designing the perfect private cloud

Designing the Perfect Private Cloud

Diane MuellerDirector, Cloud Evangelism

ActiveState dianem@activestate.com

Founded 1997

2 million developers, 97% of Fortune 1000

ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster

Some customers:

About ActiveState

Take an App Centric View of the Cloud Layer Cake

“Code to Cloud” is a Process

MicroCloud

Public Clouds

Private Cloud

Production

POCs Test Staging

It’s about delivering choices…

..avoiding Vendor Lock-in at IaaS layer…

vSphere

Your Private Cloud

MicroCloud

Set Realistic Goals

Manage Expectations

Involving Key Stakeholders

and knowing your organization’s goals

Elastic Scalability Reliability & Fault Tolerance

Agility

Shared Secure Multi-tenancy

Service-oriented

Utility-based

Technical Support & SLAs

to deliver the Holy Grail on-premise!

Security & Compliance Issues Applications readiness Processes readiness Vendor Lock-in Management and Monitoring

5 Key Considerations

Maintain privacy & confidentiality

Preserve intellectual property rights

Potential intervention by foreign governments

Manage operational & commercial risks

Comply with regulatory requirementsBoth industry & jurisdictional

Security: Complex Balance Act

Business Reasons Reduce costs Business Efficiency Manageability

Why migrate to the Cloud? Technical Reasons

Performance Pooling resources Automation Scalability Standardization

Re-Engineering Effort? Performance Issues? Bottlenecks? Does it need to Scale? Is it Service-Oriented? Usage Based Billing? Web Facing?

Know your thy application!

Sits on top of cloud infrastructure to help deployment, management, monitoring of cloud applications

Why Private PaaS?(Security + Privacy + Control) = Compliance

IaaS: Hypervisor/Infrastructure(ie: vSphere, Xen, OpenStack, KVM, Hyper-V)

PaaS:LanguagesFrameworksWeb servers

Data, Messaging, Other Services

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PaaS Architecture

Large enterprise, government:

Private PaaS for large # custom apps,

security, compliance

ISVs/Systems Integrators:

Self-manage, migrate and host SaaS

applications

Private cloud/Managed

Service Providers:

Add private PaaS to IaaS for clients

Who is deploying Private Clouds with PaaS today?

Perfect Private Cloud

+ OTHERS

IaaS/Infrastructure Layer

Applications Layer

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The enterprise private PaaS

Put a PaaS on it!

Know thy applications!

Review your security compliance regulations

Deploy a PaaS layer

Monitor performance

Check for bottlenecks

Sit back and enjoy the view from the cloud!

Recap: Your Perfect Cloud Checklist

Questions?

Diane Mueller, ActiveState, dianem@activestate.com