rightscale webinar: the five critical steps to develop a cloud strategy

THE FIVE CRITICAL STEPS TO

DEVELOP A CLOUD STRATEGY

• Kim Weins

• VP Marketing, RightScale

• Vijay Tolani

• Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer, RightScale

Please use the “Questions” window to ask questions at any time

Your Panel Today

• Introduction

• Why Cloud Strategy Matters

• The Five Steps to a Cloud Strategy

• Step 1: Identify your cloud motivations

• Step 2: Assess your current cloud maturity

• Step 3: Overcome the four common cloud challenges

• Step 4: Plan your cloud portfolio

• Step 5: Choose your cloud adoption pattern

• Wrap-Up

• Q&A

Agenda

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RightScale: Cloud-Enable Your Enterprise

Your Cloud Portfolio

Self-Service Cloud Analytics Cloud Management

Manage Govern Optimize

RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management

Public

Clouds

Private

Clouds

Virtualized

Environments

7 years

10 public and private clouds

50K+ users

6M+ servers

10K+ servers per app

A Trusted Partner

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“Cloud management tools

bring order to the chaos of

multi-cloud management

without limiting developer

productivity.” -Dave Bartoletti

WHY CLOUD STRATEGY

MATTERS

Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity

Public Cloud

Only

Private Cloud

Only

94% of Respondents are Using Cloud

58% 7% 29%

Public

and Private

Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report

24%

29%

31%

31%

32%

36%

42%

48%

53%

57%

Which private clouds can or can't be used

Cost policies for cloud

Approval policies for cloud

Which public clouds can or can't be used

Availability or disaster recovery policies for cloud

When to choose public or private clouds

Which applications should or should not go to cloud

A timeline for implementing a cloud strategy

Security policies for cloud

The benefit or value the company wants to achieve

Enterprises with Key Elements of Cloud Strategy Defined

Cloud Governance Lags Adoption


Without a Strategy, Shadow IT Creeps In

18%

42%

39%

35%

34%

42%

38%

41%

50%

56%

50%

60%

60%

67%

Broker cloud services

Manage all cloud deployments

Build private cloud

Decide when BUs should use cloud

Set policies for how cloud can be used

Select public clouds

Select private clouds

Works in Central IT

Works in Business Unit

Enterprise Views of Role of IT in Cloud


STEP 1: IDENTIFY YOUR CLOUD

MOTIVATIONS

Step 1: Identify your Cloud Motivations

to gain competitive advantage Accelerate Application Delivery

of staff and infrastructure Improve IT Efficiency

with new geographies and capabilities Expand Markets

to optimize for best return Increase Investment Flexibility

with continuity of critical applications Reduce Risk

STEP 2: ASSESS YOUR CLOUD

MATURITY

Step 2: Assess Your Cloud Maturity

6% 18% 29% 25% 22%

Cloud Maturity of Respondents

Cloud

Watchers

Cloud

Beginners

Cloud

Explorers

Cloud

Focused

No

Plans

Planning First project Apps running Heavy use


0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Cloud Beginners Cloud Explorers Cloud Focused

% o

f R

esp

on

de

nts

Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity % of Respondents Reporting these Benefits

CapEx to OpEx

Business continuity

IT staff efficiency

Geographic reach

Higher performance

Cost savings

Faster time-to-market

Higher availability

Faster access to infrastructure

Greater scalability

Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity


0%

20%

40%

60%


% o

f R

esp

on

de

nts

Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity % of Respondents Reporting these as Significant Challenges

Security

Compliance

Managing multiple cloud services

Integration to internal systems

Governance/Control

Performance

Lack of resources/Expertise

Cost

Integration to private cloud

Lack of support from IT

Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity


Place Cloud Beginners Cloud Focused

#1 Security (31%) Compliance (18%)

#2 Compliance (30%) Cost (17%)

#3 Managing multiple cloud

services (28%)

Performance (15%)

#4 Integration to internal

systems (28%)

Managing multiple cloud

services (13%)

#5 Governance/Control (26%) Security (13%)

Top 5 Challenges Change with Maturity

Top 5 Challenges Change with Cloud Maturity


Identifying Next Steps for Your Cloud Journey

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• Define cloud strategy

• Inventory apps

• Identify shadow use

• First POCs

CLOUD WATCHERS • Design multi-cloud

architecture

• Prioritize application

portfolio

• Automate operations

CLOUD BEGINNERS • Offer self-service

portal

• Expand app portfolio

• HA/DR architectures

• Manage costs

CLOUD EXPLORERS • Cloud First strategy

• Broker cloud services

• Implement DevOps

• Optimize cloud costs

CLOUD FOCUSED

STEP 3: PLAN YOUR CLOUD

PORTFOLIO

Hybrid Cloud is the Strategy of Choice

Single private 9%

Single public 13%

No plans 4% Multiple private

11%

Multiple public 15%

Hybrid cloud 48%

74%

Enterprise Cloud Strategy 1000+ employees

Multi-Cloud

74%


1. Operate anywhere

2. Maintain vendor leverage

3. Leverage existing investments

4. Optimize costs

5. Future-proof your cloud strategy

6. Access unique capabilities

7. Create resilient architectures

8. Support future business needs

8 Reasons for a Cloud Portfolio

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STEP 4: OVERCOME THE FOUR

COMMON CLOUD CHALLENGES

CHALLENGE 1:

CLOUD SECURITY

31% 27%

13%

38%

27%

18%

0%

20%

40%

60%


Respondents that see Cloud Security as a Significant Challenge

2014

2013

How Big a Challenge is Cloud Security?


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Cloud Security

Ecosystem

Cloud Provider

Enterprise

RightScale

3rd Party Vendors

Plan for a Cloud Security Ecosystem

Capability Who?

Encrypt data in transit Vendor, Enterprise

Encrypt data at rest Vendor, Cloud, Enterprise

Secure communications RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor

Systems Configuration /Network segmentation Cloud, Enterprise, RightScale

Integrate with IAM RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendors

Privileged identity management RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise

Backup/Replicate data RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor

Coordinate BC & DR RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor

Log cloud activity RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor

Shared Responsibility for Cloud Security

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CHALLENGE 2:

DELIVERING RELIABILITY

Architect for SLAs

• HA/DR reference

architectures

• Cross-region and cross-

cloud

• Auto-scale to meet

demand

• Hybrid cloudbursting

• Monitor and automate

failover

• Hot, warm, and cold DR

scenarios

Implement DR Architectures

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Load Balancers

App Servers

Slave DB Master DB

App Servers

Slave DB

< Replicate Replicate >

Load Balancers

PRIMARY WARM DR

DNS

Ensure availability

• Separate management

plane from cloud and

cloud applications

• RightScale platform is fully

redundant

• Automate failover

processes for hot, warm or

cold DR

Outage-Proof with Independent Control Plane

CHALLENGE 3:

OPTIMIZING COSTS

A New Way to Manage Capacity

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Infr

astr

uctu

re U

sage

Time

Traditional On-Prem Capacity

Waste of

overprovisioning

A New Way to Manage Spend

On-premises model Upfront spending decisions

On-demand model Continuous spending decisions

1. Project maximum demand

2. Define infrastructure required

3. Negotiate prices

4. Get internal approvals

5. Manage to capacity

1. Forecast ranges of potential use

2. Allocate budgets

3. Monitor spend

4. Allocate costs

5. Continually optimize spend

CHALLENGE 4:

DEVELOPING A CLOUD

CULTURE

Culture is Critical

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“Shifting to a hybrid or public cloud model

is a cultural shift, not a technology or security shift.”

Niel Nickolaisen, Cloud 101: the Right Strategy for CIOs

“Given the increasing number and quality of cloud offerings,

we CIOs had better be the ones driving this cultural shift -- otherwise, we

are on the path to obsolescence”

Niel Nickolaisen, Cloud 101: the Right Strategy for CIOs

“If your I&O team members aren’t building a true cloud because they can’t

see the benefit in doing so or are threatened by it, show them a new

career path that makes cloud a no-brainer.”

James Staten/Lauren E. Nelson, Forrester Research, Rise of the New Cloud Admin

4 Critical Requirements for a Cloud Culture

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CIO as

Cloud Champion

Benchmark Against

Public Cloud

Do the Same Things,

But Differently

Embrace DevOps

and Self-Service

STEP 5: CHOOSE YOUR CLOUD

ADOPTION PATTERN

Three Cloud Adoption Patterns

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Targeted

Grass

roots

Cloud

First

Cloud is default

choice whenever

feasible

Specific apps or

types of apps go

to cloud

Entice developers

to use cloud for

their apps

Where to Start: Segment Your App Portfolio

• Web architecture

• Elastic design

• Monolithic

• Legacy

• Traditional vendors

Cloud-Ready

• Greenfield

• Designed for cloud

Elastic Web

Traditional

• Business impact

• Should we put this app on the cloud?

• What benefits will we get?

• Technical requirements

• Can we put this app on the cloud?

• How much will migration or build out cost?

• Choose the best ROI

• High business impact

• Appropriate technical requirements

Evaluating Applications for the Cloud

App 1 App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5

Business Impact

Fast time to market

Experimental

Demand fluctuation

Transitory/Time limited

Many instances

Many changes

DevOps/CI

New geographies

New capabilities

OpEX is desirable

Business Impact: Framework Sample

App 1 App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5

Governance Factors

Data Residency

Regulatory (PCI, HIPAA)

Security Requirements

Technical Requirements

Load Balancer: Session Affinity

Application: Licensing

Cache: Persistent

Database: Working set size

Security: Egress filtering

…

Technical Fit: Framework Sample

Assess Apps for Cloud Readiness

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App 1

App 7

App 3

App 12

App 4

App 6

App 2

App 5

App 8

App 11

App 10

App 9

Attract Developers with a Self-Service Portal

41

STRATEGY DESIGN DEPLOY OPERATE OPTIMIZE

How RightScale Can Help

42

CloudSight

Implementation

Support

Managed Services

Expert Advisor

Training

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Next Steps and Q&A

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