Adrian Hobbins, Exponential-e CTO, describes how network virtualisation produces greater business agility for cloud connectivity

1. Adrian Hobbins, Cloud Connectivity &
Network Virtualisation

2. Is Your Network Design the Weak Link in Cloud Computing?
“Through 2013, at least 60% of enterprises will
experience slow or inconsistent application
performance issues from externally placed
applications, due to improper network design”.

3. Cloud Connectivity: Carefully does it
“Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier to
the adoption of Cloud services”.
“But experience of Cloud highlights that in reality connectivity
can be a significant challenge”.

4. Telecom’s Central Role In Cloud Computing
“Without a robust communications layer, the concept of
cloud computing is a nonstarter”.
“All three dominant flavors of cloud computing –
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service
(SaaS), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) – depend on fast,
efficient, reliable communications”.

5. “The network is often the forgotten
piece in the rush towards
virtualisation”.
“Raising the importance of the
network in the consciousness of the
business, is not an easy task……
The business just doesn’t get it”
Clive Longbottom, head of research at Quocirca

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• Typical Enterprise Environment
– Mixture of legacy bare metal servers.
Internal – Some newer virtualised servers.
applications
and databases – Mixture of internal disks, database
Corporate
WAN
servers and dedicated SANs.
– Off-site tape backups.
– Insatiable demand for more computing
Off-site power and more storage.
Tape
Off-site Backups
Replication

7. Public
Internet The Enterprise Server LAN is
augmented with elastic computing
power and data storage in a
Cloud Data Centre
By extending services using VPLS
and Layer 2, applications and
Internal databases appear local.
applications
and databases
Corporate
WAN
Exponential-e seamlessly extends the
enterprise server LAN into a Hybrid
Cloud.

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Physical to Virtual
(P2V)
App App App
OS OS OS
Corporate Ultra Low Latency Connectivity
WAN
Supplementary Storage
and
Storage Mobility

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Additional Compute
and
Application Mobility
App App App App App App
OS OS OS OS OS OS
Corporate Ultra Low Latency Connectivity
WAN
Supplementary Storage
and
Storage Mobility

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Self Service
Monitor and Control
via Customer Portal
App App App App App App
OS OS OS OS OS OS
Corporate Ultra Low Latency Connectivity
WAN
Enterprise IT staff remain in control of
their IT environment and can configure
cloud based resources.

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Dual Cloud Data Centres offers
even higher system availability
and SLAs
Primary Alternate
Corporate
WAN
Data Security & Privacy Issues Resolved
All servers, databases & applications sit on the
clean side of your firewall.

12. On-Net data centres in the UK
Telecity PowerGate Telia Cromwell Road
Telecity 8/9 Harbour Exchange
Telecity Meridian Gate SunGard LTC
Telecity Williams House
Telecity Sovereign House Level3 Goswell Road
Telecity IFL2 (Manchester) Level3 Braham Street
City Lifeline Telstra LHC
Equinix Airport Gate LD2 Global Switch 1
Equinix Finsbury Pavement LD1 Global Switch 2
Equinix Park Royal LD3
Equinix Slough LD4 &LD5 Scolocate Edinburgh
Interxion Hanbury Street Sentrum Woking
Telehouse North Iomart (Paul Street)
Telehouse East
Telehouse West Virtus Enfield LON1

13. On-Net data centres with 10Gig Cloud connectivity
Telecity PowerGate Telia Cromwell Road
Telecity 8/9 Harbour Exchange
Telecity Meridian Gate SunGard LTC
Telecity Williams House
Telecity Sovereign House Level3 Goswell Road
Telecity IFL2 (Manchester) Level3 Braham Street
City Lifeline Telstra LHC
Equinix Airport Gate LD2 Global Switch 1
Equinix Finsbury Pavement LD1 Global Switch 2
Equinix Park Royal LD3
Equinix Slough LD4 &LD5 Scolocate Edinburgh
Interxion Hanbury Street Sentrum Woking
Telehouse North Iomart (Paul Street)
Telehouse East
Telehouse West Virtus Enfield LON1