iasa architect responsibilities in the cloud

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Architect Responsibilities in the Cloud

07.21.2014

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Infrastructure Managed Services Solution Architect

Primary responsibility for Managed Services architecture supporting Avanade’s US Midwest business

A North America IaaS Subject Matter Expert

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Introduction

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Meet Avanade

We are a provider of business technology solutions and managed services

Committed to the Microsoft platform

Worldwide organization

Passionate about using technology to deliver results that matter

Founded on a unique alliance

Serving mid- to large organizations in all industries

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Technology is digitizing business and changing how we work

Social Computing

Cloud

Connected People embedding social in business processes creates new ways of working.

Connected Insightthrough the right data actioned at optimal velocity.

Connected Devices powered by continuous services which redefine the business processes.

Connected Systemsoptimizing a platform of commodity. Enabling a plat-form of differentiation. Crea-ting a platform of innovation.

Enterprises are harnessing digital technologies to create new products, services and customer experiences through digitized business models.


User Portal

Emerging Trend: Deliver IT as a Services Broker

Transform from being provider of IT services to being a services broker/enabler; partner with LOB on differentiated services that grow the business.

Focus on curating a services catalog that can be provided to the business

Enforce consistent practices for architecture, security, disaster recovery, performance, etc.

Deliver expertise on service and data integration; vendor and sourcing management

ProcurerProvider

Curator

Service Catalog

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Svc C

Svc F

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Svc C

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Responsibility of the Architect in the Cloud

MarketingIt makes French Fries in small sizes. But wait! There’s more!

TechnologyTransition to workload focus, balancing reliance on platform features.

EngagementThe model evolves to take into account new relationships.

FutureEvolution and innovation, not prognostication.


Marketing

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2005


2007

Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and

provides the core functionality of a database – real-time lookup and simple

querying of structured data – without the

operational complexity.


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The cloud solves some elements of “how”.It provides access to scale and capability as an accelerator for both cost considerations and capability.

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Engagement

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Easier to focus on if we can simplify the model.


Plugging into the larger context of execution. BUs, Users, Finance, etc. This is our reason for being!

Business

How work gets done. How relationships and activities are

structured, reported and executed.

Process

The right people, structures, assessed, organized, sustained, and teamed in the right way.

Capability

The software, information, and infrastructure architectures that frequently form the tactical elements of execution.

Systems

Business

Process

Systems

Capability


Business

Process

Systems

Capability


Progression of a Project

Program / Prioritization

Need IdentificationPortfolio AnalysisBasic Business Context

Design / Develop / Build

ArtifactsBusiness Case IterationCodeWrenchesTesting

Plan / Analyze

Requirements AnalysisDesign Specification

Business Case IterationCloud Starts Here!

Beware Vendor-Based Requirements!


Many customers are finding that the move to cloud forces maturity as it introduces a service with defined commitments and expectations.

Governance also becomes a significant concern that an organization may or may not have dealt with in multi-sourced environments!

Support / Operations

The cloud can sometimes force change in operations!

Implement

Deploy(Some Organizations use SDLC

adaptations with later test cycles)

Evaluation

Continuous ImprovementKnowledge Management

Cloud Boundaries are Here-ish


Barriers to the Cloud

• 2013 Survey and Assessment by Accenture Research

Data Security and Privacy

• Government / Banking / Retail

Legacy Applications

• Government, Health, Retail, Insurance, Utilities

Regulatory Compliance

• Health, FS Industries, Energy, Pharmaceutical

Conservative IT Adoption

• Utilities, Retail

Unknown Reliability

• Retail, Banking


Technology

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Security should be a key quality attribute at the start, not a bolt-on.

Understanding key approaches to PII tagging / management together with solving I&AM trust is a gateway for businesses transitioning adoption “stages”.

Access security measures address data in transit. How is the data stored and accessed? Who owns the key?

1 MaturityOperational integration with holistic cost management and business GTM alignment.

2 WidespreadUse

Cloud technologies are integrated into the service landscape. BU Commitment alignment.

3 Early Adoption

Project based acquisition, typically with incomplete service catalog integration.


You cannot manage what you cannot monitor.

Technological Operational Commercial

Corollary:

You cannot remediate what you cannot test.


Most cloud evolutions and innovations are realized at the ‘workload’ level.

Platform

Workloads

Application


Cloud economics are realized with cloud behavior.

Management

Efficiencies

Consumption-

Driven Provisioning

Platform Cost Optimization (Mature beyond IaaS)


Capacity Management and Business Continuity are pervasive decisions in- and above-the-cloud.

What happens when the cloud fails?Does your cloud management strategy provide for capacity spikes? In budgets? In management?

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Future


Evolution, Not Prognostication

• Strong business drive for CIO / IT alignment to business driven priorities.– Recognized business stakeholder direct cloud acquisition as early as 2010 in “Data

in the Cloud: Best Practices to Proactively Engage the Business in Data Management Planning”

• Big Data / Analytics is “Today” with Cloud Services– For many companies the Internet of Things adds scale to the challenge.

– In a consumption model, the pendulum starts to “swing back” into the economy of identifying and storing/propagating only “useful” data.

– Cognitive computing advances exponentially. (Natural Language, Vis, Inference, Machine Learning)


Evolution, Not Prognostication

• Conservative businesses continue to make the move to cloud services.– Try / Harvest / Amplify / Challenge

– Accenture 2012: “The Architecture Albatross” in the Future of POS Architecture

– Companies motivated to neutralize competitive advantage and/or mimic cost reduction of early cloud adopters.

• Additional application cycles validating and providing a stronger business case for the consumption of “higher value” PaaS integration.

• Continued movement to consolidation away from on premise software.

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