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 EXTEND YOUR FEDERATION
ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUD
SOLUTION
Accelerate the transition to ITaaS
The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution establishes a sound foundation for
delivering IT as a service and addresses many of the business challenges facing IT
organizations today: eliminating shadow IT; increasing agility and responsiveness to
the business; and redefining how IT is managed, delivered, and consumed.
How do you extend that foundation to get even greater business value from the
solution? In this paper EMC® discusses the six key areas in which enterprises can
further extend the value of their Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution—and how
IT can leverage it as they take the next steps toward a more comprehensive IT as a
service (ITaaS) model.
EMC PERSPECTIVE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A SIMPLE, AUTOMATED, ON-DEMAND HYBRID
CLOUD ............................................................. 3 WHAT’S NEXT? ................................................ 3 ADD NEW SERVICES TO YOUR PORTFOLIO ...... 4 POPULATE YOUR HYBRID CLOUD .................... 4 EXTEND RESILIENCY ....................................... 5 INTEGRATE THIRD-PARTY HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE ...................................................... 5 SCALE OUT TO ADDITIONAL PUBLIC CLOUD
SERVICES ........................................................ 6 BUILD SERVICE CENTERS TO OPERATIONALIZE
ITAAS .............................................................. 6 CONCLUSION ................................................... 6 ABOUT EMC GLOBAL SERVICES........................ 7 2
A SIMPLE, AUTOMATED, ON-DEMAND HYBRID
CLOUD
According to IDC, “More than 65% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid
cloud technologies before 2016, vastly driving the rate and pace of change in IT
organizations.”1
To address the business drivers behind this move to hybrid cloud, EMC created the
Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution. It provides the foundation for delivering
IT as a service and enables the automated delivery of infrastructure, applications,
databases, and platforms, while providing “out of the box” interoperability between
private and public cloud environments.
Figure 1.
The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution
Tens of thousands of hours were spent engineering and testing the Federation
Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution to ensure that it enables enterprise IT to deliver the
right services to the business whether they are sourced from a private cloud or public
cloud environment. EMC has helped customers implement this engineered solution in
as little as 28 days.
WHAT’S NEXT?
This powerful solution was designed to enable IT organizations to make significant
headway in their transformation to IT as a service (ITaaS)—a business-focused,
services-based provisioning and consumption model. The Federation Enterprise Hybrid
Cloud provides “out of the box” infrastructure as a service (IaaS)—automatically
provisioning a virtual machine, with storage, networking, and operating system.
What can you do next to extend your hybrid cloud investment? Add more services,
populate it with your existing applications, enhance the resiliency of the solution,
integrate additional hardware and software, provide scale-out integration with public
clouds, and move your operating model forward by building out service centers that
can help you improve both your ITaaS processes and organizational structure.
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2015 Predictions Webinar, December 2014, Page 5
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Figure 2.
Extend the value of your Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution
ADD NEW SERVICES TO YOUR PORTFOLIO
One of the most important areas to consider as you extend your
portfolio involves creating new IT services for the business. As you
consider extending your portfolio, you may be looking at adding
application, platform, or infrastructure services that require combining
various hardware and software components.
Because the foundation is already there with the service catalog, the automated
provisioning, chargeback, and other systems that are built into the Federation
Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution, it’s easy to add IT services by simply creating new
blueprints. Blueprint-based delivery of services enables you to standardize and
simplify services offered in a hybrid cloud environment.
These blueprints, which comprise the automation and orchestration elements needed
to deliver an IT service, help you manage the service through its entire active
lifecycle—from initial creation of the service to configuration defaults for activation to
delivery of the service. They are published in the service catalog and made available
via a self-service portal.
You can create additional infrastructure as a service (IaaS) blueprints for services
such as business continuity or disaster recovery—or platform as a service (PaaS)
blueprints for services like agile application development environments—or application
as a service (AaaS) blueprints to enable the addition of desktop, database, or
application services.
The value gained from adding new service blueprints can be enormous. You can
reduce the number of technology silos by building out comprehensive businessfocused services and avoiding the traditional piecing together of individual technology
components to create a service, which is costly, time-consuming, and results in poor
service delivery to the business.
POPULATE YOUR HYBRID CLOUD
Now that the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution architecture
is operational, one of the next things you may ask is how quickly can
you migrate existing applications and supporting virtual machines to
the environment, since you’ll want your application owners to realize
the benefits of the solution as quickly as possible.
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This is the time to migrate applications from legacy environments to your hybrid cloud
solution and build AaaS blueprints. For those applications that are already virtualized,
this means migrating virtual machines into the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
solution. For other, non-virtualized applications, that means leveraging existing, or
developing new service blueprints to take advantage of the solution and modifying
those applications as needed to assure maximum performance in the hybrid cloud
environment.
Whether you’re taking the opportunity to upgrade enterprise applications like
Microsoft or Oracle as you migrate—or simply moving existing proprietary
applications—application owners can realize the benefits of modernization from
bringing them into the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud environment.
EXTEND RESILIENCY
In a recent IDG study2, 24 percent of respondents were using hybrid
cloud for disaster recovery, which includes extending the data center
for backup, hosting seasonal workloads or accessing additional
geographical locations.
A continuous availability solution that combines production, high
availability, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations in a single solution can
immediately add value to the hybrid cloud environment. You can leverage the
Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution in an active/active disaster recovery
configuration.
Providing a continuously available solution environment is made simple with the
creation of blueprints for services such as disaster recovery and business continuity.
Using continuous availability constructs to enhance the resiliency of your Federation
Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, you can simplify your approach and reduce operating
expenses by consolidating platforms and virtually eliminating downtime and idle DRonly assets.
INTEGRATE THIRD-PARTY HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE
Once you’ve implemented the solution, you may be ready to address
the integration of your Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud into
existing hardware and software components.
If you have already developed internal standards based on specific
ticketing systems, service management software, or even financial
management systems, they can easily be integrated. And you can integrate the
solution with your directory services and networking services like LDAP and DNS.
In extending the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution, you can also bring
additional hardware and software into the environment, such as virtual firewalls,
virtual load balancers, or virus detection or many other technologies—in addition to
service management and operations capabilities and their associated blueprints.
By integrating these additional technologies, the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
solution can provide more value to the organization as a whole.
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Data is from an IDG study referenced in the CIO Market Pulse White Paper: “Cloud Adoption: Hybrid is the Future”
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SCALE OUT TO ADDITIONAL PUBLIC CLOUD
SERVICES
More than half of the respondents to IDC's recent survey reported
that shadow IT is a problem in their organizations.3 So adding
support for public cloud services to the service catalog has become
critical. Scale-out integration to public clouds not only helps
eliminate shadow IT, but it also allows you to make more services
available to business users at the best possible cost by leveraging a combination of
internal capabilities and those of external service providers.
Leverage the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution to seamlessly integrate with
additional public clouds, such as VMware® vCloud Air or AWS. And add disaster
recovery and high-availability components via a public cloud or a second data center,
for example, to bolster resiliency and reduce downtime disruption and cost.
BUILD SERVICE CENTERS TO OPERATIONALIZE
ITAAS
To achieve all the changes that help you fulfill the full promise of the
new ITaaS model, you’ll want to consider redefining roles, or
creating new ones, while adapting processes to align with those new
ITaaS roles. Operating model realignment (people and processes),
along with enhanced governance frameworks can round out your
transformation to ITaaS.
The optimal operating model foundation for ITaaS is centered on IT service centers. In
this model, each service center has a portfolio of service offerings. IT service portfolio
managers work with business users to understand their needs and then define and
build new services.
CONCLUSION
The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution was created to help organizations
address the reality that traditional IT service delivery models can no longer service the
needs of the business. Today’s enterprise demands more agile service delivery—and
that means delivering IT as a service.
By building upon the foundation provided in the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
solution, you can accelerate the transformation to a more fully realized ITaaS model,
deliver services more quickly, and ensure that the business is able to consume
services more easily. By expanding on the core solution, you can:
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Increase the business value of the solution by making additional IaaS, PaaS,
AaaS, and SaaS offerings available
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Eliminate shadow IT as it extends the reach of the solution by integrating
additional public cloud service providers
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Extend the operational capabilities of the solution by integrating it with existing
enterprise software
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Reduce operational costs while increasing responsiveness to the business
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Better align IT resources to meet the needs of the business
IDC Worldwide Cloud 2015 Predictions, F. Gens, et.al. December 2014, Page 6
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With over 15,000 cloud or IT transformation engagements successfully delivered, EMC
is at the forefront in working with customers to realize their IT transformation goals.
This is why EMC was named a “Major Player” in IDC’s recent MarketScape for Cloud
Professional Services report.4
Our consultants leverage a proven ITaaS methodology and framework, as well as best
practices gained over thousands of engagements around the world. We employ a
holistic approach as we work with customers to help them manage the people,
process, and technology transformation that occurs as IT moves to an ITaaS model
that meets the needs of today’s fast-moving business.
ABOUT EMC GLOBAL SERVICES
EMC Global Services accelerates the software-defined enterprise through world-class
technical expertise and service capabilities that deliver well-run hybrid clouds, big
data solutions, empower ITaaS providers, and enable new digital-era applications. Our
16,000+ services experts worldwide, plus a global network of partners, have the
skills, knowledge, and experience organizations need to get the maximum value from
their EMC technology investments—with an unending commitment to an exceptional
total customer experience through service excellence.
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2014 Vendor Analysis, August 2014
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