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Is Private Cloud Right for Your Organization
1. Is Private Cloud Right for Your Organization?A 5-Step Litmus Test Dave Roberts Vice President, Strategy dave.roberts@servicemesh.com Company Twitter: @servicemesh Personal Twitter: @sandhillstrat
8. Global presence with headquarters in Los Angeles and offices in Austin, London, New York, Sydney, and Washington D.C.2 3X revenue growth in 2010 3rd consecutive year of profitability
9. “I Heard There’s No Such Thing as Private Cloud” Some large cloud service providers want to force the world into a one-size-fits-all, public cloud model. Anything that challenges that public cloud world-view must be attacked. FACT: Every G2000 enterprise that ServiceMesh is working with is building private clouds. FACT: The TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC) has defined requirements and a working group that encompasses private cloud (enterprise-grade IaaS). 3
10. The World is Multi-Dimensional 4 Excess Capacity Sellback AWS EC2 Public Internal ITorService Provider Savvis Private Internal External
11. Private vs. Virtual Private Public cloud vendors are retrenching and offering “virtual private cloud” Characteristics Shared infrastructure Private access via VPN Rich networking functionality Private IP address space makes it appear as part of the enterprise data center Question: Why would they do such a thing if private cloud didn’t exist? Answer: Because enterprises are demanding more than public clouds. But they want to leverage the infrastructure across multiple customers for higher efficiency. 5
15. Drive price arbitrage between providersVirtual desktops (Day) Grid nodes (Night) Dev and test environments Dev and test environments Grid nodes (Day) Internal Private Cloud External Public Cloud
32. 6000 desktop workloads per compute rack 48 blades for a total of 576 cores. Standard memory config is 96 GB/blade, high end config is 192 GB/blade. Two 10 Gbps switches, each with 480 Gbps of network bandwidth. 100 TB of raw storage capacity and 500 GB of memory. Other reference implementation metrics and technical specs are available.
36. Creating Internal Private Cloud SKUs 17 Don’t forget this!Use it to fund maintenance, upgrades, continual development, and support.Think like a service provider. Run it like a business! Private Cloud SKU Price Internal Markup SKU Cost SKU Capacity Aggregate Pod Capacity
37. Understanding Contestability Explicit Goal: Make your private cloud earn its keep. To do this, you need to seek opportunities for “contestability” You want competition between your own private offering and others Other offerings might be other internal private clouds! Don’t create a private cloud and run it poorly! Don’t waste money on something that isn’t competitive Don’t settle for poor service 18
38. 19 Private Cloud Results Deploy Fast: Scale Faster: Provisioning with private cloud: 4 minutes Minutes Automated policy enforcement Start using it Self-service portal Provisioning with virtualization only: 3-6 weeks Number of simultaneous server instances provisioned IT approval Provision VM and configure VM request Start using it Provisioning with hardware procurement: 12-18 weeks Hardware requisition Procurement approval Hardware arrives Rack in data center Start using it Setup platform/ application * Reference implementation test results, Nov 2010
Notes de l'éditeur
Elevator Pitch: ServiceMesh has been around since 2008 (really late 2007). If you wanted to really to simplify it… we’re a software company in the Cloud Mgmt space… although that’s a very limiting description. More accurately, what ServiceMesh really does is help large enterprises adopt what we call “Agile IT operating models”. (Cloud is part of this…but its much more than just cloud… which I’ll explain shortly). What this allows them to do is drastically reduce the money and resources consumed by their current IT operations and infrastructure, and instead redirect it so IT can become more innovative, more adaptable to business change, and even enable new business models. The way that we do that is by providing advisory services and a product platform that fully governs and manages federations of SaaS, PaaS, internal and external clouds providers to create an “everything-as-a-service” IT environment that is more agile and cost effective than what enterprises are using today. Our GTM approach is to lead with a series of (what we call) pre-packaged IT optimization strategies, that are basically solution accelerators, that provide a low-risk entry point…. and customer build upon these as stepping stones in a path toward this larger operating model transformation.As a company, we’ve been working on these challenges since 2008 with large enterprise customers…before cloud computing became such an overused buzzword. And we feel fortunate to have gotten a good head start on where IT is headed today with cloud… particularly from an enterprise perspective. Our customers are Global 2000… most with very complex, highly regulated, competitive environments….. Some with annual IT budgets exceeding $1B.The ServiceMesh team itself has acquired expertise in several areas working with these enterprise accounts. Not just in cloud technologies… but also IT strategy, architecture and design, platform integration, security, governance, organizational change management, and so on.ServiceMesh itself is a global company. We have customers in NA, EMEA, and AP. Austin is Dev center. LA contains a good portion of the exec mgmt team.
The considerable governance and lifecycle mgmt capabilities in the Agility Platform enable many of the core capabilities we just discussed. Those same capabilities are also critical for other cloud use cases. The Agility Platform is designed to provide a unified platform to govern and manage all of them. This provides additional benefits to manage the placement and schedule of all of these workload deployments.
Cost per VMCost comparisons to EC2Capacity unit optimizationVM density optimizationAutomated provisioningAuto-scalingDynamic security configurationThe physical infrastructure that include CPU, network, storage, and memory. The virtual environment runs on top of the CHP hardware and supports the IaaS and IPaaS offerings with interface with the security and management layer The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. CHP is optimized forPricePerformance (both bare metal and virtualized hosting)Rapid deploymentReduced complexityOptimizedfor virtualization, stateless computing, and hosting a large number of instancesDesigned for high density, low power and minimal heatThe same model can be used both internally and at external hosting providers, but it is not a requirement for the external hosting provider to utilize the architecture in order to provide computing supportThe IaaS offering can be either internal hosted or external hosted, and the compute support offering is the same under either model. Under the external private compute model, the hosting provider owns, manages and controls the underlying infrastructure, but CBA retains control over the OS, storage and deployed applications.CHP is deployed in modular units on standardised commodity hardware.The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. It does not necessarily define specific virtualisation software or underlying hardware manufactures.
Cost per VMCost comparisons to EC2Capacity unit optimizationVM density optimizationAutomated provisioningAuto-scalingDynamic security configurationThe physical infrastructure that include CPU, network, storage, and memory. The virtual environment runs on top of the CHP hardware and supports the IaaS and IPaaS offerings with interface with the security and management layer The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. CHP is optimized forPricePerformance (both bare metal and virtualized hosting)Rapid deploymentReduced complexityOptimizedfor virtualization, stateless computing, and hosting a large number of instancesDesigned for high density, low power and minimal heatThe same model can be used both internally and at external hosting providers, but it is not a requirement for the external hosting provider to utilize the architecture in order to provide computing supportThe IaaS offering can be either internal hosted or external hosted, and the compute support offering is the same under either model. Under the external private compute model, the hosting provider owns, manages and controls the underlying infrastructure, but CBA retains control over the OS, storage and deployed applications.CHP is deployed in modular units on standardised commodity hardware.The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. It does not necessarily define specific virtualisation software or underlying hardware manufactures.
The physical infrastructure that include CPU, network, storage, and memory. The virtual environment runs on top of the CHP hardware and supports the IaaS and IPaaS offerings with interface with the security and management layer The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. CHP is optimized forPricePerformance (both bare metal and virtualized hosting)Rapid deploymentReduced complexityOptimized for virtualization, stateless computing, and hosting a large number of instancesDesigned for high density, low power and minimal heatThe same model can be used both internally and at external hosting providers, but it is not a requirement for the external hosting provider to utilize the architecture in order to provide computing supportThe IaaS offering can be either internal hosted or external hosted, and the compute support offering is the same under either model. Under the external private compute model, the hosting provider owns, manages and controls the underlying infrastructure, but CBA retains control over the OS, storage and deployed applications.CHP is deployed in modular units on standardised commodity hardware.The CHP defines an optimised, standardised, high density, virtual infrastructure hosting configuration which is designed to meet price /performance benchmarks. It does not necessarily define specific virtualisation software or underlying hardware manufactures.