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WelcomePaul Cooper – Managing Director

Cloud for BreakfastA Report from ‘the Trenches’

Agenda

ABOUT US

A FEW WORDS ABOUT CLOUD

MINEMAN

PRESENT GROUP

AMAZON WEB SERVICES –WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

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Who is estrat?

Cloud FactsCloud is mainstream now and here to stay!

• Cloud is someone else’s computer – At scale!

• ‘Utility’ Computing – Pay per use if and when required

• Reason not always cost

• Guiding principles for adoption

“IDC predicts that the greater cloud spending (cloud services and IT products) will exceed $500 billion by 2020”

Cloud Continuum

Development

Community

‘As A Service’

Subscription

Software

Shadow IT

Enterprise AdoptionDev/Test

Backup & DROverflow

Non Critical Production

Cloud First

Production Systems

Build for Cloud

Orchestration

Industry 4.0

IoT

Big Data

Analytics

Typical Adoption Process

TriggerAnalyse &

DesignFeasibility

ReviewFinancial

ModelRealisation

Hardware Refresh

Contract Expiry

Cost Pressure

Direction from Top

Business ‘Revolutionaries’

Volume of Compute & Store

Identify Workloads

DR/Backup as a Service

Art of the Possible

Application Performance

Data Sovereignty

Movements of Workloads

Governance

Roles and Skills

Understand Internal Cost

Stable vs. On Demand

Workloads

Communication Cost

DC Cost Savings

Business Case

PoC

Stress Test

Adjust Model

Move to Production

Continuous Improvement

From “the Trenches”New paradigm for IT

• Consumer of services

• ’Soft Issues’ - New roles in IT

• Continuous improvement

• Be frugal and change your capacity management

• Get your governance right

MINEMANJamie Anderson – General Manager

Background

• About us

• Our Product

• Our clients

MINEMAN – Our Business

• Overview• Legacy infrastructure

• Business Model

• Why Change?• Technical drivers

• Flexibility

• Cost

MINEMAN – The Project

• POC• Goals

• Engagement with estrat

• Go-live

• Outcomes• Reviewing our goals

• Additions

• Compliance

MINEMAN – Next Steps

• Shutdown the legacy environment

• Migration of the UK data center

• Future regions

• Additional Services

Present GroupCobus Bothma – ICT Manager

AWS “all-in” Cloud Strategy

About Present Group

• Founded in 1998 in Perth, Western Australia.

• Present Group helps companies commission and complete projects.

• Services include inspecting, testing, commissioning, handing over, starting up, ramping up, optimizing, operating, maintaining, shutting down, and decommissioning projects.

• Present Group has offices in several Australian capital cities & Singapore.

• The business’s clients include prominent companies such as Rio Tinto, Xstrata, and Origin, and Present Group has completed projects at power stations, refineries, mines, and ports.

The Challenge

• Started operations running a data centre in the Perth office.

• Virtualized to improve server utilization and minimize environmental footprint.

• Upkeep of data centre proved expensive and time-consuming.

• Explored cloud computing with consumption-based pricing model.

• Ensuring the reliability & availability for business-critical systems.

• Failed to achieve elasticity which is intrinsic to the cloud.

• The business could not add capacity to support demand peaks.

Why AWS?

• Evaluated providers but AWS could best meet our requirements.

• Concerned about migrating Epicor ERP to the cloud.

• Carefully evaluated the benefits of moving to AWS.

• The business required true cloud that could deliver: The ability to provide consumption-based computing.

Economies of scale, and the availability of information.

• Dedicated support from AWS account and technical teams.

• Ease of transition without needing to re-architect systems.

Why AWS? – cont’d

• Established a direct connection between hosted environment and AWS.

• Replication software used to build a live replica of our ERP in AWS.

• Infrastructure is distributed across multiple Amazon VPCs, with Sophos UTM.

• 31 Amazon EC2 instances run in the VPC, distributed across two AWS AZ’s.

• Instances are set to auto-recover in the event of a problem.

• File-level backup for SQL and Epicor ERP databases to Amazon S3 buckets.

Why AWS? – cont’d

• Automated snapshots of instances daily and weekly.

• Web domains hosted with Amazon Route 53.

• Amazon Cloud Watch to monitor applications such as the ERP.

• Developed internal skills in AWS with system administrators training.

• Using AWS Business Support for increased response times & range of channels.

The Benefits

• Achieved a range of benefits from AWS, including increased performance.

• Improved ERP database performance & no disruption to month-end processes.

• Reaped big financial rewards by automating shutdown of unused instances.

• 30 percent reduction in operational expenditure AWS on demand,

• A further 34 percent by reserving Amazon EC2 instances.

• Achieved increased availability & fault tolerance.

• SharePoint to AWS, maintain collaboration performance while supporting growth.

• Support the rapid on boarding of new employees because of the scalability.

Amazon Web ServicesBrett Looney – Solutions Architect

brettski@amazon.com

Automation

• Traditional IT:• Manual procedures

• Scales with people

• Components from different vendors means no common interface

• Cloud services• Built for automation

• Common interface for all services (web)

• API interface for the computers

DevOps

• The “new” way of doing things• But is it really all that good?

• Mostly about culture• Teams working together• Taking responsibility for development, deployment and operations• Does not mean less accountability

• Does it count in enterprise companies?• Lots more off-the-shelf and less built-it-yourself• But the cultural learnings may be highly valuable

Serverless Computing

• Complete service abstraction

• Partly “event driven computing”

• Partly “X-as-a-service”• For whatever “X” is

• Concentrate on the task rather than the plumbing

Business Agility

• Agile is another term you hear from IT all the time• As with DevOps – cultural rather than purely process

• But cloud isn’t about Agile

• Cloud is about agility• Build services in minutes and hours rather than weeks and months• CAPEX is a thing of the past• Stop paying for services no longer required• Expand regionally with a mouse-click

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