Govern Your Cloud: The Foundation for Success

1. GOVERN YOUR CLOUD:
THE FOUNDATION FOR
SUCCESS
Mike Mandeville
Solutions Architect, Cloudreach

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Govern Your Cloud
The Foundation for Success
Presented by: Mike Mandeville

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Agenda
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Our Experiences
Key Challenges
Cloudreach Methodology
Governance Framework

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Context of this presentation
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Governance implies control and
oversight over policies, procedures,
and standards for application
development, as well as the design,
implementation, testing, and
monitoring of deployed services.

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Case Study: Azure Greenfield Deployment
Multimedia Conglomerate
● Our customer was a
large multimedia
conglomerate in the
early stages of
utilizing Azure for
one of their projects.
They were looking
for a safe, repeatable
process that could
be used on future
projects as well.
● A cost effective and
optimised solution
was built within
weeks
● The solution is
easily scalable and
reusable, providing
agility to this
project, as well as
similar efforts
● Create a series of
Azure Resource
Manager templates
that would serve as
the base image for
similar future
development efforts
Project Quick Facts Activities
● Work with technical
stakeholders to
develop a templated
design that
provided enough
flexibility to be
reused
OutcomesSolution
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Case Study: Azure Migration
Global Consultancy
● The customer was a
major global
consulting
organisation, looking
to migrate a series of
applications into
Azure.
● We created the
framework for
application
deployment and
management in
their cloud
environment
● Define a sustainable
governance and
management
framework to fit
their unique
business
requirements
Project Quick Facts Activities
● Discovery session
with the customer to
educate around
Azure’s capabilities,
and uncover
business
requirements
OutcomesSolution
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Key Challenges when using Cloud
The Cloud is great, but comes with challenges
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● Managing Users
● Accountability for Resource Creation
● Reporting and Auditing
● Managing and Tracking Spend

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Cloudreach Methodology
At Cloudreach we believe that adoption of a
strong governance system for cloud
environments is critical to ensure the security,
integrity and cost management of cloud-based
assets. To this end we have developed the
Governance Framework methodology.
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Governance Framework

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What is it?
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“IT” control all access
and provision all
cloud services
User Teams have
console access and
deploy as they like
Level of User Access
Most organisations target operating model will fall in-between the two extremes
Limited Service
Catalogue
Items Only
Cloud
Management
Portal
Restricted
Access via Roles
Automated
Policy
Enforcement
Only
Most
Restrictive
Least
Restrictive
Which one is right for us?
How will teams consuming cloud services access these services and what level of control will
be enforced on them?
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Creation & Implementation of a Governance Framework
How do we implement it?
Implementation
Phase 1 Phase 2
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Thank You
Mike Mandeville
Solutions Architect
mike.mandeville@cloudreach.com