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Cloud Computing for the EnterpriseJosh Fraser

VP, Business Development

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RightScale Real Customers, Real Deployments, Real Benefits

• Managed Cloud Deployments for 4 Years• More than 25,000 users; launched over 1.6MM servers• Behind the largest production deployments on that cloud to date

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1.How to think about cloud?

2.Key Considerations• Compliant environments / Certified

builds• Account management and user

control• Multi- and hybrid-clouds• Security

Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

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Application Portfolio

Requirements Filter

RightScale Resource Pools

App 1

App 2

App N

Performance

Cost

Compliance

Reliability

Private Clouds

AWS VPC

Public Clouds

Resource PoolsInternal DC

CoLo

Security

App 1

App 2

App N

RightScale for the Enterprise: “Enabling New IT”

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ServerTemplates: Built-to-Order Servers

VS.

Image bundling and maintenance

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Key Benefits: Cloud-Ready Servers •D

ynamically configure in context

Automation

•Re-use cloud assets for fast procurement

Agility

•Ease lifecycle management

Maintenance

•Inspect, clone and customize

Transparency

•Audit who, what, when

Control

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Use Cases

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Consumer Applications

• Major campaign – Transmedia• Challenges:

• Campaign initiated w/o IT• Unknown demands• Planned revisions

Many artist sites; stores

Challenges:Rapid provisioning

Unknown demands

PCI compliance

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1.Deployments

2.Resource partitioning

3.Account Management

4.User Control

DEMO – Enterprise Manager

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Enterprise Manager

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Self Service IT

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• Goals: • Self-service access … • … to multiple application stacks• … on multiple IT resource pools

• Requirements: • Use only compliant and certified builds• Access selected resource pools based on job & group• Consumption metering and tracking• Easily share best practices

Self-Service IT

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• RightScale-enable custom builds• Leverage existing custom images

• Build from scratch with RightLink tools• Ensure compliance with certified builds

Self-service IT w/ RightLink

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The IT Vending Machine

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1.Access and configure compliant builds

2.Control distribution via Publish Master

3.Enable added security with Lite User

DEMO – Publish Systems

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• THEN• Single application stack• Request a server (physical or virtual)• Install OS• Install accounts/packages• Turn over to business area• Install applications• Tweak conflicts to reach fully operational state• Repeat process for Dev, QA and Prod environments

• NOW• Multiple application stacks• Click a button … 1x, 100x, 1000x

Changing how you think about IT

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• THEN Single application stack Request a server (physical or virtual) Install OS

• NOW Multiple application stacks Click a button … 1x, 100x, 1000x

36,000 minutesto

30 minutes

Changing how you think about IT

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Multi-cloud, Hybrid-cloud

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Why Multi-cloud; Hybrid-cloud?

Many Reasons:

Geo-location

Compliance

Performance

Price

High availability

Disaster recovery

Freedom of choice / no lock-in

Better utilization

Excess capacity

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Why Multi-cloud, Hybrid-cloud?

• Global, distributed architecture• RightScale clusters operate mission critical functions

independently from one another• RightScale Gateways for Multiple Cloud OS

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RightScale Security

• Resource Partitioning

• Account Permissions

• Credential Management

• Automation

• Alerts and Monitoring

Security in the Cloud: http://www.rightscale.com/webinars

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