The document discusses moving a data center to the cloud. It outlines an agenda for analyzing such a transition, including considering cloud security, understanding the current environment, and comparing costs and contracts. The analysis section lists many line items to compare between the current data center and cloud providers, such as infrastructure, licensing costs, disaster recovery, and support. Conducting a thorough analysis of needs, strengths, and weaknesses is important to understand if cloud computing is suitable.

1. Move your Data Center to the Cloud
Case Study Analysis
November 2012
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2. Agenda
 The way and where we were and how far we have come…
 The Promise of the Cloud and the Pitch
 Brief Background on MRIS and How We Got Here
 Your domain = the cloud domain – consider your new domains
 Change and Shift in Paradigm
 The Analysis
 Discussion
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3. The Way We Were
 Back in 2001 we had:
 Slow broadband
 Very little WIFI
 No iPhones, smartphones, no tablets, no 4G
 No Twitter or Facebook
 Only half dozen “programs” on the typical PC
 The “Cloud” was part of a network diagram
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4. How far we have come…
Video, Photo, Media, Open Source, Mobility, BYOD, Big Data
The Shadow
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5. The Promise and The Pitch
 Economics
 “Lower cost, transition from CAPX to OPX, and low initial outlay, data
center costs, etc.”
 Flexibility
 “Ability to scale up and down rapidly based on needs. You don’t have
to build enough infrastructure for peak load, just have bur$table
capacity”
 Breakdown Technology Asset Boundaries
 “Start to break down silos between memory, CPU, storage, and
network, and treat them all as resources, ties in to flexibility
 Focus
 “IT can focus on business applications and purposes, instead of
commoditized maintenance which takes up to 80% of their time”
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6. MRIS and How We Got Here
 Brief Background on MRIS –
 Support for the cloud effort/analysis (C level, board,
evangelist)
 Systems considered for the migration (MRIS systems)
 A 3 year history of those systems- vendor relationships,
etc. (CS migration, floor space, etc.)
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7. Preparation for a Cloud Analysis
 Your domain = the cloud domain – consider your new
domains
 The Homework Before the Work- Cloud Security Alliance
Domains (all three sections below covered by our doc,
include open source, open stack, POC’s, performance)
 Cloud Architecture
 Governing in the Cloud - OS
 Operating in the Cloud
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8. The Change in Paradigm
 Change and Shift in
Paradigm (working on
solutions versus working on
services, maintain expertise)
 What does this mean to
people’s jobs? Shifting
skillsets. And again,
existing relationships.
What does CIO mean
again?
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9. The Analysis – Our Personal Bar of Approaching Cloud Providers
 The Analysis
 How to look at the opportunity clearly and what to
analyze - our approach
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10. The Analysis Item Relevance
*****BUFFER You need a BUFFER
*****CSP Skillset based on your needs OS (DR), difficulty in deployment, architecture
*****CSP Understanding of your Environment This one will surprise you
There is a lot to *****DC Floor Space Current contracts and costs
*****Equipment Management - Server, NW, Storage Current contracts, existing relationships
consider in your *****OS Management Updates, tiers of management
analysis. All these *****Replication and backups Point to Point, Distance, Means of Replication, CSP Skillset, 30% of CIO’s
*****Servers Architecture/Manufacturer High risk changes (POC)
line items require a *****Shared or Private or Hybrid Based on Performance needs and
comparison of your Virtualization Boundaries Virtualization Boundaries
*****SLA, Contract, Terms, Termination Adding systems, removing systems, your access to systems
current *****Storage Architecture/Manufacturer High risk changes (POC)
environment to that *****Who is providing you the support? Third party or the CSP
Application management CSP skillset, ability and willingness, current contracts
of the cloud service CSP Financials Where will they be in 18, 24, 36 months
provider. CSP Partnerships VAR's, Manufacturers, etc.
CSP Reputation Check around, find current customers you know, don’t settle on references
Current Licensing Costs V Cloud VM, SSL, OS, DB, Malware, ASL
A lot of leg work is Data Center Locations Geographically dispersed, access for staff
required for current Database Architecture Virtualization Boundaries!
Database Management CSP skillset, ability and willingness, current contracts
contract costs and DISASTER RECOVERY Where is your recovery site?
terms, lease Equipment Ownership - Server, NW, Storage Current Leases, their termination dates, overall cost
Global Load Balancing So there is DR - how do you get to it?
expiration,
HW Refresh Guarantee? Current leases. Need for refresh and performance, extra costs?
bandwidth costs, Does the CSP offer what you need to accomplish fault tolerance and
etc. Load Balancing redundancy
Monitoring Application, Circuit, System - Notification
Network Architecture/Manufacturer High risk changes (POC)
We’ve selected a One-time setup fees CSP, your app vendors, your staff, travel expenses
few to give you our Performance Needs Level of Performance, Bursts, consistent usage? Can it be shared
POC? Costs? Recovery of cost? POC!, POC, POC!
insight approach Power /Ping and Pipe - HQ Between sites and your offices/data centers
and outcome on. Power/Ping and Pipe - Hosting Current contracts, their cost, durations, capable of bursts
SSL Management Related to NW, CSP skillset, ability and willingness
What about your staff What about all your other solutions, what about in-house expertise
YOUR GUT
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11. Outcome of analysis – 3 years
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12. Back to the Promise – Pros and Cons
A comprehensive analysis of your needs in a cloud solution will enlighten your teams on the
potential of cloud computing for your enterprise, understand the strengths that you have built
in your solutions and uncover weaknesses that may be present.
Know who you are – the CSP’s may not (small, medium, large)
 Economics
 “Lower cost, transition from CAPX to OPX, and low initial outlay, data center costs, etc.”
 Flexibility
 “Ability to scale up and down rapidly based on needs. You don’t have to build enough
infrastructure for peak load, just have bur$table capacity”
 Breakdown Technology Asset Boundaries
 “Start to break down silos between memory, CPU, storage, and network, and treat them all
as resources, ties in to flexibility
 Focus
 IT can focus on business applications and purposes, instead of commoditized maintenance
which takes up to 80% of their time
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13. Discussion
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