Cloud Computing: A Paradigm Shift
of Government ICT
Richard Vester
Director Cloud Services
Business issues
The challenges of today's business
No investments and lease obligations
No insight in IT infrastructure cost (transparency)
Financial
High cost of IT transformation projects
Fixed investments and contract periods but with
increasingly dynamic applications
Innovation is difficult and expensive
Variable, unpredictable capacity requirements and
IT projects that cause disrupted business continuity
Very long lead times for new systems and services
Compliancy to regulations and external laws
Agility
Three Core Focus Areas
Re-think End-User Computing
Modernise Application Deployment
Existing Apps
New Enterprise Apps
Evolve the Infrastructure
Existing Datacenters
Public Cloud Services
SaaS Apps
Bring Cloud Architecture to Existing DC’s
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Leverage virtualisation to transform physical silos into elastic, virtual capacity
Increase automation thru built-in policy-driven management
Compute
Storage
Network
Bring Cloud Architecture to Existing DC’s
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Leverage virtualisation to transform physical silos into elastic, virtual capacity
Increase automation thru built-in policy-driven management
Move from static, physical security to dynamic, embedded security
Compute
Storage
Network
Bring Cloud Architecture to Existing DC’s
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•
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•
Leverage virtualisation to transform physical silos into elastic, virtual capacity
Increase automation thru built-in policy-driven management
Move from static, physical security to dynamic, embedded security
Enable secure, self-service to pre-defined IT services, with pay-for-use
Organisation: Marketing
Users & Policies
Organisation VDCs
Organisation: Finance
Catalogs
Users & Policies
Organisation VDCs
Catalogs
Compute
Storage
USE
Network
Rs
Intelligent Management
Organization: Marketing
Users & Policies
Organization VDCs
Organization: Finance
Catalogs
Users & Policies
Organization VDCs
Catalogs
Private Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure
Automation
Compute
Storage
Compute
Management
Networking
Integrated
Storage
Security
USE
Network
Rs
Hybrid Cloud Computing
• Common Platform
Apps
Apps
• Common Management
• Common Security
EOH
Private Cloud
Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Security
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure
Management
Cloud Computing Moves from a
Technology Discussion to a Business
Decision
Thank You