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Digital Transformation Delivered

Gordon McKenna CTO – Inframon

Microsoft MVP – Cloud and Datacenter

Welcome to the Consortium:

Digital transformation delivered

the breadth of a GSI,

the depth of a boutique

ABOUT INFRAMON

Inframon helps your customers move quickly and effectively

to the Azure platform, increasing consumption of cloud

technologies over the longevity of their agreement.

• A Microsoft Cloud transformation specialist

• Experts in helping customers understand benefits of

Microsoft Azure.

• Helping plan strategy, design and move to new platform..

• Heritage of datacentre modernisation and management.

• Years of successfully building and migrating to new platforms.

What we do:

SIMPLIFYING YOUR CLOUD EXPERIENCE

MIGRATING TO THE CLOUDTHE CHALLENGES

CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS

Cost control &

governance

•Want to enable users to

provision, but with control

•Without control in place, a user

could potentially provision

machines running at several

thousand pounds a month

Getting data to the right

people at the right time

•Multiple business critical

applications

•Complexities of environment

make it difficult to manage

Time and effort of

consistently managing

estate

•Application manager has to

manage several different

people (across monitoring,

patching, Azure and backup)

when applying a change

•Time consuming and difficult

to manager

WHAT IF YOU COULD…

Cost control & governance

•Control who is allowed to provision and what they are allowed to do

•Track usage, to ensure that cost allocation across the business is accurate.

Getting data to the right

people at the right time

•Move to a standardised policy-based approach to management

•Define business critical applications to back up every hour, and non-critical to back up every 12 hours.

•Provide consistency, control costs across the board.

•Decrease outages, & complexity in environment.

Time and effort of

consistently managing estate

•Describe your organisation, applications and assets and let a system automatically configure and sync monitoring system SCON, Azure and configuration manager (and coming soon azure site recovery and data protection manager)

•Mirror your organisation and all assets.

•Gain consistent, joined up data and understand what it all means.

WHAT IS THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM?

THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM

THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM?

What does it provide

• Empowers you to use & leverage the cloud

• A Governance and Control framework

• Focused around Microsoft Azure and Hybrid Cloud

• Enables you to managing server or cloud platforms

• Gives you control over billing and budgets

“Gives you control and confidence in your

journey to the Cloud.”

THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM

Create an asset inventory for anything and everything required to deploy

your cloud application e.g

Deploy all infrastructure components onto Azure

Organisational

StructureServers Firewalls

Virtual

Networks

Virtual

AppliancesDatabases Applications

ACE CONFIGURATION ENGINE

ACE

Describes applications and associated information

Captures key SLAs against the application

Identifies maintenance/patch windows

Capture all key contacts

Use information to orchestrate all activities across multiple tools

Configure to reflect level of business criticality eg: Critical -

Snapshot every 15 minutes, Non Critical - Snapshot once a day.

BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY

TAKES

CONFIGURATION

FROM ACE

AZURE BACKUP

DATA PROTECTION

MANAGER

AZURE SITE RECOVERY

MANAGER

BACKUP

• Standardised backup

and recovery

• Standardised cost

model

• Predictability of cost

• Self service - end users

can choose own

backups and recovery

• Using asset information to configure back up and configuration replication policies.

• Implement and architect designs as cloud failure resistant, with fail over to another region.

configures outcomes

MONITORING

TAKES

CONFIGURATION

FROM ACE

OPERATIONS

MANAGER

OMS

• Automated service

mapping diagrams

• Self service monitoring

changes

• reduced monitoring

noise

configures outcomes

ITSM INTEGRATION

TAKES

CONFIGURATION

FROM ACE

• Two way connection to

MS server manager,

allows granularity

around getting the

right information to

the right person in a

timely manner

• Integrating event

management to service

management

• Reduces incidents and

tickets

routes to relevant service desk outcomes

TAKES

ALERTS

FROM SCON

PATCHING

TAKES

CONFIGURATION

FROM ACE

CONFIGURATION

MANAGER

WSUS

• Reduce cost of patching.

• Reduce cost of time to

monitor patching

• Data pulled back into HCP

provides business-centric

view on patching.

configures

outcomes

Application owner

chooses patching

window

OMS

Warn users

patch window

is coming

Check if fit

state for

patching

PATCHNotify if

there’s any

problems.

patch process

MIGRATION

Orchestrate from on premise into the cloud.

e.g. if you want to move multiple VMs (virtual machines) on

your local data centre up to the cloud, our migration engine

allows you to do so centrally from the Hyper Cloud Platform.

Build the factory and allow

application owners to

manage and orchestrate

their own failovers to the

cloud

Self service migration

approach

Application teams can migrate

when they’re ready to do so; doesn’t have to be a centrally

administered function.

outcomes

CLOUD PROVISIONING

TAKES CONFIGURATION

FROM ACE

Provisions and sets up

cloud environment according to best

practice

Enables app owners to

provision resources through environment

• Better standardisation

• Better control

• Control costs

• Adds governance

configures outcomes

Simple, powerful provisioning to the cloud.

• Understandable by relevant decision makers

• Application owners can provision whatever they need in that

environment configured to best practices and business standards.

COST OPTIMISATION (AND REPORTING)

PULLS INFORMATION

FROM CLOUD SERVICE

PROVIDER AND

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Takes raw data and

attaches to business and organisational

structure

• Save money, optimise infrastructure

and resources

• Overview of all workloads, where

money is spent

• Create actions based on budget spend

• Project and department level

consumption information

• Consumption forecasting

• Complex billing capability e.g event

driven billing

• Advance Billing, forecasting and cross

charging

outcomes

WHY THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM?

WHY THE HYPER CLOUD PLATFORM?

• Summation of our experience and knowledge

• Deeper automation around systems management, more

organisational context.

• ACE registers everything needed for application and core

system assets PLUS charts out insight and description of

organisation

• Provides departmental billing, costs of ownership and

demystifies IT

• Better control of application and service portfolio

• Absolute transparency and visibility

• Confidence in IT infrastructure, network and set

THE BENEFITS

Provides robust

cost control

Accelerates

services to

market

Automates

back end

infrastructure

Quickly flexes

required

services and

structure

Reduces

administrative

burden = more

focus on core

business

Orchestrates

across different

systems, driven

by self-service

Tools and

templates to

ensure security

measures in

place

Lock down

individual

capability and

access

Segregation of

duties

Aligns with pay

as you go cloud

services

Integrates into

enterprise &

CSP tenant

agreements in

Azure

WHY CUSTOMERS USE IT

Control

•May have lots of

different

subscriptions

and lots of

individuals doing

disparate things

– but with no

Control

Reporting

•Allocating cost

to departments;

may have lot of

separate costs

that need to be

dealt with

separately and

cannot channel

to different

departments.

Monitoring

•Pain around

successfully

implementing

with lack of

visibility around

monitoring. Poor

engagement

from the app

teams. Desire to

connect system

to an ITSM

monitoring

service.

Patching

•Too much time

spent patching,

paying extra

staff out of

hours to monitor

patching run.

With HCP could

move to a more

on-call module.

Cost

•Costs from

Microsoft with a

perceived lack of

control; below

the line costs of

the staff that

manage systems.

CIOs want

central console

to run all IT ops

for instant

visibility of

what’s going on

from

everywhere.

Mitigating risk

•Lack of visibility

and confidence

in system and

confidence in

the processes.

HCP can also

remove risk of

budgetary

considerations.

WHO IS IT FOR?

TYPICAL HCP CUSTOMER PROFILE

Enterprise organisations:

• Planning to go to the cloud

• Already have some shadow IT

• Pain around billing, cost control and governance.

• Looking to enhance the way they manage systems

on premise and in the cloud.

• Have a Microsoft strategy

ISVs

• Massive community who have built software,

turning it into cloud based software.

• Need governance and control across all

customers.

• Need a way of accelerating applications and the

management of those to the cloud environment

CURRENT HCP CLIENTS

WHY INFRAMON?

WHY INFRAMON?

Deep knowledge of

cloud related

management tools

Recognise processes

needed to support

technical deployment

and have combined all

into a tool to provide

best practice

Wrote original

coursework for

Microsoft for the

systems management

tools

Demonstrable Track

Record. Enterprise level

customers

Early Microsoft early

Azure partner Microsoft Gold partner

MVP (Most Valued

Professional)

We know the cloud

intimately.

Specialist knowledge

translated into very

specialist IP

Recent Wins

WINDOWS AZURE MIGRATION – FIXED PRICE

CHALLENGES

Enabling effective migration from on premise datacenter to

Microsoft Azure can be a daunting task.

• Understanding complexity in what Apps or Virtual

infrastructure needs to move and in what order

• Choosing the right options to use in Azure

• How to deal with cloud security and understanding

how much the migration cost.

• Customers want a simple, fixed cost process,

delivered on time

• The same control that they have on premise.

CUSTOMER BENEFITS

Gain a better

understanding of the

breadth of Microsoft

Azure

Unlock the power of

the cloud to get to

market quicker

Identify a program of

work to get to the

cloud

Identify new ways of

doing things. Build a

high level architecture

for the cloud

environment

Assess their

applications for

suitability for the cloud

Simple, cost effective

cloud design and

migration on Azure by

a Microsoft trusted

leader.

CLOUD REALISATION WORKSHOP

Inframon works with your customers to help transition them

seamlessly from current on premise datacentres to Azure

The engagement has four key phases:

1. Envision – Inframon conducts a series of workshops that explores the various technologies underpinning the cloud

2. Cloud Architecture Blue Print – Inframon will work with HP to build a blueprint for their cloud infrastructure

3. Application Assessment – Inframon will provide a service mapping and high level assessment of HP key line of business applications

4. Transformation Planning – A high level plan and programme of work for transforming the cloud.

COMMERCIAL OPTIONS AND POC

COMMERICAL OPTIONS• Cloud Realisation – £40K

• Cloud Enablement – £24K

• Cloud Migration – £50-250K

BUNDLE OFFER

• Cloud Realisation

• Cloud Enablement

• Cloud Migration

£500 per VM (minimum 100 VM’s)

PROOF OF CONCEPTAccelerating customers onto Azure with Inframon Azure Fixed

Price Migration. 30 day automated Azure PoC, cost approx £40k

inclusive of:

IP from Inframon’s

Hyper Cloud Platform,

Deep security offerings from

Trend

Cloud networking

solutions from Barracuda

Latest releases of OMS and

Systems Center

CLOUD REALISATION

Understand how to unleash to power of

public cloud for your business

WHY CLOUD REALISATION?

Many organisations have been tasked with moving to the

cloud but have no idea on what the high level steps might

be, or how ready they are as a business for the cloud.

Specifically, Business/Technical decision makers or architects

who are at the very beginning of their cloud journey may be

trying to get an understanding of how to get there and what

their challenges and remediation might be.

WHAT IS CLOUD REALISATION?

Through workshops, technical assessment tools and interviews, Cloud Realisation allows you to

assess where you are in your cloud journey, and how to get into the cloud. It helps you:

• Gain a better understanding of

the breadth of Microsoft Azure

• Identify new ways of doing things

• Unlock the power of the cloud to

get to market quicker

• Build a high level architecture for

the cloud environment

• Assess their applications for

suitability for the cloud

• Identifying a program of work to

get to the cloud

CLOUD REALISATION | THE PRODUCTS

Microsoft MAP

KEY DELIVERABLES

Envision

A series of workshops that explores the various

technologies underpinning the cloud

Cloud Architecture Blue Print

Inframon will work with you to build a blueprint for the

cloud infrastructure

Transformation Planning

A high level plan and programme of work for transforming the cloud.

Application Assessment

A service mapping and high level assessment of your key line of business applications.

ENVISION

The envisioning phase provides knowledge of the capabilities of

Microsoft Azure. Achieved through a series of workshops with key

stakeholders, the output is captured in a document for later use.

Education Workshops

• Azure Fundamentals

• Cloud Identity, Networking & Security

• Infrastructure as a Service

• Platform as a Service (Web, SQL)

• Designing Cloud Native Applications

• Mobility and End User Compute

• Disaster Recovery and Backup

• Cloud Management

Cloud Envisioning Output – Capture of any key discussions on decision

points.

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT

The Cloud Architecture Blueprint provides the fundamental design

pattern and structure for your cloud deployment. Inframonprovides a

series of workshops to capture, refine and agree the blueprint that best

meets your needs. By investing in a design blueprint you avoid making

incorrect deployment decisions that may lead to costly rework in the

future.

• Cloud Architecture Blueprint

▪ Cloud Connectivity

▪ Regions and Scale

▪ Subscriptions, Resources Groups and Storage

▪ Identity

▪ Networking

▪ Security

▪ Management Tools

APPLICATION ASSESSMENT

The Application Assessment provides a deeper understanding of how

applications can be migrated or adopted into the cloud. This includes

identifying potential technology options over and above a simple IaaS

model and providing indicative cost models. Inframon will recommend an

approach for further investigation and planning.

• Application Assessment

• High Level Service Mapping – A mapping of key components and

services

• Cloud Technology Mapping – A mapping of existing IaaS components

onto Cloud Technology (e.g SQL Database Server -> SQL PaaS)

• Cost Modelling – Modelling both IaaS and PaaS cost models

• Cloud Recommendations – Key recommendations including options

for replatforming infrastructure, cloud deployment and cost control.

TRANSFORMATION PLANNING

The final step before commencing a cloud journey is to map

out a high level transformation plan. This provides you with an

understanding of the key steps to moving into the cloud and

any potential issues, risks or blockers.

• Transformation Plan

▪ High Level Project Plan

▪ Issues and Risk Register

THE BENEFITS

The Benefits

Identify a clear

path to the cloud

Understand the

potential issues, risks and pitfalls

of a cloud

journey

Achieve

increased standardization

through

architectural blue prints.

Understand the

cost implications and potential

savings through

the Cloud

MIGRATION

The Migration phase consists of a tried and tested methodology based

on years of successful datacentre and Azure migrations using a

combination of Microsoft and Third-party tools and Inframon in-house

expertise and IP.

Migration Process

• Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

• Double-Take Move

• Riverbed WAN Optimisation

• Barracuda and Trend Micro

• Inframon in-house expertise and IP

• Agile Project Methodology

• Failback and Failover

• Management Tools and Security

Managed Cloud Options – Fully Managed Azure Cloud by Inframon

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