The document discusses cloud computing as a delivery model that emphasizes on-demand self-service, broad network access, and rapid elasticity. It highlights the importance of integrating various layers of infrastructure for effective cloud management, focusing on automation, resource provisioning, and image management. Additionally, it outlines challenges and solutions for building secure and scalable cloud environments while optimizing costs and improving operational efficiencies.

1. Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure – Cloud
Enabled Data Center
Glenda Lyon
glyon@us.ibm.com

2. Cloud Computing Defined - NIST
Cloud computing is a new
consumption and delivery model
inspired by consumer
internet services.
•
Usage
Tracking
Web 2.0
SOA
Essential characteristics:
Business Service
1. On-demand self-service
It Focused
2. Broad network access
End User Focused
3. Location independent resource pooling
4. Rapid elasticity
Service
Virtualization
5. Measured Service
Automation

3. .Where customer’s are today and where they want to be
Orchestrate &
Automate Services
Across Businesses
Advanced
Cloud
Deliver Applications
Faster with Better
Quality
Reduce Capital Cost &
Increase Utilization
Entry
Cloud
Projects
Optimize the Benefits
of Virtualization
Reduced operational,
infrastructure and
startup costs
Manage image sprawl,
compliance and
visibility with less Risk
Faster time to market
with standardized and
optimized workloads
Accelerated
innovation, including
business model
Infrastructure Teams
Infrastructure Teams
Operations
OperationsTeams
Teams
Development & Operations
Development &
Teams
CIO IT Executive
CIO / /IT Executive
Operations Teams
Operational Value
Business Value

4. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

5. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

6. Challenge: Accelerate Cloud
Enable a secure, integrated cloud with rapid provisioning of compute
resources
PureFlex System
BladeCenter
System x High
Volume Rack
When clients are looking for an integrated hardware solution that forms a strong virtualization system or
foundation for cloud, with lower level management requirements.
When clients are looking for flexible and entry price point for cloud deployment to drive lowest total cost
of acquisition.
Enterprise Power
Systems
When the client desires to extend their current enterprise infrastructure to deploy a resilient, scalable
and secure private cloud for UNIX, IBM i and Linux applications.
zEnterprise
When the client desires a private enterprise cloud to achieve the highest levels of utilization, multitenancy, fine-grained usage and accounting, workload automation and security.
PureApplication
System
6
When clients are looking to leverage integration across compute, storage and networking with integrated platform,
virtualization and cloud management to most rapidly deploy cloud environments vs. having to assemble all the
elements of the cloud from components. Lead with PureFlex System when the competition is threatening to take
out an existing IBM system or when we have the opportunity to set the converged infrastructure agenda where
IBM does not have hardware incumbency.
For clients building highly automated, elastic clouds with all required cloud management for
transactional web and other application types delivered via application or system patterns for platform
as a service.

7. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

8. Hypervisors: provides the ability to divide physical system
resources into isolated logical partitions. Each logical partition
operates like an independent system running its own operating
environment
•
Xen
•
VMware
•
Microsoft
•
KVM
•
Power, etc.

9. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

10. Provisioning Solutions
Entry Level is an easy to deploy, simple to use software offering that features a self-service portal for workload
provisioning, virtualized image management, and monitoring. It's an innovative, cost-effective approach that also
includes security, automation, basic metering and integrated platform management
Advanced Provisioning and Image Management
Create Images – Simple UI tooling simplifies creation of virtual images and
deployment patterns simple UI
• Packages are reusable across different platforms
Store Images - Federated image library allows management of image complexity
across multiple image repositories and hypervisors
• Understand how which images are deployed where and how images relate
(or don’t relate) to each other
• Images stored in hypervisor-neutral format
Analyze and Manage Images - Introspect images and perform analytics to reduce
risk and duplication
• Ensure that virtual machines are created with the proper level of security
patches
• Reduce duplicate or near-duplicate images to save storage and reduce
management

11. What is an Image

12. What is Image Sprawl

13. What is Image Drift

14. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

15. Moving to Next Level
Orchestrate &
Automate Services
Across Businesses
Advanced
Cloud
Deliver Applications
Faster with Better
Quality
Reduce Capital Cost &
Increase Utilization
Entry
Cloud
Projects
Optimize the Benefits
of Virtualization
Reduced operational,
infrastructure and
startup costs
Manage image sprawl,
compliance and
visibility with less Risk
Faster time to market
with standardized and
optimized workloads
Accelerated
innovation, including
business model
Infrastructure Teams
Infrastructure Teams
Operations
OperationsTeams
Teams
Development & Operations
Development &
Teams
CIO IT Executive
CIO / /IT Executive
Operations Teams
Operational Value
Business Value

16. Think about a conductor in an orchestra…………

17. Why do we need an Orchestrator ?
1.
2.
3.
Customers are looking for end to end automation of cloud service delivery to achieve greater returns
Provisioning play a key role, but is just one of many steps that must be automated
Each customer has unique requirements to integrate with existing data center processes and tools.
VM Provisioning
Real customer
example

18. Simple Layers of Cloud
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration

19. Lifecycle Management
Image Management
Patch and
Compliance
Backup and
Restore
Cost Management
Application
deployment
Virtualized Infrastructure
Compute Domain
Network Domain
Resource Domain
Storage Domain
Monitoring and
Capacity
Planning

20. Patch Management:
Patch
Discover and analyze images for security breaches to patch endpoints for
and
Complia
over 98.5% compliance
nce
• Reduce security risk by slashing remediation cycles and reduce patch cycle time from weeks to days/hours
• Gain greater visibility into patch compliance with flexible, real-time patch monitoring and reporting from a
single management console
• Efficiently deploy patches, even over low-bandwidth or globally distributed networks reducing labor
requirements by over 75%
Storage Management for Virtual Environments:
Reduce storage footprint by 90% and improve time to value backing up thousands of VMs in
Backup
and
Restore
minutesReduce storage footprint by 90%
and improve time to value backing up
thousands of VMs in minutes
• Simplify the protection and management of data with 30% improvement in storage tier utilization
• Automate data replication to reduce labor by 36% while minimizing service disruptions and speed restorations and
backups
• Increase efficiencies and conserve resources with data de-duplication and a hierarchy of storage
• Enhance data security with advanced access and encryption features

21. Cost Management: metering and billing (showback)
Cost
Manage
ment
25% reduction in financial accounting labor cost
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•
•
•
Visibility of virtualization resource costs for invest/ divest decisions
Determine rates based on resource cost and real resource usage
Provide resource usage and enable accurate billing
Control resource supply through showback
Advanced Monitoring: Optimize availability with resource utiliztion
Monitoring
Increase visibility by monitoring physical and virtual environments and
and
Capacity
lower TCO with 75% improvement in capacity
• Gain visibility into health and performance across physical and cloud resources
• Reduce VM resource consumption by 50% with capacity planning driven by historical
performance data
• Spot bottlenecks in workload deployments and improve availability in 30% less time
• Reduce hypervisor license costs by 20% or more by consolidating VMs onto fewer physical
hosts

22. To efficiently deliver an optimized platform, service providers need to implement software
patterns
Dynamic Application Patterns:
Proven best practices and expertise learned from
decades of client and partner engagements
• Pre-defined architecture of an application or Cloud service
• Captures best practices for complex tasks
• Optimized into a deployable form for private or public cloud
• Repeatable deployment with full lifecycle management
Monitoring
Lifecycle
Management

23. Overview Architecture
Cloud Marketplace
Workflow
Service Mgmt
Monitor
Backup & Restore
Image Management
Patterns
Security/Patch
Compliance
Software Stacks
Public
Cloud
IaaS Gateway
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)
Storage
Compute
Network
Dev Tools

24. Simple Layers of Cloud = IBM
Security
Provisioning
Hypervisor
Compute
Network
Storage
Lifecycle Management
Orchestration