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Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Architecture

Perspectives, Best Practices, & Pitfalls

David Bressler@djbresslerMarch 2009

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Cultural Challenges

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Integration is hard

ExpensiveInfrastructure

Data

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Data Integration

Adds meaning

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Data Integration is hard

InvisibleHard to quantify

Discounted

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“Users are a pain, we’ll install what comes out of the box, and that’s

what they’ll get.”

Real Life PHB

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Financial & Logistics Challenges

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Cost v. BenefitTime (Cost v. Benefit)

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Traditional Software Purchase

Purchase softwarePurchase hardwareFind space in data centerCreate migration planSetup development & testConfigure systemsConfigure databasesConfigure networksMore…

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The Easy Way

Get a login

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Data Integration is hard

Costs don’t match benefits

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How do we make integration easier, and deliver benefits more

quickly?

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Define Cloud Computing

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How do we make integration easier, and deliver benefits more

quickly?

Could computing is a way make integration easier, and deliver

benefits more quickly

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Turn a commodity into a utility

integration^

Necessary, but not

differentiating

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Not everything’s a commodity

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Web Server Farms. Commodity.

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Much Enterprise Software. Commodity

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Email. A commodity.

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Messaging. Maybe not a commodity.

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What if… we just gave IT a platform to create their own data

models, interfaces, and processes on a dynamic infrastructure [that met corporate requirements] &

simply existed as needed?

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Results in elevated IT relevance

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Other Results…

Focus on integration will evolve to a more disciplined approach

Match expenses to benefits

Enable new classes of applications

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Best Practices

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Mediation. A secret weapon.

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Service Level Management. Don’t even start with “my piece is

working fine!”

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Security. It’s not (only) what you think it needs to be.

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Make mistakes.

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Build a culture of collaboration.

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Map out a strategy. Reward innovation. Reward relevance.

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Cultural Challenges

Financial & Logistics Challenges

Define Cloud Computing

Best Practices

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David Bresslerbressler@progress.com

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@djbressler