Peter Job speaks about the importance of ensuring your data centre is 'Cloud ready'. Peter will cover topics including: - Why companies must design and build for big data and cloud computing - Analysing and reporting data is key - The need for IT as a service - The importance of understanding your users

1. Positioning your data centre for Cloud
Computing
Peter Job, CEO Intergence
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2. Corporate Overview
• Established in 2003, based in Cambridge &
Dubai
• Serving clients in the UK, Middle East and
Europe, particularly within financial services,
TMT and Education markets
• Our aim is to help clients achieve optimised,
seamless and secure IT infrastructures
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3. Corporate Overview
Consulting
- Aligning to IT Business Strategy
- Programme leadership
- Optimisation of critical
infrastructure and applications.
Managed Services Resourcing
- Managed Sourcing; - Augmentation of client staff
Deliver specific work packages or - Provision of specialist skills
projects
- Managed Services;
IT Optimisation
Intergence, experts in IT Optimisation
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4. Agenda
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5. Agenda
• What are the real benefits of Cloud?
• Data centre trends 2012
• Data centre essentials
• 6 steps to Cloud heaven
• Intergence Methodology
• Track performances in the Cloud
• Case Study: Global Information provider
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6. What are the real benefits of Cloud?
Improve industry
Improve productivity
competitiveness
Reduce costs
Offer
more options
Productivity
Quick reactions
to market conditions
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7. Top 5 Data Centre trends 2012
• Telco’s buying data centre providers
• Data centres are being dispersed across different
locations
• Open standards e.g. “open compute”- Facebook
• DCIM- Data centre Infrastructure management
• Requirement for increasing compute- Unified
Communications, Big Data and BYOD
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8. Data Centre essentials
• The business case
• The song remains the same- best practice
• You can’t manage what you can’t measure
• You can’t measure
what you can’t see
• Process of continuous
improvement
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9. Six steps to Cloud heaven
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10. Have a sound methodology
Business Service Service Service Conclusions
requirement Design deployment Analysis
gathering
• Define service • Service • Gather data • Recommendations
• Prioritise
objectives deployment to resolve
business
within • Examine technical issues
objectives
• Customer customer performance
analysis environment • Observations on
• Identify known
requirements • Interpret cultural,
issues
• Tuning of results commercial &
• Locations of service(s) contractual hurdles
• Discuss
Intergence to “predict &
solutions
devices where prevent”
appropriate philosophy
Data modelling & Service evaluation
IT infrastructure & Interpretation
Mapping
• Feed data into
Intergence • Analyse application
consultancy tool dependencies
• Identify critical apps • Identify
or assets across the weaknesses and
Infrastructure vulnerabilities
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11. Build it right first time
• Have a clear business case
• Build on data centre best practices
• Model computer’s power based on applications & storage
requirements
• Application maturity assessments are key!
• Plan & manage your data flows using visualisation techniques
• Monitor and manage your users
• Use methodologies to track
and report on change
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12. Tracking performance as Cloud
deployment expands
• Good analytics
• Process
• Innovation- don’t be afraid to experiment
• Partner SLA’s- the 3rd way
• Continuous improvement
• Scaling ability of your management tools
• Provide a plumbing service not a spanner!
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13. Case Study:
A global information provider APAC
Bangalore New Deli
Beijing Osaka
AMERS Hong
Kong Seoul
Chicago
Jakarta Shanghai
Los Angeles Kuala
Mexico City Lumpur Singapore
New York Tokyo Sydney
Sao Paulo Taipei
Toronto
EMEA
Athens Milan
Frankfurt Moscow
Istanbul Paris
Lisbon Stockholm
Madrid Tel Aviv
Johannesburg Warsaw
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14. Case Study:
A global information provider
• The customer wanted to check the integrity of their
applications and the quality of the service to the users
• It’s a premium content service- high value
• The brand is based on quality
• Service is offered globally
across the Internet
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15. Case Study: Solution
• Manage the user experience with
World class analytics
• We use the Cloud to monitor
and manage the service in
global locations
• We interpret the data
• Provide monthly reports
on trends and issues
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16. Summary
• Managing the Cloud is mainstream
• You need to have good process and methodology
• Engage with partners who have the experience
• Don’t be afraid to innovate
• The user will be the ultimate judge of the service!
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17. Thank you for listening
For more information, please contact:
pjob@intergence.com
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