ALIGNING BUSINESS STRATEGY TO CLOUD APPLICATIONS
AGENDA Introductions Business challenges Cloud answers Organization adoption Migration to Cloud Governance, risk and compliance Panel discussion Summary Audience Q&A
PANEL MEMBERS Moderator Clayton Pippenger: Application Development Manager for Quest Rita Gass: CIO for California Conversations Corps Mike Dillon: CTO for Quest Zenu Sarcadi: Director of Technology for Quest
ABOUT QUEST Founded in 1982, Quest is a worldwide leader in technology management offering a portfolio of professional, Cloud, and Managed Services. We serve Government, State, Local, and Education as well as private sector organizations. Services are available on-site or from one of 25+ secure global Service Delivery Centers. Quest offers Application Development, Security, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Data Backup and Replication, Desktops as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud ecosystem partners include:
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Technology agility and speed to market Ever increasing compliance and security risks Maintaining legacy applications in-house, constrained to aging hardware Transparency of information Changes in the IT organization Aging lifecycle of applications Fixed cost
CLOUD ANSWERS Application transformation enabling agility and scalability Business partnership and stakeholder alignment Identifying the right resource with the right experience Maintaining legacy applications in-house Data center space and cost considerations Cost forecasting / predictability and service level management Cloud options: on-premise, private Cloud, public Cloud, or hybrid
KEY ELEMENTS OF CLOUD ADOPTION Aligning business need to the type of Cloud Architectural and process changes are required for Cloud adoption Continuous internal communication
MIGRATION TO CLOUD Understand what you can control, but plan for what you can t. Leverage aggregate demand by leveraging provisional solutions. Simplify, standardize and consolidate.
GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE Manage consumer / provider relationships Introduce multi-layer protection at rest and in transit Network security and intrusion detection and prevention integration Definition and measurement of compliance
PANEL DISCUSSION Rita Gass CIO California Conservation Corps Oversees enterprise cloud-based projects including the national award winning Software As Service application, CoRe. Mike Dillon CTO Quest With Dillon s leadership, Quest has offered Managed Services for more than 15 years. Zenu Sarcadi Director of Technology Quest Formerly Aerojet Rocketdyne Federal Background Clayton Pippenger Application Development Manager Quest Formerly Financial Industry Private Sector Background
SUMMARY Aligning Business Strategy to Cloud Applications: We learned from industry and government business leaders from various sectors about SaaS, PaaS and Platform as a Service cloud solutions. Topics Covered: Challenges and / or myths about Cloud application projects Organizational adoption of cloud applications and service offerings Migrating and maintaining applications in the Cloud including the migration of homegrown and commercial off-the-shelf applications Governance and security throughout the design and adoption of cloud solutions Compliance surrounding internally sensitive information and industry alignment to regulations
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