Citrix - Open Elastic Platform for the Private Cloud

Open Elastic Platform for the Private Cloud
Morgan Gerhart| Citrix Systems
02.09.2011

Virtualization
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99% of Fortune 500
200,000 customers
100M Corporate Users
75% of Internet Users
Engine of Cloud Computing
Top 5 SaaS vendor

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Profile Virtualization
Presentation Virtualization
User Profile & State
App Virtualization
App Virtualization
Desktop Apps
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop
Desktop OS
Client Hardware
Systems Mgmt
Enterprise Apps
Middleware and DB
Network Virtualization
Security
Datacenter
Network
Server Virtualization
Server OS
Storage Virtualization
Server Hardware
Storage

Separation is required for Simplicity
Virtualization = Separation
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Virtualization Enables Dynamic Delivery
(Delivery = “Late Binding”)
(Delivery = “ aaS”)

SaaS
PaaS
Virtualization
IaaS

Business Logic
Runtime
Infrastructure

It’s About the Apps
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App Experience Depends Upon Infrastructure
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Performance
Offload
Security
Availability

75% of Internet Users
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS

App Elasticity Depends Upon Infrastructure
Within a layer
Amongst layers

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Open End-to-End Elastic Platform
Network
Load balancer
SLA Driven
Container
In Memory
Session Store
Xen
Virtualization
Compute
Resources

Summary
Virtualization is about more than server consolidation
Must exist at all levels
Key to delivering “as-a-service”
App and infrastructure virtualization must align
To meet service levels
To deliver elasticity
Openness is key
Support for multiple runtimes
Support for multiple hypervisors
Support for multiple clouds
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