Most organizations have heard of the cloud, but not everyone is at the same stage on their cloud journey. This SlideShare overviews how to best leverage the cloud, the multitude of options and the typical stages of transition. Also outlined are the steps you can take to get where you want to go on your cloud journey faster and more efficiently.

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2. YOUR JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD
• Lower CapEx spending
• Easier budget management
• More reliable disaster recovery and
business continuity
• More responsive IT
• Better resource utilization
• Increased focus on innovation
The cloud offers potential business benefits
that have both IT and business leaders excited.
Achieving these goals requires planning.
This SlideShare will help you create an actionable plan for a successful journey to the cloud.

3. Denial
• The Cloud is not
for enterprises
• Security is not
good enough
Circumvent
• Cloudify legacy
hardware
• Packaged Private
Clouds
• Avoid the
conversation
Realization
• Falling revenue
due to current
infrastructure
• Undefined
roadmap
• Ability to respond
to customers
feeling pressure
• Budget shifts
(OpEx -> CapEx)
Adoption
• Cloud enablement
platforms
• Transition to as a
service
• Transition to Agile
and/or DevOps
• Include Hybrid IT
strategies
Cloud-Broker
• Multi Cloud
strategies
• Cloud first
strategy
• Application
centric – Agnostic
to platform
• Driving a cloud
roadmap
STAGES OF TRANSITION
THE CLOUD
Most organizations have heard of the cloud, of course.
But not everyone is at the same stage on their journey.

4. Denial
• The Cloud is not
for enterprises
• Security is not
good enough
Circumvent
• Cloudify legacy
hardware
• Packaged Private
Clouds
• Avoid the
conversation
Realization
• Falling revenue
due to current
infrastructure
• Undefined
roadmap
• Ability to respond
to customers
feeling pressure
• Budget shifts
(OpEx -> CapEx)
Adoption
• Cloud enablement
platforms
• Transition to as a
service
• Transition to Agile
and/or DevOps
• Include Hybrid IT
strategies
Cloud-Broker
• Multi Cloud
strategies
• Cloud first
strategy
• Application
centric – Agnostic
to platform
• Driving a cloud
roadmap
THE CLOUD
Most organizations have heard of the cloud, of course.
But not everyone is at the same stage on their journey.
STAGES OF TRANSITION

5. Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report
* There are many types of private clouds. This percentage would include variations like on-premises resources and a TierPoint hosted cloud.
THE CLOUD
95% or organizations are already in the cloud.
In fact, they are in several clouds
PUBLIC CLOUDS
1.8 Public Clouds on average
PRIVATE CLOUDS
2.3 Private Clouds* on average

6. Download the ebook:
Public, Private, Multi-Tenant or Hybrid: Which Cloud is Right for You?
Public Cloud Only Private Cloud OnlyHybrid Cloud
THE CLOUD
The majority of enterprises use a combination of public and private clouds.
67%
5%22%

7. 21%
38%
33%
8%
Experiment Non-critical use Full production Transformed IT
Level of Cloud Adoption
THE CLOUD
However, even organizations that are already in the cloud
may not be getting everything they can out of it.
Source: CompTia Trends in Cloud Computing, September 2016

8. THE CLOUD
The more you use the cloud, the greater the benefits.

9. Denial
• The Cloud is not
for enterprises
• Security is not
good enough
Circumvent
• Cloudify legacy
hardware
• Packaged Private
Clouds
• Avoid the
conversation
Realization
• Falling revenue
due to current
infrastructure
• Undefined
roadmap
• Ability to respond
to customers
feeling pressure
• Budget shifts
(OpEx -> CapEx)
Adoption
• Cloud enablement
platforms
• Transition to as a
service
• Transition to Agile
and/or DevOps
• Include Hybrid IT
strategies
Cloud-Broker
• Multi Cloud
strategies
• Cloud first
strategy
• Application
centric – Agnostic
to platform
• Driving a cloud
roadmap
THE CLOUD
From wherever you are to wherever you want to be…
Our goal is to help you get there.
STAGES OF TRANSITION

10. MAPPING OUT YOUR JOURNEY
• Business Case
• Skills Required
• Security Concerns
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Data and Application Readiness
• Migration Methods
On the next few slides, we’ll take you through a checklist
of discussion points for your next planning meeting:

11. BUSINESS
CASE

12. The first step on your journey is to gain
consensus between business and IT on
the objectives you want to achieve by
migrating to the cloud or increasing your
cloud-based IT resources.
TIP: Knowing your goals can help you
determine which cloud platform(s) are
best for you.
BUSINESS CASE
Why are we going to the cloud?
“The cloud journey doesn’t always yield
cost savings initially because there are a
lot of legacy applications that need to
get retooled to the new environment.”
— Tina DeBrass, Director of Cloud Services, Dell

13. SKILLS

14. SKILLS
Do we have the skills we need in-house to
manage our cloud migration and deployment?
Source: CompTia Trends in Cloud Computing, September 2016
TYPES OF SKILLS/ROLES COMPANIES HAVE
66%
INTEGRATION
SPECIALISTS
63%
SKILLS TO BUILD
PRIVATE CLOUDS
61%
DEPARTMENTAL
LIAISONS
58%
CLOUD
ARCHITECT
37%
COMPLIANCE
SPECIALIST

15. SKILLS
Do we have the skills we need in-house to
manage our cloud migration and deployment?
Source: CompTia Trends in Cloud Computing, September 2016
Blog:
Do Service Providers Have a Role in a Public Cloud Strategy?
WHILE CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS DON’T ALWAYS REDUCE
STAFFING, 48% OF RESPONDENTS TO THE COMPTIA STUDY
SAID THE CLOUD LET THEM MOVE AWAY FROM MAINTENANCE
TASKS TO MORE INNOVATIVE WORK.

16. SECURITY

17. SECURITY
Are security concerns (unnecessarily) holding us back?
Cloud computing is perceived as less
secure.To date, there have been very few
security breaches in the public cloud —
most breaches continue to involve on-
premises data center environments.
— Smarter with Gartner,Top 10 Cloud Myths

18. SECURITY
Organizations are often unprepared for today’s advanced security threats.
Download:
Cloud & Colocation: Which, Why, When
66%
PERCENT OF ORGANIZATIONS SAYING THEY ARE
“WELL PREPARED” OR EXTREMELY WELL-PREPARED:
55% 55% 47%
MALWARE DDoS
WEB APPLICATION
ATTACKS
RANSOMWARE

19. 1 Million Cybersecurity Job Openings in 2016 (Cisco)
SECURITY
And they lack the resources to manage security on-premises.
CYBERSECURITY TALENT IN HIGH DEMAND/SHORT SUPPLY
Demand is expected to rise to
6 million globally by 2019, with a
projected shortfall of 1.5 million.
— Michael Brown, CEO, Symantec Source: Forbes

20. • 70% of organizations say the
cybersecurity skills gap has had an impact.
• 54% claim a security event experienced in
the previous year was the result of the lack
of security staff or training.
SECURITY
And they lack the resources to manage security on-premises.
LACK OF SKILLED RESOURCES TRANSLATES INTO RISKS
TIP: If you want the control of a private cloud but need advanced security,
consider a hosted cloud or colocation arrangement with Managed Security.

21. BUSINESS
CONTINUITY &
DISASTER
RECOVERY

22. Factors Motivating Interest in Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
BUSINESS CONTINUITY & DISASTER RECOVERY
How can the cloud support our disaster recovery & business continuity plans?
Source: Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Emerging as Top IT Priority, IDG, 2015

23. DATA CENTER DOWNTIME
AVERAGE LOSSES IN 2016
OBSTACLES TO PLANNING
92% of organizations ranked outsourced disaster recovery as
a positive investment when comparing success to costs.
Business disruption – $256K
Lost revenue – $208.6K
End-user productivity – $138.2K
BUSINESS CONTINUITY & DISASTER RECOVERY
When time and money are obstacles, outsourcing disaster
recovery to the right cloud provider can provide greater returns
Source: Ponemon Institute: Cost of Data Center Outages 2016 Source: Spiceworks survey of U.S. IT professionals, March 2015.
Source: Computer Economics, 2015.
65
%
STAFF TIME / RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS BUDGET CONTRAINTS
64
%

24. DATA AND
APPLICATION
READINESS

25. 55%
Email
Financial Mgmt
CRM
Call Center
ERP
51%
37%
32%
26%
23%
DATA AND APPLICATION READINESS
Are our data and applications ready for the cloud?
Source: CompTia Trends in Cloud Computing, September 2016 Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD: 55% say a significant portion of
their application portfolio is not in
cloud but is built to be cloud-friendly.

26. Which applications in the cloud need to be
integrated back to our on-premises applications?
DATA AND APPLICATION READINESS
In the cloud environment, companies
tend to habitually adopt new software
to solve a problem but end up creating
additional work as they try to connect
these packages into legacy software.
This type of point-to-point integration
can ultimately slow down business and
cut into productivity.”
— Uri Sarid, Chief Technology Officer, MuleSoft

27. Engineered for the cloud
EASIEST TO MIGRATE
CANDIDATES FOR
REPLACEMENT
Which applications in the cloud need to be
integrated back to our on-premises applications?
DATA AND APPLICATION READINESS
Source: Technology in the Midmarket: Taking Ownership, Deloitte, August 2016
TIP: Applications that require extensive, customer integrations with legacy applications may
not be the best candidates for early-phase migration. Replacement should be considered.

28. MIGRATION
METHODS

29. What is the best method for migrating our existing assets to the cloud?
MIGRATION METHODS
TIP: Using a combination of methods is often the
best way to minimize disruptions to the business.
Rebuild Method
• New server provisioning
• Application install/
configuration
• Minimum outage required
Virtual Method
• X2V
• Moderate outage required
Forklift Method
• Leverage existing server
• Hardware contingency plan
• Longer outage required
Retire Method
• Applications are retired
• Hardware is
decommissioned

30. Here are a few more best practices and tips we’ve gathered
from doing hundreds of client cloud migrations.
MIGRATION METHODS
• Executive sponsorship is a must.
• Planning is 80% of the effort.
• Change management is critical to success.
• Day-to-day operations will be impacted.
Proper planning will help you minimize disruptions.
• An application-centric approach reduces risk and increases business ownership.

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GUIDE FOR
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32. ASSESSMENTS
• Build: Custom/Complex design
implementation management
• Build: On-going support models
• Design: Low level Architecture
• Plan: Detailing tasks with resource
assignments to schedule
MIGRATIONSROADMAP
TierPoint’s 3-phase migration services can help
you reduce your risks and achieve your objectives.
NEED A GUIDE FOR YOUR JOURNEY?
• Discovery: Data collection via
tools; inventory compilation,
workshops and physical audits
• Analysis: Normalization,
requirements traceability and
inventory baseline
• Design: Target State Architecture
• Design: Migration Architecture
• Migrate: Hands-on keyboard for
greenfield and logical app and data
• Migrate: Data Center or equipment
relocation
• Migrate: Data Seeding and transfer
services
• Manage: Transition to steady state

33. We enable businesses to:
Focus on their core competencies.
shift the technology and activities that
are outside of these areas to a managed
service provider.
Remain confident that they are driving
performance and managing risk.
Coordinate solutions across multiple
complex IT environments.
Architect hybrid environments
synchronizing Office 365 with on
premises Exchange.
TIERPOINT
MANAGED
SERVICES
TIERPOINT
COLOCATION
SERVICES
CUSTOMER
PREMISES
(Mission Critical Applications)
We help clients simplify their hybrid IT environments.
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YOUR JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD
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• 900+ professionals
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• Comprehensive solutions portfolio
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