{"id":8943,"date":"2017-08-28T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/news-2716\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:00:47","slug":"news-2716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/news-2716\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Principles For Hybrid Cloud Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:00:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The future is cloud. At this point in it\u2019s evolution it\u2019s undeniable. The questions facing organizations now are \u201chow much?\u201d and \u201chow fast?\u201d How do you map out a reasonable path to a cloud deployment? Few organizations will be 100 percent cloud and most will take years to migrate existing assets from their on-premises environments.<\/p>\n

This is the reality of the hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n

Organizations are taking a pragmatic approach to cloud adoption. They are looking to maximize their existing investments while at the same time taking advantage of the new technologies offered in the cloud. Striking the right balance is difficult because of two major challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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  1. The tendency to split processes. One traditional. One for cloud<\/li>\n
  2. The complexity of tooling to handle multiple environments<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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If these two areas aren\u2019t properly addressed, organizations quickly find themselves drowning under the weight of multiple environments.<\/p>\n

Split Processes<\/h2>\n

No one wants to do twice the work but that\u2019s often what happens when organizations start to adopt the cloud. Teams built out a new process for the cloud because their existing processes for traditional, on-premises environments don\u2019t work or simply don\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

While this can be a quick solution to keep a cloud project moving along, it\u2019s not a sustainable solution.<\/p>\n

Teams should work together to map out what the desired process would be in the target environment and then map that ideal process to the existing constraints.<\/p>\n

Exceptions will need to be made in order accommodate some on-premises systems and existing processes. Once these exceptions are made, you\u2019ve got an easy list of \u201cto do\u201d actions. Eliminate these exceptions in order to streamline the processes across all environments.<\/p>\n

Tooling<\/h2>\n

Most of your IT processes are going to be tied to the tool sets available in each environment. Here\u2019s where the real clash happens.<\/p>\n

Cloud environments are highly automated. After all they have the advantage of being API driven and constructed with a clean slate over the last decade. Your on-premises environment has grown over time and is a combination of vendors, technologies, and concepts.<\/p>\n

There are a few goals to keep in mind when it comes to your tool set:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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  1. You want to reduce the number of tools in use<\/li>\n
  2. Alignment of the tools methodology with how the team approaches each problem<\/li>\n
  3. Training overhead for the team on each tool<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Some on-premises tools are capable of managing the transition to cloud. Some cloud-native tools are capable of managing on-premises assets. Every organizations situation is a little bit different.<\/p>\n

In general you\u2019re looking for tools that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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  • scale automatically<\/li>\n
  • are programmatically accessible (easy data in & out, has an API, etc.)<\/li>\n
  • make smart decisions on your behalf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Imagine you\u2019re looking for a disaster recovery tool. You\u2019re going to need the ability to scale that tool up to handle more applications and data as your deployment grows. You need to be able to automate the recovery process when one environment fails. You also need the tool to be smart enough to update images and configurations in all locations when you change them in one environment.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re missing any one of these aspects, the tool is going to require a lot more work than necessary. Tools should make it easier for your team to do more with less. A good tool offers more value than the effort it takes to run and maintain it.<\/p>\n

An Example<\/h2>\n

With VMWorld<\/a> happening this week, let\u2019s take a look at the VMWare Cloud on AWS + Trend Micro\u2019s Deep Security<\/a> as a use case.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t heard about it already, VMWare Cloud on AWS<\/a>, is a unique offering where you can extend your existing VMWare deployment into AWS using the same toolset. The VMWare infrastructure in AWS is run as a managed service so you can focus purely on your applications and data as your VMWare infrastructure scales seamlessly.<\/p>\n

This solution removes the logistics and cost of scaling supporting hardware from the equation. Combined with Deep Security, your security configurations also scale seamless across this hybrid environment.<\/p>\n

Looking back at our key principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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This solution stack meets our requirements. It\u2019s an environment that your teams are already familiar with deployed in a manner where some of the key pain points are removed. This is a strong move to start taking advantage of the strengths of the cloud while minimizing disruptions in service and to our team.<\/p>\n

Four Core Principles<\/h2>\n

Success in the hybrid cloud starts with these four principles;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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  1. One process regardless of environment. Make small exceptions when absolutely necessary<\/li>\n
  2. Tools must scale automatically<\/li>\n
  3. Tools must be programmable and make it easy to get data in and out<\/li>\n
  4. Tools must make smart decisions on your behalf<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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For any hybrid cloud deployment, you can save yourself a lot of headaches if you make sure that your solution meets these key principles before moving forward. Once you\u2019ve tackled these key principles, it\u2019s full speed ahead.<\/p>\n

How are you tackling hybrid environments? Are you having trouble unifying processes? What about tool sets? Let me know on Twitter where I\u2019m @marknca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/feeds.trendmicro.com\/TrendMicroSimplySecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:00:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The future is cloud. At this point in it\u2019s evolution it\u2019s undeniable. The questions facing organizations now are \u201chow much?\u201d and \u201chow fast?\u201d How do you map out a reasonable path to a cloud deployment? Few organizations will be 100 percent cloud and most will take years to migrate existing assets from their on-premises environments….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10413],"tags":[12010,11064,12023,14138],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-trendmicro","tag-aws","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}