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Architect Responsibilities in the Cloud
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Infrastructure Managed Services Solution Architect
Primary responsibility for Managed Services architecture supporting Avanade’s US Midwest business
A North America IaaS Subject Matter Expert
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Introduction
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Meet Avanade
We are a provider of business technology solutions and managed services
Committed to the Microsoft platform
Worldwide organization
Passionate about using technology to deliver results that matter
Founded on a unique alliance
Serving mid- to large organizations in all industries
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Technology is digitizing business and changing how we work
Social Computing
Cloud
Connected People embedding social in business processes creates new ways of working.
Connected Insightthrough the right data actioned at optimal velocity.
Connected Devices powered by continuous services which redefine the business processes.
Connected Systemsoptimizing a platform of commodity. Enabling a plat-form of differentiation. Crea-ting a platform of innovation.
Enterprises are harnessing digital technologies to create new products, services and customer experiences through digitized business models.
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User Portal
Emerging Trend: Deliver IT as a Services Broker
Transform from being provider of IT services to being a services broker/enabler; partner with LOB on differentiated services that grow the business.
Focus on curating a services catalog that can be provided to the business
Enforce consistent practices for architecture, security, disaster recovery, performance, etc.
Deliver expertise on service and data integration; vendor and sourcing management
ProcurerProvider
Curator
Service Catalog
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Svc C
Svc F
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Svc C
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Responsibility of the Architect in the Cloud
MarketingIt makes French Fries in small sizes. But wait! There’s more!
TechnologyTransition to workload focus, balancing reliance on platform features.
EngagementThe model evolves to take into account new relationships.
FutureEvolution and innovation, not prognostication.
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Marketing
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2005
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2007
Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and
provides the core functionality of a database – real-time lookup and simple
querying of structured data – without the
operational complexity.
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2014
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2014
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The cloud solves some elements of “how”.It provides access to scale and capability as an accelerator for both cost considerations and capability.
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Engagement
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Easier to focus on if we can simplify the model.
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Plugging into the larger context of execution. BUs, Users, Finance, etc. This is our reason for being!
Business
How work gets done. How relationships and activities are
structured, reported and executed.
Process
The right people, structures, assessed, organized, sustained, and teamed in the right way.
Capability
The software, information, and infrastructure architectures that frequently form the tactical elements of execution.
Systems
Business
Process
Systems
Capability
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Business
Process
Systems
Capability
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Progression of a Project
Program / Prioritization
Need IdentificationPortfolio AnalysisBasic Business Context
Design / Develop / Build
ArtifactsBusiness Case IterationCodeWrenchesTesting
Plan / Analyze
Requirements AnalysisDesign Specification
Business Case IterationCloud Starts Here!
Beware Vendor-Based Requirements!
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Many customers are finding that the move to cloud forces maturity as it introduces a service with defined commitments and expectations.
Governance also becomes a significant concern that an organization may or may not have dealt with in multi-sourced environments!
Support / Operations
The cloud can sometimes force change in operations!
Implement
Deploy(Some Organizations use SDLC
adaptations with later test cycles)
Evaluation
Continuous ImprovementKnowledge Management
Cloud Boundaries are Here-ish
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Barriers to the Cloud
• 2013 Survey and Assessment by Accenture Research
Data Security and Privacy
• Government / Banking / Retail
Legacy Applications
• Government, Health, Retail, Insurance, Utilities
Regulatory Compliance
• Health, FS Industries, Energy, Pharmaceutical
Conservative IT Adoption
• Utilities, Retail
Unknown Reliability
• Retail, Banking
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Technology
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Security should be a key quality attribute at the start, not a bolt-on.
Understanding key approaches to PII tagging / management together with solving I&AM trust is a gateway for businesses transitioning adoption “stages”.
Access security measures address data in transit. How is the data stored and accessed? Who owns the key?
1 MaturityOperational integration with holistic cost management and business GTM alignment.
2 WidespreadUse
Cloud technologies are integrated into the service landscape. BU Commitment alignment.
3 Early Adoption
Project based acquisition, typically with incomplete service catalog integration.
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You cannot manage what you cannot monitor.
Technological Operational Commercial
Corollary:
You cannot remediate what you cannot test.
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Most cloud evolutions and innovations are realized at the ‘workload’ level.
Platform
Workloads
Application
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Cloud economics are realized with cloud behavior.
Management
Efficiencies
Consumption-
Driven Provisioning
Platform Cost Optimization (Mature beyond IaaS)
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Capacity Management and Business Continuity are pervasive decisions in- and above-the-cloud.
What happens when the cloud fails?Does your cloud management strategy provide for capacity spikes? In budgets? In management?
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Future
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Evolution, Not Prognostication
• Strong business drive for CIO / IT alignment to business driven priorities.– Recognized business stakeholder direct cloud acquisition as early as 2010 in “Data
in the Cloud: Best Practices to Proactively Engage the Business in Data Management Planning”
• Big Data / Analytics is “Today” with Cloud Services– For many companies the Internet of Things adds scale to the challenge.
– In a consumption model, the pendulum starts to “swing back” into the economy of identifying and storing/propagating only “useful” data.
– Cognitive computing advances exponentially. (Natural Language, Vis, Inference, Machine Learning)
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Evolution, Not Prognostication
• Conservative businesses continue to make the move to cloud services.– Try / Harvest / Amplify / Challenge
– Accenture 2012: “The Architecture Albatross” in the Future of POS Architecture
– Companies motivated to neutralize competitive advantage and/or mimic cost reduction of early cloud adopters.
• Additional application cycles validating and providing a stronger business case for the consumption of “higher value” PaaS integration.
• Continued movement to consolidation away from on premise software.
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Questions?