Getting to the Cloud Successfully!

1. Getting to the Cloud Successfully!

2. Moderator– Kevin Dale, Rochelle Township HSD 212 Presenters: Mike Cloud, Peters & Associates Christine Haeggquist, Computer Information Concepts Francis Zelek, Oregon CUSD 220

3. The Cloud! Expression Audience Who I know What I say Publication Avatars What represent me What I share Profession Knowledge What I know Where I work iViva Opinion Purchase What I like What and how I buy Certificates Details How and where to join me Who can certify my identity Hobby Reputation FOAF What interests me What‘s said about me

4. Drivers for Cloud Computing: Lower Costs Increased ScalabilityIncreased Reliability & StabilityReduced Maintenance & Management Costs

5. Increasingly demanding environment Infrastructure Cost and Complexity 80% Rise of the Cloud of large enterprise IT managers are at least in trial stage forcloudcomputing initiatives Social Computing 4million 84% of organizations have a remoteworkforce millennialsenter the workforce each year MultigenerationalWorkforce Mobile and Distributed Workforce 70% of IT budgets is spent maintaininginflexible and siloeddata centerequipment 11% of information workers visitsocialnetworking sitesfor work

6. What We’ve Been Seeing Move to the Cloud: • Past 5 Years – Student Mgt Systems, Curriculum, Hosted Web sites, Niche software products • Past 2 Years & Now: Email systems, Anti-spam/virus, file storage, More • Leading Providers: Google, Microsoft, ….

7. Challenges in Getting to the Cloud: • Internet Bandwidth, Reliability, & Performance • Concerns about Security, and Who has Access to your Data • How do I get my data to the Cloud? • Who’s throat do I choke if I have issues? • How do I integrate multiple systems in Cloud, on premise, etc.

8. Assess, Plan, & Prioritize • Review & Assess your Key applications, usage, and compare to “Cloud” based versions. • Assess, Test, & Increase Internet Bandwidth & Consider adding Redundancy & Reduce Single Points of Failure. • Leverage Best Practices for Moving to cloud from vendors, other districts, and expert advisors.

9. Test, Pilot & Validate Before Migrating • Some cloud providers allow for evaluation and testing for 30 days or longer. • After a thorough evaluation of your options determine your best options and then conduct a pilot with a subset of your users to validate. • While doing the pilot create a detailed migration plan and if needed leverage experienced resources to assist with the migration and training. • Depending on application you may not need to do these processes.

10. Train Admin. Staff & End Users • Your I.T. staff’s role may change depending on how much you move to the cloud and they should be trained accordingly. • The more that end users can be trained and educated on usage of applications the less help desk issues you should see, and the better utilization of applications. • In some situations it may require more communication to prepare for migration to the cloud.

11. Keyboarding Online Why? Or Why not? Faster deployment Vendor supported

12. Keyboarding Online Infrastructure – Ours is 11mps in and out 1 Gig from the Datacenter to closets 100 meg from the closets to the desktop

13. Keyboarding Online

14. Cost Estimate Per Year/Student $1.00 - $10.00Applications:Email Library Food ServiceTransportationSISFinancial/HR/Payroll