Find out your options for moving to the cloud.At IBM Connect 2014, Lisa Lucadamo Jarrett and Marshall Lamb from IBM stepped through how to evaluate the range of cloud deployment choices available to you. In this tip from their session, take a look at criteria to judge which cloud option is right for your company based on your needs.

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JMP301: Stepping into the
Cloud, Evaluating Your
Options
Marshall Lamb, IBM
Lisa Lucadamo Jarrett, IBM

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Which Cloud Model should your organization use?

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Considerations for your cloud journey
Regulatory Compliance
User Experience
Security
Support Costs
Skills required
Longevity
Vendor Contract
Hybrid needs
Multi-tenancy
Operations Costs
Customization
SaaS PaaS IaaS On Premise

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I need to connect to data/apps on premise (hybrid)
 SaaS solutions typically have well-defined and constrained
enterprise linkage points
− LDAP replication/synchronization
− Standards-based SSO (OAuth, SAML)
− Public REST APIs for custom applications
− UI extension points
 PaaS solutions leave most hybrid linkage to the application
− Very little in the way of supportive infrastructure
 IaaS solutions employ private virtual networks to link the cloud to
the enterprise
− Requires corporate security trust in the cloud provider
 Bottom line: SaaS is probably “good enough” for most hybrid
needs, and will help keep things simple, standard, and cost
effective. Otherwise, you'll have to “roll your own” solution.

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I need to support customers who are not in my enterprise
(multi-tenant solution)
 SaaS solutions can reach anyone, and some do not confine you to
operate within your organization
− SmartCloud for Social Business
 PaaS solutions standardize data and application middleware, abstracting
it from the application's concern
− Multiple tenant awareness is typically not inherent
 IaaS solutions require you to build multi-tenant awareness yourself
− Application awareness
− Data model awareness
 On-premise is like IaaS, in that you build it yourself, but you have to deal
with Internet/Extranet access and the added security/protection that
requires
 Bottom line: Choose a SaaS solution that gives you the capability and
tenant/organizational reach you need, or else build your own in IaaS or
on-premise.

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I have specific regulatory requirements
 SaaS solutions will advertise their compliances and
attestations, and own the task to maintain them
− Simple way to stay compliance at a low subscription
price point
 PaaS and IaaS solutions are not going to bring industry
compliance for free, because of application and data
specifics outside of their domain
 On-premise solutions obviously give you ultimate flexibility
to meet any compliance, whatever the cost
 Bottom line: Pick a SaaS solution that meets your
compliance needs, since the subscription costs will provide
a lower price point than if you had to support both the
application and compliance. Be wary of providers offering
solutions meeting certain industry regulatory compliances
at a similar price point of the general public offering.

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I don't have the skills or resources required to run the solution
 SaaS solutions were built for this usecase: offload secondary IT
needs to the “cloud”, freeing resources to concentrate on core
business needs
 PaaS provide incremental resource savings, eliminating the capital
expenses of a data center, and much of the operational expenses
associated with infrastructure and middleware
− Leaves the requirements for owning and running the
applications
 IaaS, like PaaS, provides incremental resource savings, but you
have to own everything in the OS upwards
 Bottom line: Decide where your core competencies are and pursue
the cloud model that capitalizes on those competencies. But you
have to be willing to give up control.
− Cloud models, at a minimum, assume you want to
“commoditize” facilities and hardware
− Everything else depends on what level of the application you
care to control

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I have requirements that are specific to my company
 SaaS solutions are typically not built for variability, or at most
provide some well-defined points of variability, to keep costs
down and ease multi-tenancy
 PaaS limits choices of implementation to what middleware is
offered in the solution
 IaaS provides the greatest amount of flexibility around custom
solution assembly, since that typically needs to start with your
choice of middleware
 Bottom line: You can't beat IaaS, or an on-premise solution,
for ultimate customization capability, but you should ask
yourself: “Is SaaS good enough, especially given the price
point? Do I really need all that custom stuff?”

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Deep Dive Example:
Evaluating Cloud Readiness for Social SaaS
Security &
Regulatory
Application Use
Strategy &
Environment
ROI / TCO
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your company at no charge
 Datacenters
 Internet link speeds
 Staffing
 Mobile needs
 Custom needs for anti-
spam, content filtering
 Specific regulatory
req'ts (e.g. HIPAA)
 Government or
industry requirements
 Employee # and
projected growth
 Software costs
(license & renewals
etc)
 Hardware costs and
maintenance staff
costs
 Current
applications in use
 # users and plans
for growth
 Customizations
 Integration

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Sika
A globally active specialty chemicals company headquartered in Switzerland leverages the
IBM SmartCloud to create an integrated global collaboration solution
Workplace of the Future
Improves collaboration and sharing
Drives IT efficiencies
“Initiated by our market intelligence department we
started a social business adoption pilot with 200
employees that quickly expanded to some 3000
users. This pilot generated high user satisfaction
and clearly showed us the value of social business
for Sika,"
- Andreas Kissling, Head Sika Group IT

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SafeGuard World International
Leading provider of global managed payroll chooses integrated IBM and Trilog Group
cloud collaboration solution
Increasing project transparency and
responsiveness
Saving time and money
Chose the integrated IBM SmartCloud Engage and
Business Partner Trilog Group's ProjExec Live
cloud collaboration and social project management
solution to increase transparency on global projects
and to increase client, employee and management
confidence in the PMO process.
“The combined IBM and Trilog ProjExec solution is
a strong factor in decreasing Safeguard’s time to
revenue through a 20 percent reduction in
implementation time”
Knowledge Sharing and Ideation
“Team members are happier and more productive
now. They don’t have to wait for their project
manager to tell them their tasks. And we don’t
spend a lot of time chasing people around trying to
find out what already happened but can proactively
focus on leading indicators. And the combined
SmartCloud/ProjExec solution is a strong factor in
decreasing Safeguard’s “time to revenue” through a
20% reduction in implementation time in 2013.”
Cynthia Foster, Vice President, Organizational Excellence
SafeGuard World International

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