How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud
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The document discusses how to successfully adopt cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing involves adjusting to changing technological, economic, organizational, and risk factors over time. To fully realize the benefits of cloud computing, organizations must be prepared to effectively handle this dynamic nature of cloud computing and be adept at change. The key to success is recognizing that cloud computing is about more than just technology and having a strong organizational culture that can flexibly adapt to changing requirements.
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- 1. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud or, How to Cloud Shlomo Swidler CEO, Orchestratus shlomo.swidler@orchestratus.com slides at http://slidesha.re/135OpDb
- 2. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM Cloud means what? Computing Technological Organizational Risk Economic ‘Cloud-computing’ is a dynamic computing paradigm where the boundaries of computing are determined by rationale provided by technological, economic, organizational, and security requirements. – Ramnath K. Chellappa, 1997 1
- 3. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM Four factors driving cloud success • Technological • Economic • Organizational • Risk }factors influencing the boundaries of computing change over time, and you want to react with appropriate speed. 2 ‘Cloud-computing’ is a dynamiccomputing paradigm where the boundaries of computing are determined by rationale provided by technological, economic, organizational, and security requirements. – Ramnath K. Chellappa, 1997
- 4. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM So what? • If you’re thinking about cloud only as a technology, you’re missing 75% of the value. 3
- 5. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM The one thing that determines whether you will succeed with cloud • How well prepared are you to handle the dynamic nature of the technological, economic, organizational, and risk requirements? … or, • How well prepared are you for change? 4
- 6. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM How to handle dynamic factors in computing (or, “how to cloud”) 5 Technological EconomicRisk Organizational STAY TUNED
- 7. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM Typical phases of cloud adoption maturity • Experimentation – learning how to use the technology. • Momentum – understanding the benefits and building proof points. • Transformation – intentionally maximizing the benefits. 6
- 8. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM A model for organizational success 7 External Focus Internal Focus Flexible Stable
- 9. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM 8 Strengths required by adoption phase 8 External Focus Internal Focus Flexible Stable External Focus Internal Focus Flexible Stable External Focus Internal Focus Flexible Stable Experimentation Momentum Transformation
- 10. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM How to succeed 9 External Focus Internal Focus Flexible Stable Today’s organization
- 11. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM How to succeed with cloud 10 1. Recognize cloud is more than a technology. 2. Become adept at handling change in technological, economic, organizational, and risk requirements in your use of computing.
- 12. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM How to handle dynamic factors in computing (or, “how to cloud”) 11 • View “operations” and “engineering” as part of a single value stream: service delivery • Use small, composable units (instances, services) • Build systems that expect failure and act reasonably despite it • Formulate and share your strategy, and lead your organization accordingly • As a leader, demonstrate the need, and your support, for change • Make it easy to access all of your organization’s data • Understand the impact of the services on the overall business • Increase capacity according to demand • Decrease capacity when demand subsides • Carefully vet employees, partners and establish trusting relationships with them • Regularly assess your data assets and all access points for risk • Create a “single source of truth” for authentication and authorization Technological EconomicRisk Organizational
- 13. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM Summary • Change is the challenge. • Cloud means adjusting your use of computing to changing technological, economic, organizational, and risk requirements. • To do change right, you need a strong culture. 12
- 14. OrchestratusMake the cloud work for you. © 2013 Orchestratus, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM SM Thank you! Need help? Contact us. Shlomo Swidler CEO, Orchestratus shlomo.swidler@orchestratus.com @ShlomoSwidler 13
Editor's Notes
- I’m Shlomo Swidler, founder and CEO of Orchestratus. I have four wonderful children, a son age 15 and three daughters ages 10, 8, and 3. Six years ago, when I began consulting for large and small companies helping them achieve meaningful results from adopting cloud computing, my second daughter Hadar was two years old. Today she is eight years old, and I’d like to share a story with you that happened this past weekend.Hadar was playing a game with her sisters where they were all robots of one type or another, and she decided she was – this is New York, I can say this – a farting robot. In her robot voice she would say, “I am a farting robot. I will catch you and fart on you if you don’t obey my orders.” And she would chase her sisters around, pretending to do exactly that. I was watching this game from the next room, and I asked Hadar, “Sweetheart, can robots really fart?” Without missing a beat she answered in her robot voice, “I use my robot imagination.”The point of this true story is, we attribute to technology things that it can’t really do.I was drawn into the world of cloud computing seven years ago from the technology angle, as a developer creating massively scalable systems. But, as I began to help larger organizations utilize cloud, I discovered that the technology alone can’t deliver the purported agility, speed, flexibility, and unicorns that these organizations need.
- Your use of computing is governed by technological requirements – what is technologically feasible. Economic factors also bound the use of computing – demand, supply, cost, and ROI. Organizational requirements influence the use of computing heavily – the extent of sharing and cooperation between different business areas is one good example. And, even when we find the perfect solution for technical economic, and organizational requirements, security requirements further influence – usually restrict – the field of play.The fact that technological, economic, organizational, and security requirements constrain the use of computing is not new. What is relatively new is the ever-changing nature of these requirements, and the ability to create systems and processes that dynamically adjust to these changes. Cloud computing means creating computing systems that adjust to changes.