Your organisation s future IT Service How we see it and how we re changing Fordway to meet your challenges Richard Blanford Managing Director Challenging established thinking to ensure our clients achieve the best from their IT infrastructure
Simplistically, the future of Corporate IT is all about helping define, implement and enforce corporate policies Source Richard Blanford, 10 minutes ago If you got into a senior position in IT because you like working with cool stuff, sorry.
Emerging trends
Not forgetting
And still v. important..
Disintermediation of IT Service = Service Tower model
BYOD becoming CYOD Unscientific survey across our client base suggests less than 10% of staff want it But they are usually the influential and vocal 10%! We believe BYOD desire is generally driven by the lack of choice most organisations provide Goes against best practice, but we re talking emotions here CYOD allows you to control what is deployed With BYOD or CYOD best advice we have: 1) Separate the service from the device wherever possible 2) Make your user community understand that most corporate apps aren t (yet) designed for touch 3) Implement or contract for multi-vendor/os MDM
Infrastructure tech becoming useful Solid state storage Hypervisor choice Open Source Software defined networks Systems automation and service integration Any others we can help with?
So What can Fordway do and how are we evolving to help our current (and future) clients meet these challenges?
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Time to try something different?
Your current Cloud strategy?????
And possibly how you view us.
Our view the future s Hybrid Both for you and for us Fordway will work with clients in two complimentary ways for the foreseeable future 1) Traditional Fordway: work with you providing skills, specialist products and support to help you change and run excellent in house services including integration of 3 rd party Cloud services 2) New Fordway: host, deliver and manage excellent value IT Services to your organisation under flexible agreements that can adapt to meet changing organisational requirements And we re even more useful if you want to integrate the two Challenging established thinking to ensure our clients achieve the best from their IT infrastructure
Our niche the specialist in the middle We host the services that don t easily fit on public cloud Provide and manage the ones it s not appropriate to run yourselves And integrate all elements into a fit for purpose IT service for your organisation
Current Managed Cloud Portfolio Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Identity and Authentication Management Service (IDAMS) Backup and Recovery as a Service (BRaaS) Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) All available to public sector through G-Cloud Challenging established thinking to ensure our clients achieve the best from their IT infrastructure
IDAMS Where our services fit
Fordway IaaS evolution Currently 1 service, 5 standard instance sizes, 3 resilience levels and variety of options Will become 3 variations, planned availability by October and will be in G- Cloud 6: Vanilla IaaS simple web facing services, Managed IaaS (or Windows Server PaaS) managed environment with backup and monitoring Secure IaaS/PaaS for regulated environments, PSN and more sensitive data New flexible billing option in development, planned before end of 2014 PaaS service planned for Windows Server, SQL Server and Sharepoint, currently being scoped
Fordway DaaS Offers 3 desktop options; enhanced RDSH, full VDI and managed Windows 7 or 8 client Either redeploys client s licences or uses SPLA for applications Tight integration with Office 365 High performance VDI introduced early 2014 Application delivery only service in development Looking to introduce managed client option for Mac if customer demand there MDM service available for ios, Android, Windows Mobile/RT and Linux clients
Sharepoint Sharepoint Sites Web Service D1IM Web Front End User/Admin Dell CAM AD / Exchange D1IM Dell PM End User Applications Dell VDS Provisioning Query/Synch
IT-Shop PM Management Employee Mgnt. SFA Employee / Manager Password Reset Account Mgnt. SFA Help Desk System Administration Roles IT-Shop SFA Power Admin IDAMS Service CAM IDAMS Fordway Technical User LSC AD CGI AD LASS DCFT (Hub) Contracts and Finances Storage Office 365 ServiceNow Provisioning Query / Search Not in IDAMS for Staff
The Home Page : A manager has the additional SFA Admin Requests available
End user Self Registration a new user clicks on the link to start the process
Manager viewing an employee s overview
The employee selects the Shopping Cart to review the requests
For each request the detailed approval history can be viewed
Manager can delegate authority to others via the Delegation option and selecting the delegate
Customer Service Desk Cloud Based Service Desk Identity Management (IDaaS) Cloud Services (Office365)
Where IDAMS goes next All types of Web services authentication already included, Partner extranet capability being developed now, release Q4 2014 25 connectors available today, more being developed Planned use of IDAMS as common authentication and provisioning service for Fordway Managed Cloud services For 2015, development of metering for public and 3 rd party cloud services What else would you like to see?
Vendors we are working with and why
In summary Interesting times, it s definitely less about stuff and much more about service for our clients and Fordway Continued to develop our Managed Cloud Services to meet client challenges Fordway Managed Cloud platform v2 being developed to give us new capability and address issues we have seen We re not going to stop working with new and interesting vendors where we believe they offer clients genuine business benefits At heart we re still a great bunch of techies to help you meet IT infrastructure change challenges Who are getting extremely good at IT Service Delivery, where most of our effort, recruitment and investment is and will be directed in future
Your questions? richard.blanford@fordway.com @fordwaybloke Challenging established thinking to ensure our clients achieve the best from their IT infrastructure