Enterprise Cloud Transformation
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This document provides an overview of enterprise cloud transformation best practices. It discusses key aspects of cloud maturity models, alignment of IT and business strategy, agile cloud development practices, and software defined networking (SDN). Specific topics covered include virtualization maturity, cloud brokerage, application lifecycles, and network functions virtualization. Examples from AT&T and Virtela are given to illustrate real-world SDN implementations.
Enterprise Cloud Transformation
- 1. Enterprise Cloud Transformation Data Centre Transformation Best Practices Download this presentation: Slideshare.net/CBPN CloudBestPractices.tv - Webinars and videos
- 2. Enterprise Cloud Transformation Driving business transformation through Enterprise Cloud Computing ● An overview summary of Cloud computing strategy for enterprise organizations ● Simple reference model encompassing: ● Virtualization Maturity ● Cloud Brokerage ● Agile Cloud Development ● SDN ● Enterprise IoT ● Best practice references ● Vendor examples
- 3. Business IT Strategy Alignment ODCA - Business Strategy Enabled by Cloud Business Strategy Enabled by Cloud ● Maturity model to define business strategy linkage and plan capabilities ● Skills and team models - Who will drive implementation? ● Cloud adoption blueprints - How will this be achieved? ● Organizational change - Transforming the IT organization ● Governance and performance reporting ● Portfolio analysis and application/data categorization ● Rolling out the plan - Communications program Utility Provider Provide common infrastructure - Email, accounting,.. Reports to CFO, not involved in business strategy Process Optimizer Proactively optimize business processes Reports to business unit executives Revenue Enabler Technology-enabled market differentiating products Reports to CEO IT Process Institute - IT Strategy Alignment Self-assessment
- 4. Cloud Maturity Model ODCA Cloud Maturity Model Rev 2.5 From CMM Level 0.. ● Legacy apps all on dedicated infrastructure ● No use of IaaS ● No ALM processes ● Business context is missing ..to CMM Level 5 ● Cloud Aware Applications deployed according to governed business requirements, across public, private and hybrid platforms ● Federated multi-cloud via open standards ● Automated deployment and management Progressing maturity 1. Pockets of virtualization 2. Cloud procurement procedures established 3. Procedures automated through platform tools: Self-service etc. 4. Hybrid apps developed 5. Fully automated multi- cloud + Specific sub-models for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Capability areas ● Business and organization ● Technology - ○ Cloud Aware Application Framework ○ Cloud Service Catalogue & Service Delivery Orchestration ○ Standardized PaaS products ○ Federated Identity and Access Model ○ Integrated Security Management ○ Architecture for Federated Cloud Control System Cloud Roadmap
- 5. Enterprise Agility IT Process Institute Next Generation Data Centre Private and Hybrid Cloud success factors Server virtualization best practices ● New applications can be quickly deployed to vet business ideas with just enough resources ● Technology-enabled prototypes can be developed with a much lower sunk cost - Lower cost of failure ● Self-service enables developers to add value quicker ● Standardization of service catalogue components as foundation for agility ● Due to the ease and speed of virtual server provisioning, change process should be strengthened. Provisioning processes should be defined and enforced, and use standardized build images. ● More than 52% of top performers have automated provisioning across multiple Cloud environments, compared with only 13% of low performers who primarily provision to one environment ● More than 43% of top performers deploy new workloads such as development, test and prototypes to external Cloud environments first, then move back in-house ● Avoid the temptation to build a silo cloud that is single purpose or single technology - More than 64% of top performers have deployed a solution that can manage multiple virtualization platforms ● More than 70% of top performers had deployed ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tools and had standardized configuration management
- 6. Multi-Cloud Procurement ● Establish an online order workflow and approval process ● Establish a financial control framework that aligns to corporate cost centres & budgets ● Update corporate ordering portal with service catalogue ● Communicate to organization ODCA Cloud Procurement Master Services Agreement Cloud Brokering usage model Teraproc - Cloud Management Platform ● Service catalogue and self-service portal - Approval procedures ● Deployment templates ● Manage non-virtualized infrastructure (eg Unix) as well as virtualized ● Manage multiple platforms: Openstack, Cloudstack, .. ● Stop, start, migrate VMs ● Equipment location ● Project categorization for billing Gravitant - Cloud Brokerage Platform ● Cloud Management Platform + ● Cloud planning - Model application design scenarios, create cost estimates based on application analysis, compare vendor offerings ● Service Marketplace - Apps store of multiple Cloud providers ● Sophisticated billing and reporting Hybrid Cloud Outsourcing Righscale - AWS and VMware - How to architect Hybrid Cloud environments Microsoft Hybrid Cloud - Best practices encompassing: Virtual networking Directory federation
- 7. 7 TOSCA enables an eco-system where service providers can Compete and Differentiate to add value to Your Applications Each cloud provider competes by offering their “best fit” of unique capabilities, features, and services that match the application’s requirements Cloud Provider C Cloud Provider B TOSCA supports automated matching of application requirements to provider capabilities Portable Choice of Provider that “best fits” your application • Avoid the “lowest-common denominator” approach… Choice Best Fit TOSCA App • TOSCA Apps can be designed to be portable to any cloud (including hybrid) that meets the application’s requirements Cloud Provider A
- 8. TOSCA enables flexible movement between different clouds Application / Service InitialDeployment TOSCA Cloud Service Templates enable … 8 TOSCA Templat e Cloud Provider A Cloud Provider C Freedom to respond to changes in business needs and regulatory demands WebApp Database • Cloud providers to match application requirements while still offering unique solutions • Automated application movement between Clouds without typical migration pains
- 9. 9 TOSCA Portable Cloud Application TOSCA reduces application complexity Enabling TOSCA applications to be portable to different infrastructures Application Requirements TOSCA Orchestration TOSCA Service Template Stor age Compute 1 DB Comput e2 Ap p Ne tw ork Scaling Policy Ring Networ k KVM KVM KVMKVM KVM KVM Cloud Provider C Cloud Provider B PowerVM SSDPowerVM SSDPowerVM SSDPowerVM SSDPowerVM PowerVM RDMA Networ k Cloud Provider A 10 Gb Networ k X86 VM HDDX86 VM HDDX86 VM Infrastructure Capabilities by expressing application requirements… independently from cloud provider Capabilities… & OptimizationAutomatic Matching
- 10. Agile Cloud Development IT Process Institute Optimizing Application Lifecycle Management Change Configuration Adopt a Development-to-Release Lifecycle An end-to-end process , where top performers: ● Lower downtime and release impact and rollback rates ● Higher change success rates and incidents fixed within SLA ● Jointly defined by key development and ops personnel ● Establish feedback process from production to development, adapt to exceptions Key performance drivers ● Release scheduling and rollback ● Process culture ● Process exception management ● Pre-release testing ● Standardized configuration management ● Change linkage ● Controlled production access From Stackify - Defining the Ops in Devops
- 11. DevOps Puppet Labs State of DevOps Report (Developed with IT Process Institute) Leverage Tools and Automation “Jointly defined by key development and ops personnel” In their white paper ‘State of DevOps report Puppet Labs introduce the broad aspects of DevOps, such as the organizational and personnel aspects, and how they can be improved through the right tools that encourage ‘high performance’ workflow patterns. ● 5-7x times more productive than their non-high performing peers. ● 14x more changes, with one-half the change failure rate with 4x higher first fix rates ● 10x shorter Severity outages times. ● 4x fewer repeat audit findings, ● 5x more likely to detect breaches by an automated internal control ● 8x better project due date performance!
- 12. • Network devices, like switches and routers, have two aspects: • a data plane, comprising the facilities available on the device to forward data traffic, and • a control plane, comprising the protocols that decide where and how to forward data traffic • Both control and data planes reside on closed device • Management software interfaces with each network device individually to form a complete picture of the network, and to configure its operation Software Defined Networking
- 13. Software Defined Networking • Software defined networking decouples the control plane from the data plane • the data plane continues to operate on the device to forward data traffic • the control plane resides outside as a separate software entity on a server on the network • Network control is centralized and abstracted, resulting in its simplification • Management software has only to deal with one interface point in order to get a complete picture of the network, and configure network operations
- 14. What is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)? • NFV introduces hardware virtualization to network elements like server virtualization did to data centers • Network functions (router, firewall, load balancer, etc.) that currently run on discrete appliances become virtual machines / applications that run on multi-use/“commodity” platforms • The pay-off is similar as server virtualization, simple, distributed and easy to scale. • Over time, most network elements will be added to the Cloud model, much like applications move to IT clouds. Source: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Network_Function_Virtualization_or_NFV_Explained
- 15. SDN Examples AT&T - Domain 2.0 white paper ● Large-scale telecommunications network ● Virtualizing all aspects of network control Virtela - Vendor solution ● Specific scenario of back-hauled Internet access (90% of enterprises) ● Poor performance for Cloud apps like Salesforce.com, Google Apps, etc. ● Provides ‘Cloud Ready Network for Branch Offices’ - Virtual overlay networking to accelerate app delivery ● Enables local Internet access for faster performance ● Utilizes SDN functions to eliminate need for local branch office infrastructure
- 16. IoT Smart Cities Bristol to work with NEC to build smart city platform “The Bristol is Open project, which formally launches on 10 March 2015, aims to create the world’s first open, programmable city to support smart services around transport, environmental, health and community issues.” Combines SDN (Software Defined Networking) with Open Data and Smart Applications to form a ‘CityOS’ Bristol has already opened up 200 data sets on traffic flows, energy use Smart City OS Sir Mark Walpot proposes we are on the verge of a new technological revolution, offering huge economic potential for the UK. Will provide an innovation platform for the ‘Future of Cities’. Real-Time Open Data, combined with Cameras and sensors, along with Adaptive systems, for intelligent traffic solutions. UK Smart Meters 50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World - Smart parking, waste management, earthquake detection, portable water monitoring, …. EU funding and research
- 17. Devices Network Middleware Applications Enterprise IoT Reference model ● Embedded programming ● Device control ● Wireless connectivity ● Provider APIs ● Legacy app integration ● Workflows that work with devices ● Solution design
- 18. Devices Network Middleware Applications Enterprise IoT Vendor solution suite: Seecontrol ● Library of device connectors ● Firmware distribution and device commands ● Physical device track and inventory control ● APIs for popular cell carriers and LBS ● REST and SOAP APIs ● APIs for enterprise apps: CRM, ERP, .. ● Virtualizes products into Cloud apps ● Apps store: Turnkey apps and solution templates ● Vision like interface for model driven solutions ● Supports input of predictive learning algorithms Complete suite - SaaS or Cloud-hosted
- 19. Devices Network Middleware Applications Enterprise IoT Vendor ecosystem: Intel ● Ethernet controller ● XMM modem for 2G/3G/LTE ● Embedded OS - Windriver ● Embedded security - McAfee encryption ● Identity authentication ● Commodity hardware: Virtualized services ● Intel Open Network platform ● SDN APIs: Open Flow, Open vSwitch ● Wind River Intelligent Network ● Qosmos ixEngine - IP flow control ● SaaS portal for API management and packaging ● API security and brokerage - OAuth, key management ● PCI-certified SaaS environment ● Mashery partners: Eg Netsuite Datacentre management (Openstack plugin)
- 20. Conclusion 1. Your entire enterprise estate, every single device and server, is programmable and controllable 2. Everything can be virtualized, managed and automated through a single platform Utility Provider Legacy apps on dedicated hardware - No flexibility Process Optimizer Virtualization maturity and brokerage PaaS standardization Revenue Enabler IoT Product Platform Mobile apps Michael Porter The Third Era of Competitive Advantage