There are many technical considerations of migrating to the cloud, and these get a lot of coverage, but there are many non-technical considerations – this session will arm you with what you need to know about, and think about, before and during a migration.

1. Cloud Readiness – the non-technical view
• Presented by Matt Groves
• SharePoint Saturday UK – 9th November 2013
#SPSUK

2. Matt Groves
Head of Information Worker Solutions
MS v-TSP (Business Productivity)
mattg@tesl.com
www.tesl.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mattgroves
about.me/mattgroves
IT solutions for business excellence

3. © Getty
#carrythemhome

4. #sharepint

8. ThisWickedProblem?

12. XaaS
“…made-up marketing verbage from
folks trying to sell you something…”
Seb Matthews
Part Evangelist, part Consultant, part Speaker.

13. “Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared
pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.
networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction”
Ant Clay
Founder of Soulsailor Consulting Ltd,
Author of SharePoint Governance
Manifesto
Exact date of quote unknown (location = pub)

14. “Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared
pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.
networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction”
Ant Clay
Founder of Soulsailor Consulting Ltd,
Author of SharePoint Governance
Manifesto
Exact date of quote unknown (location = pub)

15. $1in7 52%
spent on packaged software, server,
and storage offerings will be through
the public cloud model, growing five
times faster than the total IT
industry, by 2015.
of Enterprise customers are
“on the road” to the Cloud
73%
IT staff who say employees’
personal use of the cloud has
influenced enterprise
adoption of cloud computing
Source: CDW
Source: Microsoft
Source: IDC
28%
of SPSUK 2013 sessions reference “Cloud”
All tracks, except ITPro (?!?!?)
84%
of CIO’s cut application costs by moving to
the Cloud
Source: Business Insider

16. OK, I get it, the cloud is a
big deal, but what does it
actually mean?
$1in7 52%
spent on packaged software, server,
and storage offerings will be through
the public cloud model, growing five
times faster than the total IT
industry, by 2015.
of Enterprise customers are
“on the road” to the Cloud
73%
IT staff who say employees’
personal use of the cloud has
influenced enterprise
adoption of cloud computing
Source: CDW
Source: Microsoft
Source: IDC
28%
of SPSUK 2013 sessions reference “Cloud”
All tracks, except ITPro (?!?!?)
84%
of CIO’s cut application costs by moving to
the Cloud
Source: Business Insider

17. The Matrix © Warner Bros 1999

18. Trends impacting the way we work
1 billion
smartphones by 2016,
350M of those being
used at work
82%
of the world's online
population engages in
social networking
50%
of MSFT enterprise
customers
are “on the road” to
cloud

21. “We’re going to the cloud
because it’s cheap”

22. “We want to be more agile”

23. “We’re not an IT company and
maintaining infrastructure and
applications is hard work”

24. “It takes too long and costs too
much to do anything in our IT
dept”

25. “We’ve had a major incident and
cloud offers better BCP”

26. “We have a mobile workforce and
provisioning and managing
remote access is hard work”

27. “We believe we can be more
competitive if we can move
faster”

28. “We need to support BYOD,
because people are doing it
anyway regardless of policies”

29. 29

30. 30
If you don’t know where you
are, a map will not help…

31. 31
If you don’t know where you’re
going, any road will do…

32. 32
“We have all the time in the world…”
-Louis Armstrong

34. Before… part 1
• SaaS / Office 365
• Why?
• What workloads?
• Do you already have SP? 2013?
– Changes to governance models?
• All in vs Hybrid
• If it’s shit on-prem, moving somewhewre else just moves rotten eggs!
• Assess current content/process – do you know what you have, really??
• --maverick file sharing
• InfoSec policy – classification > IL2 and HP

35. “So, you’re saying all
our content is
structured and well
governed...?”

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvbroadz/

37. “We carried out a major investigation into the data
we produce. This was relatively low security stuff…”
Joan Miller
Head of ICT, HoP

38. http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/Documents/business_impact_tables.pdf

41. The Wizard of Oz © MGM
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…”

42. “Your data matters just as
much to us as it does to
you…”

43. Before… part 2
• IaaS
• Provider questions
• Are you getting what you’re paying for (thin provisioned)?

45. “Service credits won’t keep your
business running…”
John Timney
Senior Enterprise Architect (Cap
Gemini) & SharePoint MVP

48. CheckPoints&Measures

49. “The trouble is the infrastructure in the cloud
is not sufficiently mature enough to support
the kind of things we're doing in the Olympics.
The applications aren't there, they're not
written for the cloud; quite a big migration
would be required to move particularly that
core infrastructure into the cloud.”
Gerry Pennell
CIO, London Organising Committee of
the Olympic and Paralympic Games
(LOCOG)
July 2012 in an interview for CIO Magazine

50. “The trouble is the infrastructure in the cloud
is not sufficiently mature enough to support
the kind of things we're doing in the Olympics.
The applications aren't there, they're not
written for the cloud; quite a big migration
would be required to move particularly that
core infrastructure into the cloud.”
July 2012
Gerry Pennell
CIO, London Organising Committee of
the Olympic and Paralympic Games
(LOCOG)
July 2012 in an interview for CIO Magazine

54. Caveat emptor?

55. Caveat venditor?

56. “Service credits won’t keep your
business running…”
John Timney
Senior Enterprise Architect (Cap
Gemini) & SharePoint MVP

57. “The Cloud is for anyone…
… but isn’t for everyone”
Matt Groves
Head of Information Worker Solutions
(Trinity) & Microsoft vTSP

58. Thanks to our
Sponsors

60. Cloud Readiness – the non-technical view
• Presented by Matt Groves
• SharePoint Saturday UK – 9th November 2013
#SPSUK

61. #sharepint