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Editor's Notes

1. The instrumentation, intelligence and interconnectedness of devices, people and nature is creating an information explosion that is driving new innovations, and new insights. It is these insights and innovations that are helping CIOs face the change and challenges needed to best support the business. Yet at the same time the CIO’s are being asked to do much more, better, with less. Their current infrastructure is at a breaking point, and they must find some way to break the mold and make dramatic game-changing choices.
2. Yet at the same time the CIO’s are being asked to do much more, better, with less. Their current infrastructure is at a breaking point, and they must find some way to break the mold and make dramatic game-changing choices.
3. So what is this thing called Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing has two aspects to it. It’s both an acquisition model so it’s very much focused on the end user experience and their ease of access, their ability to gain access to their information or resources very quickly. Their ability to have those resources grow elastically such that it can scale up or scale down based upon their specific needs and their ability to pay only for what they use. It’s also a delivery model. A delivery model that leverages virtualization of resources to be able to accommodate scaling and rapid provisioning. It also leverages automated management such that you can allow for changes to take place quickly and easily and also again manage the scaling that’s going to happen and the ability to unplug. It’s also about tracking and billing and the ability to know what a user is using for what amount of time. Cloud computing is taking many things that we are familiar with but also wrapping around them this end-user experience, this ease of access, this ease of use. Very similar to the self-service that we experience today with our banking and retail world.
4. More than a technology shift, this is a radical new way of deriving IT services and one that is expected to produnfly change the IT industry. The change compared to traditional infrastructure is huge: You no longer need to fill out the paper based request, nor checking status of the service, nor care about hardware availability. In addition, you can rely on automated, instant and secure provisioning for the services, – The quotation from the Economist is very accurate: Clouds profoundly change the way people work and companies operate.
5. Today we will cover some of the building blocks of cloud to show how Cloud computing can Build on advanced virtualisation technologies to increase HW utilization Build on automation which allows provisioning of resources in minutes instead of weeks Through virtualisation and automation, enable a new self service dimension (not possible in the current way of paper processes) and streamline IT service delivery processes Integrate and simplify Release management, Metering and/or Billing Achieve Payback period of months for new services
6. (Suggestion) Add IBM Offering (e.g. Lotus Live, etc) on this diagram
7. This slide shows how the cloud solution architecture is set up. There are four layers: workloads, service management, virtualization and physical test and pre-production. Software development and production are some of the many workloads that companies are redesigning to leverage cloud computing. The key building blocks of a cloud computing solution consist of a service management tier that allows access to physical resources through a virtualized layer. Because our approach is vendor-agnostic, IBM can integrate a test cloud solution with your existing environment. Workloads layer: Test and preproduction, software development, and production boxes Service management layer: Request UI and operations UI Service catalog and automation Provisioning Monitoring and metering Security Service level agreement management Capacity planning Virtualization: Virtual servers Virtual storage Virtual networks Virtual applications and middleware Virtual clients Physical layer: Non-IBM servers IBM System z IBM Power systems IBM System x and BladeCenter systems IBM and other storage Networking
8. Though Cloud computing is relatively new concept, key building blocks for cloud are not new. The cloud delivery models builds on some of the key initiatives we have been and are promoting with clients under the Dynamic Infrastructure initiative and the idea that this transformation is a journey. A cloud computing delivery model requires a flexible and agile infrastructure. For this reason the roadmap to cloud begins with consolidation and virtualisation of the IT environment. While many clients have already taken this step, based on on IBM Cloud Computing research on 1000+ customers from July 2009, a third of those surveyed customers are not using virtualization technology at all. The next third (31%) are using virtualization only in a very limited fashion — and not in actual production environments unless on non-critical servers. So – this is huge opportunity for us to help prepare our clients for cloud. Once a virtualized infrastructure is in place, automation allows rapid redeployment of resources, integrated virtualisation management and huge productivity improvements. Self service puts the business user in control. So the only major new concept is to have self service consumption of IT Services. From a technology point of view (portal) this is certainly not a challenge, however a lot or planning and review of which services are offered and how they are standardized needs to take place…. Let’s look at workload first ======== Original from Miro, Miro I propose the above ========= You should all be familiar with the IBM vision for a Dynamic Infrastructure. You have heard and will still hear much about the dynamic infrastructure. I’m sure you’re familiar with the the major dynamic infrastructure initiatives – such as Consolidation, Virtualization, service management, security, etc. You’ll see, that some of these initiatives play an important role in the IT Transformation roadmap to Cloud. Before a company can moved to a cloud environment, IT needs to become consolidated, … virtualized, … and Automated, … with eventually enabled self-service. Based on on IBM Cloud Computing research on 1000+ customers from July 2009, a third of those surveyed customers are not using virtualization technology at all. The next third (31%) are using virtualization only in a very limited fashion — and not in actual production environments unless on non-critical servers. So – this is huge opportunity for us to help prepare our clients for cloud. In reality, the only new concept is to have self service consumption of IT Services available. From a technology perspective this is not difficult, but planning which services should be offered in this way and how they should be standardized needs some serious thinking…. Let’s look at workloads (type of services) suitable for cloud first….
9. IBM has defined clear methodology in adopting cloud computing. You may be at the beginning of assessing cloud computing for your organization. We can help you assess your IT infrastructure and needs and develop a roadmap for transitioning to cloud-based workloads. Maybe you already have a strategy—we can help you pilot a private cloud and deploy cloud-based systems and services. And after deployment, we can help you extend and evolve existing cloud services, rolling out cloud across your enterprise and growing your cloud infrastructure.
10. We asked IBM clients “To what degree would each of these factors induce you to acquire public cloud services?” 77 percent said that reducing costs would be a major factor in adopting cloud. That includes: Hardware savings Software license savings Lower labor and support costs Lower outside maintenance costs. Nearly as many, 72 percent, said that a faster time to value would induce them to adopt cloud to: Relieve pressure on internal resources Simplify updating and upgrading IT Speed deployment And be able to scale IT resources to meet needs. Why should you adopt cloud? To lower the costs of delivering IT services To deliver flexible IT Because your competitors are already thinking about cloud—and some are already implementing it Because cloud changes the economics of IT and offers competitive advantage
11. To realize the potential of a smarter planet, organizations need to do three things.
12. You’ve probably seen this chart many times before. It’s a matrix of our workload specific cloud offerings by deployment model. I’d like to focus on a few of our offerings that are either new or unique Its important to note that while we the three different deployment models, the underlying Cloud Service Platform is the same. That means that if a client starts in the IBM Cloud, the tools and technologies that they use are the same as on our private cloud and that we can move between the deployments models as needed without changing technologies. No other vendor provides that level of portability. This is very exciting because it waill allow us to create all sorts of new models that involve hosting or outsourcing, as our clients needs dictate. Keep in mind that this is an evolving chart and doesn’t even include all of our products that are available today. We will continue to update it and make it available to you as major new offerings are announced. I won’t go through each of the offerings, but I would like to talk about a couple of the offerings. The first is the Dev/Test offering on the IBM Cloud that had been in beta and will be in General Availability on 3/31. This is a very important announcement as its taking what will be our general compute platform and starting to offer if for public consumption. Throughout the year this will continue to evolve with capabilities. Intially, it will be for Linux on xSeries but quickly will be available for Windows and also pSeries environments, as well. We see the TestDev area as as one of the best payback areas with some of the quickest adoption. The Test/Dev area is one that shows the most dramatic reduction of cost by utilizing cloud computing, whether through the IBM Cloud, Private Cloud or CloudBurst purpose built solution. Its one that can be easily piloted and allows the client to see the benefits that they may uncover. Those benefits are: • Reduced high cost and deployment time of software development and test environment • Limit capital investment and significant software license savings • Reduce development and test provisioning cycle times from weeks to minutes • Improve quality with reduced defects due to faulty configurations • Improve governance and reduce risk of large software deployments Another to offering to explore with you clients that can be piloted fairly easily is the Desktop Cloud. The Desktop Cloud offering allows clients to standardize and virtualize their desktops, which allows them to continue to use their current hardware or even switch to lower cost-long life terminal solutions and dramatically reduce their support and operations costs. It can be done in the IBM cloud or in their own private cloud. We can do pilots on as few as 30 desktops using the IBM cloud and it’s a great way to develop the Value Proposition
13. Cloud, as a new business model, presents a potential threat to our traditional services business but it is also a huge opportunity for us to have new conversations with clients and help shape the market and quickly attain mind and market share. Cloud Computing will change how IT services are delivered and used, which speaks directly to what are clients ask for: They want to reduce costs by only paying for what they use, They need a faster time to value, which means taking advantage of the latest tools to speed deployment of their offerings to their customers, And all with system scalability, reliability, availability and security. In other words, cloud is a new way for clients to tackle their biggest business challenges – time, money and value to their customers. Self-service, ease of provisioning and the ability to quickly scale up and down are also attractive attributes of a cloud environment. The Cloud offerings we are developing are applicable to both SO and ITS. We have had literally hundreds of client engagements over these last couple of years. Many of those through the Cloud centers that have been established around the world. Many of those through services engagements, as well as IBM Research collaborating with clients. And we've had an extensive collaboration with universities, much of that in a program that we cosponsored with Google to build more skills coming out of the colleges and universities around Cloud. Our portfolio is in fact based on this experience with hundreds of customers in this arena over the last couple of years. And based on that experience, we're offering three choices. One is through IBM Smart Business Services where we deliver the service on the IBM cloud. IBM owns and provides the service in the cloud and provides the service through the cloud. A second Smart Business Services choice is we build you a cloud behind your firewall and then you can manage it or we can manage it, depending on what you want. And then the third option – Smart Business Systems. It's pre-integrated hardware, software and services that will be optimized for the workload that you're addressing. Three that we have recently announced are the Smart Business Storage Cloud, Smart Business Test Cloud and the Smart Business Desktop Cloud, also known as virtual infrastructure access, or VIA. We will continue to offer a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) to accelerate skill development and market penetration of new cloud services. We are also looking at incorporating cloud attributes into the current SO business; for example, provisioning. Cloud computing is a great opportunity to upsell and expand scope in our outsourcing accounts.