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