Evolving Infrastructure and Management for Business Agility - Sukanta Biswas, Consulting Solution Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Practice, Red Hat India 8 October 2015

1. Evolving Infrastructure and
Management for Business Agility
Sukanta Biswas
Consulting Solution Architect,
Infrastructure & Cloud Practice, Red Hat India
8 October 2015

2. Your world is changing
You Need a Continuous
Competitive Advantage
Everyone is a Software
Company
Your Competition
is Everywhere

3. You’re under pressure from all sides
Deliver applications faster
Reduce
Costs
Compete with
Public Cloud
providersTransform to a
digital business
Improve security
Get more control
Simplify the user
experience

4. There is helpful advice everywhere . . .
The Cloud will save us!
No, Big Data!
Move to DevOps!
It’s all about Containers!
IoT is the answer!

5. There is no box for this

6. There is no quick fix for this

7. You live in a bimodal world
VirtualPhysical
By 2017, 75% of IT organizations will
have gone bi-modal in some way
Private
Public
Mode 1
Mode 2

8. How do I make IT more relevant to
developers and the business and improve the
services we provide?
How do I keep track of all our VMs and data,
and get better control of my environment and
budget?
How do I deliver a more flexible and
scalable IT environment for my users without
a huge budget increase or physical buildout?
How do I move to a more agile development
and operations process while aligning more
closely with the business?
COMPLEXITY
AGILITY
RELEVANCE
SCALABILITY
ACCELERATE
DELIVERY
OPTIMIZE
INFRASTRUCTURE
DELIVER PUBLIC
CLOUD-LIKE SERVICES
MODERNIZE
DEVELOPMENT & OPS
Top pains we are hearing . . .

9. Everyone is at a different stage in the journey
Optimize
Integrate
Automate
Accelerate
Achieve
Agility
Innovate
Virtualize

10. Open Source is driving innovation

11. But you have existing assets to leverage
Virtual PrivatePhysical Public
Infrastructure: Hardware
Infrastructure: Software
Application Platforms
Applications
Security Management
Middleware

12. Large Engineering Investment
Difficulty Integrating Disparate
Projects and Supporting
Lifecycle
Not the Core Business
INNOVATION
According to the Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
76% of clouds are built on open source technologies
Enterprise Support
Input into New Features
Tested, Stable, Certified
Rapid Bug Fixes & Predictable Lifecycles
Advanced Functionality
X
X
X
X
X
INTEGRATION
Yesterday’s choices

13. High Price Tag
Vendor Controlled Innovation
High Exit Cost due
to Proprietary Model
INTEGRATION
According to Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
54% indicated that integrating and protecting their cloud infrastructure is their primary challenge
INNOVATION
Yesterday’s choices

14. Large Engineering Investment
Difficulty Integrating Disparate
Projects and Supporting Lifecycle
Not the Core Business
High Price Tag
Vendor Controlled Innovation
High Exit Cost due
to Proprietary Model
INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION
Well Integrated to Reduce Investment
Access to Open Innovation
Delivers De Facto Standards for
Enterprises
An Alternative

15. Red Hat meets you where you are
3rd Party Infrastructure Hardware
3rd Party Infrastructure
Software
3rd Party Application Platform
Third Party Applications
3rdPartySecuritySolutions
Red Hat CloudForms & Satellite
Management Solutions
3rd Party Middleware
3rd Party
Management
Red Hat OpenShift
Application Platform
Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Red Hat OpenStack
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
RedHatSELinux,IdMandother
securityproductsandservices

16. “Mode 1 IT organizations should look to
DevOps as a bridge to a Mode 2
orientation by continuing to assess
where other patterns and practices of
DevOps can enable a Mode 1
environment to deliver better service to
customers”
DevOps in the
Bimodal Bridge (April 2015)
Virtual PrivatePhysical Public
COMPLEXITY
AGILITY
SCALABILITY
RELEVANCE
Environments Delivered in Minutes Instead of Days or Weeks
Implement Policy Driven Automation to Increase Efficiency
Create More Agile Development and Operations Processes
Programmable and Scalable Infrastructure and Platforms
Helping you bridge the gap
Mode 1 Mode 2

17. Service
Management
Request
Developer
VI Admin
Task
Time
(Minutes)
Create Virtual Machine 30
Add Storage and Networking 30
Queue Between Teams 120
Install Operating System 60
Wait After Install 60
Configure Operating System 90
Install Application Platforms 90
Configure Application Platforms 45
Queue Between Teams 120
Security Configuration and Scan 90
Active Work Time 5 Hours 15 Minutes
Total Time 10 Hours
Sys Admin
Sec Ops
“What Networks should this be on?”
“Do you really need 16GB?”
“What version of Java again?”
“What goes into this config file?”
“This is not configured securely”
“This version is insecure”
Head of
Operations
The Head of Development is complaining that
developers are waiting to get development
environments and it’s slowing time to market
My administrator and security operations teams
made a few mistakes
Example: Accelerating Service Delivery

18. Service
Management
Request
Developer
Sys AdminVI Admin
“Approve”
Request Request
“Approve”
Service
Designer
Catalog Item
Creation
VI and System
Requirements
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Environment
Automation
Sec Ops
Request
“Approve”
Security
Requirements
Developer
Environment
Requirements
Example: Accelerating Service Delivery

19. Service
Management
Request
Developer
Task Time (Minutes)
Create Virtual Machine 1
Add Storage and Networking 1
Queue Between Teams 60
Install Operating System 5
Wait After Install 30
Configure Operating System 3
Install Application Platforms 4
Configure Application Platforms 5
Queue Between Teams 90
Security Configuration and Scan 2
Active Work Time 0
Total Time 21 Minutes
Head of
Operations
Reduced Human Error
Removed Active Work Time
Cut Total Time By >95%
Example: Accelerating Service Delivery
with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure

20. http://www.redhat.com/en/resources/g-able-improves-resource-allocation-red-hat-solutions
“We used to require around 60 days
from a physical server request to the
actual installation. With Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and support
through Red Hat CloudForms,
provisioning now is almost 95% faster
than it used to be.”
WORATHEP ARAMKUL
CLIENT MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, G-ABLE
https://www.redhat.com/en/files/resources/en-rhcf-union-bank-12308517.pdf
“Our internal experts were spending too
much time managing inefficient
processes. We needed a solution that
would help us standardize and automate
these processes so we could reduce our
time to market for new applications.”
DON O’CONNOR
MANAGING DIRECTOR
TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS
“We have eliminated manual processes
and bottlenecks by leveraging
automation. Delivery of new application
environments which used to take weeks,
now takes a few hours.”
FRANK VENDITTI,
CHIEF INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
UNION BANK
Accelerating Service Delivery: Customers

21. Head of
Operations
“How can I use commodity servers to create pools of computing and storage to control costs at scale?”
“How can I provide a distributed asynchronous architecture for massive scalability?”
“How can I deploy, and update this cloud infrastructure securely and without causing outages for tenant workloads?”
“How can I manage a federated cloud infrastructure and use information on utilization to forecast future needs?”
“How do I bring enterprise manageability features to a cloud infrastructure platform like chargeback, quotas, and control
policies?”
Network
Compute
Storage
$$
Network
Compute
Storage
$$$$$
SCALE-UP
Financially and Technically
Unsustainable
DO-IT-YOURSELF SCALE-OUT
Complex and Incomplete
Network-Service
Compute-Service
Storage-Service
Chargeback
Self-Service
Audit
Control Policies
C C C C
S S S S
N N N N
Control Policies
Network
Compute
Storage
??????
Example: Delivering Public Cloud-like Services

22. Head of
Operations
Reducing Cost with Commodity Hardware
Massively Scalable Distributed Architecture
Deploy and Update Securely while Ensuring Tenant Uptime
Forecast Capacity Requirements based on Utilization
Deliver enterprise functionality required for private cloud
ENTERPRISE GRADE SCALE-OUT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Consumable and Complete
Chargeback Self-Service Audit
Control
Policies
Workflow
New York London Tokyo
Operator
Operator Operator
Network-Service
Compute-Service
Storage-Service
C C C C
S S S S
N N N N
Network-Service
Compute-Service
Storage-Service
C C C C
S S S S
N N N N
Network-Service
Compute-Service
Storage-Service
C C C C
S S S S
N N N N
Example: Delivering Public Cloud-like Services
with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure

23. Provided a unified cloud environment with
the functionality and scalability benefits of
Amazon, which was seen as a viable
alternative for internal teams
Internal private cloud provides increased
security and protection from security
threats and data breaches
Control of environment allows for
leveraging existing hardware purchases
Secure and controlled Infrastructure as a
Service environment for agile computing
Improved reliability using a highly
available architecture and design
Structured approach to integrating private
and public Infrastructure as a Service
Delivering Public Cloud-like Services: Customers
Global Insurance
Company
Leading South
American Bank

24. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Value for YOU
● Not a rip and replace solution
● Flexible path to cloud and
current infrastructure
optimization
● Only integrated solution with
Virtualization, OpenStack,
Management and OS
● Future proofs investment
● Cost effective

25. Next Steps
1. Align with Business: What are the top business goals?
2. IT Reality Check: Where are you and where do you want
to go
3. Set Priorities: What’s the right next step. Remember, it’s
a journey.
4. Set Success Metrics: Can everyone agree on what
success would look like?
5. Work with Trusted Partners: Like Red Hat!

26. Thank you

27. Red Hat Forum 2015
Energize Your Enterprise

28. Hybrid Management
Red Hat CloudForms

29. Systems Management
Red Hat Satellite

30. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform

31. Virtualization
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

32. With experts to help you along the way