In this presentation, Peter Job, CEO of Intergence, will provide the audience invaluable tips and best practices as to what companies should be implementing and considering before migrating to the cloud. Implementing health checks such as this can prevent serious problems from occurring in the Cloud once migrate; problems that can often go undetected due to often a lack of control, understanding and visibility within the Cloud.

1. Essential health checks before jumping
to the Cloud :
Six steps to Cloud heaven
Peter Job, CEO Intergence
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2. Corporate Overview
• Established in 2003, based in Cambridge &
Dubai
• Serving clients in the UK, Middle East and
Europe, particularly within financial services,
TMT and Education markets
• Our aim is to help clients achieve optimised,
seamless and secure IT infrastructures
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3. Corporate Overview
Consulting
- Aligning to IT Business Strategy
- Programme leadership
- Optimisation of critical
infrastructure and applications.
Managed Services Resourcing
- Managed Sourcing; - Augmentation of client staff
Deliver specific work packages or - Provision of specialist skills
projects
- Managed Services;
IT Optimisation
Intergence, experts in IT Optimisation
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4. Agenda
• What are the real benefits of Cloud?
• It’s all about the user!
• Cloud migration essentials
• The Six Steps to Cloud heaven
• The Intergence Methodology
• Case Study
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5. What are the real benefits of Cloud?
Improve industry
Improve productivity
competitiveness
Reduce costs
Offer
more options
Productivity
Quick reactions
to market conditions
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6. It’s all about the User
• The aggregation of marginal gains!
• Forrester Total Economic impact study- Productivity gains
were 2.5 times the value of the cost savings
• We shortened the development time of our product
Hyperglance by 40% by using Cloud development Apps
• Know your users, Measure their experience and apply
marginal gains
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7. The pieces which everybody forgets
• The business case
• The song remains the same- best practice
• You can’t manage what you can’t measure
• You can’t measure what you can’t see
• Process of continuous
improvement
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8. Six steps to Cloud heaven
Obtain
Mature feedback
Business Due Plan the Optimised
Migration
the and
IT
Case Diligence implement
process
actions
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9. The First three steps
1. Business buy in
- Write the business case for Senior management buy in
2. Due diligence
- Understand the processes and flow of applications
3. Plan the Migration
- Test small pilots
- Move logical segments into
the Cloud
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10. Final three steps
4. Mature the process
- Train internal Cloud operators
- Have good fail-over procedures
5. Obtain user feedback
- Act on the feedback!
- Constant communication with your users
6. Optimisation
- Use great analytics
- Continually gain user feedback
- Continuous business improvement
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11. Have a sound methodology
Business Service Service Service Conclusions
requirement Design deployment Analysis
gathering
• Define service • Service • Gather data • Recommendations
• Prioritise
objectives deployment to resolve
business
within • Examine technical issues
objectives
• Customer customer performance
analysis environment • Observations on
• Identify known
requirements • Interpret cultural,
issues
• Tuning of results commercial &
• Locations of service(s) contractual hurdles
• Discuss
Intergence to “predict &
solutions
devices where prevent”
appropriate philosophy
Data modelling & Service evaluation
IT infrastructure & Interpretation
Mapping
• Feed data into
Intergence • Analyse application
consultancy tool dependencies
• Identify critical apps • Identify
or assets across the weaknesses and
Infrastructure vulnerabilities
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12. Tracking performance as Cloud
deployment expands
• Good analytics
• Process
• Innovation- don’t be afraid to experiment
• Partner SLA’s- the 3rd way
• Continuous improvement
• Scaling ability of your management tools
• Provide a plumbing service not a spanner!
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13. Case Study:
A global information provider APAC
Bangalore New Deli
Beijing Osaka
AMERS Hong
Kong Seoul
Chicago
Jakarta Shanghai
Los Angeles Kuala
Mexico City Lumpur Singapore
New York Tokyo Sydney
Sao Paulo Taipei
Toronto
EMEA
Athens Milan
Frankfurt Moscow
Istanbul Paris
Lisbon Stockholm
Madrid Tel Aviv
Johannesburg Warsaw
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14. Case Study:
A global information provider
• The customer wanted to check the integrity of their
applications and the quality of the service to the users
• It’s a premium content service- high value
• The brand is based on quality
• Service is offered globally
across the Internet
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15. Case Study: Solution
• Manage the user experience with
World class analytics
• We use the Cloud to monitor
and manage the service in
global locations
• We interpret the data
• Provide monthly reports
on trends and issues
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16. Summary
• Managing the Cloud is mainstream
• You need to have good process and methodology
• Engage with partners who have the experience
• Don’t be afraid to innovate
• The user will be the ultimate judge of the service!
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17. Thank you for listening
For more information, please contact:
pjob@intergence.com
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