Cloud Weekend '13 ITI Smart Village, Giza, Egypt 11 May 2013

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Cloud Deployment Strategy
Challenges to Consider
John Rhoton
Cloud Weekend, Giza, Egypt
11-12 May 2013

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Agenda
• Business/Financial
• Risk & Security
• Technical
• Process

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Business Case
• Sunk Cost
– Irrelevant?
– Political, Marginal Costs
• Return on Investment
– Calculated with NPV / IRR
– Payback period
• Cash Flow effects
• Revenue impact of flexibility and speed

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Cost Tradeoffs
Initial Ongoing
Private
Cloud
Capital Expenditures Licensing
Operations
Public
Cloud
Migration Subscription
Hardware, Software, Deployment, Administration, Support

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Hybrid Usage Profile
Base
Base Usage Peak
Spikes

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Risk Analysis
• Governance
• Risk
• Security
• Compliance

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Risk Mitigation Options
Data Leakage
Data Loss
Service Loss
Service Impairment
Damaged Reputation
Lock-In
Provider Assessment
Contract Negotiation
Encryption
Additional Backup
Multi-sourcing
Standardization

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• Personal observation
• Personal experience
• Insight
Employees Contractors
Partners Suppliers
• Public verification
• Contracts
• Compensation
Experts
Legal Counsel
Auditors
Public Scrutiny
Segmentation
Access controls
Encryption
Access controls
Shifting Trust
Adapt Corporate Culture

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Confidentiality
• Data Governance
– Data loss prevention
• Compartmentalization
• Encryption
Classify data, Select and Combine Options

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Compliance
Enforce Logical Barriers
Global Internet versus National Laws

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Business
Continuity
Eliminate
High
Probability
Low
Probability
High ImpactLow Impact
Resilience
Risk Treatment

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Technical Considerations
• Technologies
• Integration
• Availability
• Automation

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Lock-in vs. Cloud Stacks
• Servers
• Storage
• Network
• Hypervisor
• Operating
System
• Orchestration
Proprietary
Hardware
Proprietary
Software
Open
Source
Consortium
Driven
Balance ease with flexibility

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Integration
• Connectivity
• Application Compatibility
• Authorization and Isolation
Internal External
Users
Functions
Resources

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Identity Federation
Identity challenges
• Password
proliferation
• Weak
authentication
• Support costs
• User
productivity
Implement Identity Standards (SAML, SCIM)

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Redundancy
• Dimensions
– Physical
– Geographical
– Technological
– Organizational
• Horizontal Scalability
• ACID (Atomic Consistent Isolated Durable)
=> BASE (Basic Availability, Soft-state, Eventual consistency)
Architect for scale

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Automation
• Efficiency, Quality, Traceability, Compliance
• Scripting
• Workflow
• Sizing
• Best practice configuration
• Puppet, Chef, Capistrano
• OpenStack Heat, Juju Charms

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Process
• Culture
– Job Security Career Enhancement
– Political Power shift
• Skills
– Virtualization, Networking, Storage
– Linux, Python, Ruby, OpenStack, OpenFlow
• Procedures
– Workflow definition
• Project Management
– Rollout pace, schedule
– Continuous integration, continuous deployment

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Emotional vs Factual
• Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
• Increased Effort
– Evaluation
– Negotiation
– Integration
– Implementation
• Reduce CAPEX benefits
Plan early, think objectively

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Summary
• Build the business case around agility
• New trust model is inevitable
• Security challenges real but addressable
• Integration the biggest technical hurdle
• Don’t forget the human element!

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