Freedom OSS is a consulting group with a framework on moving to the cloud, particularly focused on Amazon (AWS) implementation. Goal is to lower barrier of entry to cloud adoption (for enterprises).
Framework Steps:
1. Business case – ROI, TCO
- application portfolio analysis, assessments for cloud readiness, ROI, TCO, proof of concept, educate/win over CFO, Capex vs. Opex, pre-build collateral to shorten the cycle
2. Large Data Set transfer – large as in terabytes – service offering cloudIngest
- reliable and secure data transfers; FTP will take weeks or months, need to rethink how
3. Enterprise integration in the cloud – sync, integrate with partners
- cloudMQ offering; cloud + event-driven architecture = Internet Scale SOA
4. Enterprise IDM for the cloud – bridge cloud based ACL with IDM
5. Cloud operational excellence – how to make the cloud an extension of your data center – assumes data center has operational excellence
- monitoring & management tools, security, enterprise backup system integration, enterprise data center to elastic cloud bridging
6. Cloud disaster recovery
7. Cloud high performance computing
- non-invasive HPC application migration, integration with enterprise operations management, HPC elastic computing, readily available AMI for HPC (MapReduce via Hadoop or GridGain), clusteredFS over EBS or S3, data synchronization, pre-configured management & monitoring
8. Training
Enterprise Use Cases (unnamed)
- Major Hedge Fund – P&L Stress test / risk exposure
- Prime brokerage – EOB Trade Processing – spill-over/bursting strategy
- Major Investment Bank – HPC for equities modeling ; disaster recovery
- two more, missed them, but mostly bursting strategies
Q: does methodology have step to revisit what was done after a given time period?
A: yes.
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