Knocking on Heavens Door
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The document discusses key considerations for businesses looking to move operations to the cloud. It identifies the need to understand business needs, find a suitable cloud provider, and work with internal IT departments through the transition. Some quick wins for non-essential services are suggested initially. Hidden costs, technical challenges, and questions to ask providers are also addressed.
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Knocking on Heavens Door
- 1. Knocking On Heavens Door The business reality of doing business in the cloud.
- 2. Who Am I? AJ McKee Systems Manager for 10+ years IT Manager for 5 Consultant and contractor Founding Member of Rush Hour Analytics
- 3. Cloud Computing Identify Your Needs Locating a suitable provider Working with your IT department Hidden Costs Technical Challenges Quick Wins Questions
- 4. Identifying Cloud Needs Examine all aspects of the business Talk to your teams and assess their needs Find the quick wins on non essential services first Identify your current virtual offerings Resist the BORG approach to assimilate everything Don’t be afraid of thinking outside the box
- 5. Finding a Provider Many providers already out there Amazon AWS Google App Engine Hosting 365 (Irish Too ) Sales Force Go Grid Level 3 Joyent
- 6. Finding a Provider Key to locating one is to let others do the work for you Research their offerings Find out what the developer community is saying PAYG Model is best at the start
- 7. Finding a Provider Avoid the cool factors Test, Test and then Test some more! Assess their Capabilities Identify Potential Legal Issues Identify all the costs, not just the compute unit cost
- 8. IT Departments & The Cloud Otherwise referred to as the FOG Change will always be resisted You have to get buy in from them Outline the disadvantages as well as the advantages to them
- 9. IT Departments & The Cloud Listen to them Give them all their own instance Ensure they KISS Assign each member a primary cloud role Act as secondary to another
- 10. IT Departments & The Cloud Treat Virtual Hosts as real machines Apply your ITIL best practices to the Cloud Appoint a SW Dev Liaison and Vice Versa Give them time to get their heads around things
- 11. IT Departments & The Cloud Documentation Documentation Documentation More Documentation Always make sure you have some
- 12. Costs All providers fairly upfront about costs Think in Pounds, Yen, Euro, Dollars but not cents! Bigger is not better! Do the math first then set yourself an Upper Limit
- 13. Costs Getting up and running can be expensive Your own infrastructure needs to work You will find you repeat certain things Its not Fire & Forget, once in, it must be maintained
- 14. Costs Backups are needed don’t rely on the provider Migration in costs Migration out costs more usually Security, Auditing, Disaster Recover etc, all need to be done in the cloud too.
- 15. Some Tech Challenges Data Persistence Redundancy DNS Sharing Data between nodes Node awareness Transferring large datasets quickly
- 16. Some Very Quick Wins Remote Monitoring Sharing Large Files instead of mailing them Run a WIKI Remote Hot Site
- 17. Examples Video Processing Story Site Training Systems Application Testing Systems Automated Build Systems Rush Hour Data Collectors
- 18. Questions
- 19. Contact [email_address] +353 (0)86 380 50 70 @ajmckee Google AJ McKee http://rushhouranlytics.com http://aj.mc-kee.com