Ask Yourself “Why Not Cloud?” Moving IT from the Passenger to Driver’s Seat

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:57:35 +0000

The role of the CIO and IT professionals is in an era of transformation. With companies moving to the cloud, processes are now being consolidated and streamlined, freeing up backend time and allowing IT to focus on business imperatives. Juniper CIO, Bask Iyer, has experienced this IT evolution first-hand. Within two years, Iyer merged more than 250 applications into one standardized platform and consolidated more than 18 data centers to just one.

How did he do it? Iyer took a “why not cloud” strategy, meaning that he evaluated each service and app as a business case study, asking: “What are the advantages?” “What is the cost?” “What is the security plan?” and, “Is there a good cloud provider available?” Essentially, in each case, Iyer asked if there was a reason for not transferring to the cloud. In many cases, the answer was no.

The result? Lowered costs 30%, improved efficiencies, and streamlined operations. The future? Iyer’s “Why Not Cloud” strategy has created savings that have been reinvested into innovation and R&D, all the while freeing up IT time and empowering IT leaders to step out of a support function into a more strategic role within the organization.

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Networking

connectivity

CIO

Chief Information Officer

Open Cloud

Speaker First Name:

Bask

Speaker Last Name:

Iyer

Speaker Job Title:

Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President

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Juniper

Speaker Bio:

As Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Bask Iyer oversees Juniper Networks’ technology and business operations that support a $4.4 billion global networking innovation company. With more than 25 years of experience in international business and IT management, Iyer has strategically applied his business and technical expertise across large global companies, using technology as a transformational catalyst and growth driver. Since joining Juniper in mid-2011, Iyer sponsored two key programs to champion enterprise IT needs and better support the business, including Juniper on Juniper and Customer #1. Iyer’s role was recently expanded to include business transformation, global business services, IT, and real estate workplace services, all critical services for Juniper’s long-term success. Iyer joined Juniper from Honeywell, where he served as company-wide CIO, responsible for the overall IT operations and strategy that supported 120,000 employees globally. A member of the executive leadership team, Iyer drove the IT vision, strategy, and operating plan and led the transformation program for all global functions, including IT, finance, human resources, real estate, and procurement. Previous Honeywell roles included CIO, Transportation Systems and General Manager, Asia Pacific, where Iyer lived and worked in China for 1.5 years. Earlier in his career, Iyer served as CIO at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham for consumer healthcare research and development and was the corporation’s e-commerce leader. He also held senior positions at Johnson & Johnson, CTS Corporation, and ran a retail business in India. A noted speaker, Iyer has presented at Juniper’s Global Partner Conference and participated on many panel discussions addressing IT-related topics, including the Churchill Club, CIO Global Forum, HMG CIO Executive Leadership Summit, and Microsoft Global CIO Summit. He frequently shares insights via his CIO Perspective blog and sends IT-related tweets @baskiyer. He has also served as Juniper’s spokesman in Forrester’s report on “Building for the Next Billion” and Economist Intelligence Unit’s report on “Can IT Keep Up With Exponential Growth?” Outside of Juniper, Iyer is an active member with several organizations: Center for Corporate Innovation, Fisher Silicon Valley CIO Roundtable, Sierra Ventures CIO Board, and Silicon Valley CIO Roundtable. He recently joined Sutter Hill Ventures Customer Advisory Board. Iyer holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Annamalai University in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Florida Institute of Technology.

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1194 N. Mathilda Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Oregon Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:10

Data Center Efficiency & Scalability

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:06:29 +0000

Nimbula’s Director of Product Management will discuss Nimbula’s learnings over the last few years on how to build and operate a scalable and efficient IaaS cloud. The talk will explain how to design the datacenter, business operations, and applications around the cloud model of IT so that you can achieve an extreme improvement in IT’s scalability while also significantly lowering operational expenses.

Principles of scale
* Building the cloud hierarchically to avoid bottlenecks
* Simplifying cloud networks by flattening them and having a more flexible network isolation model
* Decoupling unrelated concepts such as broadcast domains from tenant isolation
* Scaling out services horizontally to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure

Automation for operational efficiency
* Zero-touch installation of cloud nodes
* Self-healing control plane that ensures a constantly available API without heavy administrator interaction
* Automation of placement of newly provisioned resources based on infrastructure tagging, end user demands, and administrative policy

Organizational efficiency
* Eliminating red tape through self-service of compute, storage, and networks – making sure that tenants can be their own administrators from business logic to network topology, to application management
* Multi-layer delegation – distribute authority and drive decisions on access to the lowest level possible so that decisions made by the people with the actual responsibility for the data, the applications, and the business results
* Cross-tenant collaboration – Enable cloud tenants to work together securely, quickly, and without the need for arbitration by the cloud administrator
* Decoupling roles – Make sure that any role – cloud administrator, tenant administrator, and end user can do their work without the need to wait on work from another role to proceed. Have end users work within predefined constraints but have complete freedom within those boundaries.

Application architecture
* Stateless scale-out applications – Not all applications take advantage of the cloud. By eliminating state from the bulk of the application instances and by scaling out applications, you can decouple the operation of the application from the internals of the infrastructure, freeing the application administrator to manage the applications without assistance from the cloud administrator

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Speaker First Name:

Jay

Speaker Last Name:

Judkowitz

Speaker Job Title:

Director of Product Management

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Nimbula

Speaker Bio:

Jay Judkowitz runs product management at Nimbula, a leading cloud software startup. Before Nimbula, Jay was at VMware for over eight years where he drove products like Site Recovery Manager and Storage VMotion. Jay started his career as a hands on IT practitioner at Intel, where he personally experienced many of the pains that drive the need for cloud computing and where he implemented some of the early products that tried to solve those pains. From Intel's IT, to VMware, to Nimbula, Jay has been intimately involved in the growth of the technologies that will soon make ubiquitous cloud computing a reality.

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1200 Villa St. Suite #160 Mountain View, CA 94041

6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - Networking

Ask Yourself “Why Not Cloud?” Moving IT from the Passenger to Driver’s Seat

Data Center Efficiency & Scalability