Build your digital foundation - From the workspace to the datacenter

2. WHY IT AUTOMATION IS
A BUSINESS NECESSITY

3. Application delivery is fuel for growth
Automation simplifies
Automation = speed
Automation ensures consistency
Automation ensures compliancy
Automation drives security
Automation never sleeps
Repetition is boring and error prone
Adding people to solve a problem adds complexity
WHYAUTOMATE?
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4. “Focus your company’s most valuable
resource on more strategic tasks:
Innovation, deeper problem solving,
driving the business forward.”
DIRK DE MEIRSMAN

5. “The term ‘cloud computing’ being used for
a broad collection of services, delivered at
many different layers and implemented in a
variety of different ways.”
FORBES ARTICLE

6. Deliver any IT service
On any platform
With a single click
OUR VISION
ACLEAR FOCUS
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7. OUR MISSION
ASTATEMENTABOUT‘WHAT&HOW’
Enable IT organizations to become an
Business Partner by Automation &
Making IT universally accessible
FLEXIBLE COSTEFFICIENTINNOVATIVE
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8. OUR OBSERVATIONS
OFTODAYSITARCHITECTURES
STANDARDIZATION
INTEGRATION
AUTOMATION
DELIVERABLES
CENTRALIZATION
CONFIGURATION
Little standardization and big inconsistency
Too much customization and coding
Partially automated
Unpredictable outcome and results
No place for storing design & logic
Forgotten OS & Application management
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9. 9
LIFECYCLE
MANAGEMENT
DECOMMISSI
ON
EXPIREMANAGEDPROVISIONEDBUILDINGREQUEST
If we don’t control the
MANAGED phase,
How can we properly
DECOMMISSION?

10. AUTOMATION SILO’S
This situation leads to inconsistency
and a lot duplication of code
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP x
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11. DECOUPLING IS KEY
Orchestrator
Engine
Logic
CMP, PaaS, CaaS, …
Orchestrator
Engine
Logic
Configuration Management
Tools
Orchestrator
Engine
Another Cloud Platform
SPOT
Automation Layer
Stacks Logic Stacks
1
1
1
2
2
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12. SERVICE DELIVERY
ASSESS DOCUMENT Implementation
ASSESS DEFINE AUTOMATE
Fundamentally change the way services are
delivered and operated
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13. RESULTS
OFOURENABLEMENTFRAMEWORK
STANDARDIZATION
INTEGRATION
AUTOMATION
DELIVERABLES
CENTRALIZATION
CONFIGURATION
Solid standardization and consistency enforced
Little coding required for higher manageability
Automation enforced
Fixed deliverables within specific time-frame
Organizational adaption
OS, Application and lifecycle management
SPOT
KNOWS IT ALL
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14. Focus on describing what you
want to achieve and avoid
growing to a hard-to-manage
platform!
Assess, Assess, Assess, Assess,
Implement, Deploy and consume!
SINGLE POINT OF TRUTH
VALUE PROPOSITION
More time spend on gathering requirements and less time spend on building
and configuring, results in MUCH faster deployments and better predictability

15. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and
more complex... It takes a touch of genius and
a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN

16. POSITIONING
AUTOMATIONANDSTANDARDIZATION
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Private Cloud Public Cloud
AWS Google
Azure
IBM Cloud
IaaS – PaaS – CaaS
Hypervisor
Hyper Converged Infrastructure
Cloud Data Management
Object Storage
API
Control
Data
ManagementInfrastructure
Operational Management
Configuration Management
Service Management
Config
Data
Stack
Definitions
SPOT
Inventory
REST API
Any Cloud
API First
Webscale
Software Defined

17. NUBERASERVICES
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IT Automation Services:
• Automation Readiness Assessment
• Continuous Architecture Service
• Jumpstarts Docker, Puppet, Ansible, Nutanix,
Rubrik/Cloudian
• Service Credits
• Subco VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix
IT Automation through SPOT (Single Point of Truth)
• SaaS
• vRealize
• CloudForms
• ServiceNow
• Puppet – Ansible – Saltstack – PowerShell
• REST API
Invisible Infrastructure:
• VMware
• Nutanix
• Rubrik
• Cloudian
Multi Cloud Automatio
n

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19. Consumer
Simplification
Choice
KEYTAKEAWAYS
TOREMEMBER
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20. Get in touch
Dirk De Meirsman – dirk@nubera.eu – @dirkdemeirsman
Nubera – nubera.eu/blog – @NuberaEU