IT-as-a-Service Planning and Design (MR-1CP-NPITAAS)

This course is intended for those responsible to assess, architect, and design ITaaS cloud solutions.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have knowledge and skills associated with the following:

• Five or more years of design experience in compute, network, and storage, including the design of virtualized infrastructures in support of key cloud attributes.
• Understanding of services lifecycle, cloud delivery and service models concepts.
• Strongly recommended pre-requisites include the actual certifications or skills equivalent to VCP, CCDA, and EMCDA certifications. To achieve Expert level certification, the specialist level certification (EMCCA) is a requirement.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the IT-as-a-Service business transformational model
• Perform an IT-as-a-Service assessment and propose a service delivery roadmap
• Recommend and design an IT-as-a-Service service delivery model
• Design and defend an IT-as-a-Service solution

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives. The following focus areas are included in this course:

• Module 1: Transforming to IT-as-a-Service
  • It-as-a-Service Model Introduction
  • Business Transformation
  • Organizational Transformation
  • Architectural Transformation
• Module 2: Strategy – Discover & Assessment
  • Assess GRC – Security
  • Assess current Service Management strategies
  • Initial Financial Analysis & Business Case – current CAPEX and OPEX IT expenditures (application or workload view)
  • Assess current and potential Service Delivery
  • Rationalize Service Portfolio
• Module 3: Organization and Governance
  • Organizational plan
  • Governance plan
• Module 4: Planning and Design: General Considerations
  • Cloud Readiness – transform VDC to ITaas
  • Analyze current VDC maturity to determine infrastructure transformation for an ITaaS to support/enable the development of service offerings
• Module 5: Planning and Design: Cloud Building Blocks
  • Sizing efforts for cloud infrastructures
  • Calculating and defining requirements for compute, network, and storage
  • Cloud sizing to support a given application environment and business needs
  • Data protection requirements and needs
  • Various design examples
• Module 6: Planning and Design: Trust and Security
  • Trust and security considerations for cloud environments
  • Security concerns, APIs, and practices
• Module 7: Planning and Design: Service Lifecycle
  • Service creation and definition
  • Provisioning and managing resources in a cloud environment
  • Service deployment
  • Service termination
• Module 8: Planning and Design: Cloud Application Design and Futures
  • Elements of cloud design
  • Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
  • Future considerations for cloud/ITaaS environments

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participants.