managing web content in the cloud with drupal
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Managing Web Contentin the Cloud with Drupal
Bryan House"Vice President, Product Marketing"Acquia"@bryanhouse"
Jess Iandiorio"Sr. Dir., Product Marketing "Acquia "@jessiandiorio"
October 11th, 2012"
Why Use the Cloud to Manage Content?
Solution – Drupal Management Suite"
Timing is Everything!
• Macro-market challenges"• Enabling technologies"• Shifting attitudes"
Legacy, On-Premise Approaches Fall Short"
• Deployment challenges"
• Operational costs"
• Predictability and reliability"
• Economic and budgetary pressures"
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Changing Expectations in the Business"
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Fixed, capital investment Complexity, customization Centralized, on-premise
Top down IT-led procurement High TCO, low ROI
Outsourcing alternatives
Old approach
Changing Expectations in the Business"
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Old approach
New approach
Fixed, capital investment Complexity, customization Centralized, on-premise
Top down IT-led procurement High TCO, low ROI
Outsourcing alternatives
Flexible, operating expenses Simplicity, utilization
Dispersed, on-demand Bottoms up adoption Rapid time to value Out-tasking options
Why Traditional Hosting Approaches Fail"
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Customer Application"
Why Traditional Hosting Approaches Fail"
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Customer Application"
Hosting Company"
Same legacy issues Upfront perpetual licenses
Same inflexible architecture Limited accessibility
Single-instance, inefficient Little gain in perceived value
Cloud Approach Results in Greater Agility and Focus"
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• Rapid provisioning"• Burstable, elastic resources"• High performance global
delivery"• Optimized out-of-the-box"
Multiple Deployment Options"
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Platform as a Service"(PaaS)"
Multiple Deployment Options"
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Platform as a Service"(PaaS)"
Software as a Service"(SaaS)"
Multiple Deployment Options"
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Software as a Service"(SaaS)"
Platform as a Service"(PaaS)"
Traditional Hosting options"
Multiple Deployment Options"
Acquia Cloud"
A platform-as-a-service
Built on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud
A highly-available, elastic hosting environment
Acquia Cloud: Elastic Resources"
Dec Nov Oct Sept Aug Jul
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.010 Users hitting your site
Over Plan!Over Pay!
Under Plan!
Expected Outages!
Acquia Plan!No Failure!
Options!
Acquia Cloud: Regions"
AWS Regions!
US West!(Northern California)"
US East!(Northern "Virginia)"
Europe!(Ireland)"
Asia Pacific!
(Singapore)"
Asia Pacific!(Tokyo)"
US West!(Oregon)"
South !America!(Sao Paulo)"
GovCloud!(US ITAR "Region)"
Acquia Cloud: Developer Workflow"
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"
Infrastructure & Application Health!
Acquia Operations Team!
Security Scanning Third party tools
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"
Security Scanning
Acquia Security Team!
Infrastructure & Application Health
Third party tools
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"
Third party tools
Customer Team!
Infrastructure & Application Health
Security Scanning
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"
Self-hosted!1!
DIY !
Your effor
t
Storage, Network!
Traditional Managed Hosting!
2! Acquia !Cloud!
3!
Server Hardware!
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"
Traditional Managed Hosting!
2!
DIY !
Your effor
t
Operating System!
Storage, Network!
Self-hosted!1! Acquia !Cloud!
3!
Server Hardware!
Database!
How is Acquia Cloud Different?"Acquia !Cloud!
3!
HA Web Servers!
HA File Systems!
HA Reverse Proxy!
Drupal!
Self-hosted!1! Traditional Managed Hosting!
2!
Operating System!
Operating System!
Server Hardware!
Database!
Storage, Network!
Acquia Network "Ultimate Drupal Site Management Solution"
Knowledge"
Tools"Support"
Answers I need
“Answers I need...”
800+ Articles"
1000+ FAQs"
500+ Podcasts, Webinars and Videos"
and more to come!"
Support that has my back
Acquia Support: 24X7 Safety Net
Support that follows the Sun"
24X7 Safety Net
World class team of Drupalists for support and coaching"
Located in North America, Europe and Australia"
Reactive and proactive support"
Ticket-based, SLA response"
Automated site monitoring"
Backup services"
Tools I can use
Acquia Network Marketplace Add-ons Acquia Tools! Third Party Tools!
Learn!
Optimize!
Extend!
Drupal application management
Drupal SEO configuration
Powerful search, as a service
Managing Content In The Cloud Effectively
• Flexible, operating environment"
• Utilization, on-demand"
• Rapid time to value"
• Focus on competitive advantage"
• Match deployment model to business needs"
Acquia is Hiring"• Do you love working with Drupal?"
• Acquia is hiring in North America and Europe"• Engineering"• Design"• Client Advisors"• Sales and Marketing"
http://acquia.com/careers
Questions"
Acquia"• For more information visit: http://www.acquia.com"• Follow us: @acquia and @drupalgardens"• Contact us: [email protected] or 888.9.ACQUIA"
Today’s slides & webinar recording will be posted to:"http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars"