Building a Cloud Consulting Practice

1 .Building a Cloud Consulting Practice Brian Schoepfle| Chief Cloud Architect – iT1 

2 .About Your Speaker Brian Schoepfle iT1 Source chef@it1.com @the_CXO @brian.schoepfle 

3 .Why a “Cloud Practice?” 

4 . Reverse Migrations 40% 58% 30% 24% 22% Enterprises with Cited Security as Failed to achieve Failed to integrate Cited reliability as some reverse top reason cost goals with on-prem top concern migration From a CompTIA Study of 500 Businesses and IT Executives 

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6 . The Six Pillars of IT • End User Hardware • End User Applications • Enterprise Applications • Server • Storage • Networking 

7 . One Practice, Six Disciplines • Communications and Collaboration • Optimized Connectivity • Security • IaaS Solutions • PaaS Solutions • Point Solutions and SaaS 

8 .Define Your Cloud Practice 

9 .Cloud Strategy is… • Data • Workloads • Applications • Services • SLA’s 

10 .Cloud Strategy is NOT… • Cost • Infrastructure • Skill 

11 .Understand the Models • Multitenant • Single Tenant • Point Solutions 

12 .Backup is Insufficient • Define RTO and RPO • What are you recovering to? • Aim for Business Continuity 

13 .Trust No One • Identify Data and Users • Unflatten • Log and Inspect Everything • Kill the Firewall 

14 .Plan for Day 365 on Day 0 • Operationalize • Automate • Define a Review Process 

15 .Operationalizing a Cloud Environment 

16 . Define Your Team Structure and Purpose Proprietary information of Ingram Micro Inc. – Do not distribute or duplicate without Ingram Micro’s express written permission. 

17 .Scope Creep is the Enemy 

18 .Automate First: IaaS is Your Enemy 

19 .Infrastructure IS Code 

20 .Kill Your Firewall 

21 .Define Structures for Naming and Tagging 

22 .Naming and Tagging Naming: Tagging: vm-sql01-prd-wus • CreatedBy • CL elb-web01-qa-use2 • Decom • App • Stage 

23 .Thank You Brian Schoepfle Chief Cloud Architect chef@it1.com @the_CXO @brian.schoepfle