Cloud computing has been around for a decade and it may come as a surprise that many IT leaders struggle when it comes to deploying their cloud strategies. Many of the people I work with are taken back by the ongoing challenges they face as cloud resources become more abundant from a wider-range of cloud providers. Managing these resources and providers for many have become a major priority as they encounter increasing questions over control and management.
“Cloud growth, driven by both legacy migrations and new development, has resulted in a multi-cloud operating environment that needs to be managed with some degree of central control and unification”, according to Joel Shore of TechTarget.
Through hybrid cloud deployment, the boundaries between public and private cloud are being blurred. As these solutions become more customary, the need for a single management resource becomes more critical and challenging.
As a professional services consultant for VMware, I have seen my clients struggle to deploy global cloud management solutions. In working with them, I have discovered a number of considerations that need to be addressed in selecting a cloud management platform and determining how to implement it.
- Do you want to be an island … or do you need to be integrated with other enterprise solutions?
- Which solutions should you integrate first – CMDB, Backup, IPAM/DNS, Configuration Management?
- What type of integration is necessary?
- Should it be completely automated?
- What information is necessary and what information can be derived from other existing data sources or business rules?
- What other challenges will you face?
If you are in Las Vegas for VMworld, I’ll be exploring these questions during my session – “Creating a Global Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Private Cloud, Managed Private Cloud, and Public Cloud”. I will explore the journey of Aon, a global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services, to deploy a global cloud management platform to manage workloads in its own data centers, a variety of MPCs (for example, Rackspace, CSC, HP CSA), and the public cloud (AWS and Azure). In this session, you will learn about Aon’s continuing journey, addressing the difficult decisions related to: People, Processes (solutions architecture, intake, self-service), and Technology (VMware vRealize Automation, Puppet, ServiceNow, AWS/Azure platform-as-a-service, and more).
The session will be on Wednesday, August 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Additional Session Details:
Session Number: MGT2589BU
Title: Aon Rapid Deploy: Creating a Global Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Private Cloud, Managed Private Cloud, and Public Cloud
Track: Modernizing the Data Center
Sub-Track: Cloud Management
Type: Breakout Session
Run Time: 60 minutes
Howard Shoobe is an Enterprise Architect in VMware’s professional services organization, Howard works with client organizations to envision, define and implement private/hybrid cloud solutions.
Prior to joining VMware, Howard spent 16 years at Dell in a variety of roles ranging from product planning to managing a global team of product planners and managers and finally working as a technology evangelist.
