Journey to the Clouds: Completing your Journey and Looking Beyond the Cloud
Congratulations! You have successfully completed your journey to the cloud. By joining us on this journey to private cloud automation, you have seen the benefits of taking a holistic approach to managing your virtual data center, which will increase the probability of making a transformational change to delivering IT services in the cloud. By delivering infrastructure in private clouds you gain flexibility and agility that can quickly respond to increased demand. You are transforming IT from a cost center to a strategic enabler. You are ultimately improving the quality of service being delivered, operational efficiencies, and reducing operating expenses.
This e-guide summarizes the different phases of your journey and best practices looking forward as you move to the private cloud and beyond.
Journey to the Clouds: Automating Self-Service Provisioning
As IT starts to shift the way they deliver services to end users, end-to-end lifecycle management and automation is a fundamental component to your journey to the cloud with on-demand, IT as a Service the ultimate destination. By leveraging self-service provisioning, IT is able to eliminate manual, error-prone tasks and business owners can receive their resources faster. IT is beginning to position themselves as strategic enablers, not just be a supporting player in the virtual data center.
This e-guide will outline: The importance of using self-service provisioning to extend IT service delivery How self-service provisioning and access to information access can augment management efforts
Journey to the Clouds: The Interdependence of Teams
As your journey to the clouds nears its end, you can begin to appreciate how various teams have come together to support the delivery of on-demand, real time infrastructure. With IT silos and disconnected processes previously inhibiting your journey, the focus of teamwork, collaboration, and alignment of objectives begin to improve the quality and responsiveness of IT. As legacy and virtualization processes begin to converge, you will need to start implementing standardized processes and rigid change management practices to improve the quality of IT service. This e-guide will focus on the importance of aligning business and IT objectives and integrating processes and technology so that the virtual data center becomes tightly integrated with the entire data center. Journey to the Clouds: How would you like to pay for your journey.pdf The Optimized phase of your journey will start to show IT services being delivered in a highly automated fashion and elasticity and scaling of resources being handed through infrastructure automation.
The first step towards optimized private cloud, though, begins with IT chargeback and costing. This e-guide will focus on: The importance of cost visibility and chargeback Enabling positive organizational change
Journey to the Clouds: How would you like to pay for your journey
The Optimized phase of your journey will start to show IT services being delivered in a highly automated fashion and elasticity and scaling of resources being handed through infrastructure automation. The first step towards optimized private cloud, though, begins with IT chargeback and costing.
This e-guide will focus on: The importance of cost visibility and chargeback Enabling positive organizational change
Journey to the Clouds: Empowering the Group
A good cloud computing management solution will simplify and extend IT service delivery by enabling VI administrators to authorize selected users to have virtual machine (VM) management and reporting privileges. This will enable IT to empower end users to manage their own resources (with controls in place) and perform certain types of administrative functions on their own. In doing so, IT can start to scale out their administrative capabilities and improve the quality of service through streamlined processes and self-service.
This e-guide takes you through the process of implementing self-service provisioning and management within your organization and the importance of being able to delegate administration control to organizational stakeholders.
Journey to the Clouds: Resource Optimization
In the dynamic virtual data center, ensuring that all your resources are being used efficiently and at optimal levels is extremely important. As you continue your journey to the cloud, including sophisticated workflows and provisioning requests will enhance compliance and control.
This e-guide will discuss: The importance of resource optimization and rightsizing
Journey to the Clouds: Automating Manual Processes
As we continue along the Transformational Phase in the Journey to the Clouds, organizations will typically experience increases in the volume of requests and find that automation is key in managing this growth, since they often do not have the luxury of hiring additional administrators. Enabling a policy-based automation system will take you one step closer to simplifying the management of the request volume and towards the private cloud.
This e-guide will discuss why automation is important in the private cloud journey, as well as best practices in enforcing ownership, expiry and compliance policies.
Managing Virtual Environments: Virtualization Best Practices
Sponsored by Embotics Corporation, this eBook is intended to give the reader a good understanding of virtualization technology as well as best practices for implementing and managing production deployments. It is important to note that while Embotics sponsors this material, they have no editorial control at all. The eBook is written by industry specialist Anil Desai, drawing on his own experiences and knowledge of the industry and technology to share examples and best practices for deploying server virtualization in today’s datacenter architectures. Like most technologies, virtualization has its share of potential management issues. Fortunately, through the use of planning and automation, organizations can maintain control of their IT infrastructures while maximizing their investments in virtualization.
This free eBook will show you how. Download the full 100+ page eBook by clicking the link above.
