Accion Labs - Rackspace - How can cloud help you?

HOW CAN CLOUD

HELP YOU? Gerhard Pretorius – Cloud Architect

Rackspace Asia

What We Hear From CIO’s / CTO’s

REDUCE DELIVERY TIME TO BUSINESS USERS

LOWER INTERNAL COST & COMPLEXITY

AVOID VENDOR LOCK-IN

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Keep Up with the Competition

You are behind your

competitors

Mark

et

expecta

tions

Time

Typical Change

Management

Continuous Integration

& Deployment


The IT Transformation:

Focus on Innovation Less on Operation

Source: Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2012


How can Cloud Help?


RACKSPACE® HOSTING | WWW.RACKSPACE.COM

Traditional IT Provisioning takes time . . .

Cloud Provisioning happens instantly.

Own the Base Rent the Peak

Tra

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Time – 1 YEAR

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Public Cloud Burst


Capacity that Follows Demand


Be an Innovator


FOCUS YOUR BUSINESS

WITH MANAGED CLOUD

Gerhard Pretorius – Cloud Architect

Rackspace Asia

Cloud is for…


Google Search Trends

Red Hat IIS Apache MySQL

What got us here?


Google Search Trends

PowerShell GitHub NginX MongoDB

Won’t get us there


Cloud is introducing new tools

Automation & Orchestration

• Chef

• Puppet

• PowerShell

Integration & Deployment

• Jenkins

• Hudson

• Gerrit

• Github

Code Management & API Tools

• Cloud APIs

• API Wrappers

• Nova Client

• Supernova


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DevOps is about people, process, and technology producing outcomes

Release once per month Release once per day

Dev/Ops Creates a Continuous Delivery Model

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Refactoring for Cloud is a Reality

Cloud is about people, process and technology

producing outcomes

How do you succeed?

Open And Standard Technologies

Avoid vendor lock-in

Use a Hybrid Strategy

Combine Dedicated, Public Cloud and Private Cloud

Start well! Start with Managed Cloud

Start with a provider that offers a Managed Services approach

to help you with your initial Cloud Projects


How Cloud Computing is Consumed

DIY MODEL MANAGED SERVICE MODEL

• Deep expertise to design and solution

based on application profile and

criticality

• Decades of support to solve problems

and operations to keep you running

• Portfolio of options ensuring mission

critical apps never fail

• You figure out how to scale – In house Architects

• You figure out how to design for failure – In house Devs

• You monitor, you respond, you fix – In house support & ops


Cloud Adoption is Entering Mass

Market

2.5% INNOVATORS

13.5% EARLY

ADOPTERS

34% EARLY

MAJORITY

34% LATE

MAJORITY

16% LAGGARDS

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Creation of monitors specific to your infrastructure’s needs, with 24x7 response to alarm conditions by Rackspace Cloud Engineers

MONITORING AND

RESPONSE

Access 24x7 to Support Engineers when you need them – and when your business is depending on it

24 X 7 CLOUD

ENGINEERS

CODE DEVELOPMENT

ASSISTANCE

Developer guides alone aren’t enough – need access to experts to ensure your code is leveraging interfaces (e.g. APIs, SDKs) to the fullest

Apply cloud provider’s security expertise to your workload to help identify potential vulnerabilities and enable more secure deployments

SECURITY

EVALUATION

ARCHITECTURE

ADVISORS

Move beyond ‘one size fits all’ reference architectures – use experts to help tailor your workload architecture to your exact needs

Managed Cloud Services

We ensure that your Cloud Servers are maintained up

to date with the latest patches and updates to keep

your environment running at its best.

PLATFORM

MAINTENANCE


What lies beneath?

Cloud Service

SERVICE PROVIDER Billing & Metering Service Mgmt. Financial Modeling Lifecycle Automation Config./ Asset Mgmt Workload Optimization Virtualization Scalable Capacity Data Management Business Continuity Provisioning

INTERNAL IT Mission critical activities Change the business activities

True innovation

WORKLOAD


Hybrid Cloud

• Public cloud + private cloud + dedicated servers

• Working together as one

• More familiar environments, less need to re-architect

• Run apps where they run best

• Better performance, reliability, security and economics

DEDICATED

PUBLIC

PRIVATE


USE CASES: ENTERPRISE HYBRID

Hybrid Cloud Example


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