Top 5 considerations when picking a cloud architecture

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Blake Connell, Director of Product Marketing | Citrix CloudPlatform
Top 5 considerations when picking a cloud architecture
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Sr. Product Marketing Manager | Citrix Cloud Platforms Group
July 30, 2015

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Market Trends & Landscape
Building IaaS Clouds with Citrix
Top 5 Considerations
Q&A
Agenda

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Market Leadership

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IT Challenges
Accelerating pace of business | hypercompetitive environment
Enterprises need to deliver new applications and
services quickly and efficiently
Line of business demand flexibility to get things done
Traditional datacenter silo’s and manual processes
can’t keep pace
Need always-on availability

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IT Silos
Dedicated infrastructure: time consuming to provision, inflexible
Compute Network Storage Firewall
ERP
Compute Network Storage Firewall
Database
Compute Network Storage Firewall
Big Data

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The New Dynamic IT
Efficient
Cloud Economics
Elastic
Seasonal Capacity
Scalable
Grow On-demand
Flexible
Address multiple
tenant needs

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Cloud Technologies Enable this IT Paradigm Shift
[Source: Gartner, 2013]

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Strategic Goals for the Cloud: Agility, Efficiency of all apps
[Source: EMA, 2014]

9. Top 5 considerations when choosing a cloud

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Do: Plan A Roadmap For Cloud Adoption
Run more workloads, gain more value
New cloud apps often starting point
Add Enterprise apps over time
Important: plan ahead of time
• avoid lock-in to a cloud platform that only
accommodates a single workload
Value
Workloads added to Cloud
Cloud Value Growth

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Do: Know Your Application Requirements
Many organizations support multiple
hypervisors
• …storage systems, operating systems etc.
Understand the requirements for apps
moving to your cloud platform
Ensure multi-hypervisor support and
other app dependencies are carefully
considered

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Do: Pick A Flexible Platform
A key cloud attribute is abstraction
• Applications from underlying infrastructure
Changes to compute, network and
storage resources should not interfere
with running applications
Choose different storage types (e.g.
block or object )
Modify network design from basic to
more advanced
Compute
Storage
Network

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Don’t: Get Locked-in
Many cloud vendors optimizing
platform for their own stack
• Difficult to breakout and integrate with other
offerings
Understand the platform APIs
Is there an AWS compatible API to
interact with Amazon Web Services?
If yes, do you retain choice in
compute, network and storage?

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Don’t: Turn It Into A Science Project
Pair flexibility with an integrated
offering
Roll-your-own platforms require
valuable engineering resources to
design and develop
• OpenStack is a collection of projects
Adds considerable time to projects

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Networking
Storage
Compute
Datacenters
Networking StorageCompute
Virtualization
Cloud Orchestration
Private IaaS Cloud
Building a cloud
… not dramatically different than deploying traditional datacenter hardware

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Web App
Virtual
Desktops
Exchange Database ERP
Business
Intelligence
Web App
Virtual
Desktops
Exchange Database ERP
Business
Intelligence
Scale easily, can isolate and deploy any application
Private IaaS Cloud
Data Center A
Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n
Data Center B
Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n
Data Center N
Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n
Web App
Virtual
Desktops
Exchange Database ERP
Business
Intelligence

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Automated Application Deployment, Management and Scaling
Each application is deployed in an
isolated virtual data center
All elements can be configured
dynamically
Resources can be monitored and
scaled to handle fluctuating demand
Virtual Data Center
Virtual FW
Virtual LB
Virtual Router
Virtual Machines Virtual Disks

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Proven product: Proven at scale
Flexible: Application-centric cloud uniquely delivers
every workload
Scalable: Amazon-style operations and scale
Open: Built on Apache CloudStack, AWS-like APIs
New: Hyper-V support, XenDesktop optimizations

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Compute
XenServer VMware KVMHyper-V Bare metal
Hypervisor
Storage
Local Disk iSCSI NFSFibreChannel Object
Block & Object
Network
NetworkType Isolation LBFirewall VPN
Network & Network Services
Choose Best of Breed - Leverage Existing Technology Investments

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Citrix CloudPlatform is a complete solution for delivering clouds
• Implementation in days not months
• Designed for scale and reliability
• Tennant isolation between virtual environments
• Support for Usage Metering and Chargeback

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Cloud Workloads
Traditional Workloads
Expect Reliability
Redundant hardware
Backup & restore on failure
Cloud-Native Workloads
Expect Failure
Apps are built to withstand failure
Deploy across multiple failure zones
Multiple Workloads
Both types of workloads must run reliably in the cloud

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Citrix CloudPlatform
Support for different workloads will be required
Software Defined Networks
(e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)
Cloud-Native Availability Zone
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Server
Racks
Elastic Block Storage
vCenter
ESXi
Cluster
ESXi
Cluster
ESXi
Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
Traditional Availability Zone

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“”
“At SAP we have a range of applications running in
the cloud, from SAP’s world-class Business Suite to
SAP HANA. As diverse as these solutions are,
CloudPlatform has the unique ability to run them all,
despite their different architectures.”
Ralf Lindenlaub
VP Cloud Solutions Services

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250+Large Scale
Production Clouds
In Deployment
Production sites with
40,000+
Servers per Region
Enterprise | Education | Government | Web 2.0
Service Providers | Telcos

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Summary
Do: Create a roadmap for cloud adoption
Do: Know your application requirements
Do: Pick a flexible platform
Don’t: Get locked-in
Don’t: Turn it into a science project

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