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Cloud basics #1
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Cloud basics #2
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AWS prerequisites
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Enjoy!
Cloud governance dwells a lot on managing your cloud operations wherein enterprises try to combine native tools with cloud management platforms and cloud API’s. Broadly these tools are Operations, DevOps or Governance (read policy) based.
Most enterprises journey into cloud in a hybrid multi-step process. This involves having their systems and processes spread across several public clouds, portions in legacy data center and private clouds. One of the expectations from the cloud team supporting these multi-cloud environments is to present a XaaS experience. I.e. allow many self-serving portals to Developers, Managers and Executives as part of newly expanded IT support.
In selecting your cloud management strategy, consider the following:
Technology professionals see their Cloud journey as an ever-changing opportunity to fine tune data-computing workloads for performance, system, costs, availability and energy efficiency. The decision process is no longer an IT department prerogative but rather a corporate user call with a credit-card and ‘I want what I want’ intent.
Most IT enabled organizations have a support division which provides centralized services for cloud provisioning. Their division’s success can be measured by knowing how metered resources were strategically and tactically placed or replaced due to consolidation, upgrades or decommissioning.
Below diagram depicts few scenarios for optimization opportunities.
Most of us would be interested in an innovative, secure and cost-effective way to run IT services without disrupting business operations, and improve employee productivity. The Cloud has enabled organizations to start thinking differently about infrastructure. Getting to rapidly provision and release IT resources with minimal management support is becoming easy and self-serving among service providers.
Moving your application to the cloud is little more than lift-n-shift. To be cloud-ready we want applications to be separable on compute and storage resources. And to contain automation characteristics, we want to look for any anti-patterns like stateful machines, or vertical scaling requirements and appropriately modify application architectures.
Traditional workloads lack tolerance to any downtime and tend to scale-up than scale-out. Cloud workloads tend to be distributed, have fault tolerance built-in and tend to scale-out (horizontal scaling). Thus any application needs to be pattern-matched to be deploy-able in a cloud ecosystem.
Since beginning of 2010, basic cloud models like Private, Public and Hybrid have been well understood by organizations. What seems apparent but should not be is a tendency to marginalize these three models. Your cloud adoption should have some Chaos i.e. a blend of Private, Public and Hybrid to thrive and derive benefits.
Most IT enabled organization’s have a support division which provides centralized or shared IT services like Exchange, SharePoint etc. As they embark on their cloud journey, they are faced with a continuous challenge of profiling applications for cloud readiness, understanding impact of orphaned IT assets in their data center and getting into a holy-grail of better-faster-cheaper way of delivering services using a Cloud.
One way to best address Business requirements is to right size a mix of on-premise, hosted and hybrid solutions that will cater to your organizations cost and security objectives along with its psychological temperament.
Office of the CIO can derive a blue-print by: