Do you feel confident you can deliver a smooth, trouble-free switchover to a cloud environment? The complexity of the migration process is a big part of why enterprises are hesitant about cloud adoption, despite being sold on the benefits of cloud delivery. This presentation helps you understand your workloads, explains why application onboarding may seem to be a challenge in the new IT reality and introduces the key concepts and considerations in a hybrid world.

1. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO
CLOUD ONBOARDING
Application workloads and implications for onboarding

2. INTRODUCTION
Do you feel confident you can deliver a smooth, trouble-free switchover to a
cloud environment?
The complexity of the migration process is a big part of why enterprises are
hesitant about cloud adoption, despite being sold on the benefits of cloud
delivery.
This presentation helps you understand your workloads, explains why
application onboarding may seem to be a challenge in the new IT reality and
introduces the key concepts and considerations in a hybrid world.

3. WHAT IS AN APPLICATION WORKLOAD?
However, there are exceptions…
 A workload is a
characterization of the work
that applications perform.
 This includes the applications,
systems, storage and network
infrastructure.
 The nature of the work is the
load being placed on the
infrastructure systems.
 At a macro level, this is fairly
similar to each company.

4. UNDERSTANDING YOUR WORKLOAD
MONOLITHIC WORKLOADS
Single purpose
Custom built
Runs at scale
Dedicated application that
run separate from general
business IT functions
Uncommon for businesses
to have this type of environment
MIXED WORKLOADS
Each company will have a different
combination of applications
Examples Examples
Classic IT workload
Internal business application
Does not run at large scale
Combination of
off-the-shelf and
custom applications
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5. HYBRID CLOUDS ARE THE NEW IT REALITY
Hybrid cloud environments are emerging as the dominant model for
enterprises.
The integration of third-party cloud services with enterprise data-centre
services is becoming common for several reasons:
 Concerns about the security, stability or performance.
 Avoid investment in unused capacity to handle demand spikes.
 Not wanting to over-provision their infrastructure.
 Need to migrate an executing workload from one environment to another.
Unless and until enterprises are ready to operate everything in a single cloud
environment, a hybrid model is the way forward.

6. ONBOARDING IN A HYBRID WORLD
To make the most of hybrid cloud
environments, enterprises need a
well-understood and secure way to
onboard workloads
The key elements of the hybrid IT
architecture are:
 The enterprise data centre, which is
assumed to be at least partly
virtualized.
 The remote cloud environment: either
a different enterprise data centre
(private cloud), or the multi-tenant
cloud platform of a cloud service
provider.
 WAN connectivity between the two,
usually via a secure internet VPN.
 End-user devices that access the
applications hosted in the hybrid
environment.

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