What are the Right Questions? To Cloud or Not to Cloud What are the Right Questions? Jim Hannan, House of Brick Technologies @jim_m_hannan 646

House of Brick Technologies Speaker Jim Hannan is one of the industry’s leading architects for the Virtualization of Oracle-based Business Critical Systems. Jim studied Database Administration at Arizona State University and has an MCSE Certification from Bellevue University. He has 13 years of experience with Oracle 8i - 12c, Oracle Application Server, and Oracle RDBMS. Jim is also a VMware Certified Professional and an Oracle Certified Associate. Jim Hannan Principal Architect House of Brick Technologies jhannan@houseofbrick.com

About House of Brick Global Tier 1 Platform Specialists Established in 1998, House of Brick is the recognized industry leader in the virtualization of business-critical systems. Having consulted with dozens of Fortune 500 companies, as well as many SMB enterprises, House of Brick has the experience and expertise to make the virtualization of business critical applications and systems successful. While not a reseller, House of Brick provides an array of consulting services for Tier 1 workloads.

Key Takeaways Accurate picture of the current state of the Cloud Issues that customers have experienced What questions should you ask about Tier 1 workloads and the Cloud? What are the best practice answers to the Cloud questions?

Cloud is Real! In Q3, Amazon Web Services reported sales of 3.2 billion AWS sales up nearly 55% year-over-year

Definitions - Cloud

Cloud Adoption Curve The Chasm

Examples of SaaS Examples of very successful of Software as a Service (SaaS) NetSuite Salesforce Workday Sage Gartner Stats: https://www.infrascale.com/25-disaster-recovery-statistics-for-2015-infographic/

What is Really Being Deployed in Cloud? Customers are deploying real solutions that are not just marketing fluff: Why public Cloud is not being adopted for Tier 1 workloads Private Cloud requires strategy & governance to work Deploying SaaS/DBaaS options require IT brokerage processes Gartner Stats: https://www.infrascale.com/25-disaster-recovery-statistics-for-2015-infographic/

Poll: Where Do Your Apps Run? Where do you have your Tier 1 applications running today? A: Private Cloud Only B: Public Cloud Only C: Hybrid Cloud 67% Private Cloud Only; 33% Hybrid Cloud

Do Cloud Predictions Match Real World?

Key Cloud Questions Customers deploying Tier 1 in a Cloud model need to consider three key questions: What are the key SLA capabilities of different Cloud models? What are the true costs, licensing and otherwise, to Oracle models? Can my Tier 1 workloads even work in a Cloud model and how?

Potential Cloud Catalyst – VMware & Amazon Best Practices Validation Performance https://www.vmware.com/cloud-services/vmware-cloud-aws.html

Cloud Best Practices Private Cloud and true DBaaS is achievable with these best practices: Make your Tier 1 workloads portable with virtualization Ensure your Tier 1 cloud infrastructure is scalable Implement full automation for Tier 1 Cloud consumption Best Practices

Cloud Checklist Virtualize Oracle appropriately Migration methodology and tooling Architect Cloud options* Pilot Cloud thoroughly *Confirm licensing when architecting cloud options

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Additional Resources Licensing Oracle in the Skytap Cloud Blog: A Look at the Cloud In 2017 This paper provides an overview of licensing Oracle programs on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the Skytap Cloud. Nathan Biggs, CEO at House of Brick, discusses what is coming in 2017 for the Cloud. VMware SRM Case Study Licensing Databases on EMC and VMware Technology Tax revenue company using VMware SRM reduces RTO to 25 minutes and RPO to 30 seconds. Gain a better understanding of the complexities involved with licensing RDBMS technologies, such as Oracle, SQL Server, etc.