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Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
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Your Challenge
- IT departments of all sizes and industries are feeling the pressure to be more cloud-like, but the cloud itself is still a work in progress and success is not yet widespread.
- A cloud management solution does not magically create a cloud, but it can be the final capstone in building an infrastructure service based on a firm foundation of consolidation, standardization, and virtualization.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Don’t rush into the cloud. Instead make sure the foundational infrastructure is firm before trying to become the business’s own private Amazon.
- Start standardizing service tier deliverables to internal clients and building IT skill sets for better success in cloud building.
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Communicate your cloud position to the business.
- Maximize your success and credibility with a proposal that emphasizes the areas relevant to your situation.
- Prepare for key objections by leveraging the experiences and insights of industry peers that have been through this battle.
- Cloud management is a capstone that enables orchestration, automation, and end user self-service.
- Increased virtualization leads to greater benefits, but you should only start focusing on cloud management when the virtual infrastructure is advanced and management capabilities are mature.
- Some cloud features are already established. The baseline must-haves include performance monitoring, role-based access, self-service, and cost accountability.
Get to Action
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Decide when to invest in a cloud management solution
Transform utility infrastructure into a cloud service with cloud management solutions.
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Focus efforts at this stage of the cloud initiative
Maximize the potential for success before investing significant effort and money.
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Document IT's position on the cloud
Set expectations for the internal cloud.
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Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
Build an Optimized Infrastructure-as-a-Service Internal Cloud
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
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- Storyboard: Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
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- Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Vendor Shortlist Tool
- Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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1. Get the Most out of Server Virtualization
Develop a strategy to move infrastructure from a virtual fantasy to a virtual reality.
Develop a strategy to move infrastructure from a virtual fantasy to a virtual reality.
2. Vendor Landscape: Server Virtualization
Server virtualization continues to drive value in infrastructure consolidation and management while laying the foundation of private and public computing.
Server virtualization continues to drive value in infrastructure consolidation and management while laying the foundation of private and public computing.
3. Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
4. Leverage Server Virtualization for DR Affordability and Agility
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
5. Build an Optimized Infrastructure-as-a-Service Internal Cloud
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
6. Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
7. Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
8. Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
9. Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
10. Vendor Landscape Plus: Cloud Orchestration
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
