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Kevin Clarke
Director Cloud Platform
Engineering
Cloud of Tomorrow

2. Independent Architecture
Multi-tenant / Dedicated
What are Clouds?

3. Independent Architecture
Multi-tenant / Dedicated
What are Clouds?
Different Controls

4. “The hard stuff”
What are Enterprise Applications?

5. What’s Difficult?
Security
Dependencies
Management + Performance

6. Protecting Servers
What’s Difficult?
Security

7. Protecting Data
Protecting Servers
What’s Difficult?
Security

8. Infrastructure
Stack
What’s Difficult?
Dependencies

9. Updates/Patches
Lifecycle
What’s Difficult?
Management
Triggers:
- Cloud Update
- Virtualization
- Drivers
- Agents
- 3rd Party SW
- OS
For every VM deployed

10. Consistency!
Storage & Networking
What’s Difficult?
Performance

11. The Cloud of Tomorrow
More
Security
Performance
Guarantees
Configurable
Networking
Flexible
Environment

12. Security
Isolation is Key
Dedicated IaaSMulti-Tenant IaaS
Hypervisor Storage Network Applications

13. Performance Guarantees
Quality of Service
Control
Better than
or equal to…
The
Data
Center
Provisioning
Mechanisms
Compute & Storage
Control
Manage
Performance
Virtually

14. Advanced Networking
Arbitrary restrictions lifted
Broader set of options (L2/L3), NICs, Subnets, F/W, LB
User driven decisions

15. Environment Flexibility
Business
Processes
Tools Templates
Management
Practices
Drivers
Your choice of…
Simplified infrastructure management
… independent of the choices of your cloud provider.

16. The Cloud of Tomorrow
Control & Choice Go Back to the User!

17. Q & A