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These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About This Book ...................................................................................... 1 Foolish Assumptions .............................................................................. 1 Icons Used in This Book ......................................................................... 2 Beyond the Book ..................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1: Your Workloads, Your Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Traditional IT Architectural Options .................................................... 4 On-premises infrastructure ........................................................ 4 Managed service providers ........................................................ 5 Hosting and colocation ............................................................... 5 Private Cloud Features and Capabilities .............................................. 6 The Public Cloud: Panacea or Not? ...................................................... 7 The real and perceived benefits of public cloud ..................... 8 Public cloud operating models explained ................................ 9 Bringing IT All Together: Hybrid IT .................................................... 10 Chapter 2: Hybrid IT Critical Success Factors . . . . . . . . 13 Identifying the Problems with One-Size-Fits-All Infrastructure ....... 13 Maintaining Performance Prerequisites............................................. 14 Containing Workload Runtime Environment Costs .......................... 15 On-premises ............................................................................... 15 Public cloud................................................................................ 16 Corralling Infrastructure Control ........................................................ 16 Scaling to meet business demand ........................................... 17 IT-as-a-Service ............................................................................ 17 Safeguarding the Organization ............................................................ 17 Centralizing security control ................................................... 18 Internet of Things/Device proliferation .................................. 18 Keeping IT legal: Ensuring regulatory compliance ................ 19 Chapter 3: IT's All about the Workloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Assessing Workload Infrastructure Needs ........................................ 21 How application architecture drives cloud adoption decisions ................................................................ 21 Why the network is the public cloud's Achilles heel ............ 22 Defining the right mix of infrastructure: Public, private, traditional ................................................................ 23 Understanding Workload Locality ...................................................... 23 Supporting legacy applications ............................................... 24 Cloud-native application development ................................... 24 The role of bursting ................................................................... 25