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ContentsMigrating to the cloud? Here’s what you need to know.

All businesses benefit from cloud migration. The three essential keys to focus upon when migrating towards cloud solutions for an organisation.

3 things that matter in cloud: Workload, workload & workload.

Workloads are the bridge between organizational goals and IT. Cloud’s potential to affect workload performance is clearly the metric that can guide IT’s in a proactive, value-seeking cloud strategy.

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Cloud marketplace leads the way to #BeFutureReady.

Traditional software — and the computer infrastructure to support it — is giving way to the cloud marketplace, where companies can be agile and cost-effective with resources. Explore the advantages to this revolutionizing resource.

Clouding freely, task by task.

What exactly does your organization need to do to fully adopt cloud everywhere.

What CIOs should know about hybrid clouds?

Hybrid clouds are crucial to business success. However, every organization should discern how to define them.

Why your things need the cloud?

By minimizing the complexity of the devices, cloud not only makes it simple to administer, but easier to build more services, of increasing complexity and value. These services enable the use of information in the connected network via the cloud.

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Migrating to the cloud? Here’s what you need to know.

Businesses moving to the cloud have many challenges to deal with, and a successful migration is one that progresses at a manageable pace. In addition, it helps greatly to have the support of all stakeholders so that the migration can proceed without hindrance. Often, businesses reach out to external providers in the early stages of a migration to benefit from that extra governance and experience.Ultimately, there are three areas where resource must be focused during a cloud migration.

Focus on people.

Businesses benefit when employees are invested in the success of a project, and a migration to the cloud is no different. While migrating a large business can take some time, many companies have done it successfully in the past. However, the move to the cloud must support users rather than taking them out of their comfort zone.A move to the cloud brings lots of benefits to the business: efficiency, compliance and cost savings, to name but three. It also gives employees the tools that they need to work smarter together. They can collaborate and share, and they can enjoy a consistency of service from working on the same platform all the time. They can also break free of the confines of the office, working in multiple locations, in multiple devices – even on their own personal smartphone.Some users need more support than others, and care must be taken to facilitate adoption at all levels. Employees who are more cloud-aware will quickly embrace the prospect of new tools and technologies, perhaps using their own device at work. Those who are less confident will need to be brought into the fold with training and support.

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Focus on cost.

The end goals of a cloud migration are many: to make collaboration easier, to save time, to reduce waste, to improve compliance, and to do away with old legacy systems or outdated workflows. All of these benefits result in cost savings. The migration itself must be affordable when measured in context.Cloud migrations tend to be costly when they are badly organised. Businesses must be aware of the challenge of resource drain, and must reduce this drain where possible.Slow migrations are safe, but fast migrations may be less costly, and efficiency ensures savings are made during and afterwards. During the time of flux, steady progress and proper preparation will support success.

Focus on capacity.

While businesses can never anticipate every risk, managing capacity will help to mitigate risk associated with possible disruption. Some employees may need support to understand their new cloud environment and make the best use of the tools available.The business needs the capacity to cope with this period of change, bringing in support if required. Some areas are simpler to move than others.

Migrating toward success.

Businesses of all sizes benefit from cloud migration. Focus will help a migration to be successful. Third-party support is a key factor in ensuring the migration goes smoothly. With the right partnerships in place, the business can obtain the extra oversight it needs to help its people, control its costs and ensure capacity is properly managed.

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3 things that matter in cloud: Workload, workload & workload.

In IT circles, the tremendous opportunity represented in cloud is frequently counterbalanced by uncertainty. Cloud can apply to literally every IT resource and system used by the organization — hence the size of the opportunity. But with so many possibilities, what is the most effective first step?

Or more accurately — since with or without IT’s involvement, a good deal of cloud has already been put to use — what’s the best next first step? We often feel like bouncing balls just reacting to organization goals or imperatives rather than being able to proactively deliver insight and value on cloud adoption.

But following the famous principle that the three things that matter in retail are “location, location & location,” we can get out of reaction-only mode in cloud and start simultaneously driving new opportunities by considering the three things that matter in cloud strategies: “workload, workload & workload.”

Why are workloads the first step in a cloud strategy? Because what cloud is all about is putting IT more directly in service of business goals. The four features that make a system “cloud”— self-service, on-demand provisioning, metering, and chargeback — connect the deployment of that system’s resources more directly to users’ activities. So to know the most critical steps in cloud at your organization, you must only know which workloads will most contribute to organizational goals if they gain the efficiency, agility, or speed cloud delivers.

Or in a more nuanced approach, decisions about where and when to “cloud” should balance the investment in time and money of the transformation of a given workload or parts of its technology stack against the improvement in achievement of organizational goals resulting from the gains you will realize in efficiency, agility, and speed. There may be workloads out there that are ripe for “clouding” because the returns will be high in comparison to investment, and no one had noticed.

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Factor in workloads as part of cloud strategy.

For example, consider a possible initiative to take a virtualized data center (or part of a data center) and further develop it into computing infrastructure as a service. This sounds initially like a pretty IT-centric initiative, probably focused on operational efficiency and IT cost control. But when you think in terms of workload — where here the workload is a standardized platform for applications or development environments to operate within — you can immediately prioritize this initiative against many others. If this computing platform can take on more applications and environments, dynamically allocate its support of them based on ongoing need, and be deployed on demand at near real time, how does the organization gain? To what degree do users supported by this data center become more effective in their work as a result, and how does that compare to the investment required?

Workloads are the bridge between organizational goals and IT. If it’s the users of IT who are setting and achieving those goals, and cloud is bringing IT more directly in service of users’ activities, then cloud’s potential to affect workload performance is clearly the metric that guides you in a proactive, value-seeking cloud strategy. And the good news is that it can be done case by case as well as comprehensively. Each new opportunity to cloud, wherever it comes up, is part of the whole.

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Cloud marketplace leads the way to #BeFutureReady.

Filling a need.

Economics has forced companies to stop asking if they need to use the cloud. Today, they know it offers them better service. The use of cloud marketplace and managed service providers (MSPs) simplifies many IT duties, like deploying software, allowing companies to use their resources to help their customers instead of tending to IT issues.

“When it comes to cloud marketplace technology, everything boils downs to one word: solution. Companies need better, faster, scalable solutions to address today’s dynamic business needs.”

Daniel Newman

Advantages to enterprise organizations utilizing a cloud marketplace include:

• Setupiseasy

• Provisioningandmanagingofallservicesarehandled in one place

• Self-servicedeploymentforusers,whichsavesITresource time

• Monitoringusage,spendingandotherservicesinoneplace

• Consolidatedpayment

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Where is cloud computing headed?

In addition to allowing organizations to purchase and use software, the cloud is now a resource to developers. Cloud microservice architecture (or microservices) gives developers a flexible method for creating enterprise software.By building in the cloud, they can easily scale for various platforms and devices. Essentially, microservices [utilize a suite of independently deployable, small modular services in which each runs a unique process. How they communicate is well-defined, but it will vary depending on the application’s requirements.

“Containers and microservices open a door towards more agile IT orchestration and management.”

Kevin L. Jackson

Be future ready with cloud computing.

Future-ready businesses need to be agile and able to choose the appropriate cloud computing services for their needs. The trend is toward sharing content and data across several cloud services.Cloud services scope well for all types of businesses. For an enterprise organization, the service’s ability to easily adapt across divisions and countries is particularly advantageous.

“To keep up with this (cloud services) trend, future- ready enterprises will need to know how to rapidly onboard, bundle, provision and deprovision their portfolio of cloud services.”

Kevin L. Jackson With the cloud, people and organizations have the freedom to utilize solutions that scale to their needs. They can shop around for different applications, instead of purchasing a complete software package.

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Future-ready businesses need to be security-minded.

Along with agility of choosing services in the cloud, businesses need to look at their overall security culture. The cloud allows employees to utilize company services on a variety of devices, which further blurs the lines between home and business. By developing and fostering cloud security behaviors and habits, a business can create a more creative, secure environment to work. In Future ready cloud security, Eric Vanderburg outlines the three steps to developing a security-minded culture:

1. Foster ongoing communication2. Create and maintain a data map3. Be discerning in choosing your products and services

“Organizations that develop a security-minded cloud culture now will better transition into the cloud in years to come as it continues to grow.”

Eric Vanderburg

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Enterprise organizations see the future in cloud marketplace offerings of flexible software options and development architecture. Companies need their security culture to keep pace with these new offerings. How are you adapting the cloud for your business? Share with us on Twitter using #BeFutureReady.

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Clouding freely, task by task.

Cloud Tasks gives Dell customers the focus they need to update IT models.

One thing we’ve thought a lot about at Dell is how to make the entire cloud landscape easier to grasp for our customers, so we can ensure our efforts are focused as directly as possible on the most immediate opportunities to transform how IT works. Cloud applies pretty much to everyone in technology. So if we can achieve this focus, then our customers should also be able to get better results from cloud adoption.A first stage of that thinking several years ago was to ask: What exactly are we doing when we’re getting our arms around this so-hard-to-define movement that is cloud? For many years, many of our customers were just setting cloud aside as marketing hype on top of the “real” technology of virtualization. This was a natural enough reaction. Until we were able to precisely define cloud — given all the stories and claims for cloud running around the industry — we couldn’t credibly say that it was, itself, “real.”But most customers had a variety of both tactical and strategic undertakings to update their IT models along cloud lines, even several years ago. So what we did at Dell was to organize them into distinct, simply described initiative areas that we call the Cloud Tasks.We think this gives us the focus our customers need. The list of Cloud Tasks answers the question: What exactly does your organization need to do to fully adopt cloud everywhere (whatever the time frame)?

The organization has two primary tasks that make all cloud strategies easier:

1. Secure the cloud environment (or bring cloud platforms into the security scheme).

2. Assess and plan cloud readiness and adoption.

And then the organization has four distinct deployment tasks:

1. Deliver cloud, which nearly every organization today is doing with public cloud services, though, it applies equally to ensuring that private cloud services reach users.

2. Build cloud platforms to make the organization’s own high- performance infrastructure more responsive and user- oriented.

3. Integrate cloud services, internally and externally hosted, with existing non-cloud resources and with each other.

4. Govern the (entire) cloud environment (or bring cloud platforms completely into the governance scheme).

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“The deployment tasks don’t all need to be done at once, of course. But being aware of all of them brings results faster.”

Guy Currier

They don’t all need to be done at once, of course. But being aware of all of them brings results faster, makes each deployment more effective, and enables compound effectiveness. When you enable or drive Delivery of a public cloud service, for example, you’re not going to want to govern it in isolation for long — this is what cloud brokerage is really all about. And it’s become very clear in 2015 that no one with any IT maturity, and the high-performance workload needs that come with it, can avoid needing to build out cloud environments to gain cloud benefits from workloads with even modest performance requirements.And I think it’s good to see that this is neither a really long list of tasks, nor a specific journey anyone must follow in sequence. You maintain freedom of movement, and don’t have to conform your strategy to anyone’s particular model but your own — pursuing cloud adoption on your own terms.

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What CIOs should know about hybrid clouds?

Avanade, a tech solutions and managed services provider with an interest in the cloud business, recently conducted an online survey of 1,000 chief executives, business-unit leaders and IT decision-makers about hybrid clouds. The survey uncovered both enthusiasm and confusion:• Fewfullyunderstandthehybridcloud’spotential—just16 percent of respondents identified the full range of benefits.• Fifty-eightpercentofcompaniescurrentlydonothaveahybridcloudstrategy,eventhough69percentofrespondents believe the hybrid cloud should be one of their company’s biggest areas of focus this year.• Seventy-threepercentofrespondentsagreethatadopting a hybrid cloud will give their organizations an edge over competitors, and 74 percent believe a hybrid cloud would enable their companies to focus on core business issues. Granted, it’s not unusual for companies to stampede to an emerging technology while being a bit fuzzy about what it can do. But what exactly makes hybrid clouds so confusing?

Language barrier.

First off, there’s no agreed-upon definition of the term.“Hybrid cloud can mean the use of multiple clouds, or the use of cloud-plus-on-premises resources, and almost any combination of these and more,” says Bruce T. Guphill, research fellow at Saugatuck Technology Inc., a research and strategic consulting firm in Westport, Connecticut.Some cloud providers mean multiple-cloud environments, while others mean multiple layers of cloud-based services, such as those dealing with infrastructure, platform and software, he said. Still others leave hybrid cloud undefined, pending a consensus on what the term means.“Second, the concept, and its real-world use, are growing fantastically rapidly and outstripping existing IT consulting, strategy and management skills,” Guphill said.

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3 keys for implementation:

Even if executives aren’t quite sure how to define a hybrid cloud, it’s likely they already have one in their enterprise.And if a company has different kinds of clouds doing different things, they probably have a greater level of security exposures than they realize, Guphill said. Costs related to security, paying providers and buying new solutions are then likely to add up, possibly erasing any savings engendered by the cloud, he said.Obviously, that will give CEOs pause. But how can you bolster security and ensure you are enjoying the cost savings a hybrid cloud promises?The critical aspect to a successful hybrid cloud deployment is management. This includes the contracts, standards, service level agreements, interfaces and security mechanisms that enterprises need when working with a cloud provider.“Everything needs to be managed effectively or the complexities will overwhelm a company’s IT department and business operations — because it is so easy to add and expand the use of cloud-based resources in any aspect of enterprise IT and business,” Guphill said.Marc Malizia, chief technology officer of RKON Technologies, a managed cloud solutions provider, said a successful hybrid cloud rollout should:

1. Manage the hybrid cloud with a single platform that provides self-provisioning, orchestration and chargeback.

2. Use a single pane of glass for integrated management and monitoring.

3. Set up separate security zones across the hybrid cloud that

are documented to meet each compliance scenario.

Most flexible approach ever?

What makes a hybrid cloud worth all the trouble? Guphill said that when properly managed, hybrid clouds are “possibly the most flexible IT sourcing approach ever.”As with many emerging technologies, hybrid clouds are likely to remain, well, cloudy for a while, even as they gain in popularity. But companies that find ways to reduce the complexities of hybrid clouds could be the ones that leap ahead of the pack.“CIOs need to realize the hybrid cloud is a key to elevating their seat at the executive table — an elevation that can take them from technology implementer to driver of business strategy,” Malizia said. “Though not a magical pill, the hybrid cloud is a requirement for this type of transformation in today’s business landscape.”

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Why your things need the cloud?

Every few years there is a new “next big thing” in the fast-changing computing industry. Sometimes these “next big things” have proven to be fads or simply repackaged versions of what has come before. But sometimes the latest craze is worth paying attention to because it signals a more significant shift to new capabilities and applications that will have a more profound impact on our lives.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is today’s “next big thing” – certainly if column inches in the media are anything to go by. But let’s be clear, this doesn’t mean yesterday’s “next big things,” like the cloud, are going away. Cloud is the vital infrastructure for a host of applications. It is tough to imagine our current lives without cloud computing, and the cloud is the technology infrastructure (along with electricity itself) that literally keeps the world working, communicating and learning – and therefore, the IoT needs the cloud to reach its full potential.

By themselves, connected devices could be an administrative and maintenance nightmare. With millions or billions of such objects on the Internet, many of them very small and low-end, it’s largely impractical to design systems around a point-to-point architecture. If a smart object needs to interact with half a dozen different services, and a service needs to interact with thousands or millions of devices, it’s hard to imagine them all contacting each other directly with any great success. It’s particularly daunting to imagine how each device will be administered and updated. If we want to allow each device to have a single “home base” server, and if we want to minimize the permanent state and data maintained on each device, the cloud is the obvious point of convergence.

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The natural way to connect devices, or things, and services, is via the cloud. Each device can have a single cloud-based service to which it delivers its data, and from which it takes its configuration information.

Then, an arbitrary number of services can interact with that same cloud service to access the data provided by the device. By minimizing the complexity of the devices, we not only make each easier to administer, we also make it easier for everyone to build more services, of increasing complexity and value. These services make use of the information in the connected network via the cloud. The part of a smart object that interacts with the cloud can be made extremely generic, and therefore relatively easy and inexpensive to manage.

If we’re really moving toward a world with billions of intelligent, internet-connected smart objects, it’s absolutely vital that we make each as self-sufficient as possible. That means keeping configuration to a minimum and moving complexity to the cloud. This has been one of the secondary benefits of the cloud for office technology, but will be a primary benefit for the IoT. Connected objects or things don’t need to know much more about the internet than how to upload and download data and configuration information. It’s hard to see a rationale for doing that with more than one service.

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The bottom line is that services that make use of the IoT are likely to be almost entirely cloud-based, making it hard for each service to utilize applications and data not already in the cloud. With this in mind, step one is to make sure that all your important data and services are available from the cloud, which will save you time and money, while better positioning you for the IoT of tomorrow.

For once, the best path is the path of least resistance. Stragglers still resisting cloud computing must move fast if they don’t want to find themselves two full generations of technology behind.

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