lessons learned building clouds at cloudexpo west 2010

BUILDING YOUR CLOUDConsiderations and Lessons Learned

John TreadwayGlobal Director, Cloud SolutionsUNISYS CORPORATION

@cloudbzz

With Experience Comes

Wisdom

Unisys

Cloud Experience

Unisys Build and deployed ERL private cloud, Secure Cloud public cloud and more…

U.S. Federal Agency

Latin Gov Agency

European Telco

Asian Travel CoBuild a private cloud for development and test use cases

Build and operate a public cloud solution for their clients

Deploy Secure Private Cloud for their development & test cloud needs

Cloud solution definition and business plan development

You Need to Start with a

Vision of Your Cloud

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Cloud

“If you don't know where you are going, “If you don't know where you are going,

Destination?

Cloud!

any road will get you there.”

- Lewis Carol

any road will get you there.”

- Lewis Carol

Failing to Plan is

Planning to Fail!

“Companies that took a disciplined approach to adopting cloud computing reduced costs by an adopting cloud computing reduced costs by an average of 18% and data center power consumption by 16%. Companies that adopted cloud computing haphazardly increased IT costs by 2-3%.”

(Sept. 2009)

MYTH All Clouds are the

SameThere are MANY types of

clouds that fit

different needsSamedifferent needs

There are MANY types of clouds that fit

different needsPublic Cloud

Private Cloud

Cloud Computing Options

Use Cases: Dev/Test, Analytics,

eCommerce

Use Cases: Dev/Test, Analytics,

eCommercedifferent needs

HybridCloud

• Rented services

• Multi-tenancy• Self-service

• Automation• Virtualization • Traditional

data center

Optimized workloadsOptimized workloads

eCommerce…

eCommerce…

MYTH Cloud Computingis About the

Technology

Cloud Computingis about the

BusinessTechnology

Stop Thinking About Technology

AGILITY

Agility enables new Opportunities

How can 10 days to 5 minutes change how you innovate?

What happens when you can What happens when you can get 10 servers to test a new idea and your total costs is $500?

If you don’t have to wait, will you get more done?

Cloud Computing is brand new –

a Revolution

Cloud Computing is an

Evolutionary Revolutiona RevolutionRevolution

Cloud Computing is an

Evolutionary Revolution

Automation of IT

Cloud Computing is aboutInheritance & Convergence

Mainframes

RevolutionDistributed Computing

Self-Service

Virtualization Internet

Bandwidth

Oooh, shiny iceberg!

Cloud Computing is not just aboutThe “Cloud Stack”

Dynamic Infrastructure Designs, Workload and Capaci ty Planning, Data Center Design, Green IT/Sustainability Design

VM Automation, Physical Provisioning, Lifecycle Man agement APIs, Self-Service Portals, Monitoring, Usage Reporting

Budget, CapEx vs. OpEx, Shared Services, Vendor Cost s, Entry/Exit Costs Asset Management, IT Chargeback, ROI

Physical and Virtual Architecture Design

Cloud Management Tools and Processes

Financial Policies, Models & Approaches

Most of the Cloud effort isHidden

Data Center Design, Green IT/Sustainability Design

Physical, Network, Application, Identity & Access M anagement, Governance/Risk/Compliance, Audit

VLAN Planning, Capacity Planning, Manageability

Service Level Management, Service Request Managemen t, Configuration Management, Service Catalog, ITSM

Help Desk Operations, Diagnostic Tools

Architecture Design

Security

Storage

Network Engineering

ITIL / ITSM

Support Services

Policy Management, Backup & Archive, Disaster Recov ery, Storage Virtualization, Access Control, Automated Tiering

Don’t IGNORE the

people

Cloud Computing Politics

Expect people to be nervous

Will I lose budget/power/prestige?

Communication is Key

All highly-charged projects are at risk from not communicating

Executive support is critical to any cloud projectany cloud project

When looking at an Enterprise cloud implementation, take the time up front to develop a comprehensive p lan.

When considering a move to the cloud, don’t focus exclusively on cost ; agility is equally important.

Don’t forget the people factor – communicate early and

My Recommendations to You

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Go beyond the hype and focus on small, incremental winsto build experience and confidence.

Recognize that you know more about cloud than you think –be confident that cloud is an evolution you can handle.

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“Truths are first clouds, then rain,then harvest & food.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Thank You!

John Treadway

Global Director, Cloud Solutions

[email protected]

UNISYS CORPORATION

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