IBM Academic Initiative
Skills for a Smarter Planet
Cloud Computing
John Schilt
Lead, IBM Academic Initiative
Australia / New Zealand
UTS
May 22, 2013
schiltj@au1.ibm.com
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We are experiencing the reality of global integration.
The world is connected
ECONOMICALLY.
SOCIALLY.
TECHNICALLY.
A series of shocks:
Climate change
Energy
geopolitics
Global supply
chains
Financial Crisis
Plus rapidly evolving and ongoing significant trends:
Changing
demographics
Empowered consumers
and citizens
Impact of technology
…because intelligence is being infused into the way the
world works.
Our world is becoming
INSTRUMENTED.
Our world is becoming
INTERCONNECTED.
Virtually all things, processes and
ways of working are becoming
INTELLIGENT.
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An opportunity to think and act in new ways.
Smarter cities are working to infuse
intelligence into each of their core systems.
Government
Services
Public Safety
Education
Telecommunications
Transportation
Energy and
Utilities
Healthcare
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Skills for a Smarter Planet
• T – shaped skills
• Soft Skills
• Technical Skills
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What are T – Shaped skills ?
Complimentary skills
• Project Management
• Business / Management
• Accounting / Finance
• Politics
• Selling
• Legal
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Specific Skills
 Deep
 Technical
 Specific to trade or profession
 Certification
 Professional recognition
What shape are you ?
Soft Skills
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Communication
Presentation
Leadership / Teaming
Persistence
Passion
Longing for learning
Confidence (*)
Listening
Ability to accept feedback
Organisation
Selling / Negotiation
It’s about
Aptitude
“Nothing great in the world has
ever been accomplished
without passion”
As well as
Hegel, 1770 - 1831
Attitude
(the what and the how)
Key Skill Areas
 Analytics / Big Data
 Business Process Management
 Cloud Computing
 Social Business
 Software Development Life Cycle
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Cloud is a shift in the consumption and delivery of IT with the goal of simplifying to
manage complexity more effectively.
 Cloud is:
– A new consumption and delivery model for IT Services
 Cloud addresses:
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Cost reduction
Scale
Utilization
Self-service
IT agility, flexibility and delivery of value
 Cloud represents:
– The industrialization of delivery for IT supported services
 Cloud includes:
The Cloud ‘Era’
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– Deployment models: public, private, hybrid
– Delivery models:
– Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
– Platform as a Service (PaaS),
– Software as a Service (SaaS) and
– Business Process as a Service
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IBM Cloud
IBM
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 Consulting and Implementation Services
 Leading Hardware, Software and Research
 Managed Services across workloads
 Leading industry and process expertise
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The IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
Cloud Service
Consumer
Cloud Service
Creator
Cloud Service Provider
Common Cloud
Management Platform (CCMP)
Cloud Services
Existing & 3rd party
services, Partner
Ecosystems
Business-Processas-a-Service
Cloud
Service
Integration
Tools
Sof tware-as-a-Service
Operational
Support
Services
(OSS)
Business
Support
Services
(BSS)
Service
Creation
Tools
Platf orm-as-a-Service
Consumer
In-house IT
Inf rastructure-as-a-Service
Inf rastructure
Security, Resiliency, Performance & Consumability
Governance
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Expanding the Cloud Computer Management Platform
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Software as a Service
From a developer’s perspective
From a consumer’s perspective
 Approach : VM vs mutli
tenancy
Why go into the cloud ? TCO ?
 Security
 Features / functionality / fit
 Performance over time
/ growth
Cost of exit plan / is there one ?
 Services (to consumers)
 DRP ?
 Allow for flexibility for each user
 Integration of current apps
 Change mgt – core application
new
Data
in – Data out (ETL)
 Data in – Data out (ETL,
old)
 Application Integration  Performance / growth plan ?
 Is my data secure ?
 Pricing Strategy
 Governance – where is
data
stored
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Is the
service
reliable ?
 Keeping up with new technologies
 Learning? curve / education
 Architecture / scalability Risks / benefits analysis ?
 Client technologies (ie, browser vs RC)
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