In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.

1. IV105: The Cloud and You - the 'as a service' disruption you
can't ignore
John Head - PSC Group, LLC

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6. PSC is a business and IT consulting firm
specializinginstrategyandintegration.
We match experienced professionals with
proven and emergent technology to design,
deliver, and service customized solutions.
We turn IT into an effective strategic
resource that improves efficiencies and
work streams, delivers a measurable return
oninvestment,andgrowscompanies.

11. What is the cloud?
•Cloud is an elastic architectural structure
that delivers its services widely across a
network, sharing or pooling its resources
among multiple customers so it can deliver
rapid capacity growth on-demand and can
be billed as a measured service

12. What is the cloud?
• Elastic Architecture
• On-demand self-service—The ability for an end user to sign up and
receive services without the long delays that have characterized
traditional IT
• Broad network access— The ability to access the service via standard
platforms (desktop, laptop, mobile, etc.)
• Resource pooling—Resources are pooled across multiple customers
• Rapid elasticity—Capacity can scale to cope with demand peaks
• Measured service—Billing is metered and delivered as a utility service

13. IaaS PaaS
SaaS DevOps
Cloud

14. Infrastructure
as a Service
Platform as a
Service
Software as a
Service
Development
& Operations
Cloud

16. The Cloud is strategic and powering today’s innovations
Cited cloud for innovation
of competitive advantage
Want to or already run their
company in the cloud
Use the cloud to generate
revenue or product
development
13%
2011
72%
2014
SaaS use is mainstream
http://www.northbridge.com/2014-future-cloud-computing-survey

17. Business is transitioning to the cloud
65-70% of
respondents are moving some
or significant processing to the
cloud in the NEXT 12-24
Months
http://www.northbridge.com/2014-future-cloud-computing-survey
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18. What are businesses transitioning?
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Sales and
Marketing
Customer Service
Business Analytics
52%
44%
44%
Front Office is moving fast
Transaction
Processing
Data center
Consolidation
Back Office is lagging
Moving to
Cloud
Not Moving
to Cloud
34% 31%
17%19%
http://www.northbridge.com/2014-future-cloud-computing-survey

19. The Chicago Fire and Mrs O’Leary’s Cow

26. IaaS PaaS
SaaS DevOps
Cloud

28. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a
form of cloud computing that
provides virtualized computing
resources over the Internet

30. What about hosting providers?
What is the difference?
In most cases: Multi-tenant, leading
to scale and performance

31. IaaS PaaS
SaaS DevOps
Cloud

33. Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model that
delivers applications over the Internet. In a PaaS model, a cloud
provider delivers hardware and software tools -- usually those
needed for application development -- to its users as a service. A
PaaS provider hosts the hardware and software on its own
infrastructure. As a result, PaaS frees users from having to install
in-house hardware and software to develop or run a new
application.

35. IaaS PaaS
SaaS DevOps
Cloud

37. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software
distribution model in which applications are
hosted by a vendor or service provider and
made available to customers over a network,
typically the Internet.

41. IaaS PaaS
SaaS DevOps
Cloud

43. DevOps is a software development method that emphasizes
communication, collaboration (information sharing and web service
usage), integration, automation, and measurement of cooperation
between software developers and other IT professionals. The
method acknowledges the interdependence of software
development, quality assurance (QA), and IT operations, and aims
to help an organization rapidly produce software products and
services and to improve operations performance.

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The cloud is multi-dimensional and IBM addresses the
enterprises’ needs
Private Hybrid Public
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
http://www.northbridge.com/2014-future-cloud-computing-survey
100’s of IBM SaaS
Applications in
IBM Marketplace

48. • Highly virtualized infrastructure
• Standardized virtual workloads
• Web-based provisioning
• Dynamic resource scaling
• Higher availability of systems and applications
• Lower total costs and better utilization of hardware
• Labor savings and improved quality of IT services
• Secure start behind enterprise firewall
Many clients elect to start the cloud journey with a
private cloud
Clients are looking for benefits
from private clouds
And are preparing infrastructure
to build the foundation
Source: IBM Market Development
Half of the leading cloud adopters plan
to include multiple platforms in their
private cloud infrastructures
And are preparing infrastructure
to build the foundation

49. Open Source Only Proprietary Open “Plus”
‘Some Assembly
Required’
Vendor Lock-in
Assured
Enterprise-ready
out of the box
Organizations deploying cloud have a choice to make…

50. • Acquired sixteen cloud companies including SoftLayer
• Invested $7B to build a high value cloud portfolio
• Launched the IBM Cloud marketplace
• Filed over 1,500 cloud patents
• Skilled experts with deep industry knowledge
• Increased worldwide cloud data centers to forty
IBM is committed to the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

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PSC helps you drive revenue growth and efficiencies
utilizing the IBM Cloud
• Drive competitive
advantage
• Leverage an API
economy
• Transform IT
• Build to meet all
functional, security,
privacy, and
performance needs
• Assemble and deploy
business services
• Build a dynamic hybrid
cloud environment
• Run your business in
the cloud
• Leverage a platform to
accelerate
development and
enable dynamic scaling
• Improve agility and
service quality

52. Considerations before you jump in
Strategic Technology Considerations
• Is the application mission critical?
• Does the application have long batch cycles that would benefit from parallel
processing?
• How volatile is the data? Will data transmission be a bottleneck? How frequent?
• How distributed is the application from an access perspective?
• Will I need to integrate with internal and external systems?
• Is it cost effective to manage capacity needs?
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InvestMigrate
Cloud Infrastructure
Could
Migrate
Don’t
Migrate
Virtualization
Legacy Modernized

53. Business
Value
Assessment
Readiness
Assessment
Application
Assessment
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PSC Cloud Offerings
Roadmap
& Planning
Application
Enablement
Infrastructure
Enablement
Service
Delivery

54. Our experts help drive your success
Advisory
•Business Value Assessment
•Readiness Assessment
•Roadmap and Planning
Infrastructure
Enablement
•Data Center Deployment
Architecture
•Virtualization
•Operational Process and
Procedures
•Tools Infrastructure
•Service Delivery Automation
Application
Enablement
•Application Rationalization
•Application Modernization
•Development Enablement
•Integration
•Security Assessment
Service Delivery
•Service management
•Infrastructure Management
•Governance
• Vision and Strategy
• Gap Analysis
• Roadmap
• Private / Hybrid Cloud
• Operations Practices
• Development Best
Practices
• Modernization Path
• On going support
practices
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55. IBM Verse Kickstart
• PSC Offering around IBM Verse
• Three components
• Licensing
• Migration
• Application Discovery
• Offered as part of IBM Verse
Executive Briefings
• PSC microsite, brochure and
Checklist White Paper
• TSL campaign in progress
• http://verse.psclistens.com

56. Application Development & Modernization

57. XPages Jumpstart
• We can help you get started
with your first IBM XPages
project or apply our
methodology to your
existing efforts
• Architecture
• Development
• Design
• Mentoring

58. ThankYou
Contact:
JohnHead
331.684.7114|jhead@psclistens.com