rightscale roadtrip - icap customer presentation
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Lawrence Sica, Cloud Architect for ICAP, will discuss the broker's cloud-first strategy, methodology for evaluating its global portfolio of legacy applications, approach to financial industry compliance and risk requirements in the cloud, and goal for self-service IT.TRANSCRIPT
New York!Sept 18th 2013
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Using the Cloud in the Enterprise!Lawrence Sica, ICAP, Cloud Architect
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About Me – Lawrence Sica!• Cloud Architect
• Experience: • 15 years experience engineering solutions • Responsible for defining and implementing ICAP’s
global cloud strategy.
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ICAP processes $1.3 trillion in trade volume daily for clients.
Offices in 32 countries. 70 locations world-wide.
5000 employees world-wide.
20% of staff is in IT.
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Case One!Front End Downloads
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30 days start to finish
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Case Two "!Front End Preferences Server
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• Co-located Server - $$$$$
Moved to the cloud - $$
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Adopting the Cloud!
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Involve all stakeholders early.!• IT
Compliance Business
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Case Three!ETC in the Cloud
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What is it?!• VDI in the cloud • Trading applications • Starting with new customers
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• Desktop Deployment Connectivity
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• On-premises cost prohibitive • Cloud allows growth organically with demand. • Small number of customers to cover costs. • Revenue Generating - not a cost center!
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Cloud First!!But only sometimes.
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Services
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Defining Our Cloud Criteria!
• Technology
Compliance Business Risk Impact
Cost
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No one definition!• Case by Case Basis for Suitability
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Cost Management
Self-Service
Faster lifecycle Easy prototyping
Transparency
Capacity Recovery
High Availability
Rapid Scaling
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The Right Tools are Critical to Success!
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Well suited for!• Separation of duties • Large IT Shops • Self-service to non-IT
Not well suited for!
AWS Console is !
• Devops teams • Small IT Shops • Self-service to IT groups
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