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Introduction: The advantage you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About Latisys
Latisys is a leading national provider of colocation, managed services, managed hosting, disaster
recovery and private cloud solutions to medium-sized businesses, enterprise customers and
high-density data centers across the United States, Latisys offers a scalable outsourced IT
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government agencies. With a heritage of serving business customers since 1994, and multiple
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infrastructure platform that provides customers with what they need, when they need it.
Latisys is quickly becoming the IaaS platform of choice for companies that demand more from
their IT infrastructure partner. All while optimizing clients return on investment. All while delivering
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About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses,
governments and society. The worlds largest technology company, HP brings together a
portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the
convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences
for a connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
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As a client-centric company with state-of-the-art data centers across the United States
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manage applications
and workloads
across multiple
platforms while
transforming legacy
applications and
processes. Oh, and
they have to do it for less money
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business challenges
Cost Control
People are just as important to utilize effectively
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resources can control
future costs through scale,
utilization, and CapEx-toOpEx
How much
will I save?
The cloud is a particularly good moneysaving tool for the following situations:
For situations of bursting demand,
as discussed below.
To save on unique resourceswhether
hardware such as tape devices or personnel
such as people with specialties in particular
software applications, as discussed above.
When you need a fast path to revenues
provisioning infrastructure could take
months under traditional models and just
minutes with the cloud, as discussed below.
When you want to quickly add value
to business units. Developing a new
application for customer relationship
management or expense management
could also take months or even years
under traditional models, but can
be transforming your salespeoples
processes in weeks with the cloud.
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site deployment
resources instantaneously.
Purchase Set up
Facilities
assets
Business selects
application
Load OSs
traditional IT infrastructure
cloud infrastructure
IT planning
meetings
Coordinate install
process
Set up
Install servers networks
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Load VMs
Set up
storage
Deploy
application
Activate
service
Manage over
lifecycle
Elasticity
Maybe the demand for your IT resources is
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ideal for variable, elastic
workloads but not for
predictable, steady state.
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cloud solution.
Chapter 3: Achieve
solutions through
the cloud
Disaster Recovery
In the previous chapter we looked
at big trends that may be shaping
your IT strategy, and how you
Planning for business continuity is like planning for door locks in a 24hour convenience store. If everything goes according to plan, the store
will never be closed and the lock never used. You have to install a lock
because you know everything wont always go according to plan, but
you sure hate to spend any more money than is absolutely necessary.
to take advantage of the cloud. Rather than buying additional onpremises hardware to back up a mission-critical solution, you can
back it up in the cloud. You gain flexibility and options and most
importantly, only pay for what you consume. Your cloud DR is
there waiting for when disaster strikes, but at minimal cost. More
than avoiding headaches, you avoid significant expense.
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Achieve solutions
through the cloud
Disaster Recovery
The cloud backup is, by definition, in a different
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strategies, disaster recovery
is a great first step into
the cloud.
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Achieve solutions
through the cloud
Storage
(In Chapter 1) we talked about the importance of
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storage can be cheap or
high-performance; the best
choice depends on
my needs.
Achieve solutions
through the cloud
Bursting demand
As we mentioned in the previous chapter, the
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can handle bursty,
variable demand in
compute requirements.
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Achieve solutions
through the cloud
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Chapter 4: Ensure
compliance, performance,
and optimization
Security and Compliance
So far weve been looking at some of
the benefits of including the cloud in
your IT infrastructure portfolio. But
there are challenges to making the
cloud workchallenges that should
not be taken lightly. We believe
that one reason theres been some
backlash against the cloud is that
cloud-hype often doesnt acknowledge
why issues like compliance and
Ensure compliance,
performance, and
optimization
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Ensure compliance,
performance, and
optimization
Performance
The very notion of the IT department is based
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size cant fit all. The
performance you need
for test and dev is not
acceptable for production
apps in the cloud.
Ensure compliance,
performance, and
optimization
Optimization
Everyone knows horror stories of companies
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Compute and Performance requirements
q Storage Capacity
q Storage IOPS
q Networking
q RAM
q CPU
q Physical vs. virtual
q Application type
q Core to business q Ancillary
Ask your
organization
Elasticity
q How do my peak needs compare with my average needs?
q How much do I need, how quickly do I need it, and for
how long?
q Variable? q Cyclical? q Seasonal?
Are there specific compliance requirements?
q PCI q HIPAA
q FISMA
q SSAE16 / SAS70
q SarbOx
q GLBA
q FedRAMP
q Other
q In one office
q Spread
Is the application:
q Public-facing
q Internal
only
q Interoperability?
q On-Premise vs. Outsourced?
q Core to business vs. Ancillary?
q Geographic considerations where is the data
stored? Where are the VMs housed?
Are there specific security requirements?
q Network Firewall
q IPS
q Web application Firewall q Anti-Virus
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q Solution design
q Migration planning
q Ongoing support
IT infrastructure portfolio
In this e-book we have sought to
empower your ability to make IT
resource investments by showing
how to base those choices in a
comprehensive IT strategy. While not a
substitute for that strategy, the cloud
may be a valuable vehicle for you to
accomplish strategic goals,
such as cost control and
business agility.
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