bmc/forrester your cloud future is here webinar
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Webinar presentation materials discussing results from the Forrester survey of 300 IT and Cloud professionals.TRANSCRIPT
Making Leaders Successful Every Day
Your Cloud Future Is Here
Dave BartolettiPrincipal Analyst, Forrester
July 24, 2013
How IT Can Embrace The Business Demand For Cloud And Exceed Expectations
Herb VanHookDeputy CTO, BMC Software
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Introductions
Dave Bartoletti, Senior AnalystForrester ResearchCoverage: virtualization platforms, virtualization management, cloud transition, cloud management, cloud cost management, cloud application performance management, data center infrastructure
Herb VanHook, VP and Deputy CTOBMC SoftwareHerb spends much of his time with BMC customers, and focuses specifically on the technology, process and organization impacts and opportunities presented by Cloud and Data Center automation. He leads BMC’s overall Cloud strategy.
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Agenda
›State of cloud in 2013: Spending up & hybrid is here
›The business wants cloud whether IT delivers it or not
›Step up to the plate: IT is starting to take control of cloud
›Tear down the roadblocks to cloud
›Your cloud checklist: How to build and run the cloud your business wants
›Recommendations
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State of Cloud in 2013
We’re getting serious about cloud computing
Cloud Spending Is On The Rise In 2013
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Base: 1,281 North American and European business decision-makers (percentages may not total 100 because of
rounding); Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012
The business is ahead of IT in public cloud use
Public cloud
Public cloud
42%
50%
22%
27%
5%
7%
7%
5%
8%
5%
12%
5%
Not interested Interested but no plans
Planning to implement in year or more Plannng to implement in the next 12 months
Implemented, not expanding Expanding/upgrading implementation
“What are your firm’s plans to adopt the following forms of cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)?”
(Public cloud [pay-per-use hosting of virtual servers at a service provider, with shared physical services])
IT decision-makers
Biz decision-makers
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State of cloud in 2013: Forrester’s view
›Mainly driven by the business• Business often manages cloud itself
›Cloud is not just for dev and test anymore• Business-critical workloads moving to cloud
›40% using public IaaS by end of 2013
›Private cloud interest growing rapidly• 46% of companies planning one in 2013/2014
›Your hybrid future is here today
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The business wants cloud
Whether IT delivers it or not
The business wants speed, self-service, and choice
Cloud’s elasticity and efficiency trump cost savings
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Lead the way to cloud, or risk becoming sidelined
Cloud makes the business less dependent on internal IT59%
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, April 2013
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IT steps up to the plate
Central IT recognizes the opportunity and starts to act
Developing a cloud strategy is a top-3 priority
Your hybrid data center future is here today
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Tear down the roadblocks to cloud
Complexity is the culprit. Automation is the way forward.
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The roadblock: IT sees too much cloud complexity
“Shadow IT” is a major contributor to overall IT complexity25%
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, April 2013
Supporting public cloud services adds to IT management complexity 54%
It will be difficult to provide the same level of management across both private and public cloud with existing tools and processes
62%
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The way forward: Standardization and automation
Agree that their IT management processes are “Highly Automated”
Less Than 1/3
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, April 2013
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Your Cloud Checklist
How to build and run the cloud your business wants
Learn from your peers
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Public Cloud Provider Responsibilities
Cloud Consumer Responsibilities
Fill the gaps left by the cloud’s “uneven handshake”
› Physical infrastructure (facilities, racks, power, cabling)
› Abstracted services (load balancers, firewall, DB)
› Basic security and availability (servers, storage, network b/w)
› Basic monitoring
› Your application
› Service catalog (categories, capabilities, configurations, and dependencies)
› Architectural views (e.g., scalability, availability, recovery, data quality, and security)
› Governance (who has authority/responsibility to make changes and how)
› Life-cycle management (birth, growth, failure, and recovery)
› Enterprise integration (identity management, access control, etc.)
› Testing, monitoring, diagnosis, and verification
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How to build the cloud your business wants
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What you need to operate a successful cloud
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Recommendations
› Stop treating the public cloud as your competition
› Craft a cloud strategy focused on incremental successes
› Rethink your IT management and operations processes with a hybrid IT portfolio in mind
›Make sure the business understands your cloud skills and success stories.
› Learn from cloud experts and solution providers.
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BMC’s Value Proposition for Clouds
Accelerate total IT velocityDramatically improve IT efficiency and effectivenessEnable hybrid / broker modelsSuperior solution architecture minimizes total costs and empowers service flexibility
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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
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Plan Build Run
• Define service offerings• Architect integrated cloud• Leverage hybrid resources• Expose cloud costs
• Provision complete cloud services• Place services intelligently in hybrid
cloud • Support infrastructure neutrality
• Optimize performance & capacity• Maintain configurations &
compliance• Integrate chargeback & change
processes
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The Difference with BMC Cloud Solutions
Model-drivenService Design
InfrastructureNeutral
Full-stackProvisioning, Deployment &Configuration
IntelligentProvisioning &
Workload Placement
Analysis-driven visibility and
control
Unified enterprise & cloud
management