Cloud services are critical sources of speed and agility, and have evolved beyond the simple benefits of cost reduction. Cloud helps companies profit from disruption by allowing innovation in both the front and back office.
This Digital Realty webinar features Michael Bohlig (@bohlig), KC Mares (@kcmares) and Forrester Principal Analyst Dave Bartoletti (@davebartoletti).
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1. 17 September 2014
State of Cloud and
the Data Center
Where we are, and
where we’re going
September 16, 2014
Featuring Dave Bartoletti,
Forrester Research, Inc.
2. Introducing today’s presenters:
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KC Mares
Product Marketing,
Digital Realty
@kcmares
Dave Bartoletti
Principal Analyst,
Forrester Research, Inc.
@davebartoletti
14. The bottom line: Cloud in 2015
1. Public cloud adoption continues to be driven by the business, not IT
• Empowered developers and business units are driving public cloud use
• Majority of cloud platform apps are elastic “systems of engagement”
• High developer adoption of IaaS; IaaS and PaaS markets merging
2. Top cloud challenges for 2015:
• Reliable, fast network performance for cloud applications
• Security and compliance (data sovereignty) concerns
• Cost optimization and cloud service brokerage models - rightsourcing
3. Hybrid cloud is now, not the future
• Most enterprise cloud apps will not be 100% in the public cloud
• The focus must be on integration and data sharing across locations
16. Solve for the three C’s with a mixture of
Data center solutions
• Capacity
– Public cloud solutions can
provide the quickest method
to serving short-term and
peak-capacity needs.
• Control
– Private clouds can provide
high security.
• Costs
– A mixture of public and
private cloud solutions can
meets the business needs at
the lowest costs over time.
17. Public clouds provide
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• Ability to quickly add capacity
• New and alternate back up and disaster recovery options
• Scale up to meet peak loads with minimal cost
• Packaged apps such as SaaS and Desktop as a Service
• Extending your virtual network
18. Private and internal
Clouds provide
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• Lowest costs for base loads
• Most control of security
and privacy
• Greatest control over
redundancy and uptime
• Customized solutions
• Highest management,
responsibility and resources
19. Hybrid clouds
Balance costs and benefits
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• Netflix grew with a large public cloud than merged into
hybrid solutions
• ESPN uses public cloud solutions for extreme peak
demands and private solutions to meet everyday
customer demands
• Development platforms on public clouds gain the benefits
of a larger platform for short-term testing and converted
to private for production
– Security is a keystone decision between public and
private platforms
20. Hybrid clouds
Provide flexibility
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• As workloads change, they can move between public and
private platforms
• Hybrid solutions can provide the lowest cost across all
geographies
• Hybrid solutions often balance lowest cost and flexibility
• Hybrid solutions evolve to meet changing data and
privacy laws and security requirements
21. When deploying
clouds
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• Create a solution for the
application and how it will be
utilized
• Think about the network and
how to achieve it at lowest
cost
• Determine how to Integrate
all systems
– Don’t rely only on SaaS
for your back up solutions
22. Look for strong SLAs for your
Mission-critical applications
• Uptime is critical for these apps
– Today, “always up” matters more than even a few
years ago
• Evaluate which applications are suitable for the cloud
and protect them with adequate SLAs
• Public cloud SLAs are often weak or nonexistent
• Create the right architecture and right level of
redundancy
• Consider private cloud instead
23. Plan for the management of all
Systems and applications
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• Set up systems to remotely
and centrally manage
different infrastructure
• Automate tasks, migrations,
back ups and redundancies
• Use same governance,
compliance and security
tools for internal and
external cloud solutions
24. Security of data and
network is critical
• Utilize platforms to minimize security risks and breaches
of essential data and operations
• Think about which solution(s) will best prevent and
recover from security breaches
– Consider on-site data backed up off-site, and off-site
data backed up to an on- and/or another off-site data
center
• Utilize solutions to meet country specific data sovereignty
requirements
25. Plan for movement
of big data
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• Moving data into and out of
cloud platforms and storing it in
cloud platforms can be more
costly
• Open-IX enables additional
peering and connectivity
• 10 US Internet Exchange
points are in DLR data centers.
– Global, networked data
centers allow anyone in a
DLR data center to connect
with nearly any cloud and
network provider for lowest
cost and latencies
29. Summary
• Consider combinations of public and private cloud
solutions plus dedicated data centers to create
comprehensive solutions that provide:
– Scalability and the opportunity for growth
– Higher performance and highest availability at the
lowest total cost
– More performance yet less complexity and a higher
quality of service
30. Q&A
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Presenters: Q&A Moderator:
KC Mares
Product Marketing,
Digital Realty
@kcmares
Dave Bartoletti
Principal Analyst,
Forrester Research, Inc.
@davebartoletti
Michael Bohlig
Director of Strategic Alliances,
Digital Realty
@bohlig
31. Thank you for participating in the
webinar.
Dave Bartoletti
dbartoletti@forrester.com
@davebartoletti
KC Mares
kcmares@digitalrealty.com
@kcmares