Enterprise Cloud Forum: C-Suite Disruption Reinventing the Executive Ranks in a Cloud World

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Enterprise Cloud Forum:

“C-Suite Disruption: Reinventing the Executive Ranks in a Cloud World ”

Presented By:

Rackspace Enterprise Cloud Solutions

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What We Will Cover Today

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Current state assessment through the C-suite lens

Rackspace IT: drive to the hybrid cloud

How cloud is impacting C-level relationships

New business practices of cloud

Pulling it together: your steps for C-level cloud success

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A New Way of Thinking

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Virtualization is a TECHNOLOGY …

Cloud Computing is a

BUSINESS MODEL

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Steve Mills, Rackspace CIO

“My role is shifting

in a Cloud World…”

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Suaad Sait, Rackspace CMO

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“My role is shifting

in a Cloud World…”

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Karl Pichler, Rackspace CFO

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“My role is shifting

in a Cloud World…”

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Rackspace IT: Drive to the Hybrid Cloud

TEACHING IT HOW TO BECOME A SERVICE PROVIDER

Demand for IT services exceeds

supply

The business expects near

instantaneous delivery

Recruiting and retaining talent is problematic

IT is capital intensive

Managing increasingly

complex environments is

difficult

IT is juggling Legacy and New

App Development

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How are C-Suite Relationships Changing?

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CIO

CFO

CMO

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New Business Practices of the Cloud

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THE TOUGH QUESTIONS

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Question #1…

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Is Capacity Planning Dead?

What About Forecasting?

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Question #2…

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Who Now Owns the IT Budget?

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Question #3…

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Will One Platform Satisfy All Future Initiatives?

Public

Cloud

Private

Cloud Dedicated

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Question #4…

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Who Drives Innovation?

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Keys to Success…

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Top 3 Points to Take Away

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IT Transformation Framework

IT

Evolution

Workshop

Application

Profiling

Workshop

Cloud

Readiness

Assessment

Design

Migration

Services

Solution

Online

Customer

Data Center

Strategize & Assess Design Migrate Implement

Support & Optimize

Step by step approach to adopting cloud as a

business model

Governance Planning & Customer Maturity Evolution is an

Ongoing Process

POC

Pilot

Architecture

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Get SMART on Cloud

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“Our goal is to create the most

CLOUD SAVVY customers in the industry”

Recommended Rackspace Resources: • Cloud: Vision to Reality whitepaper

• Cloud: Economics whitepaper

• Take the Cloud Readiness Self Assessment

• Use cases: – Hybrid Hosting: Dominos Pizza and watch the video

– RackConnect™: VEVO and watch the video

– Private Cloud: Lighthouse1

– Advisory Services: Acquity Group

Recommended Industry Resources:

• The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr

• Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, Joe Weinman

• Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace

• http://gigaom.com/

• www.gartner.com

• www.forrester.com

• www.idc.com

Rackspace Knowledge Center

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Q & A

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