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Cloud Computing in the Construction Industry

By Caleb Burton

Overview

  • What is Cloud Computing?

  • Reasons for Construction Companies Moving to the Cloud

  • Cloud Computing Economics

  • Moving to the Cloud

  • Questions?

Questions?

What is Cloud Computing?

Moving to the Cloud

  • Carefully consider what you intend to move to the cloud to avoid subpar performance
  • Questions to ask yourself:
  • What your organization will move?
  • Why it will move it?
  • What the ramification of that move will be?
  • Scope the resources needed for your deployment thoroughly
  • Use capacity planning tools

  • Purchase enough resources to cover a full year of server/data

  • Determine what the costs are to add resources later

Reasons for Construction Companies Moving to the Cloud

  • Be prepared for the cultural shifts that accompany moving to the cloud
  • Flexibility
  • Ideal for those organizations looking to compete, but who have limited in-house technical resources

  • Ability to work from any location
  • Some cultural changes that cloud can bring about include:
  • Better communications between engineering and operations (DevOps)
  • Greater emphasis on sharing and collaboration
  • Reduction in redundancy
  • Greater focus on continuity of business in face of disaster
  • Greater operational efficiency
  • Less reliance on internal IT
  • More agility
  • Agility
  • Keeping IT staff (or lack thereof) trained and up to date with the latest software

  • New services can be rolled out quickly, even to remote construction sites, with little to no internal resource used for deployment
  • Cost-efficient
  • Migrate to the cloud as you would to a larger on-premises server
  • Opex not capex, reduced upfront investment, reducing risk at a difficult time in the construction industry

  • No on-going server maintenance/management
  • For the most part, the same underlying deployment and migration processes should be employed

  • The cloud doesn’t make this initial migration any easier or harder than other types of migrations
  • Scalability
  • Scale up (or down) the numbers of users or types of apps whenever you need

  • Don’t need to worry about capacity planning
  • Purchase high-quality monitoring software for your virtual environment

Cloud Computing Economics

  • Virtual/cloud environments have monitoring needs that differ greatly from traditional deployments.

  • A good monitoring system will alert you to issues before they become problems and allow you to focus on your core business and not reacting to IT issues.
  • Do your homework and know what you’re currently spending
  • All things that must be identified prior to undertaking an ROI (return on investment)
  • Define your business needs before evaluating pricing models
  • Examples:
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud would be focused on resource availability
  • Hosting clouds would emphasize scalability
  • Storage clouds would rely on fast hardware and data capacity
  • Understand the difference between CAPEX and OPEX
  • Capital Expenditures (CAPEX)

  • Operating Expenses (OPEX)
  • Apply cost benefit analysis, impact assessment, and due diligence to your cloud initiative
  • Cost benefit analysis

  • Impact assessment

  • Due diligence
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