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Transitioning a Full

Enterprise to Cloud in Just

10 Months:

Steve DeLuca Chief Information Officer The SI Organization, Inc.

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Lessons Learned

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Agenda

• Transition Scope

• Transition Summary

• Cloud Vision

• Cloud Effectiveness Modeling

• Key Elements of Infrastructure and Lessons Learned

• Conclusion

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Transition Scope

• The SI business unit was divested in November 2010 – 2,000 employees and 1,200 subcontractors

– 6TB+ of disparate data

– 2,600 client endpoints

– 5 major sites

– 20%+ offsite users

• Required establishing a full IT enterprise

• Goals: 1. Simplify and right-size the IT landscape

2. Employ Next Generation Technologies while balancing risk

3. Leverage Cloud/Outsourcing where beneficial and feasible

4. Efficient and secure infrastructure

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Transition Summary

Success Factors:

Treated as a

mission critical

program

Applied SI SE & PM

processes

Modeled to Align

Cloud Vision

Aggressively

enforced COTS

integration

Leveraged Cloud

Technologies and

Outsourcing

Communications

& Social Media 98% Virtualized

20:1 Reduction in Servers*

80% Reduction in Electrical

and Heat Load (Estimated)*

58% CapEx Cost Reduction*

30% Reduction in Storage

20% OpEx Reduction from

Legacy

*Note: In relation to physical alternative

Successful Corporate Transition Over a Single Weekend

Jan’11 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec’11 Divestiture

22 Nov 2010

ERP SDR

SION SDR

ADP SDR XRR ORR

Legacy IT Transition Services Support

New IT Enterprise Standup

26 Sept Go-Live

Outsourced Services •HR and Payroll

•Recruiting/Applicant Tracking

•Travel Services

ERP

Collaboration

Core Infrastructure

•Time & Expense Reporting

•Accounting & Planning

•Procurement

•Contract Management

•Sharepoint

•Virtual Conferencing & IM

•Email

•Social Media

•Hosting

•Directory Services

•Voice and Data Services

•Remote Access

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10 months

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Key Tenets

• Flexible Virtual Core

• Ubiquitous Devices

• Robust Collaboration

• IaaS/PaaS for

Business Innovation

• Remote User

Enablement

• Simplified Business

Systems Landscape

• Business App Store

Cloud Vision

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0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

On Demand,Self-Service

BroadNetworkAccess

ResourcePooling

RapidElasticity

MeasuredService

Cloud Effectiveness Model

• Cloud Effectiveness Model – Meet NIST’s essential

characteristics?

– Characteristics important to me?

– Where should I focus resources to improve?

– Have I reached the desired end-state?

• Set up front goals to meet Day 1 needs

• Leveraging results to track progress and focus resources

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The SI Results:

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Key Elements of Infrastructure

Summary 1. Server Virtualization

2. Desktop Virtualization

3. User Profile Virtualization

4. Application Virtualization

5. Intelligent Storage Networks

6. Information Assurance

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Key Element Lessons Learned

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Key Elements Approach Lessons Learned

1. Server Virtualization

• 98% Virtualized

•Vendor restrictions and security drove physicals

•Challenge vendors to operate in virtual space

• Push VM density to obtain optimum savings

•Network physical host servers to shared storage to enable VM movement between

2. Desktop Virtualization

• Limited scope to shared and remote desktops

•Use of legacy hardware forced complexity and impacted performance

• Provided extreme value in remote access scenario

• Patching and desktop image maintenance efficiency enhanced

3. User Profile Virtualization

• Floating user profile and App virtualization management

• Stored Profile data across 2 sites

•Cross-site synchronization yielded more data than sync tool could handle

•Required pre-authenticated VPN to properly map virtual profile

•High bandwidth consumption by profile throughout session

•Closely monitor storage layer performance

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Key Element Lessons Learned cont’d…

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Key Elements Approach Lessons Learned

4. Application Virtualization

•Virtualized non-standard desktop applications

•Must understand how App operates

• Install app dependencies in local image

•Pay special attention to folder permissions

• Leverage on-site vendor consultation

5. Intelligent Storage Networks

• SAN technology

• Fiber channel connected

•Data replication between sites

•Data Deduplication

•Unable to do real-time mirroring of data between sites due to distance limitations

•Pro’s/Con’s/Strengths/Weaknesses of snapshot technologies in product set

•Plan storage to maximize deduplication yet avoid overloading disk sets

6. Information Assurance

•Robust defense in depth approach

•Virtualizing Apps reduce security risk

•Cloud technologies add complexity pose the most risk

•User profile contains the most critical desktop forensics data

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Conclusion

• Cloud-based environment enabled us to handle unknowns

• A high level of rigor is required to successfully migrate to a

cloud

• Don’t attempt to meet all of the essential characteristics of

cloud at once

• A green field approach to cloud is recommended to

maximize advantage

• Understand infrastructure needs and software to obtain

cost effective licensing agreements

• Deep understanding of storage and constant monitoring is

a must

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