AskEMCIThybridcloud

A few of the reasons were to take advantage of the speed of deployment, the reduction in risk, and the ability to increase utilization

Were these advantages at the cost of sacrifice somewhere else?

the key for use was to pick a few configurations to standardize on so we could accelerate automation

Not really. Or at least I would not call it a sacrifice. More of a change in the way the org does business

So what changed?

how does this help business, are they getting benefits like agility and flexibility

At the end of the day I think we've been able to shift more resources away from firefighting and towards more important business projects

and as an org we needed to ficus on services - the unification of the piece parts

@subahe Absolutely. Since the objects, or services, we deliver are all from a standard library you gain better/consistent products. Since it is all automated toy can leverage policy systems to direct workflow

One thing that changed, or needed to change, was the approach to designing and building this. We moved away from a traditional waterfall approach to more of an agile methodology

yes sudeep the key benefit to the business is speed and quickness in changes to IAAS

Since everything is controlled via software, and exposed via an API, you can leverage the benefits of good development practices (SDLC) to mature you infrastructure

key benefit of SDDC is acceleration of out automation efforts - once infrastructure is addressable programmatically we can integrate together for more and more complex scenarios

In the private cloud you drive up utilization rates, in the hybrid you can increase deployment velocity

I'm highly interested on making the move, how can I work with EMC, and leverage their experience, to make my own journey to the cloud?

If you are at the show I'd try to find the Federated Enterprise Hybrid Cloud folks, or find the team on emc.com.

@kenpaul unfortunately I'm only following this virtually

Check out the IT Proven microsite on EMC.com for a variety of whitepapers and videos. Or ping us on twitther

That would be "twitter" #fatfinger

Here is a great video w/ @MikeNorris26 discussing EHC: http://www.emc.com/c...

@_StevenCarr thanks for sharing Steven!

Not embracing the change and understanding what a positive impact it will have. The term "cloud" may fade away but the principles behind things like SDDC and their ability to support DevOps and next gen apps, are essential to your business

And remember - it's not all about technology, although it plays a key role. It's as much about people and process as well!

AND it's not merely a buzz word anymore, we can embrace the concept but we have to embrace the change too

We built our entire SAP infrastructure internally following the best practices on the private cloud, and our VDI environment is all hosted on the private cloud. We've support pre-sales demos in the hybrid as well as dev VM creation.

We also have a DBaaS offering as well as PaaS offerings internally. From the public cloud perspective we use traditional SaaS offerings for things like T&E and Sales support

this blog talks about some lessons learned on EMC's own journey to the EHC. What advice would you give to an organization ready to make the leap?

Great Hybrid Cloud resource!

it is a journey but starts with virtualization , then automation - roles and process changes are also important

I like to think of the cloud as based on the tenets from the NIST definition so from that perspective fine the pooling, self service, or measured service items that make sense. Avoid purpose built point solutions in your designs!

So no snowflakes Ken

Correct. It seemed like a good idea long ago, but no more one-off designs

In order to keep pace with today's business there is no way you can effectively churn out physical systems in a timely or cost effective manner.

Also, evaluate your apps, migrate only what makes sense and improves your business. You can leverage some of the NSX features to bridge the gap, and ViPR and Vplex to help with the storage

So not all of a legacy infrastructure needs to be migrated over?

@_StevenCarr - No, I'd only move things where you can gain a positive impact on the business or IT. If a legacy app really can't take advantage of the SDDC then maybe it is best where it is.

Understanding the workload and the risk profile. Is it cost effective first, then is it secure, and also is it functionally feasible

Also, make sure you understand the conditions of service that the provider offers, like SLA's and hidden costs

@kenpaul what realization could an organization have that deters them away from a public cloud solution?

That is is not always cheaper in the public cloud based on the services that you are getting against what you expect. If it seems like its too good to be true it probably is ;)

That makes sense @kenpaul. Does an organization normally need more manpower when moving to EHC?

@_StevenCarr - No. Just a re-focus of efforts. We've maintained a relatively flat headcount thru the virtualization journey and I expect that to continue with the cloud. We are able to shift more folks from unplanned work and break/fix to driving value

@mikenorris26 is responsible for leading EMC IT’s Cloud Platform Team. During Mike’s 7 years at EMC his team has achieved high degrees of virtualization (95%) and has transformed the IT hosting infrastructure into a Hybrid Cloud environment.

@kenpaul is the Lead systems architect for EMC Propel SAP project & lead architect for the Atlas cloud platform program. With this team, he leads platform strategy & engineering efforts in IT to virtualize systems, network, and storage infrastructure.

thanks @_StevenCarr

Hi Steven, glad to be here!

Great Hybrid Cloud conversation with @MikeNorris26 & @kenpaul live through CrowdChat https://www.crowdcha...