Operations Transformation –
Expanding the Value of Cloud Computing
Ed Hoppitt, VMware
Phil Richards, British Telecom Plc
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Presenters
Ed Hoppitt - VMware
Business Solution Architect
Email: [email protected]
Blog: www.gatheringclouds.co.uk
Twitter - @edhoppitt
Phil Richards – BT Global Services
Customer CTO
Email: [email protected]
Twitter - @philmrichards
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Agenda
Cloud Ops Introduction
Overview of the Challenges of Cloud Operations
Customer Example – BT Global Services
BT’s end-customer experience as an IT outsourcer
VMware Customer Examples of today and tomorrow
Business value of making the changes
Moving your business forward
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This Is Not a Technology Discussion
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Operations Transformation in the Cloud Era
IT Ops in cloud era – is different than IT Operations in Client/Server era
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Organizations Now Expect IT to Change at Pace of Business…
New Economics of IT = GROWTH…
… IT Must Become Value Creators
New opportunities, new market, new business models
Increase/Retain customers, market share, opening new markets Enabling
CEOs
Must maintain cost pressure and help drive additional revenue CIOs
Drive revenue growth and differentiation
Increase competitiveness Uniqueness
Lower the cost of failure, reduce the price of success Agile Infrastructure
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A Cloud Ops Example – Provisioning Automation
Q What Percentage of your environments are provisioned in the
following ways ?
26%
19% 18% 18%
11% 9%
Total
Manual Custom
Manual Routing
Partly Automated
Mostly Automated
One Click
Don't Know
Provisioning Automation Environment
19% 19%
27%
15%
10%
4% 6%
Total
Mainframe
x86 Physical Server
Virtualized x86 server
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
SaaS
Don't Know
16%
54%
28%
Total
Highly Dynamic
ModeratelyDynamic
Mostly Static
Workload Stability
Source - VMware 2013 CloudOps Transformation Benchmark
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About British Telecommunications (BT) Plc
• Global Networking and IT Company headquartered in London
• Annual Turnover of $25 billion, Market cap of $24 billion
• Global customer base of 8,500 customers in 170 countries
• 2008 – BT Launches Automated Private Cloud
• 2011 – BT Launches ‘BT Cloud’ Amazon type cloud
• 2012 – BT Deploys VMware vCloud Suite for Enterprise IT
• > 30,000 servers under management
London 2012 Official Communications Partner
• 55,000 page views per second
• 6Gb/second sustained on games-network
• 4,000 routers, 80,000 voice and data outlets
• 500,000 WiFi Hotspots
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What Is Driving Our Customers to Make this Change ?
51%
56%
42%
36%
45%
42%
39%
40%
35%
28%
37%
30%
41%
43%
34%
37%
39%
37%
36%
35%
"Cloud native" applications
Automation
Horizontal scaling
Hybrid environments
Vertical resource scaling
Service orientation
On-demand provisioning
Self service
Policy driven
Service broker
Substantial Impact Some Impact
Source - VMware 2013 CloudOps Transformation Benchmark
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Our Customers’ Challenge with the status quo
Fear
• Innovate today whilst keeping yesterday’s lights on
• Operating model not keeping pace with customer demands
• Unable to keep pace with competitors
Uncertainty
• How do we transform
• Where do we start – ‘we wouldn’t want to start from here’
• How do we justify/quantify the business value of options
Doubt
• How does this all fit in to our world
• Is this just all hype – is there really a risk of doing nothing (safe !)
• Who should we turn to for leadership and guidance
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Deploying SDDC Internally – The MI Programme
Launch of services like BT Sport ($2 billion
investment in sports media coverage)
Driving a new way of thinking, and a new level
of agility
Current solutions were process-bound
Silos risked being barriers to speed
Too focussed around infrastructure
vCloud Suite deployed onto vBlock
Transformation of operational processes
Organisation transformation where design and
operations functions merge (TSO)
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The Challenges with the Past
Development cycle times were too long and complex
Traditional markets placed less stress on IT vs today
Traditional IT models aren’t designed with agile in mind
Too silo focused, built around the infrastructure not tenants
Lack of clear end to end ownership
Desire to standardise everything
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BT’s Customers are Feeling this Challenge
Platform managing Air Cargo Logistics through UK airports
What:
• Ageing infrastructure, applications and support model
• End of life risk for service support and infrastructure
• Disproportionate FTE requirement vs market value of service
• Silo environment not leveraging economies of scale
• Need to provide an operational model that meets the customers needs
How:
• VMware Advisory Services lead engagement including PSO to drive both
Cloud Ops and Platform Architecture change
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BT’s Customers are Feeling this Challenge
Public Sector Organisation
What:
• Years of managing and collecting infrastructure (keeping lights on)
• A true museum of IT decisions past
• Data centre estate has grown organically
• Flow of information and data is restricted and slow
• Wants to move to private and public cloud…..but how?
• Security standards high internally – authentication of data
How
• Creating a strategy around the Software-Defined Datacentre. Building an ROI
model around that transformation that allows the value of technical and
operations management transformation to be quantified and then realised.
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VMware Advisory Services Customer Example
Great investment in VMware
One IT Organisation – Done ?
Reality still silos for teams
Tactical tooling, no dashboard
Automation means scripts
All staff ITIL focused
Self Serve = Anarchy ?
Want benefits of Cloud
Continued single platform model
Continued integration work
Cross functional teams
CIO dashboard capability
vCloud Suite vCAC Automation
Focus on Cloud Ops Functions
Self Serve = Control
Achieving the benefits of cloud
EMEA Insurance Company
TODAY
EMEA Insurance Company
TOMORROW
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VMware Advisory Services Customer Example
• 20% virtualized
• Now building Cloud Strategy
• Significant compliance issue
• 90% of changes non-standard
• Service Catalogue of ‘everything’
• Manual Processes everywhere
• High failure rate for deployment
• Infosec rules hampering agility
• 80% virtualized
• Now building Cloud Strategy
• Automated Compliance
• Move to a templated standard
change model
• Consolidated Service Catalogue
• Automation of key processes
• Increased ‘Right First Time’
• Infosec supported policy changes
Global Financial Services
TODAY
Global Financial Services
TOMORROW
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Why Tackle This – the Numbers Speak for Themselves !
1.2
1.5
2.2
3.1
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
4.00
5 or Less 6 to 10 11 to 15 16 or more
Overa
ll R
OI
(Avg
1.6
2)
Number transformation Areas (Avg 6.2)
Source - VMware 2013 CloudOps Transformation Benchmark
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History Is Littered with Those Who Ignored a Trend….
Thanks - Simon Wardley
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Key Takeaways
There is a huge space here for focus
• Multiple use cases, multiple transformation points
Use case matters
• Required transformation highly variable, dependent on context
IT Ops Transformation
• Necessary – cloud technology/tool value unlocked by Ops Transformation
• Valuable – more transformation highly correlated with greater ROI
• Heuristic - views change after transformation. We can learn from success.
Transformation drives value in multiple areas – agility, cost, quality
But “keeping the lights on is still job #1 in cloud era
No single prescription – like with server consolidation
via virtualization
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Questions?
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Operations Transformation –
Expanding the Value of Cloud Computing
Ed Hoppitt, VMware
Phil Richards, British Telecom Plc
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#OPT4689
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