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Brett Cross, General Manager – Technology

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Launched 12 March 2015

All losing Instant tickets

Weekly Draw 9 Winners

Entry Via App Or Desktop

Custom Built Bespoke Solution

Performance

6.5% of Tickets Sold

50% Under 30

60% Entries via Mobile

Average Tickets Per

Player 6

30% Of Players 2nd Chance

Only.

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Frontend Launch 2010 – Silver Stripe CMS (PHP)

Backend Launched 2008 – GTECH ESI

Bespoke Implementations of Subscriptions, 2nd Chance & Mobile

Results Checker.

Struggling with customer demand (Mobile Especially)

Changes to platform are incredibly costly

Very high administrative overhead

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Business Perception we are not on the cloud and need to be there

Our reference infrastructure architecture does not deliver value

Licencing model becoming very costly

Physically consolidated – Logically Complicated

Administration very manual – No automation or scripting

Governance not in place to stop sprawl / tactical design

Problem: Our Private Cloud is not delivering the benefits it could.

IBM Maintenance Costs Up 20 – 30% PA

Forced Hardware Refresh’s

Administration Overhead

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Problem: Current Infrastructure Architecture (Blades & SAN) uneconomical

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Solution: Replace Blades with “Pizza box” Hosts

Selected Super Micro Over IBM, CISCO and

HP

Significantly Reduce Administration Over

Head

All stateless servers using internal disk

Depreciate over 3 years then replace

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Problem: Our environment is time consuming to manage, change is to manual

and does not suit desired model of continued delivery / agile.

Problem: Licencing Model is costly and does not suit scaling

Increasing OPEX Costs

Slow turn around time for change

Administration Overhead

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Web ServerMobile Web

Server

Web Services Mobile Web Services

ApplicationServer

Middleware

DatabaseServers

12 Servers

8 Servers

3 Servers

3 Servers

3 Databases

6 Servers

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Solution: Orchestration and New Private Cloud Platform

Selected OpenStack and VMWare

Native support for Docker

Great Operational Tools and Security

ZFS – SSD Caching , Compression, Deduplication,

Snapshots etc

Selected over Puppet

Far simpler to use and much faster

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Clone or Build from Snapshot

Automatically Assigns Profile

Automatically configures network

No Scripting, Server up In minutes

Web Server

Web Server Single Script ensures all configs are

correct and packages are installed

Powerful, Simple and Fast

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We have a lot of data

We have a lot of integration points

We have a lot of environments

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Problem: Testing and Development environments have far greater storage

requirements than production. Not being able to supply full data sets impacts

on the quality of testing.

Problem: Due to storage constraints and administrative time to restore we do

not have some integration points in our testing environment. Issues are often

not discovered until we release into production.

Number of Environments and Storage

requirement increasing.

Refreshing environments with production data

takes a long time

Administration Overhead of maintaining full time

testing environments.

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Solution: Copy Data Protection solutions that provide backup, cross site

replication and the ability to spin up multiple environments based on the

same image.

Selected over Delphix & CommVault

Single point solution, appliance based

and storage agnostic.

Support for Public Cloud replication

Ability to quickly run up multiple

environments, with only a fraction of the

storage requirement.

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Web Server

Web Services

ApplicationServer

DatabaseServers

SnapshotDR Snapshot

Base Snapshot

TEST 3TEST 2TEST 1

Difference Is the Delta

Environment can be

wound back to point in

time.

Process Can be

Orchestraed

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!

Brett Cross, General Manager – Technology