designing the perfect private cloud
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Please join the editors of Develop in the Cloud and special guest Diane Mueller, blogger and cloud expert, as we discuss what goes into designing the perfect private cloud. Diane is ready to talk about OpenStack, private platform-as-a-servce, ROI, and the economics of clouds. Bring your experience, questions, and concerns nd we'll see where the discussion goes from there. Thursday November 15, 2012, at 1:00 pm Eastern, 10:00 am California time: http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=258633&piddl_invid=1060&piddl_inviteepuserid=372392 Hope to see you there!TRANSCRIPT
Designing the Perfect Private Cloud
Diane MuellerDirector, Cloud Evangelism
ActiveState [email protected]
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
Beh
ind
the
firew
all
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
+ O
THER
S
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
