The Big Win: Stop Playing Small-Ball with Your Cloud Strategy
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The document discusses how IT platforms have evolved over the past 10 years from taking weeks to deploy applications, to hours or minutes with self-service portals and automated orchestration. It argues that while cloud computing promises agility and cost savings, most companies are only realizing minor benefits ("small ball"). To truly transform their business, companies need to focus on optimizing the entire solution delivery lifecycle, embrace collaboration between developers and IT, and empower all users with advanced policy management across hybrid clouds. The document concludes by promoting the ServiceMesh Agility Platform as a way to transform the solution delivery lifecycle.
The Big Win: Stop Playing Small-Ball with Your Cloud Strategy
- 1. THE AGILE IT PLATFORM The Big Win Stop Playing Small-Ball with Your Cloud Strategy Dave Roberts Vice-President, Strategy dave.roberts@servicemesh.com Personal Twitter: @sandhillstrat Company Twitter: @servicemesh
- 2. ServiceMesh Corporate Background • Provider of enterprise-class “solution delivery lifecycle management” software for Fortune 500 / Global 2000 clients • Customers include some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies in: – Financial services – Health care – Consumer – Other IT-intensive industries • Global presence, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Austin, London, New York, Sydney, and Washington D.C. 3X revenue growth in 2010 3rd consecutive year of profitability 2
- 3. Why? 3
- 4. A Look Back at a Decade of IT Evolution 4
- 5. 10 Years Ago Total Time: ~12 – 16 Weeks Developer IT Department 1 Request 6 Installation and Configuration 7 Ready 4 Purchase Order 3 Approved 2 OK? 5 Shipment Manager Vendor 5
- 6. 5 Years Ago: Virtualization Total Time: ~1 Week Developer IT Department 1 Request 4 Create VM VM Provisioning 5 Ready Tool 3 Approved 2 OK? Manager 6
- 7. 3 Years Ago: Cloud Total Time: ~1 Week Developer IT Department 1 Request 4 Create instance Cloud Provisioning 5 Ready Tool 3 Approved 2 OK? Manager 7
- 8. 1 Year Ago: Self-Service Portal Total Time: ~1 Hour* Developer IT Department 1 Request 2 Create instance Self-Service Portal Cloud Provisioning 3 Ready Tool * M – F, 8:30a – 5:30p 8
- 9. Today: Self-Service Portal + Automated Orchestration Total Time: 5 minutes Developer IT Department 2 Request 3 Create instance Self-Service Orchestration Portal 4 Ready 1 Create service offerings 9
- 10. Conventional Cloud Thinking: 1 Cloud is cheaper. 2 Cloud is more agile. 10
- 11. All this is “small ball.” 11
- 12. Small Ball: Minor League Junior Varsity Doesn’t Really Matter 12
- 13. Technology Waves Capabilities / Business Value Incremental Improvement ~10 - 15 Years Intense Value Creation Time 13
- 14. Technology Waves 2010s: Cloud Capabilities / Business Value 1995: The Web 1980s: Personal Computing Time 14
- 15. Technology Waves 2010s: Cloud Capabilities / Business Value 1995: The Web 1980s: Personal Computing Fortunes are won and lost here Time 15
- 16. Technology Waves 2010s: Cloud Capabilities / Business Value 1995: The Web 1980s: Personal Computing Winners enforce the status quo Time 16
- 17. Lesson: Big value capture happens during rapid technology adoption 17
- 18. Value Capture: Market Share Revenue Profitability 18
- 19. Your Market Share Your Revenue Your Profitability 19
- 20. Think about the Web… 20
- 21. Winners: “Let’s use the web to change the way we engage with our customers and transact business.” 21
- 22. Losers: “Let’s buy a server and put up a home page.” 22
- 23. $37B revenue 23
- 24. Bankrupt 24
- 25. Agile IT and cloud computing are at least as transformational to enterprises as the web. 25
- 26. But, most of us are playing small ball. 26
- 27. 1 Problem: Narrow View IT Department 27
- 28. Machine and operations arbitrage is thin. 28
- 29. vs. 29
- 30. IT Operations Automation ≠ Business Agility. 30
- 31. Solution: Focus on the 1 Solution Delivery Lifecycle Customer Sales Marketing Business Developer IT Department Analyst Business Unit Optimize the overall Solution Delivery Lifecycle 31
- 32. Lowering cost/effort/hassle results in more experiments. 32
- 33. Fast fail 33
- 34. Test: Did you alter your company’s earnings per share? 34
- 35. Test: Did you alter your company’s earnings per share for the better? 35
- 36. Problem: Generic Offerings, 2 Limited Synergy Developer IT Department Self-Service Portal 1 Create service offerings 36
- 37. “You can have any color you want as long as it’s black.” 37
- 38. Business units are tempted to bypass IT. 38
- 39. 2 Solution: Embrace Collaboration Developers Application Architect Product Manager IT Department 39
- 40. Problem: Diverse User Base with 3 Diverse Hybrid Clouds Creates Governance Holes Development Hybrid Clouds Self-Service Portal Product + Planning Orchestration Operations 40
- 41. Simple role-based access control is not enough. 41
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- 43. Solution: Advanced Policy 3 Management Development Hybrid Clouds 2 Enforcement and Audit Product Planning Operations 1 Create policies Audit / IT Security Governance 43
- 44. Your Challenge 1 Focus on the Solution Delivery Lifecycle. 2 Embrace collaboration. Empower all users with advanced policy 3 management. 44
- 45. Big finish Cue the blatant product plug… 45
- 46. ServiceMesh Agility Platform™ Transforming the Solution Delivery Lifecycle Build Share Dev, Arch, Proj Developers Mgrs, Admin & Architects Agility Designer™ Agility CenterPoint™ Plan Assemble, validate, publish Subscribe, collaborate, assess Run Analysts and Project Mgrs Dev, Operations, Identity & Admin Admin & Operations Agility Planner™ Agility Manager™ Inventory, profile, prioritize Agility Access™ Provision, manage, monitor Identity Federation Internal SaaS External Secure PaaS Providers Private Providers Private Public Proprietary & Confidential 46
- 47. Thank you Dave Roberts Vice President, Strategy Email: dave.roberts@servicemesh.com Web: http://www.servicemesh.com/ Company Twitter: @servicemesh Personal Twitter: @sandhillstrat 47