XaaS - Everything as a Service

XaaS - Everything as a Service

1. IT Architecture and Technology

   • Cloud Computing
     • Redefines Systems
       • Designing
       • Implementing
       • Maintaining
       • Operating
     • Organizations: adoption and migration strategies
       • Greenfield: BUILDING EVERYTHING FROM ZERO IN THE NEW PLATFORMS
       • Brownfield: PARTIAL CHANGE OR RE-STRUCTURED CHANGE TO USE EFFICIENTLY NEW RESOURCES
       • Lift and shift : NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE MADE, THE MODEL IS JUST PORTED TO A NEW PLATFORM
   • XaaS : Everything As A Service
     • PaaS : PLATFORM AS A SERVICE
       • A MIXTURE OF BOTH MODELS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED FOR THE MEAN TIME TO SAFELY COMPLETE A MIGRATION OR PARTIAL MIGRATION
   • new mindset
     • Scalability : NEW DIMENSIONS FOR GROWTH, NOT JUST EXTENDED, CROSSPLATFORM, MULTICHANNELED, AND EVEN ISOLATED
     • Temporary and non-fixed resources : USING INTELLIGENT RESOURCES THAT CAN BE ASSIGNED TO THE NEXT TASK AUTOMATICALLY THUS MAKING A MORE EFFICIENT WORKLOAD
     • EXPONENTIAL GROWTH TESTING : capacity required for our applications; capacity required for our applications; is data-driven AND CAN BE APPROXIMATED BY STATISTIC DATA CALCULATION
   • XaaS environments will change constantly
     • new services
     • improve existing ones
       • NEVER ENDING SELF IMPROVEMENT, WILL INCUR IN NEW SOLUTIONS AND COVER A WIDER AUDIENCE
     • adding new capabilities
       • EACH ITERATION WILL BE TARGET TOWARDS EFFICIENCY, BRINGING US TO A CLEANER, FASTER AND CHEAPER METHOD

2. People and Culture

   • Organizations
     • Reinforce people's Soft Skills
       • Migrate them from "push" to "pull" members
     • Allow Freedom of Time management
     • Reconstitute the team
       • Letting go people whose competencies are not the ones required
       • Train People with Potential
       • New People with new competencies
     • Correct Problems Quickly and learn
     • No fear of failing
     • Must attract talent
     • Staff must be excellent team players
     • Update the team with strategies and context of the org.
   • Culture
     • Teamwork is fundamental
     • Put aside pre-established practices
   • Offer solutions of all kind hosted in "the cloud"
     • Fully Customize "as a service" model
   • Netflix culture: Freedom and Responsibility
     • "highly aligned, loosely coupled
       • Principles that guide its human resources management model
         • Recruit, reward and tolerate only fully-formed adults
         • Always tell the truth about the performance of the team members
         • Managers have the responsibility of creating great teams
         • Good talent managers think first as entrepreneurs and innovators

3. Finance (Cloud Computing)

   • Alternative
     • Faas (Serverless Computing)
   • Cloudonomics
     • Coined by Joe Weinman
     • "Economics of Cloud Computing"
   • Pricing models
     • Fixed price
     • Payment by usage amount
     • Subscription
     • By quantity of products
     • By Volume
     • Depending on business need
   • Decision Factors
     • Monthly labor costs
     • Next annual costs
     • Initial configuration cost
     • Initial Expenses
   • PaaS
     • Don't spend on
       • License maintenance
       • Operating systems
       • Patch
     • Plataforms
       • Alibaba Cloud
       • Open Shift
       • Apache Stratos
       • Heroku
       • Microsoft Azure
       • AWS
   • Cost savings
     • Investment in technology (TCO)
     • Opportunity to operate with technology
     • Allows you to focus on core activities
     • Allows you to change the spending model
       • CAPEX to OPEX
   • Advantages
     • Easy calculation of the actual computational use of the processes
     • certain technical assistance roles are no longer necessary

4. Operations

   • Will have the greatest challenges of unlearning to learn again
     • the greatest challenges of unlearning to learn again
     • to focus their activities, always with the same objective of maintaining a high productive capacity
   • Must
     • leverage the capacity of the cloud to respond real demand
     • to adopt more dynamic processes, real-time scheduling, and dispatching
   • Change Resource allocation mechanisms
     • For the long term of traditional implementation
     • Fort he very high costs of accessing on-premise licenses
   • Change and Operations Maganement
     • Must adapt their practices to this model
     • Promoting a trend towards self-service within the development teams

5. The Digital Transformation, a model kit:

   • Challenges
     • Complicated Investment Process
     • Innovation in the attention of needs
     • Trust in the Change
   • Services Models
     • IaaS
       • Resources of Well practices
         • Storage
         • Networks
         • Firewalls
     • PaaS
       • Develop of applications (tools)
         • Languages
         • Frameworks
         • Services
     • SaaS
       • Use cloud computing
       • Ability to use a provider application
   • Deployment Cloud
     • Community Cloud
       • Exclusive for a community of organizations
     • Hybrid Cloud
       • A mix between Public and Private Clouds
     • Private Cloud
       • Exclusive use for each organization
     • Public Cloud
       • Use for general Public
   • Business Services
     • Components working together
     • Find the best service
     • Able to adapt to the changing needs of customers