Cloud – from Conception to Completion

Rob GeeDatacentre Architect

What is your perspective of Cloud Computing?

“Once upon a time, there were six blind men. The blind men wished to know what an elephant looked like.The six blind men all perceived one aspect of the elephant and were each right in their own way, but none of them knew what the whole elephant really looked like.”

Your definition of something may depend on your perspective…

It’s like a rope!

It’s like a wall!

It’s like a fan!

It’s like a snake!

It’s like a spear!It’s virtualisation!

It’s automation!

It’s statelessness!

It’s on-demand computing!

Cloud Computing

It’s a self-service portal!

Its “Anything as a Service” (XaaS)!

“Once upon a time, there were six IT people. The IT people wished to know what cloud computing looked like.

The six IT people all perceived one aspect of the cloud and were each right in their own way, but none of them knew what the whole cloud really looked like.”

Elephant

It’s like tree!

Infrastructure Challenges

Poor DR and BusinessContinuity

Backup

Time to Provision

Physical Datacenter

Predictability

Poor DR and BusinessContinuity

Infrastructure Challenges

Predictability Time to provision

Backup Physical Infrastructure

Options?

Bolt on Aftermarket Extension’s Marginal Gain (if any) Increased Management

and Cost

Refresh Infrastructure Same Service Same Challenges Maybe Different Badge

Move to a Cloud Model Innovation Validated Infrastructure SLA Driven Reduce Cost / Service

Improvement Delivered via “As a

Service” models

Cloud Models – Logicalis Portfolio

Private Cloud FlexPod VSPEX

VPDC LVPDC

Shared Dedicated

Compute-as-a-Service

Public Cloud AWS Azure

- Web Apps & Test / Dev.- Application Resilience- Commodity Cloud

- Traditional Applications- Infrastructure Resilience- Off Premise Cloud / SP

- Traditional Applications- Infrastructure Resilience- On Premise Cloud

Workload Centric

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Strategic Value

ApplicationSilos

Zones ofVirtualization

Public CloudPrivate Cloud

Categorise requirements based on business needs

CRM Dev/Test

IT Apps

Custom Apps

App requirements unique to silo Dedicated and optimized hardware Static environment

Application Silos

Core IT application consolidation Moderately dynamic No self-service requirements

Zones of Virtualization

Noncore applications Adapt to dynamic demands Self-service and pay as you go Readily available cloud services

Public Cloud

Core-defined services Highly dynamic Self-service and metering

Private Cloud

Place Workloads in the Right CloudWorkloads Placement

Hosted Cloud

Workload Groups(Based on Attributes)

Compatibility

Service Levels

Protection

Levels

Security

Time To Market

Financial

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Test / Dev

Workload Assessment - SampleRequirements Metric Private Cloud Hosted VPDC Public CloudCompatibility x86 - Intel ✓ ✓ ✓Service Levels 99.9% Uptime ✓ ✓ ✓Protection 30 Daily Backups, DR ✓ ✓ ✗Security / Trust Model On Premise ✓ ✗ ✗Scalability N/A - - -Financial $ ✓ ✓ ✓

Requirements Metric Private Cloud Hosted VPDC Public CloudCompatibility x86 - Intel ✓ ✓ ✓Service Levels 99.9% Uptime ✓ ✓ ✓Protection 30 Daily Backups, DR ✗ ✓ ✗Security / Trust Model Australian Data Sovereignty ✓ ✓ ✗Scalability Yes ✗ ✓ ✓Financial $ ✗ ✓ ✗

Requirements Metric Private Cloud Hosted VPDC Public CloudCompatibility x86 - Intel ✓ ✓ ✓Service Levels 99% Uptime ✓ ✓ ✓Protection 30 Daily Backups ✓ ✓ ✓Security / Trust Model No Data Sovereignty ✓ ✓ ✓Scalability Yes ✗ ✓ ✓Financial (No commitment) $ ✗ ✗ ✓

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Challenges- Inadequate DC- No Disaster Recovery- Over extended IT Team- DC Infrastructure at capacity- Desktop Management

Initiatives- Wants to remove Tape (effort)- Wants to offer Ops services to

other organisations- Implement Virtual Desktops

(future)

Requirements- Scalable platform aligning to

business demand- Data Remain in Australia

Reduce Risk- Data Centre Facilities- Implement DR

Scalable Platform- Meet business demand

Operations- Reduce Ops effort

Financial- Impending DC

Infrastructure Upgrades

Hosted Cloud

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

Next Steps

Cloud Advisory Service- How do I determine what

applications are good for cloud?

- What type of cloud?- How do I compare cloud costs

to my current enterprise costs?- What is our reference

architecture?

Meeting with SA- Deeper Cloud Discovery- Cloud Presentations- LVDPC Demonstrations

It’s all about the right Cloud for each workload.