Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
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What are the benefits and disadvantages to each solution? Why might a business choose public over private cloud, or hybrid over public or private? Is there a “best” cloud solution?
Here in this presentation, we’ll take a look at these questions in an attempt to help organizations that are still in the process of choosing the best solution for their business.
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Download the deliverable: http://www.cloud-council.org/resource-hub
This is basically about the hybrid cloud and steps to implement them, starting from what is cloud, hybrid cloud to its implementation. Hybrid Cloud is nowadays implemented by many organisations and transitioning a traditional IT setup to a hybrid cloud model is no small undertaking. So, one should know about it and how it is implemented.
Public vs private vs hybrid cloud what is best for your business-Everdata Technologies
What are the benefits and disadvantages to each solution? Why might a business choose public over private cloud, or hybrid over public or private? Is there a “best” cloud solution?
Here in this presentation, we’ll take a look at these questions in an attempt to help organizations that are still in the process of choosing the best solution for their business.
Webinar presentation March 3, 2016.
The CSCC deliverable, Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing, contains prescriptive guidance for the successful deployment of hybrid cloud computing. The whitepaper outlines the key considerations that customers must take into account as they adopt hybrid cloud computing and covers the strategic and tactical activities for decision makers implementing hybrid cloud solutions as well as technical considerations for deployment.
Download the deliverable: http://www.cloud-council.org/resource-hub
This is basically about the hybrid cloud and steps to implement them, starting from what is cloud, hybrid cloud to its implementation. Hybrid Cloud is nowadays implemented by many organisations and transitioning a traditional IT setup to a hybrid cloud model is no small undertaking. So, one should know about it and how it is implemented.
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Business disadvantages using cloud computing exist. This report summary outlines the most important need to know disadvantages related to using cloud computing.
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Know more about Grazitti Salesforce services, visit http://goo.gl/5jJYJ
Sample of workshop given at CloudAsia 2012. Workshop is 700 slides, so this is just a small sample to give a feel for the content, depth and independent approach.
Recent economic pressures have resulted in increased requirements for the availability, scalability and efficiency of enterprise IT solutions.
Many parties claim that “cloud computing” can help enterprises meet the increased requirements of lower TCO, higher ROI, increased efficiency, dynamic provisioning and utility-like services.
However, many IT professionals are citing the increased risks associated with trusting information assets to the cloud as something that must be clearly understood and managed by relevant stakeholders.
This presentation examines the potential business benefits, risks and assurance considerations.
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Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing
1. Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid
Cloud Computing
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
2. I 2
• Cloud Computing Overview
• Research & Trends
• Cloud Solution Requirements
• Where to Get Started?
• Integrating With Existing Environments
Agenda
3. I 3
Predicting The Future
When he saw a
demonstration of the
telephone in 1880, a
U.S Mayor declared:
“One day every town in
America will have a
telephone!”
4. I 4
Predicting The Future
133 years later…
Over 100 million total
smartphone users in
America
5. I 5
Innovation Is Accelerating…
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
YouTube is born
Apple launches
movies on iTunes.
The beginning of
the end for movie
stores
2012
Google buys
YouTube
Facebook
opens up
The world
starts tweeting
Google Books starts
scanning the world’s
literature
The iPhone
is born
Obama’s campaign
grows $21M - $150M
using social media
1 of 8 couples in
the US getting
married met online
Cloud computing
goes mainstream
Over 2.1 billion
global internet
users
Facebook has over
800M active users
Wikipedia grows to
25M+ pages
2M sold
in
24 hours
iPhone 5
6. I 6
The Future Is Now
The internet revolution
changed everything…
Shop
Date
Conduct business
Consume media
Pay our bills
Conduct research
Learn
Collaborate
Cloud computing will too…
“Unlimited” capacity
On-demand
Self-service
Increased collaboration
Pay-as-you grow
Faster innovation
Increased agility
Next generation of
products & services
7. I 7
• Compute, Storage, and Networking Resources
• Delivered as a service
• Self service access via web interfaces and APIs
• Provision / release resources in minutes
• Pay for usage model
What Is Cloud Computing?
7
18. I 18
Top SaaS Applications Used
“What are your firm’s plans to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) to
complement or replace the following applications?”
Top categories:
>30% adoption
Next group of
SaaS solutions:
20% to 30%
Base: software decision-makers at firms with 20+ employees who currently use or are planning to use each
application; Source: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2012
22. I 22
Cloud Segments Are Converging
SaaS
› Fixed application
› Defined structures
› Singular purpose
› Look and feel
customizations
IaaS
› Virtual infrastructure
› OS/MW configuration
› Network and storage
definition
› SaaS extensions
› Customization tools
› Integrations
› Developer services
› APIs
PaaS
› Application container(s)
› App life-cycle mgmt.
› Development tools
23. I 23
Private, Hybrid, or Public Clouds?
Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort
Thorough analysis required to identify cloud computing benefits
By Neal Weinberg, Network World
October 19, 2011 10:00 AM ET
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Enterprises should consider public cloud services first
and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.
That was the advice delivered by analyst Daryl Plummer during Gartner's
IT Symposium Tuesday. Plummer says that there are many potential
benefits to deploying cloud services, including agility, reduced cost,
reduced complexity, increased focus, increased innovation and being able
to leverage the knowledge and skills of people outside the company.
24. I 24
Hybrid Cloud Architecture
24
Your Infrastructure Public Cloud
Multi-VPN via IPsec
On-Premise
Virtualized Resources
Cloud-Based Virtual
Environments
25. I 25
• Some enterprise workloads are ideally suited for
in-house; some are ideal for cloud delivery
• The hybrid cloud becomes a secure, IT managed
extension to your existing internal IT infrastructure
• Hybrid clouds provide the best of both worlds
– Elasticity, on-demand, self-service nature of public cloud
– Security, control, and visibility of on-premise resources
Why Hybrid Cloud?
26. I 26
IT Workload Management
• Contextual for IT operations
• Limited IT resources
• User managed changes
• 30% of the environment
70% of change requests
• Core to IT operations
• Dedicated IT resources
• IT managed changes
• 70% of the environment
30% of change requests
Predictable Dynamic
• Enterprises are moving dynamic workloads to the cloud
• Cloud model provides for dynamic capacity management
• Automation solutions decrease IT support burden
DynamicPredictable
Source: Customer interviews
27. I 27
Cloud Computing – Where to Start?
27
Anatomy of aAnatomy of a
Dynamic WorkloadDynamic Workload
• Unpredictable capacity needs
• Frequent change requests
• Requires collaboration
• High costs
Leading DynamicLeading Dynamic
Workloads forWorkloads for the Cloudthe Cloud
• Development and Testing
• Software Demos and Evaluations
• Virtual Training
The cloud is ideal for your dynamic workloads
Common challengesCommon challenges buildingbuilding
internal infrastructureinternal infrastructure
• Slow to provision
• Difficult to change
• Challenging to share
• Costly to maintain
28. I 28
Business Benefits of Cloud Computing
28
IncreaseIncrease business agilitybusiness agility
ReduceReduce time to markettime to market
ShipShip better products fasterbetter products faster
BoostBoost productivity across teamsproductivity across teams
LowerLower your costsyour costs
30. I 30
• Define requirements up front
• Difficult to change the outcome if requirements change
• IT infrastructure rarely changes during long dev/test cycles
Typical Software Development Life-Cycle
DesignDesign
Deploy & SupportDeploy & Support
DevelopDevelop
TestTest
6 to 12 month development and test cycle6 to 12 month development and test cycle
Requirements
Shippable software
Testable software
31. I 31
• Short release cycles which deliver customer value
• Welcome changing business requirements
• Collaboration with business and customer stakeholders
Agile Development Model
31
Design Develop
Test
Ship Ship
Customer
Problem 1
Customer
Problem 2
Customer
Problem 3
Design Develop
Test
Design Develop
Test
3 to 6 week release cycle3 to 6 week release cycle 3 to 6 week release cycle3 to 6 week release cycle 3 to 6 week release cycle3 to 6 week release cycle
33. I 33
• Ordering and provisioning requests take weeks or longer
• Lower priority than production operations
Infrastructure Challenges with Agile Development
33
Slow to
Provision
Slow to
Provision
Difficult to
Change
Difficult to
Change
• Difficult to change and recycle hardware once ordered
• Not easy to re-configured Memory, CPU, Disk
High CostHigh Cost
• Costly to maintain state of the art dev/test hardware
• Costly to duplicate production environments
• Capital expense vs. Operating expense
Difficult to ShareDifficult to Share
• Sharing environments or “copies” of environments with remote
teams or customers is not practical
• Reproducing complex bugs requires snapshots of full environments
35. I 35
Rapid Provisioning
1 day
2 to 3 weeks
In-house data based on customer input
Days
• Quicker Release Cycles
• Faster Time to Market
• Positive Business Impact
• Quicker Release Cycles
• Faster Time to Market
• Positive Business Impact
Time liberated to focus
for strategic priorities
35
38. I 38
• No up-front capital expenditure
• Pay for use model
– Allows for simulating production environments
Lower Cost
38
39. I 39
Putting the Agile into your Infrastructure
39
Agile development adoption is accelerating
Cloud computing offers significant
advantages for development and
test workloads
40. I 40
• Can I import my existing VMs/configurations into my cloud
service provider “as is”?
• Do I have to write/rewrite my application to a new/specific set
of APIs? If so, will I be “locked in”?
• Can my cloud service provider handle complex networking and
muti-tiered environments?
• Can end users access the cloud resources from any browser?
Also RDP; SSH clients?
• Am I comfortable that my cloud environment is secure? My DC
to cloud; users to cloud; not exposed to the Internet unless I
want it to be…
Integrating With Existing Infrastructure
41. I 41
• Self-service and ease of use
• Visibility and control
• Fast on-demand provisioning
• Complete complex environments vs. VMs
• Designed for teams vs. individuals
• Hybrid/public cloud architecture
Key Things To Look For
42. • Cloud transformation is underway
• Take a holistic view
– Private infrastructure
– Private cloud
– Public/hybrid cloud computing
• Cloud computing enables best of both worlds
– In-house private clouds/data centers for business critical
– External hybrid/public clouds for dynamic workloads
Summary
43. Thank You!
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
bgoodwin@skytap.com
44. Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid
Cloud Computing
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
Editor's Notes
Your slide. Title says it all.
First, a quick side not on “What is cloud computing?” There is so much hype in the industry it is worth just defining what I mean by this. First, it is about compute (virtual machines), storage, and networks. These are the resources that make up dev, integration, test, staging, and production environments. Second, they are delivered as a service. You may have heard of Infrastructure as a Service. This is essentially the heart of cloud computing. The service is available from both web interfaces and APIs in a self service manner. Cloud computing is characterized by the ability to provision apparently infinite resources in minutes vs. hours. The reverse is true, resources can be returned to the pool in minutes so that they can be repurposed. Finally, the business model is pay for use, operating expense vs. a purchase/capital expense where you pay for the resources regardless whether they are being used or not.
Slide Purpose/Objective: Define what is a dynamic workload, reinforce leading Skytap Cloud use cases, and tee up the Skytap differentiators slide Talking Points: Now that I’ve introduced you to the Skytap Cloud, which was designed to make the process of supporting dynamic workloads fast, easy and secure, let’s spend a for moments talking about why the cloud is ideal for your dynamic workloads . First, what are the common characteristics of a dynamic workload? Dynamic workloads often present businesses a range of challenges making them difficult to manage and maintain in an efficient, cost-effective fashion. By their very nature, dynamic workloads are difficult to resource since they have unpredictable capacity needs due to fluctuating demand which may require increased scale at a moments notice. For example, a product development process enters into the latter stages of performance testing or an IT training class for your new product offering is exceeding registration numbers. In both these examples, IT would either need to have spare capacity handy and idle or would need to rapidly procure, prepare and provision new equipment to meet these demands. In today’s volatile economy, few businesses are willing to plan and purchase IT resources based on a forecasted “high-water mark” of demand, only to have these equipment sit underutilized. Requires frequent changes to applications and underlying infrastructure , as experience with the growing adoption of Agile development processes, is a second characteristic of a dynamic workloads. Users, such as a developer, can be frustrated having to wait for operations to “load up” the next build of their project. This not only results in stalled progress, but could increase the risk to quality if adequate testing cycles are stymied by slow, manual processes. Adding to this, it is not uncommon—in cases like product demos or virtual training—where entire multi-machine environments need to be repeatedly setup and torn down at a rapid pace. Continuing on the theme, dynamic workloads are ones that experience high demand for sharing and collaboration . Whether it is sharing between in house development teams and contracted test resource or enabling a customer to interact with the proof of concept environment you’ve built out to demonstrate your product’s fit, trying to securely yet easily collaborate with multiple parties is no small task, involving opening up access over the Internet amongst other requirements. Lastly, all of these conditions mean one thing: higher costs . Whether your users need to collaborate with partners across the office or around the world, need complex virtual data centers “spun up” to triage a newly discover product bug, or your new product is driving increased demand for demos, you’ll find yourself spending a lot of time and resources just to keep up. <CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDE ANIMATION> And, it is not uncommon for businesses to attempt to build out virtual lab infrastructure on-premises in an effort to address these ranging demands dynamic workloads can place on IT. However, there are a number of challenges and risks associated with this approach: It can been tough to keep up with the often times breakneck speed and user demand for fast turn around on infrastructure requests. Being too slow risks application delivery and once you’ve setup an environment, it’s very likely changes will be requested. And, while you may struggle with keeping pace, users will often seek ways to share these virtual environments with collaboration partners within your company and outside. Do you have the mechanisms in place to address these needs in a secure, scalable and timely fashion? Again, costs can add up quickly and these are many of the reasons customers, like yourself, have turned to cloud-based computing solutions to handle these dynamic workloads. <CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDE ANIMATION> This is why Skytap focuses on dynamic workloads which are ideal candidates for cloud computing. Great examples of these, and why many leading companies like Symantec, TrainSignal, BinaryTree and CommVault have turned to Skytap Cloud, include: Development and testing, especially those who are embracing Agile development Software demonstrations and product evaluations (or proof of concepts) as part of a sales cycle And, after a sale is closed, training your new customers on these technologies (or even your own teams) By now, I suspect you can clearly see why the cloud is perfect for these types of dynamic workloads
Slide Purpose/Objective: Clearly articulate the business value (core value proposition) Skytap Cloud delivers to customers Talking Points: Skytap Cloud provides companies, like yours, with a fast , easy and secure way to use cloud computing to accelerate your business. By mixing the best of what cloud computing can offer with the advanced automation and self-service capabilities of the Skytap Cloud Intelligent Automation Platform , you will experience: Increased business agility to keep pace with the ever changing dynamics of today’s markets, stay ahead of competitors, and support bursts in demand Reduced time to market thanks to the flexibility to quickly meet the often fluctuating needs and frequently changing requirements of your users, especially for those who have embraced methodologies like Agile development The ability to ship better products and do to so more quickly because you have an elastic sandbox to test your new products rapidly, at scale and across multiple platforms and configurations. Find a bug? Simply snapshot and share the environment to give developers an easy way to triage and get to the root cause without slowing down productivity A boost to productivity across teams whether through secure collaboration or training your sales team on the latest functionality, all from the convenience of an intuitive, browser-based interface. And, lowered costs by not having to worry about having enough capacity on hand (which could be underutilized due to fluctuating demand) or the having to spend extra cycles managing it to keep pace with requests
To set the context, describe a traditional software development lifecycle. This is called the “waterfall” method of development as you can see by how it is typically diagramed, as the water runs down the phases. It is characterized by defining requirements up front so you know what you are building, then doing the development, then testing, etc. Typically long development cycles sometimes years. Infrastructure is usually provisioned up front and rarely changes throughout the process. Very hard to react to changing requirements and often projects complete that are way of the mark originally set many month ago.
Agile methods on the other hand are characterized by short release cycles focused on solving specific customers problems and delivering software at each iteration. The short cycles (typically weeks) allow teams to quickly react to changing requirements. The focus on delivering smaller, more incremental changes to customers allows teams to get feedback from customers and then quickly iterate. You may also here this method discussed as “iterative development” We use this method at Skytap with “4 week iterations”. Unlike waterfall methods, there is increased pressure using Agile to deploy/ship features and as such there is more likely hood of infrastructure changes being made more frequently than in water fall method.
So, if you are using Agile development methods. What does that mean for your infrastructure requirements and for operations of that software? The weakest link in the chain from development to test to operations may become the infrastructure as your teams deliver more features faster. Let’s look at the challenges development teams using agile may face.
Development teams face big hurdles when they need new infrastructure. Clearly ordering hardware, having it shipped, unpacked, installed in the racks, and configured can take weeks to months. This is the state of many IT organizations. Projects using waterfall methods can deal with these delays, but not agile development teams. Even companies that are fully virtualized, tend to take 24-48 hours to provision a new virtual machine. On top of all that development/test teams tend to take second priority to keeping the lights on in produtions. Q: How many of you are happy with how quickly your IT organizations deliver new servers? 2) The second challenge is in changing/recycling existing hardware. As an application scales and grows, a development team may decide they need to double the CPU or memory for the servers supporting the application. It is not easy nor quick to do this with existing hardware resources. 3) Sharing environments is not very practical. If a tester finds a bug and the developer is unable to reproduce it in their own environment, the tester may be stalled as the developer takes over the test environment to troubleshoot. Likewise, creating copies and reproducing replicas of existing environments is not feasible. 4) There can be high costs in maintaining dev/test infrastructure. As compute and storage resources grow, maintaining staging environments that closely mirror production can be expensive. A lot of the times these staging environments sit unused. Larger up-front capital expense to start a project. Again for projects that will run for 12+ months this ok, but for agil projects it is very costly to get started.
So, if you are doing agile development, you will want more agile infrastructure. Can cloud computing help address these challenges?
So cloud computing brings rapid provisioning to address issue #1.
Cloud computing also makes it easy to change infrasructure on the fly. Shown here is Amazon web services where you can select specific VM configurations with their own CPU/Memory, you can also create volumes of different sizes. Rackspace has similar pre-configured VMs to chose from.
Thirdly cloud computing can bring better tools for collaborating with teams. A user can build out an set of VMs, define the networking configurations, and get everything running. [BUILD1] These cloud environments can then be “Saved” or snapshotted into a library as a template. [BUILD2] For example, imagine a developer creates a “golden” development environment and saves it as a template. A second developer can then create their own separate environment from that original template. [BUILD3] Another tenant of agile development is sharing software with customers. Rather than stopping development, you can provision a separate enviornment, and then add it to a project or publish it so other team members or even external customers can try out new changes.
Finally cloud computing can lower costs. No up-front capital expenditures. Pay for use. Many people still think they can run things more cheaply in-house.
So in summary, agile development adoption is accelerating. We see cloud computing as offering signfiicant advantages to development and test teams who are making that transition. Agile development requires Agile infrastructure. The next link in the chain to explore is operations and the movement toward dev/ops where development teams are more intimately involved in the production operations of applications.