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Visible Ops Private Cloud: From Virtualization to Private Cloud in 4 Practical Steps Paperback – 8 April 2011
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- Print length108 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIT Process Institute, Inc.
- Publication date8 April 2011
- ISBN-100975568639
- ISBN-13978-0975568637
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The Visible Ops Private Cloud Handbook both identifies and navigates through the obstacles to implementing a private cloud within the enterprise. It contains a compilation of best practices from top-performing IT organizations which will be of benefit to anyone on their journey to the private cloud. --Joel Kehle, Cloud Architect, Qualcomm
This book is one of the few things I ve seen that can directly help IT managers transform their data center from a partially virtualized computing environment into a much higher level organism, the private cloud. --Charles Babcock, Editor-at-large, InformationWeek
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- Publisher : IT Process Institute, Inc.; first edition (8 April 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 108 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0975568639
- ISBN-13 : 978-0975568637
- Best Sellers Rank: 431,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the authors
Andi Mann is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, communicator, and thought leader. For over 25 years and across five continents, Andi has built success with Fortune 500 corporations, technology vendors, governments, and as a leading research analyst and business consultant.
Andi is a sought-after commentator on business technology - published in USA Today, New York Times, Forbes, CIO, and Wall Street Journal; presented at Gartner ITxpo, VMworld, CA World, Interop, Cloud Expo, SAPPHIRE, and Citrix Synergy; participated and hosted interviews for radio, television, webcasts, podcasts, and live events; and more.
Andi has been named to Business Insider's Top Thought-Provoking Enterprise Tech Execs, Huffington Post's Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts, Gathering Clouds Top 5 Cloud Experts - Who’s Who in Cloud, SAP's Top 50 Cloud Computing Influencers, and in research firm ITSMA's Best Practices in B2B Thought Leadership.
Andi is co-author of the popular handbook, 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud'; and most recently, 'The Innovative CIO'. He blogs at 'Andi Mann – Übergeek' (http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann), and tweets as @AndiMann.
Outside work Andi is an avid sports fan who loves cycling, skiing, basketball, and rugby; he also enjoys cooking, eating, travelling, art, photography, and gaming.
Jeanne Morain is the principal researcher and consulting strategist at iSpeak Cloud.
She has held various executive roles in strategy and product management with the
Apollo Group, Flexera Software, VMware (Thinstall) and BMC Software (Marimba).
Jeanne currently advises startups and large enterprises on implementing new products
and strategies to enable excellence in the digital economy.
Jeanne has two decades of experience in systems management, virtualization and cloud computing and has participated in the implementation of solutions for millions of users
across Fortune 2000 companies. She has won numerous awards for her work, including
the prestigious International Association of IT Asset Manager’s Fellow Recipient in 2016 for her work in business service management, Lifetime Member Award in the areas of business service management, universal clients (also known as virtual desktop infrastructure), dynamic data center and virtualization. She is an author and coauthor of books on BSM, virtualization and cloud computing.
Jeanne is best known for her customer-/partner-centric approach to research and solutions. Based on her involvement in dozens of enterprise software implementations and the
lessons learned gathered through interviews with 180+ business and technology leaders,
she has developed templates, processes and prescriptive guidance that help enterprises to not only accelerate the transition to cloud but also transform themselves to compete in the digital age. She is a noted industry speaker at VMworld, Interop, CloudSlam, IAITAM, CXO events and other user conferences. She has written blogs as well as articles for trade publications. Jeanne holds a Master’s degree from Southern Illinois University and certification in ITIL. www.ispeakcloud.com, twitter @JeanneMorain
Kurt Milne is the managing director of the IT Process Institute, he oversees research, benchmarking, and the development of prescriptive guidance for IT operations, security, and audit professionals. He has more than 20 years of experience in various executive management, marketing, and engineering positions at leading technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard and BMC Software.
He was primary investigator and author of 5 major research studies from IT Process Institute on IT controls, Change config release, strategic alignment, IT governance, and production server virtualization. He has written dozens of white papers and articles on topics as diverse as semiconductor design and manufacturing, manufacture shop-floor automation, supply chain integration, IT controls, IT service management, datacenter operations, virtualization, and private cloud.
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Information gained from over 30 interviews with organizations that have implemented private cloud solutions along with ITPI research data provides the basis for the book's analyses and conclusions, although the footnotes reflect many other studies and sources as well. The 60 plus years of combined author IT process management experience is evident in their ability to take a very complex topic and distill it down to an easily digestible format.
The book starts off defining a private cloud and how it differs from a fully virtualized data center. It also discusses the three primary advantages that private clouds have over public clouds. While it should be fairly obvious that a private cloud enables a level of security and control not easily matched by a public cloud provider, much more surprising is the authors' contention that a well executed private cloud is around 30% less expensive. Private clouds also enable a degree of customization that public clouds are unable to match.
The remainder of Visible Ops Private Cloud provides a four-phased approach for implementing a private cloud:
Phase 1: Cut through the cloud clutter
Phase 2: Design services, not systems
Phase 3: Orchestrate and optimize resource
Phase 4: Align and accelerate business results
The first Appendix dives into Virtualization impact on audit and compliance, and the second covers Reducing private cloud security risks. Noticeably absent are references to specific technologies by leading private cloud companies such as VMware, Cisco and Computer Associates.
While 107 pages (including appendixes and glossary) is only enough to provide a general overview to the topic of private cloud, the four phases constitute a realistic high-level guideline for a successful implementation. I especially like the way each phase starts off with a matrix describing both the issues that are addressed along with narrative from an IT organization staff member that actually had to deal with the particular issue. The layout in general is done really well for a technical book and includes both figures and highlight emphases written with monotony-breaking cursive. Occasional cloud-based Dilbert cartoons help to further make the reading enjoyable.
Despite the book's conciseness, redundancy shows up in places such a repetition of the four implementation phases in Appendix A. It stretches a bit at times in order to provide an adequate number of bullets, and it lacks a consolidated section extolling the benefits of private cloud. The authors repeatedly insist that not all servers are appropriate for a private cloud, but they don't explain what workloads should be excluded.
These very small drawbacks, however, pale in comparison to the positives of Visible Ops Private Cloud. While I've been writing for almost two years about the issues around the phenomenon that Andi Mann coined as VM Stall, this book was particularly useful to me in providing greater insight into both the cause and remedy. Unfortunately, it was written was written too late to incorporate the CA-sponsored 2011 study, The State of IT Automation, which shows that 45% of organizations take a week or longer to provision a virtual machine, but it nonetheless gives plenty of reasons as to why the statistic should not be surprising. Adopting a private cloud not only has the capability to fulfill enterprise virtualization objectives, but to enable true data center transformation.



