How to Select Initial Workloads for Migration

Starting the Journey to Managed Infrastructure Services

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A New Age of Innovation

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Cloud Computing

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS models

DevOps

Software development and

continuous delivery methodologies

Big Data

Analytic platforms for large and

unstructured data sets

Mobility

Smart phones, tablets, and other

devices

Social Media

Social networking and collaboration

platforms

Next-generation, complementary models are driving innovation:

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Yet…

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Jason Hiner, “IT’s new holy grail: Break out of the 70% maintenance loop,” Tech Sanity Check blog, TechRepublic.com, 11 May 2010

Current IT Budget Spending:

>70%maintenance, operations, and capacity expansion.

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Which is why…

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Jason Hiner, “IT’s new holy grail: Break out of the 70% maintenance loop,” Tech Sanity Check blog, TechRepublic.com, 11 May 2010

New Technologies Provide Opportunity• Build new business models• Create strategic advantage• Drive market disruption

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CIOs report that a quarter of IT spending will happen outside the IT budget in 2014.

-Gartner

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IT Has Reached the Pivot Point

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Maintenance

Operations

Capacity Expansion

Offload activities to focused vendors with economies of scale,

experience, and expertise.

Leadership

Innovation

GrowthCurrent

FutureNow is the time for CIOs and their IT organizations to “get back in the game” and drive innovation

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Respondents believe that the CIO is the most important figure in driving or supporting transformation efforts (highest among any C-suite executives including the CEO)

- Forrester Research

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Reasons IT Infrastructure Consolidation and Optimizationis a Top Priority in 2014

Capability Rationale

External competition New cloud and managed infrastructure service providers can achieve scale and expertise beyond what is achievable for even the largest enterprise

Flexibility The shift towards consumption-based pricing of infrastructure with IaaS models enables organizations to shift IT spend from CapEx to OpEx

Complexity While new private, public and hybrid cloud models create opportunities for corporate IT, they also create new operational complexity

Talent CIOs are finding that attracting and retaining next-generation ITskills to support new digital paradigms is difficult, if not impossible

Distraction Many organizations are finding that innovation does not require IT to manage infrastructure

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But CIOs Have Concerns

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42% of CIOsfeel they do not have the right skills and capabilities in place

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BARE METAL VIRTUALIZED PRIVATE PUBLIC HYBRID

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IT leadership now has to make strategic decisions:

Concerns and Opportunity Are Driving the Moveto “Zero-Infrastructure” Initiatives

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2 ALL AT ONCE -OR- (for maximum comfort and familiarity with the service provider)

INCREMENTAL ?

3 DIFFICULT-TO-MIGRATEWORKLOADS -OR- ?EASY-TO-MIGRATE

WORKLOADS

INFRASTRUCTURE

MOVING WORKLOADS

FOCUS

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Top 10 factors

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opportunities to

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Identifying Attractive Initial Migration Candidates

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1. Application / workload architecture and compatibilityAlready virtualized or running on dedicated servers, and be running on platforms and technology stacks supported by the service provider

2. Business criticalityPreferably not mission or business critical, and with no significant disaster recovery, backup or data replication requirements

3. Availability / performanceNo significant high performance, availability, latency, data transfer or IO requirements

4. External / internal dependenciesMinimal external application dependencies

5. NetworkingA geographic delivery profile that can be replicated with the service provider

6. Application integrationNo significant integration requirements with on-premise or external applications, data or required shared services

7. Application monitoring / managementNo major integration required with existing agent-based systems management, service management, performance monitoring or security tools

8. ComplianceNot subject to compliance mandates that include physical security requirements

9. SecurityNot subject to compliance mandates that include physical security requirements

10. Capacity requirementsLess than four cores processing and / or 48 gigabytes of memory required

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Three Primary “First Mover” Candidate Categories

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Collaboration platforms, as Microsoft SharePoint® and Microsoft® Exchange, customer relationship management (CRM), and project management solutions

Development and test (dev/test) and proof-of-concept (POC) environments

Websites and web applications based on three-tier architectures

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Dev/Test as a “Low-Hanging” Fruit Example

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1. Application / workload architecture and compatibility

Compatible workload architecture

2. Business criticalityLow business criticality

3. Availability / performanceNo high availability / performance requirements

4. External / internal dependenciesNo external / internal dependencies

5. NetworkingNo / limited networking constraints

6. Application integrationNo application integration requirements

7. Application monitoring / managementNo application monitoring / management requirements

8. ComplianceNo compliance impacts (assuming use of test data)

9. SecurityMinimal security requirements

10. Capacity requirementsAcceptable capacity requirements

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Is your IT organization wondering where to begin with managed infrastructure services?

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Next Steps

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Contact Rackspace or read more at Starting the Journey to Managed Infrastructure Services – White Paper

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