Lawrence Sica, Cloud Architect for ICAP, will discuss the broker's cloud-first strategy, methodology for evaluating its global portfolio of legacy applications, approach to financial industry compliance and risk requirements in the cloud, and goal for self-service IT.

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Sept 18th 2013

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Using the Cloud in the Enterprise!
Lawrence Sica, ICAP, Cloud Architect

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About Me – Lawrence Sica!
• Cloud Architect
• Experience:
• 15 years experience engineering solutions
• Responsible for defining and implementing ICAP s
global cloud strategy.

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ICAP processes $1.3 trillion in trade
volume daily for clients.
Offices in 32 countries.
70 locations world-wide.
5000 employees world-wide.
20% of staff is in IT.

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Case One!Front End Downloads

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30 days start to finish
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Case Two "!Front End Preferences Server

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• Co-located Server - $$$$$
Moved to the cloud - $$

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Adopting the Cloud!

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Involve all stakeholders early.!
• IT
Compliance
Business

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Case Three!
ETC in the Cloud

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What is it?!
• VDI in the cloud
• Trading applications
• Starting with new customers

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• Desktop
Deployment
Connectivity

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• On-premises cost prohibitive
• Cloud allows growth organically with demand.
• Small number of customers to cover costs.
• Revenue Generating - not a cost center!

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Cloud First!!
But only sometimes.

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Services

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Defining Our Cloud Criteria!
• Technolo
gy
Compliance
Business
Risk
Impact
Cost

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No one definition!
• Case by Case Basis for Suitability

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Cost Management
Self-Service
Faster lifecycle
Easy prototyping
Transparency
Capacity Recovery
High Availability
Rapid Scaling

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The Right Tools are Critical to Success!

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Well suited for!
• Separation of duties
• Large IT Shops
• Self-service to non-IT
Not well suited for!
AWS Console is !
• Devops teams
• Small IT Shops
• Self-service to IT groups

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