Naveen Noel Sr. Solutions Architect

(Dec 15th 2011)

Introduction to ZSL

Explore a clear definition for Cloud Computing

Market Landscape

Cloud Management – Introduction, Challenges

Scenario

SmartPrise Cloud Manager

SmartPrise Cloud Services – offered by ZSL

Work out of Edison, NJ.

Practice Lead of the Enterprise Computing Competency (IDEA Lab)

Handle Cloud Computing Competency – Applications

Pre-Sales and Projects

Engage current clients and bring in new clients

Key focus areas: Value Added R&D, Product Development, Product Engineering

Have been working on Cloud Technologies since early 2007

15+ years Global Technology Integrator & Business Solutions Provider,

Headquartered in Edison, NJ

State-of-the-art Technology Research & Development Centers in US, Canada and

India

4000 employees with offices in US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Malaysia,

Singapore, Middle-East and India

Dedicated R&D Division to Offer Value Added R&D Services & Product

Development Services to the ISVs and SPs

Emerging Technologies Specialization with the leading technology vendors

alignment

Pioneer in Industry Solutions Development (Insurance, Finance, E-Governance,

Consumer Electronics, Pharmaceutical & Telecom)

Award Winning & Proven Partnership Program “Get IT Together” Partnership for

ISVs, VARs, SPs and SIs

ISO and CMM Certified Solution Provider

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a

definition:

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand

network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources

(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be

rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or

service provider interaction.

In simple words: Flexible hosted resource pools delivered on the internet

On-demand Self Service – Ready to use services; minimal intervention from provider.

Broad Network Access – Access wider network services.

Resource Pooling – Pool resources on demand like Compute, Memory, Storage/disk etc.

Rapid Elasticity – Scale up and down, out and in with demand.

Measured Service – Metered Usage & Billing – Pay as you go and only for the what is used; “Opex vs. Capex.”

Multi-tenant – Usually share the platforms with others; but not always.

Public Cloud – External premises, multi-tenant, self-provisoned public service over the internet offered by vendor, available to all. Utility Computing Model.

Private Cloud – Internal or external premises, single-tenant, tightly controlled access.

Hybrid Cloud – Combination of the above – some resources private, others public; or public during heavy load, etc.

Community Cloud – A cloud infrastructure shared by similar organizations for mutual benefit. Popular with Universities and Governments.

Source - Lew Tucker, Cisco

Forrester: http://bit.ly/ijJy70

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Consolidation

Reduce Complexity

Flexibility/Scalability

Time to Market

Cost Reduction

Top Drivers for Cloud Projects

IaaS SaaS

Cost Reduction Cost Reduction

Consolidation Process Improvement

Time to Market Reduce Complexity

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Buy-In

Security

Cost

Complexity

Change/Learning

Top Roadblocks to the Cloud

IaaS SaaS

Change/Learning Change/Learning

Complexity Complexity

Cost Security

Source: TheInfoPro Final Cloud W2: Full sample, n=97. Note that due to multiple responses per interview, total exceeds 100%

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Out of the box cloud applications

Public cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Community Cloud

Security

Enterprise and/or Mission Critical

Hosted applications

Extending existing application to the cloud

Private Cloud

Storage

Virtualization

Develop New Applications for the cloud

How Organizations plan to implement cloud computing

Source: 2011 IBM Tech Trends - http://ibm.co/t1B3zA

"Cloud Management" is a loose term that means the abstraction of infrastructure resource pools and delivery of

those resources through a standardized design and operational process. To the end user this means the ability

to leverage the infrastructure pool most relevant to a project or environment rather then force fitting an

application or service into the infrastructure you already have (or have access to)

In other words: Cloud Management means 'providing value added services on top of users existing Cloud services, and empowering users to do more than is possible from a single

Cloud vendor'.

Todays IT environment – Legacy processes and policies to tools and management that are not cloud enabled yet?

Multi-Clouds – Too Many clouds, each one follows different architecture? API’s

differ (Different formats, resources, encodings), Abstractions and features differ, (Network, Storage, hypervisors) .

Too Many tools – Too many management tools doing the same (or) different things for different clouds and trying to solve the same problem “Managing the cloud”?

Orchestration of Services – The main challenge is to cobble the best of breed

services into one unified solution.

Management Consoles – Most clouds are a set of APIs and/or a simple UI to launch servers . These are basic building blocks, not a management system. Not very business friendly, needs technical knowledge.

Automation – Legacy processes and policies to tools and management that are not cloud enabled yet?

Cloud Ready Solutions – Too many management tools doing the same (or) different things for different clouds and trying to solve the same problem “Managing the cloud”?

Governance and Control – Monitoring, User Management, Accountability and Billing

Portability – So, why just run everything in one data center.

Allows users to provision, manage and control various public clouds and private cloud platforms

Helps manage users, security, financial controls, configuration management and automation across cloud infrastructures

Manages ‘Backup’ and ‘Recovery’.

Deploys applications with automated scaling, recovery, both within one cloud as well as bursting across clouds.

Protects from single cloud vendor lock-in to allow cross-cloud operations and migration.

Facilitates Disaster recovery configuration and management (sometimes).

Manages your service level requirements. Executive dashboard showing end user service levels along side cloud resource utilization efficiency.

Tracks, audits and reports for compliance.

Provision instances, when needed, stop them when not required

Provision storage

General network management – configure ports etc.

Build base Images

Backup and Restore data

Backup/Restore the database

Configure Load Balancers and Manage them

Auto-Scale or manually add worker nodes when necessary

Monitor Instance’s health and act on it.

Cost Management – Watch your meter and bill.

Configure Security of instances

Configure and manage the VPN connection between the cloud and your corporate network

Schedule many of the above tasks

Create automation scripts

Configure and manage Applications

SmartPrise Cloud Manager (SCM) A versatile Cloud Management Solution

SmartPrise Cloud Manager(SCM) is a unified

cross-cloud management solution which

Provisions, Configures, Orchestrates,

Automates and Monitors the public cloud.

Competitors ZSL

Single Cloud Support Support for Multiple Clouds like Amazon,

OpSource, Rackspace, Azure etc. (Major)

Multiple solutions have to be integrated to

form a complete cloud solution.

Available as an integrated, all-in-one or

modular solution. (Major)

Not applicable or different interfaces Single unified interface (Minor)

Focus is one or two of Provisioning,

Configuration Management, Orchestration

and Monitoring.

Focus is on Provisioning, Configuration

Management, Orchestration and

Monitoring. (Major)

More feature driven – targeted towards

Technical audience

More process driven (based on Wizards) -

– targeted towards Business and Technical

audience (Minor)

Not very cost effective Cost effective (Minor)

Feature Benefit

An All-In-One Solution for public cloud: Available as

an integrated, all-in-one solution. A Multi-Cloud

Management for public clouds.

- Support for Multiple Clouds like Amazon, OpSource,

Rackspace, Azure etc, so Organizations need not

consider a combination of products from different

vendors with the inherent compatibility and support

responsibility issues.

Provisioning: Installation of operating systems and

other software

- Rapidly setup of network installation environments..

Remote provision and manage your servers by

scripting it out and by running commands.

- Easily configure applications that require knowledge

about your entire infrastructure.

Configuration Management: Sets the parameters for

servers, can specify installation parameters

- Quickly deploy across multiple servers in the cloud

with predefined configuration, automatically, every

time.

- Simulate deployments, giving you the agility to make

small and big changes without disruption to your

infrastructure. Automatically maintain asset inventory.

- Every change is reported and SCM keeps your

systems in their desired state.

Orchestration/Automation:

Supports progressive deployment in live environments

- Automate tasks across systems and build server

orchestration or parallel job execution systems.

Primarily used as a means of programmatic execution

of Systems Administration actions on clusters of

servers.

Feature Benefit

Monitoring: Records errors and health of IT

infrastructure

- Distributed monitoring solution for your cloud. Remote any

manual intervention. Events are triggered when things go wrong.

Delegated control Delegate control to authorized users. Frees the IT infrastructure

team from the need to provision and manage every instance thus

increasing agility and flexibility.

User Interface: Very intuitive and Common

User Interface for all cloud providers.

Simple, intuitive, web based context and process aware graphical

user interface. Single point of control that can be immediately

accessed by any authorized user from any location. Easy to

understand and operate, reducing training times, and promoting

user confidence.

SaaS Model: No installation, SaaS Model No installation required for organizations. Organizations can

leverage SaaS capabilities and pay a subscription model.

Licensing: Flexible licensing Flexible licensing available, different subscription options

available through Silver, Gold and Platinum packages.

API: Simple, flexible and common API

for connecting and managing multiple Cloud

Providers.

Standards based Allows interfacing with third party products and systems,

interoperability, selection of components to corporate standards,

and rapid support of new and additional products and devices.

Applications Integration

Management Infrastructure

• Cloud-based Managed

Services

• SmartPrise Cloud Manager

(Provisioning,

Orchestration,

Configuration,

Management, Metering and

Billing)

• Private/Public/Hybrid Clouds

• Cloud Infrastructure

Deployments

• Server and Desktop

Virtualization

• Data Center as a Service

• Backup, Disaster Recovery

and Continuity Services

• Application Migration

• Application Modernization

• Migration to SaaS

• Inter-Cloud Migration

• Cloud Strategy Consulting

• Cloud Integration

• Cast Iron

• Cloud – SaaS integration

SmartPrise Cloud Services

SmartPrise Cloud Manager – NJTC’s cool products competition.

CRN Magazine names ZSL as one of the “30 Cloud VARs that GET IT.”

ZSL debuts in the Top 250 of InformationWeek 500 Top Technology Innovators Across America in 2010

SocNet wins NJTC’s 2010 Mid-Atlantic Technology Innovation Award in the IT Industry Category

PowerCube DaaS is recognized at IBM’s Lotus Awards 2010

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