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title: CTP Topic 53 Why bother with Cloud
type: cloud-learning
source-type: video
category: DevOps & SRE/10_OpenText-Series
tags:
  - Cloud
  - Strategy
  - CTP
date-added: 2026-04-14
video-source: nas:///volume2/work/Public Cloud Learning Sessions/CTP _ Topic 53_ Why bother with Cloud_.mp4
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status: summarized (Gemini 摘要)
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# CTP Topic 53 Why bother with Cloud

**Source:** NAS `/volume2/work/Public Cloud Learning Sessions/CTP _ Topic 53_ Why bother with Cloud_.mp4`

**Type:** VIDEO | **Category:** 10_OpenText-Series

**Status:** 🟡 Awaiting Whisper transcription → Summary

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## 摘要

> ## Cloud Transformation Program Update

The Cloud Transformation Program aims to consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and enable innovation across Micro Focus. The program presented its progress and plans to stakeholders, emphasizing cost reduction and increased revenue opportunities through cloud adoption.

The program addressed the extent of urban sprawl, which refers to the vast amount of infrastructure across data centers. A 2022 presentation to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) highlighted nearly 20,000 assets across 14 data centers, costing millions in power and rent alone. *Micro Focus has the world's largest commercial footprint.* Despite a $2.5 billion annual revenue, Micro Focus's VMware footprint is larger than companies eight times its size, with hardware utilization under 40%. Migrating three products out of Bublikan led to decommissioning 575 physical servers, replaced by only 240 virtual servers in the cloud. 40% of applications in Redding were simply switched off upon exit, and Houston has 89 empty racks and 360 unused servers.

The benefits of moving to the cloud extend beyond cost savings, fostering innovation and increasing revenue. Cloud adoption enables product groups to enhance their products, improve disaster recovery, and explore new markets. A cloud-first policy provides a secure and resilient platform for innovation. Accomplishments in the past year include delivering a SAS landing zone, a landing zone in Tokyo, and managing the Dart divestiture. Live customer SAS workloads were migrated out of Redding into the cloud, and a SAS region was established in Oregon.

## Landing Zones and Terminology

The program clarified its terminology, particularly the concept of landing zones. Three types of landing zones have been delivered: labs, SAS, and corporate. Labs lack direct internet connectivity and customer data, while SAS zones support customer access and data. Corporate landing zones are a hybrid, hosting internal applications without customer data. The enterprise platform includes public cloud providers (AWS), SRE, CCOE, architecture groups, automation, security, and financial control.

## Financial Oversight and ROI

A consistent account tagging framework has been implemented across 609 AWS accounts to improve financial reporting. This framework allows for tracking spending and informing product groups about their consumption. The program is also working to refine figures related to return on investment (ROI), addressing commercial contracts and software components. Cloud adoption enables product groups to be more responsive to customers and open up new revenue opportunities in new regions.

## Key Objectives and Future Plans

Major objectives for the current fiscal year include:
*   Establishing landing zones in Canada and Australia (completed).
*   Standing up a corporate IT landing zone (completed).
*   Implementing an AWS account tagging framework (completed).
*   Delivering provisioning capabilities for demos and user training (Q2).
*   Improving the AWS account creation process (Q2 & Q3).
*   Closing the UAHD data center (Q2).
*   Migrating workloads out of the classic landing zone (Q2).
*   Establishing an Azure landing zone (Q3).
*   Moving more workloads onto the enterprise platform (Q4).

Currently, 55% of AWS costs are spent outside of landing zones, lacking automation, security, and financial control. The program is also focused on utilizing cloud-native services and tools to optimize costs and efficiency. *We're trying to give them the information so that they can understand how they are spending.*


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