CIO Europe 2014

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IDENTIFYING A CLOUD ENABLED BUSINESS

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BACKGROUND

Rackspace Chief Technologist

chris.jackson@rackspace.co.uk

@chriswiggy

+44 (0) 7712 854462

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THE RECIPE FOR CLOUD

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THE PERFECT BUSINESS PLAN

Cloud

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THE MATURING CLOUD ISSUE

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THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP

ARE YOU BRINGING CLOUD TO YOUR BUSINESS?

OR ARE YOU BRINGING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE CLOUD?

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MORE JOURNEYS?

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HOW DO I KNOW I’VE ARRIVED?

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WHAT IS “CLOUD-ENABLED”

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An organisation or team that applies operational models, application design and infrastructure in a fashion that enables quicker execution at lower cost and more manageable risk

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EXAMPLE ONE – THE SYSADMIN QUIT

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WHAT LEFT WITH THE SYSADMIN?

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INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

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MY INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE

VERSIONING

• CONTROL CHANGES

• SIMPLE ROLLBACK

• SHARE KNOWLEDGE

• AUDIT TRAILS

TESTING

• REDUCE RISK

• VALIDATE OUTCOME

• DEFINED WORKFLOW

• FAST & REPEATABLE

DEPLOYMENT

• NO HUMAN ERROR

• CONSISTENT AT SCALE

• CAN DEPLOY OR CHANGE

• FULL REPORTING AND MGMT

COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION

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EXAMPLE 2 – THE MARKETING CAMPAIGN

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INTELLIGENT SCALING

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PRIMARY PLATFORM

CLOUD BURST SERVICE

NETWORK INTEGRATION

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

CONFIG MGMT

CLOUD ENABLED APPS MEAN:

• A stateless application

• Automated deployment of new nodes

• Application monitoring driving workflows

• Working capacity in minutes

REAL-TIME MONITORING

AUTO-SCALING SERVICE

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EXAMPLE 3 – TIME TO MARKET

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PRIORITISE BUSINESS VALUE

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PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

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Etsy – A Neutral Case Study…

• Gross sales over $1B (Oct 2013)

• 100’s of deploys per week

• No production on cloud!

• Passion for simplifying then automating

• Monitoring driven development

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SUMMARY

THREE BEHAVIOURS OF A CLOUD ENABLED BUSINESS

1. DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE SOFTWARE

2. ADD FEATURES TO YOUR SOFTWARE TO RUN SMARTER

3. REDUCE TIME TO MARKET BY SIMPLIFYING AND AUTOMATING

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WHAT NEXT?

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