The Accelerate to Cloud keynote will help you understand the current state of cloud adoption, identify the business value for your organization, and provide you a framework to plot your course to cloud adoption.
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Today’s Agenda!
11:00
Accelerate to Cloud
Ted Lewis, RightScale, Regional Director
11:30 Demo: Agility in a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise
Vijay Tolani, RightScale, Cloud Solutions Engineer
12:00 "Lunch
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1:00
1:30
Real-World Stories from the Road to Cloud
Alex Krikos, SunGard, Director Cloud Services Product
Management
"Discussion – Q&A
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Global Cloud Management Service!
Midwest
Chicago
London
Amsterdam
Seattle
Dublin
Oregon
NYC Area
SF Area
Tokyo
DC Area
Shanghai
Southeast
Las Vegas
Hong Kong
Hyderabad
Singapore
Dallas
São Paulo
Private Clouds
Sydney
Public Clouds
Amazon Web Services
Tata
Datapipe
Logicworks
Windows Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Rackspace
HP Cloud
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IDCF / Yahoo! Japan
SoftLayer
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3 Steps to Accelerate Your Cloud!
1
Get Out Your Map
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Pick Your Destination
3
Plan a Route
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What a Difference a Year Makes!
Launched
Goes OpenStack
GA
2012!
Apr
Jun
Launched
Open Sourced
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Aug
Oct
2013!
Dec
Adds Australia
Feb
Apr
Jun
vCHS GA
Grizzly Released
Aug
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Hybrid Matures!
All of the Above
Multi-public
15%
No plans
7%
Multi-private
15%
Single public
11%
Multi-cloud
77%
Hybrid cloud
47%
Single private
5%
Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013
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Evolution of Hybrid Architectures!
From a Portfolio of Resource Pools…
…to a unified Resource Pool.
Public Cloud!
App 1
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App 2
Private Cloud!
App 3
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App 4
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Our View of Cloud Management!
A framework of tools to solve cloud challenges and increase your
ability to enjoy cloud benefits
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Consistency and reliability of shared, commodity resources
Secure access to a variety of remote, networked resources
Self-service accessibility of an approved configuration menu
Elastic, instantaneous scalability driven by automation!
Usage transparency and optimization!
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The Core Cloud Management Toolset!
• Resource management
• Compute, network, storage
• Configuration & service management
• Configuration management
• Service catalog
• Governance
• Policy management
• Identity and access management
• Usage and cost management
• Automation
• Resource monitoring and alerting
• Automated scaling
• Deployment orchestration
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What Business Value Do You Want?!
Increase Enterprise Agility
Faster Time to Market
Accelerate Innovation
Fail (or Succeed) Fast
Drive Operational Efficiencies
Cut Infrastructure Costs
Reduce Overprovisioning
Increase IT Efficiency
Expand Markets & Capabilities
New Geographies
New Capabilities
Web-Scale Applications
Increase Investment Flexibility
CapEX to OpEX
Reduce sunk costs
Reduce lock-in
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Driving Business Value from Cloud!
Agility
Efficiency
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New Markets and Products
Changing the Financial Model
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Agility at Pearson!
Requirements:
• Large scale, 3M+ students
• Single-tenant SaaS
• Multi-cloud
• Fast customer POC & onboarding
Solution:
• Clone-able, customizable
environments
• Consistent dev and production
environments
• AWS and Rackspace
• Ability to easily pilot and test
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What is Pearson Doing?!
Our Goals
• A test-bed for automation and integration
• A showcase for transformation
Our Objectives
• Push-button deployment
• Automated integration into existing management tools.
• Asset Management
• Monitoring
• Configuration and Software Deployment
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Using RightScale!
• Integration Bus model
• RightScale brokers the APIs
• Simple hooks: RightScale provides the hooks
• Loose binding: Pearson owns most of the logic
• Cross cloud support
• Templates
• Images
• API (almost)
• Easy to shift the integration points
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Efficiency at Samsung SDS!
Requirements:
• Private cloud offering by ‘central
IT’ to business units
• AWS-like and AWS-integrated
• Low latency for data replication
Solution:
• Hybrid OpenStack & AWS cloud
• Additional ‘Availability Zone’ for
cost, HA, and performance
• Unified management with
RightScale
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New Markets at Intercontinental!
• Targeted Consumer Website for China
• Global Training Environment
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Using RightScale!
• Consumer site and training sites use auto-scaling to run
efficiently
• Minimizes the number of administrators needed to run these
environments
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Opex at American Girl!
Requirements:
• 10x load increase after Christmas
• Quickly deploy infrastructure to
meet a marketing deadline
Solution:
• Scale 10 days in advance to
ensure capacity can handle load
• Stable system that does not need
to be actively managed
• Increased utilization and decrease
costs using AWS and RightScale
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Where to Start: Segment Your App Portfolio!
ROI
Nightmare
• Monolithic
• Hairball
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Traditional
• Legacy
• Standard
technologies
Elastic Web
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Web
architecture
Elastic design
Cloud-Ready
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Greenfield
Designed for
cloud
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Evaluating Applications for the Cloud!
• Business impact
• Should we put this app on the cloud?
• What benefits will we get?
• Technical requirements
• Can we put this app on the cloud?
• How much will migration or build out cost?
• Choose the best ROI
• High business impact
• Appropriate technical requirements
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Business Impact: Framework Sample!
App 1
Business Impact
Fast time to market
Experimental
Demand fluctuation
Transitory/Time limited
Many instances
Many changes
DevOps/CI
New geographies
New capabilities
OpEX is desirable
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App 3
App 4
App 5
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Rank Your Apps to Prioritize!
Refactor
Quick Wins
Business Impact
App 3
App 5
App 4
App 6
App 1
App 2
App 8
App 9
App 7
Don’t Migrate
Hold Off
Technical Fit
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4 Common Starting Points!
Marketing Campaigns
Self Service Test & Dev
Mobile Apps
Batch Processing
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Your Cloud Team: Org Implications!
Create a cloud team with a mix of new and existing talent
Evaluate existing processes, tools are only part of the story
Focus on business drivers – agility, efficiency, new markets, opex
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A Cloud Itinerary!
• Lay out your cloud strategy
• Understand your Business Value Tracks
• Develop your goals, what you want to accomplish
• Determine how you will evaluate success
• Select applications and use cases based on ROI
• Start with the best, not the worst, technical fit
• Align to meaningful business impact
• Favor greenfield and cloud-friendly applications
• Get started
• Stand up an application on a public cloud
• Run a POC private cloud
• Start using tools that will make scaling your cloud strategy easier
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