tech enablers - cloud Flashcards
technology chosen without a “choosing” process
A RISK !!!
- FAIL
benefits of cloud computing
- key enabler
- cost-effective
- performance
- data & security
- faster deployment and market release
- ease of scalability
- innovation
- competitive edge
- disaster recovery
- collaboration and productivity
- remote access and availability
cloud computing system designed to aggregate global customer demand
- what now (3)
- generate useful analytics when stores in different countries all collect the same type of data regularly
- requires ironing out differences in existing organisational processes across different regions
- proposals vetted by employees from different offices & functions -> address problems before full adoption
types of cloud services
- on premise
- IaaS
- PaaS
- SaaS
types of cloud
- public : depends on service providers
- private : resembled internal server model; services via intranet (confidential data)
what are hybrid cloud use cases (3)
- disaster recovery and business continuity
- DevOps application development
- cloud bursting: run applications in a private cloud until demand for resources reaches a certain level, move over to a public cloud service
multi-cloud strategy
- benefits?
- models?
benefits:
- avoid vendor lock-in: infrastructure, pricing
- reduce risk of service disruption: widespread outage or security vulnerability
- improve performance: choose data centre that geographically close to customer, multi-location
models:
- dev in cloud A, production in cloud B
- multi-cloud disaster recovery
- multi-cloud operations of a single application
cloud applications for small business
- from ???
- off the shelf / customised
- software as a service basis: software is maintained and upgraded by the provider and accessed through the customer’s web browser
how to manage the transition
- across organisation
- building blocks? (5)
- operational backbone: set of integrated systems, processes, and data supporting company’s core operations
- digital platform: repository of business, data and infrastructure components to rapidly configure digital offerings
- external developer platform: repository of digital components for external parties
- customer insights: what customers will pay and how digital technologies can deliver
- accountability framework: distribution of responsibilities for digital offerings for autonomy and alignment
tips and strategies for moving your business to the cloud
- trialing with non-critical applications or business processes
- assess cloud service providers: data protection, business continuity, service level; pricing; flexibility; contract terms
3 mindset shifts IT leaders can make to effectively orchestrate a measured approach to cloud adoption (pre reading)
- understand that cloud transformation is a means to achieve a goal but cloud is not the goal itself
- have a complete strategy and business case for migrating to the cloud
- understand your cloud economics and put the right metrics in place to measure success
challenges to cloud (prereading)
- how to overcome?
- data sovereignty : regulations
- security : use hybrid of private and public
- vendor lock-in : multi-cloud solution
- skills gaps : training
- existing data centre investments : phased cloud migration, pilot migrations
cloud security example : google in france
- cloud computing technology developed by Google and Microsoft could be used to store sensitive state and corporate data
- location of servers on French soil, European ownership of companies that store and process data
MIT technology review, global cloud ecosystem index
ranks 76 nations and territories on the technology, regulations, and talent they use to promote cloud computing services.
cloud trends (5)
- multi and hybrid cloud environments continue to grow
- new use cases - gaming and AR/VR
- sustainability, driver of cloud innovation
- AI in cloud computing
- the rise of serverless: functions as a service, focus on user experience and needs
