Cloud Computing @ Affinity Water Peter Rowland - CIO 1 Copyright 2015 Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Intro The global technology revolution presents our business with the opportunity to: Be more innovative.more efficient and productive.more agile, scalable and competitive and. deliver improved customer service. We ignore the need to modernise at our peril! 2 Public 2
Exploit convergence Amongst the plethora of emerging software and gadgets there are 5 Mega trends that will shape our business: Social Media Internet of Things Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing We see Cloud as a core strategy for our business - our opportunity is in convergence 3 Public 3
Our Long Term Vision the journey to as a service IaaS - we plan to reduce the in-house footprint by 50% and costs by 40% Infrastructure Simplification Application Simplification Today 2015 2016/20 - Vision On-Premise IT Requiring maintenance, support and continual upgrade cycle as well as provisioning for peak workload Applications As a Service on demand Decommission On-Premise IT Shrink to Hard to do (HiAffinity, Oracle R12) Elastic, cloud utility infrastructure Business Applications As a Service File, DR, SharePoint, X86 move to AWS 50% cloud & 40% cost reduction Elastic, cloud utility infrastructure Business Applications As a Service ERPaaS, Billing / CRM replacement Application Strategy moves towards complete utility model 4 Public 4
Cloud Computing the sales pitch Cloud computing & as a service philosophy changes the way we look at applications, data and technology. Our logic is simple: Switch Capex to Opex Lower overall costs Capacity on demand Agility and speed to market Stop wasting intellect and time on infrastructure 5 Public 5
Cloud Revenue $250bn by 2017 6 Public 6
Cloud Computing some stats from the Web: By 2016 over 25% of all applications (48 million) will be available in the Cloud 56% of enterprises already consider Cloud as a strategic differentiator 58% of enterprises spend more than 10% of their annual budgets on Cloud services Gartner expects global Cloud Computing revenue to hit $250bn by 2017 Gartner forecasts the SaaS market to hit $45bn by 2017 Some say that 2/3 of the worlds business workloads will be in the Cloud by 2017 But with the complexity of today s environments you cannot move everything. >>> I believe the answer is a well thought out hybrid-strategy. 7 Public 7
Some illustrative metrics Today & Future Large footprint relative to compute requirements, employees / size of company (36 racks, 198 Physicals, 649 OS images) Servers (Physical & Virtual) Too many racks due to legacy kit End Of Life Equipment Majority of servers end of life 8 Public 100% 63% 0% 5% Virtualisation Ratio Low ratio compared to market 1:1 11:1 25:1 30:1 40:1 Large percentage of Operating Systems need to be upgraded by mid-2015 EOL Operating Systems High software legacy and risk 100% 44% 0% 3% AW doesn t have Disaster Recovery: ~19 Gold applications, manual restore, key TCS resources Successful DR tests Poor backup & DR method 0% 40% 100% Unused workloads and configuration consuming capacity Powered Off Virtual Servers - Colo polluted with idle systems 649 144 0 8 Key: AW Position today Best Practice ISP (Infrastructure Simplification Plan) 1 for every 2 employees 650 649 505 100-200 0 Physical Servers 1/3 of servers still physical 200 198 76 10-20 0 Racks 40 36 12 0
What have we been doing. Oct 14 Nov14 Dec 14 Jan 15 Feb 15 Mar15 Apr 15 May 15 Jun 15 Board Approval Agree Cloud Strategy 1 Strategy 2 Business Case 3 Cloud Proof of Concept Execution Cloud HLD + LLD Cloud Fabric + Network build Start Application Migrations 4 months to 65 Migrations complete End Sept 9 Public 9
Selecting a Cloud provider (IaaS) AWS selected after technical and commercial analysis. A procurement process will be run later in 2015 to further review market maturity. Topic Description Who are AWS Size of business Regulation Amazon Web Services, part of Amazon (originally the IT department!) Estimated at $6.2bn revenue for 2014, hosting 11.6m websites/business globally (end 2013), growth 100% in 2013. Market commentators indicate it may well be spun out into a separate entity Proposed use of AWS Dublin, i.e. within the EU / subject to EU laws Governance & quality AWS has ISO 9001 Quality Management Certification AWS is compliant with PCI DSS and ISO 27001 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service Data Protection Within Dublin complex there are two availability zones (AZ), Data will be copied (for backup & DR) across AZ AWS storage platforms have 99.999999999% durability and data copied across multiple facilities and multiple devices 10 Public 10
Some prompts for discussion Are Legacy environments outdated Never a better time to modernise A sector slow to change Reform (open water) will force the pace Will the dependency on IT increase Will IT spend have to go up The experience and talent needed Is the aas journey the right one? 11 Public 11
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