A Happiest Minds point of view, Recommendations and Insights on the need for businesses to adopt cloud, the choice of private cloud, and the 6 steps to successfully implement a private cloud. For further information, please visit - http://www.happiestminds.com/technology-focus/cloud-computing/

1. Six Steps to Private Cloud Adoption
Point of View, Recommendations and Insights

2. Agenda
• Business Overview
• Why private cloud?
• Six Steps to Private Cloud
1. Virtualization
2. Portfolio Analysis
3. SOA revisited
4. Technology Planning
5. Capacity Planning
6. Monetization
• Summary and Key Takeaways
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3. Cloud Adoption - Business Overview
• Cloud Adoption – beyond the tipping point
• Organizations across the world, across industries are adopting cloud
• Rapid adoption due to obvious business benefits
WHAT ARE THE KEY BUSINESS DRIVERS?
Cost • Cost Optimization: Driven by
Optimization increased resource utilization,
lower maintenance & upgrade
costs
• Agility: Made possible by
elasticity
Agility Cash Flow • Cash Flow: Capex to Opex
conversion
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4. Why Private Cloud?
1. Existing Investments: Large
enterprises with significant
investments in their own data
centers, applications and
infrastructure.
2. Security: Certain industry
sectors e.g. BFSI would not
want to move to public cloud
for security reasons.
3. Mission Criticality:
Applications that are mission
critical need to continue on-
premise. TYPICAL
4. Virtualization++: Several CLOUD SCENARIO
organizations have already
invested in virtualization and
IaaS initiatives. Moving “up”
the stack is logical.
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5. Six Steps to Private Cloud
3 4
Technology
SOA Revisited
Planning
2 5
Portfolio Capacity
Analysis Planning
1 6
Six Steps
Virtualization to Private Monetization
Cloud
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6. 1. Virtualization
VIRTUALIZATION
“The conversion of physical assets
into virtual ones”
WHY VIRTUALIZATION ?
KEY CONSIDERATIONS
• Gross underutilization of assets
• Vendor selection
• Need for dynamic provisioning
• Hypervisor feature sets
• Need for resource sharing to
• Auxiliary software availability
drive cost reduction
• Target: near 100% virtualization
• Need for usage based pricing
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7. 2. Portfolio Analysis
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
STRATEGY BASED ON
“Prioritization exercise to determine
“APPLICATION CATEGORIZATION”
strategy to move applications to the
cloud”
# APPLICATION CATEGORY
1 Lift and Shift
KEY CONSIDERATIONS 2 Public Cloud
• Scenario 1: Consume SaaS
• Which applications in which • Scenario 2: Develop applications on PaaS
categories? 3 SaaS Provider
• On what basis?
• Prioritization (sequencing)? 4 No migration
• Selective Migration Scenario 1: Mission critical, “Do not touch”
Scenario 2: Low criticality, “Retirement Candidates”
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8. 3. SOA Revisited
Several Concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be re-used
THEN NOW
Web Services Cloud Services
Service Oriented Architecture Cloud Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Integration (SOI) SOI – in a cloud context
SOA Governance – Registries, Cloud Governance
Repositories, Policy Management
KEY CONSIDERATIONS
• Application decomposition into functionality
(services)
• 1 – n mapping of applications to cloud services
• Service Definition
• SLA definition, management
• Aim for near zero deviation from on-premise
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9. 4. Technology Planning
Focus on “Enterprise Cloud Architecture”
# KEY CONSIDERATIONS
1 Vendor Selection
2 Private Cloud Architecture Roadmap
3 Public Cloud (Consumption) Architecture Roadmap
4 Hybrid Cloud Architecture Roadmap
5 Cloud Integration
6 Management and Monitoring
7 Cloud Security
• Separate out private & public cloud
• Private: On-premise + cloud enablement platform
• Public: Provider security analysis
• IDAM
• Data protection, encryption, segregation
• Logging / Tracking / Audit
• Application security standards
• Platform security
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10. 5. Capacity Planning
Traditional capacity planning Limitations
! Underutilization
DEDICATED RESOURCES,
PEAK LOAD PARADIGM
! High upfront costs
! Minimal margin of error
KEY CONSIDERATIONS
Cloud capacity planning • Applicable mainly to private cloud
scenarios
• Focus across all cloud layers
SHARED RESOURCES, • IaaS: VM capacity
AVERAGE LOAD PARADIGM • PaaS: Applications to be supported
by the platform
• SaaS/BPaaS: User transaction
workloads
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11. 6. Monetization
Chargeback
Mechanisms
Integration
Usage Based
with Billing
Pricing
Engines
Monetization
Pricing Metering
Models and Billing
Holistic
Approaches
across Cloud
Layers
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12. Summary & Key Takeaways
• Cloud Adoption is now Six Steps to Cloud Adoption
beyond the tipping point
• Clear trend towards private
cloud adoption
• Need for systematic
approaches for succeeding in
cloud initiatives
• We recommend a six step
methodology for cloud
adoption
• Every step contains insights,
recommendations and best
practices
• Happiest Minds can help you
leverage this methodology for
your cloud adoption initiatives
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