Top 5 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make When Moving to the Cloud
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April 19, 2012
Adam Weissmuller
Director of Product Management, Cloud Services
Top 5 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make When Moving to the Cloud
Agenda
Introduction
Is Everything Moving to the Cloud?
Top 5 Mistakes
Questions & Answers
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Is Everything Moving to the Cloud?
Internet start-ups tend to migrate toward more dedicated infrastructure
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Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Enterprises tend to migrate their infrastructure toward the cloud
Cloud is a means to an end, not an end in itself6
Where we’ve been: Internap’s cloud webinar series
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Internap, January 2012, sample size: 270 respondents.
:Internap cloud webinar series results:
“Are you currently leveraging the cloud (Iaas) for any of your applications?”
No: 54%
(includes evaluating or just learning)
Yes: 46%
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Internap cloud webinar series results:
“What type of cloud is your business most interested in?
Public 8%
Private 28%
Hybrid or Combination
46%
None or in-house
18%
Internap, January 2012, sample size: 253 respondents.
Where we’ve been: Internap’s cloud webinar series
As You Evaluate the Cloud, What Are the Five Mistakes YOU DON’T WANT TO MAKE?
You want this….
Not this….
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Mistake #1 – Leaping Before You Look
Cloud is a means to an end. You want happy end users using applications that meet your security and compliance needs.
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Mistake #1 – Leaping Before You Look
Can the cloud deliver my applications with acceptable performance?Do I have any compliance considerations that restrict my ability to use
shared infrastructure?
Will the cloud meet my availability requirements?
Key factors to consider:
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Mistake #2 – Thinking You Have Found the One
Choosing a cloud provider is not like marriage. You may want to to change providers later on.
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Mistake #2 – Thinking You Have Found the One
Am I going to be using APIs to manage my cloud infrastructure?Are the APIs proprietary to the particular provider?Are my images going to be portable to another provider?Is my data going to be easily portable to another provider?
Key factors to consider:
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Mistake #3 – If It Fits, It Ships
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Don’t make the assumption that every cloud supports your most complex applications.
Mistake #3 – If It Fits, It Ships
Key factors to consider:
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How many tiers does my application have?Do I require layer 2 connectivity between tiers?Do I need to cluster my DB for performance and availability?Do I need specialized networking devices in the configuration?
Mistake #4 – Believing Tomorrow Will Be Like Today
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The cloud may be what you need today. In all likelihood, it won’t be the only thing you need tomorrow.
Mistake #4 – Believing Tomorrow Will be Like Today
Key factors to consider:
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Do I want to use a single provider to help manage my portfolio of applications?
As my application grows, will I need physical infrastructure for performance reasons?
At larger scale, do the economics of the cloud work out?
Mistake #5 – Not Leveraging the Full Potential of the Cloud
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The cloud is a tool that opens up new possibilities.
Am I sizing VMs based on previous physical specs or am I optimizing?Am I leveraging the on-demand aspect of cloud to deal with the “bursty”
parts of the app?Am I designing for horizontal scalability and Layer 3 communication?Can I create an entire test/dev, staging, and production environment in the
same cloud?
Key factors to consider:
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Mistake #5 – Not Leveraging the Full Potential of the Cloud
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