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How Cloud PaaS Improves Performance while Reducing Operational Costs Acquia Cloud’s Drupal Platform-‐as-‐a-‐Service

Bryan House Vice President, Marketing Acquia

August xxth, 2011

Jeff Kaplan Founder & Managing Director ThinkStrategies

Introduction

Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director

ThinkStrategies, Inc.

©2011, THINKstrategies, Inc. www.thinkstrategies.com Slide 3

Perfect Storm for Cloud Services

Macro-Market Challenges

Enabling Technologies

Shifting Customer Attitudes


Key Macro-Market Challenges Impacting Businesses

Economic Pressures

Key Challenges

Escalating Customer Expectations

Changing Workforce Dynamics

Globalization & Growing

Competition


Shadow IT & Mobility


  Deployment Challenges •  31.1% SW projects cancelled before completed. •  52.7% of projects cost 190% of original estimates.

  Operational Costs •  Maintenance & mgmt costs >10x original license fee. •  Escalating hardware & staff support costs. •  Over provisioning/under-utilization of SW licenses.

  Economic/Budgetary Pressures •  Need to reduce IT costs, increase business benefits. •  Need to increase utilization to gain greater ROI.

The Shortcomings of Legacy, On-Premise Apps


Changing Customer Needs/Expectations

Old,   Fixed, Capital Investment

  Complexity, Customization

  Centralized, On-Premise

  Top-Down Procurement

  High TCO, Low ROI

  Outsourcing Alternatives

New,   Flexible, Operating Expense

  Simplicity, Utilization

  Dispersed, On-Demand

  Bottom-Up Adoption

  Rapid Time-to-Value

  Out-Tasking Options


Why ASPs/Hosting Failed

Customer Application

ASP/Hosting Company

  Same legacy applications   Upfront perpetual license   Still inflexible architecture   Limited accessibility   Single-instance, inefficient Little perceived economic value.


Multi-Tenant Model Leverages Shared Resources

Cloud Vendor


Public Private Hybrid Community Deployment

Models

Service Models

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Essential Characteristics

On-Demand Self Service

Broad Network Access Resource Pooling

Rapid Elasticity Measured Service

Visual Model of NIST’s Cloud Computing Working Definition

http://www.csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html

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Sorting Out IaaS vs. PaaS

IaaS,

  Service Delivery Layer

  Raw storage and networking

  Load balancing, routing, and

virtualized operating systems

  Packaged & priced by metered

unit.

PaaS,

  App Development Layer

  Development tools & APIs

  Test, deploy and maintain

applications

  Provisioning & billing

applications.

Introduction

Bryan House, Vice President Marketing

Acquia

Self Hosted / Cloud / VPS “Managed” Hosting “Premium Managed” Hosting

Your Effort Traditional Hosting Options


Your Effort


Your Effort

Optimized Drupal environment

Real-‐time elasticity

Single vendor for Drupal expertise & support

Optimized Drupal Runtime •  Single or multi-‐server

deployments

•  Apache, PHP, MySQL

•  Varnish, APC, Memcache

•  Acquia Search (ApacheSolr)

•  Configured and tuned

•  Battle tested, production ready

Acquia Cloud Runtime Architecture

•  Built on Amazon EC2, SAS 70 certified platform

•  Highly available, redundant configurations

•  Shared or dedicated load balancer options

•  Fault-‐tolerant HA file system

•  Automated & manual backups

Drupal Developer Experience

Optimized Developer Experience

•  Dev, Stage, and Prod environments

•  GIT & SVN support

•  Highly automated workflow

•  CLI and API interface

Acquia Cloud Development Workflow

Code

Database

Files


Code

Database

Files


Code

Database

Files



Acquia Managed Cloud •  Target -‐ business-‐critical

sites, 99.95% uptime

•  High availability, multi-‐server configurations

•  Redundant architecture, including failover across geographies

•  Burstable, elastic resources

•  White glove support


Acquia Dev Cloud •  Target -‐ Professional

developers managing client sites

•  Single-‐server configurations

•  Multiple separate sites per server

Acquia Dev Cloud


•  Target -‐ Professional developers managing client sites

•  Single-‐server configurations

•  Multiple separate sites per server

•  Self-‐service or SLA-‐based support options

Acquia Cloud Demo

Case Studies – Acquia Cloud in Action

Case Studies – Al Jazeera

•  Site: http://english.aljazeera.net/ •  Situation: •  Traditional hosting provider

•  Experienced downtime & outages due to traffic spikes

•  News site – with live blogging – traffic is highly variable / unpredictable

•  After moving to Acquia Managed Cloud: •  Elastic environment to respond to 10x & 20x spikes in traffic

•  Tuning via application configuration & optimization changes

•  Added redundancy and backup strategy

Global PR Firm

Global PR Firm -‐ Scalability

Case Study – Global PR Firm

•  Site: Announcement website – multi-‐$B merger

•  Situation •  No Drupal hosting / performance experience

•  Expecting 20M page views

•  Unable to hit load test benchmarks

•  After moving to Acquia Managed Cloud: •  Heavy testing under load using SOASTA CloudTest

•  Performance-‐tuned application and stack configuration

•  Served 5,000 requests & 830 page views per second

•  Scaled down post launch -‐ saved $$

Drupal optimized PaaS

Elastic resources, real-‐time responsiveness

Flexible architecture

Single vendor for complete support

Questions

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