATION
Scale Acquisitions
Scale Acquisitions
TransitioningTo A PLATFORM Mindset
A Platform Should Help Organizations Do New Things
Attribution: Dreamworks Animoation
A Platform Should Enable Self Service
A Platform Should Be Well Documented
Attribution: Heyday Films & 1492 Pictures
A Platform Is A Attractive Landing Place For Partners
Attribution: Lucasfilm
A Platform Should Help You Build More Platform
Attribution: Walt Disney Pictures
A Platform Makes Your Teams More Effective
Attribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises
TransitioningTo A PLATFORM Organization
“IT is the factory floor of this century”
Gene Kim
LEANü FOCUS ON CUSTOMER VALUEü ELIMINATE WASTEü REDUCE CYCLE TIMEü SHARED LEARNINGü AVOID BATCHINGü THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
DEVOPSCULTUREAUTOMATIONMONITORINGSHARING
ROBOTS > HEADCOUNT
Attribution: Illumination Entertainment & Lucasfilm
TransitioningTo A PaaSModel
Strategy #1 Use PaaS To Modernize Legacy Apps
CenturyLink is using Cloud Foundry to modernize legacy apps
Public knowledgebase for CenturyLink Cloud
Government contract sites for procurement compliance
Customer activation applications in support of the telecom business
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) business logic applications
Strategy #2 Use PaaS To Build Other Services
CenturyLink is using Cloud Foundry to build new “Anywhere” services
Workflow-as-a-Service
Backup Anywhere
Patch Management
Wordpress-as-a-Service
Strategy #3 Use PaaS To Help Customers
SeniorExec
IT Pro
Single-Tenant PaaSGlobally Available & Configurable
Designed for Enterprise Architecture
ONON
Business Lead
SoftwareDeveloper
BYBY
Multi-Tenant PaaSGlobal Scale & Automated ResiliencyDeisgned for Developers and Teams
AppFog
63
SmallTeams
LargeEnterprise
PrescriptiveModel
AssemblyModel
SDK | BP | Scale | UC API’s | Bare Metal
CenturyLink Developer Center
I’M FEELING BETTER NOW
@daveshac
CenturyLink
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