What Does a Cloud Enabled Business Look Like?
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CIO Europe 2014
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IDENTIFYING A CLOUD ENABLED BUSINESS
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BACKGROUND
Rackspace Chief Technologist
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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
• www.codeascraft.com
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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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