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David.Linthicum@cloudtp.com / Senior Vice President / May 6, 2013
State-of-the-Art Cloud Platforms

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As cloud computing evolves, there are new trends and patterns that begin to
become interesting. In other words, why do we care about cloud computing? Also,
where do we think things are going? In this session we’ll address the forward
looking view of cloud computing platforms. What to expect. How you can take
advantage today.
Introduction

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• Current ways of looking at cloud computing are too broad and too limiting at the
same time.
– No good categorization of sub-patterns.
– No definition around where things are going, more so than where they have been.
The Problem

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• There seems to be an increasing
overuse of cloud computing
concepts as saviors for all past IT
mistakes.
• Pushing cloud computing as the way
to solve all, or even
most, computing problems reveals
those who make such statements as
less than credible.
Why I’m speaking out…

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Architecture?
Technology?
Use cases?
What will it be soon?
So, what is cloud computing?

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From Hype to Growth

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Data is the “Killer App” for Cloud

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Touchpoints of a Conversation Around Big Data

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• Data aggregation in the cloud
for common analytics within
verticals.
• Combining enterprise data into
common data sets.
• Critical BI.
Big Data Trends

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PaaS Layered On IaaS
IaaS
PaaS
Virtual Machines Provisioning Metering
Storage Network
Guest OS
Application ServerLoad Balancer Web Server Application Services
Limited Visibility / Control
Source: JP Morganthal

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Purpose Built PaaS
IaaS
PaaS
Virtual Machines Provisioning Metering
Storage Network
Application ServerLoad Balancer Web Server Application Services
No Direct Access
Business Services

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Integrated Services Infrastructure
Provisioning MeteringStorage Network
Application RuntimeDatabase Application ServicesWeb Server
Provisioning MeteringStorage Network
Application RuntimeDatabase Application ServicesWeb Server
GovernedDistribution

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NIST defines cloud computing as a set of characteristics, delivery
models, and deployment models
 On-demand self-service
 Ubiquitous network access
 Resource pooling
 Rapid elasticity
 Pay per use
5 Characteristics
3 Delivery Models
 Private Cloud
 Community Cloud
 Public Cloud
 Hybrid Cloud
4 Deployment Models
 Software as a Service (SaaS)
 Platform as a Service (PaaS)
 Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS)
NIST Definition of Cloud Computing

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• Software as a Service (SaaS)
– Applications as a Service
– Utilities as a Service
– Connected and Disconnected
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
– Design as a Service
– Process as a Service
– Testing as a Service
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
– Database as a Service
– Management as a Service
– Middleware as a Service
– Integration as a Service
– Information as a Service
• …And more.
Delivery Models Morphing

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Security-as-a-Service
Storage-as-a-Service
Integration-as-a-Service
Database-as-a-Service
Information-as-a-Service
Process-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service
Application-as-a-Service
Management/Governance-as-a-Service
Testing-as-a-Service
New Stack Emerging

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• The ability to expand storage quickly, and at a lower cost.
• DevOps, around the use of PaaS.
• Large and highly expandable data systems.
• SaaS-delivered enterprise applications.
• New or small business support.
• High performance computing on-demand.
• Office automation applications.
What Works in the Cloud

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• Most legacy system migrations.
• Systems that require a high degree of
security.
• Systems that are subject to a lot of
regulatory control.
• Systems that need to be tightly integrated
with local systems and data.
• Enterprises that have made a significant
investment in hardware and software.
• Enterprises with substandard network
infrastructure.
What Does Not Work in the Cloud

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Cloud Computing is Becoming Systemic

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• Buzzword “cloud computing” is
absorbed into computing.
• Focus on fit and function, and
not the hype.
• Security moves to “centralized
trust” models.
• Centralized data becomes a
key strategic advantage.
• Mobile devices become more
powerful, but thin.
• The rise of the “composite
cloud.”
Evolution of Cloud Computing

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• Focus on the reorganization and
outplacement of data.
• Focus on PaaS, and service companies
that are good at PaaS.
• Focus on centralized trust, including
moving to identity management models.
• SOA patterns and technology find new
value in the cloud.
• Continued focus on mobile computing.
• Home clouds (e.g., iCloud) create a new
track of application and appliance
development.
• Rise of the “cloud aggregator.”
Where to Invest Your Time & Money

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The Operational Benefits Are Obvious

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Business Agility is the Objective

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Most Cloud-Based Systems Are Lacking Architecture

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Thus, many clouds are not meeting expectations.

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• Inefficient utilization of resources.
• Resource saturation.
• Lack of elasticity and scalability.
• Lack of security and governance.
• Frequent outages.
• Bad or no tenant management.
• Other very bad things.
The Results

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Hitting the Wall

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• Not understanding how to make architectures scale.
• Not dealing with tenant management issues.
• Not understanding that security is systemic, and impacts performance.
• Not understanding the proper use of services (Yes, that means SOA).
• Tossing technology at the problem.
• Listening to the wrong people.
Common Mistakes

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• No two multitenant architectures are alike.
• Needs to be effective in the context of the problem.
• Needs to leverage best architecture practices.
• Needs to practice isolation and protection.
The Multitenant Thing
“With a multitenant architecture, a software application is
designed to virtually partition its data and configuration so
that each client organization works with a customized virtual
application instance.”
Source: Wikipedia

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You have some choices
Source: http://vikashazrati.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/multi-tenancy-explained/

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ABCs of Multitenancy
Source: Steve Bobrowski

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Virtualization is Not Always a Requirement

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• Migration to a Cloud
– Business Systems
– Infrastructure
• Building on a Cloud (PaaS)
• Building a Hybrid Cloud
• Building a Cloud
– IaaS
– SaaS
– PaaS
Types of Cloud Architecture Patterns Emerging
Complexity

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• Migration to a Cloud
– Business Systems
– Infrastructure
• Building on a Cloud (PaaS)
• Building a Hybrid Cloud
• Building a Cloud
– IaaS
– SaaS
– PaaS
Types of Cloud Architecture Patterns Emerging
We’ll focus here
Complexity

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General Architecture Patterns to Follow

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1. Governance
2. Regulatory Compliance
3. Security & Identity Management
4. Business Continuity
5. Process and Services
6. Data Management
7. System Integration
8. Resource Skills & Knowledge
9. Application Readiness
10. Network Readiness
Enterprise Vulnerabilities - Assess your Risks
COMPLEXITY OF MITIGATING RISK
RISKTOORGANIZATION
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Build a solid foundation:
• Determine business drivers
• Understand: data, services, business
processes and system integration points
• Design a “cloud-friendly” enterprise
architecture roadmap that leverages
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Determine an integration strategy for
internal and external systems
• Outline a migration path for legacy
systems to the new architecture
Architecture Roadmap General Guidance

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“as-is”

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“to be”

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Deploy

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• Focus on the primitives.
– The best clouds are sets of low level services that can be configured.
• Data services
• Transaction services
• Utility services
• Leverage distributed components that are centrally controlled.
• Build for tenants, not users.
• Don’t lean too much on virtualization.
• Security and governance are systemic.
General Rules & Guidelines

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Use Case:
General Business System Migration to the Cloud

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• Break the system down to it’s component parts, understanding each part.
• Rethink the database, it’s typically a mess.
• Rethink the system as sets of services/API, watch the granularity.
– Data services, transaction services, utility services
• Create a security and governance plan.
• Consider the user interfaces.
• Consider device interfaces.
• Migrate only the components to the cloud that will provide the best value.
The General Idea

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• Good News:
– Most cloud platforms provide the tenant management features for you.
– Most cloud platforms manage the resources for you.
– The cloud platforms are getting better.
• Bad News:
– Security is still your problem.
– Application and service design is still your problem.
– Testing can be a hassle.
– Watch out for immaturity if standards.
Good News / Bad News

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Security&Identity
Management&ServiceGovernance
Data
Data Services/Abstraction
Transactional Services
Process Management
(BPMS)
Composites/Portals
Monitoring and Management
Rules Management
Reference Architecture

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Create the Information
Model
Ontologies
Understand Ontologies
Understand the Data
Data
Dictionary
&
Metadata
Catalog the Data
Data
Catalog
Legacy
Metadata
External
Metadata
(B2B)
Build Information Model
Information
Model

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Data

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Create a Service Model
Candidate
Services
Understand Services
Information to Services
Services
And
Information
Build Service Model
Service
Model
Data
Catalog
Information
Model

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Data

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Source: Microsoft

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Source: Microsoft

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Create a Process Model
Candidate
Processes
Understand Processes
Services to Processes
Services to
Processes
Build Process Model
Process
Model
Data
Catalog
Information
Model
Service
Model

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Data
Process Management
(BPMS)
Composites/Portals
Rules Management

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Source: Activevos

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Create a Governance Model
Defined
Policies
Define Policies
Design Policies
Policy
Designs
Implement Policies
Governance
Model
Process
Model
Information
Model
Service
Model

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Security&Identity
Management&ServiceGovernance
Data
Process Management
(BPMS)
Composites/Portals
Rules Management

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Select Platforms and Deploy
Processes, Services, and Data
to Platforms.
Candidate
Platforms
List Candidate Platforms
Analyze and Test
Candidate Platforms
Test
Results
Select Target Platforms
Target
Platforms
Process
Assignments
Service
Assignments
Data
Assignments
Deploy to
Target Platforms

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• Cloud-based roles and org
• Workload centric resource models
(e.g., e-mail)
• Co-sourced staff
• Automation & self service
• Consumption-based charge-back
models
• Mature service framework to
manage service-centric model
• Pervasive virtualization
• Converged architecture
• Federated workloads
• Pools of resources
• Achieving the end-state requires significant transformation
Readiness: People, Process & Technology
Enterprise IT Cloud
TECHNOLOGY
• Complex
• Expensive
• Inflexible
• Siloed
PROCESS
• Little infrastructure automation
• Services allocated to LOB or
application owner
• ITIL-based services frameworks
loosely applied
PEOPLE
Organizational silos of
• Infrastructure (compute, storage,
network)
• Application & management
• Security

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• Lower trust requirements enable flexible deployment
Trust Will Play a Central Role
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Risk
Compliance
Governance
Law
Standards
SLAs
Enforcement
Monitoring
Organization
Uncertainty
Exposure
Authorization
Accessibility
Recovery
Commercial
Personal
Strong Inhibitor, Higher Needs
Moderate Inhibitor
Non-Inhibitor, Lower Needs
Email
Non-repudiation
ArcherGRC
Web
Publishing
Application
Development
Transaction
Management
Content
Distribution
VoiceoverIP
PeopleSoft,
HRApplications
SupplyChain
Information
&Systems
Management

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Erik Sebesta, Founder & CATO, Cloud Technology Partners
In this role as Chief Architect and Technology
Officer, Erik helps enterprise customers begin and
complete enterprise-wide transformations to
cloud-based solutions. He facilitates sessions to
derive a strategic roadmap of prioritized
initiatives, well balanced with the organizations
capacity to achieve them. Erik has spent the past
2 years with 50+ CIOs and CTOs of F2000
companies on their cloud strategies. From his
recent entrepreneurial endeavors, he separates
the true benefits from the hype of cloud
computing.

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John Treadway, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners
Mr. John Treadway serves as Senior Vice
President at Cloud Technology Partners Inc. Mr.
Treadway serves as Vice President of Business
Development at Clearpoint Funding, Inc. He
served as Vice President of Business
Development of Virgin Money USA, Inc.
(formerly, CircleLending, Inc). He managed
strategic partnerships and business development
at CircleLending. He has more than twenty years
of sales, business development and marketing
experience in the financial services and
enterprise technology markets. He consulted on
marketing and business development in the
enterprise software market.

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Bernard Golden, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Enstratius
Bernard Golden has been called a “cloud
guru” and a “cloud computing rockstar.” He
is Vice President, Enterprise Solutions for
Enstratius, a leading cloud management
software company. In this role, he works
with large enterprises throughout the
world, helping them migrate to cloud
computing and gain its full benefits.
Formerly, was the CEO of HyperStratus, a
Silicon Valley cloud computing consultancy
that works with clients throughout the
world.

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Scott Bils
Partner, Everest Group
Randy Bias
Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling

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8:30 AM – 9:45 AM Introduction to the Workshop and the State of the Art Cloud Platforms
Instructor: David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM Understanding IaaS Requirements, Design, and Performance
Instructor: John Treadway, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Panel: The Changing Nature of Cloud Platform Deployment
Moderator: David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners
Panelist: Rob Craft, Senior Director – Cloud, Microsoft Corporation
Panelist: Peder Ulander, VP of Product Marketing, Cloud Platforms, Citrix
Panelist: Jim Anthony, Vice President, Sales Engineering, Terremark
Panelist: Adityashankar Kini, Director, Stingray Engineering, Riverbed
Agenda

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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Creating Your Enterprise AWS Strategy/Architecture
Instructor: Bernard Golden, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Enstratius
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Panel: Are Cloud Standards Real?
Panelist: Bernard Golden, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Enstratius
Panelist: Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Next Generation IaaS, PaaS, and Database-as-a-Service
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Panel: The “Killer” Cloud Apps in 2014
Panelist: Thiru Suresh, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco
Panelist: Margaret Dawson, Vice President & Cloud Evangelist, HP
Agenda

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2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Best Practices for Application Migration to Public Clouds
Instructor: Erik Sebesta, Founder & CATO, Cloud Technology Partners
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Panel: Deployment and Operating Planning that Works the First Time
Panelist: Bernard Golden, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Enstratius
Panelist: Scott Bils, Partner, Everest Group
Panelist: Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM What is the True Future of Cloud Computing?
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Closing Remarks – A Path Forward to the Cloud
Agenda

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