Getting to the Cloud Successfully!

Moderator– Kevin Dale, Rochelle Township HSD 212 Presenters: Mike Cloud, Peters & Associates

Christine Haeggquist, Computer Information Concepts

Francis Zelek, Oregon CUSD 220

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Drivers for Cloud Computing:

Lower CostsIncreased Scalability

Increased Reliability & StabilityReduced Maintenance & Management Costs

11%of information workers visit

social networking sites for work

Social Computing Infrastructure Cost and Complexity 70

%of IT budgets is spent maintaining inflexible and siloed data center

equipment

4millionmillennials enter the workforce each year

MultigenerationalWorkforce Mobile and Distributed

Workforce84

%of organizations have a remote workforce

80%of large enterprise IT managers are at least

in trial stage for cloud computing initiatives

Rise of the Cloud

Increasingly demanding environment

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, ….

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keyboarding OnlineWhy?

OrWhy not?

• Faster deployment• Vendor supported

Keyboarding OnlineInfrastructure –

Ours is 11mps in and out1 Gig from the Datacenter to closets

100 meg from the closets to the desktop

Keyboarding Online

Cost Estimate Per Year/Student $1.00 - $10.00

Applications:Email

Library Food Service

TransportationSIS

Financial/HR/Payroll