Course Details
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe how IT should change in today´s evolutionary context
- Describe how the Cloud will change today´s IT
- Explain Public and Private of cloud
- Describe the unprecedented sourcing model introduced by the Cloud
- Explain enabling technologies
- Discuss Cloud and (new) Service Level Mgmt
- Discuss how to approach and evaluate a Cloud
- Business Case
- Describe Cloud and Risk Management
- Explain how HP approaches the Cloud
Outline
Module 1: About the Cloud Business Strategy & IT
- Business shaping forces
- IT evolutionary model
- Business Technology landscape
- How ICT will serve the business
- IT Challenges
The Cloud Role
- Optimize vs Innovate
- Cloud Myths and reality
- What Cloud actually is
- Effect of the Cloud on IT
- Cloud architectural principles
- Cloud requirements
Sourcing Model
- Cloud Service Delivery
- (Cloud) User/Provider relationships
- User/Provider points of view
- Service Delivery models
- *aaS definitions, examples and benefits
- Cloud specific vulnerabilities
Cloud Taxonomy
- Deployment models
- Public Cloud: definitions and implications
- Private Cloud: definitions and implications
- Community Cloud: definitions and implications
- Hybrid Cloud: definitions and implications
- The renewed ICT model: risks vs benefits
- ICT needs: how to try
Enabling Technologies
- CI principles
- Automation
- Transformation of operational processes
- CI example
Service Level Management
- Requirements met by the Cloud
- New Service Governance
- User vs Provider relationships
- ITIL and Cloud
Business Case
- Business case evaluation criteria
- Business outcomes examples
- Business case – exercise
- Impacts on business
- Impacts on ICT
Risk Management
- Cloud risks vs benefits
- Cloud specific vulnerabilities
- HP approach
- HP strategy to the Cloud
- HP Value proposition
- Roadmap to the Cloud
HP Approach
- HP strategy to the Cloud
- HP Value proposition
- Roadmap to the Cloud
Target Audience
- Senior IT Managers
- Decision Makers
- Head of IT Architecture and/or Operation Department
- Anyone with interest in understanding Cloud and
- Cloud solutions better
Prerequisites
HP recommends that students have attained the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:
- Basic experience and knowledge of IT computing environments.