Here's a deep dive into the spectrum of options for data center expansion and how different data center scenarios fit into, and across, the different options. These include renovating an existing site, building custom, and adding a modular unit.
Hack for Good and Profit (Cloud Foundry Summit 2014)VMware Tanzu
Hackathons are fun events where developers innovate, learn and build development communities. Whether conducted in an academic setting or a corporate one, the aim is to rapidly produce functional code implementations focused around one or more designated themes. Cloud Foundry is a perfect target platform for hackathons, since it supports fast application deployment for continuous integration, abstracted infrastructure, and ample technology choices in terms of buildpacks and services. For those less familiar with cloud computing, Cloud Foundry provides an ideal opportunity for participants to be introduced to new application hosting techniques (Platform as a Service) and learn keys concepts of building applications for the cloud.
Cornelia Davis from Pivotal Software and Catherine Spence from Intel share their experiences in leveraging Cloud Foundry in support of numerous hackathons. They discuss what worked well, and less so, and share with you why and how you can deliver your own hackathon event.
Lo Scenario Cloud-Native (Pivotal Cloud-Native Workshop: Milan)VMware Tanzu
This document discusses cloud-native application development. It describes how DevOps practices like continuous delivery and microservices allow for faster, higher quality software development. It introduces a cloud native maturity model and discusses how a platform with the right abstractions can help organizations adopt cloud native patterns. The document outlines Pivotal's platform capabilities and services and how they can help organizations transform applications to be cloud native and achieve outcomes like speed, stability, scalability and security. Real-world examples of organizations adopting cloud native practices are also provided.
The document discusses Pivotal's approach to cloud native technologies and processes. It provides examples of companies that have worked with Pivotal, such as the US Air Force, Telstra, and financial institutions, and how they achieved benefits like reduced development times and increased speed to market. It also outlines Pivotal's platform and technologies including Cloud Foundry, containers, microservices, and their approach of combining agile processes with these technologies to help organizations become more innovative and responsive to customers.
This document discusses why cloud native computing matters and provides three case studies. It begins by explaining how infrastructure is changing with the rise of containerization solutions in the 2010s. It then discusses why people use cloud native technologies because they work well and have a great community behind them. Three case studies are presented where companies moved workloads to cloud native solutions on Kubernetes to increase agility, reduce costs, and improve developer productivity. The document concludes by noting that while technology challenges can be solved, changing organizational culture can be the hardest challenge to address.
Devops is a cultural movement gathering developers and IT Pros responsible for operating applications around common values, goals, practices and tools in order to accelerate development and deployment cycles, creating fast feedback loops between development and operations. Like agility 15 years ago, Devops adoption, accelerated by Cloud platforms adoption, involves organizational, cultural, as well as tehcnical aspects. Emerging movement a few years ago, now well established at consumer web and mobile companies, Devops starts to get in the Enterprise.
This presentation will explain the cultural and organizational aspects of the Devops movement, then will give an overview of the most common tools that are used to implement a Devops approach, showing that Microsoft is one of the few providers proposing a complete and integrated toolset, that works seamlessly for .NET developers, while integrating the most popular third party open source and proprietary tools, making Azure a great platform to implement a Devops approach for Linux, Java and open source workloads. We will talk about Visual Studio Online, Windows Azure, System Center, Windows Server, Azure Pack, PowerShell, NewRelic, Chef & Puppet integrations, Jenkins, …
This deck was presented at Microsoft Techdays 2014, Read more at http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays/programmes/2014/fiche-session.aspx?ID=07af5982-c413-46c3-8214-bba12365529b#0CDPXYrtwEbWxrgW.99
StorageOS - 8 core principles of cloud native storageStorageOS
This document outlines 8 core principles of cloud native storage: 1) storage should be application-centric rather than tied to operating systems or hypervisors, 2) storage should be platform agnostic, 3) storage resources should be declared like other resources via orchestrators, 4) storage should be managed via API and self-managed, 5) storage should dynamically react to changes, 6) storage should integrate native security features, 7) storage should offer deterministic performance efficiently, and 8) storage should ensure high availability, durability and consistency of data. StorageOS is presented as a cloud native storage solution designed from the ground up to meet these principles.
Continuous Everything in a Multi-cloud and Multi-platform EnvironmentVMware Tanzu
This document discusses continuous delivery strategies using Pivotal technologies like Pivotal Build Service, Pivotal Container Service, and Spinnaker. Pivotal Build Service allows building Docker images without Dockerfiles using buildpacks. Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud delivery platform that provides deployment strategies and rollback capabilities. The document demonstrates continuous deployment of a Spring Boot app to PKS using Concourse CI and Spinnaker for deployment automation and monitoring.
Hack for Good and Profit (Cloud Foundry Summit 2014)VMware Tanzu
Hackathons are fun events where developers innovate, learn and build development communities. Whether conducted in an academic setting or a corporate one, the aim is to rapidly produce functional code implementations focused around one or more designated themes. Cloud Foundry is a perfect target platform for hackathons, since it supports fast application deployment for continuous integration, abstracted infrastructure, and ample technology choices in terms of buildpacks and services. For those less familiar with cloud computing, Cloud Foundry provides an ideal opportunity for participants to be introduced to new application hosting techniques (Platform as a Service) and learn keys concepts of building applications for the cloud.
Cornelia Davis from Pivotal Software and Catherine Spence from Intel share their experiences in leveraging Cloud Foundry in support of numerous hackathons. They discuss what worked well, and less so, and share with you why and how you can deliver your own hackathon event.
Lo Scenario Cloud-Native (Pivotal Cloud-Native Workshop: Milan)VMware Tanzu
This document discusses cloud-native application development. It describes how DevOps practices like continuous delivery and microservices allow for faster, higher quality software development. It introduces a cloud native maturity model and discusses how a platform with the right abstractions can help organizations adopt cloud native patterns. The document outlines Pivotal's platform capabilities and services and how they can help organizations transform applications to be cloud native and achieve outcomes like speed, stability, scalability and security. Real-world examples of organizations adopting cloud native practices are also provided.
The document discusses Pivotal's approach to cloud native technologies and processes. It provides examples of companies that have worked with Pivotal, such as the US Air Force, Telstra, and financial institutions, and how they achieved benefits like reduced development times and increased speed to market. It also outlines Pivotal's platform and technologies including Cloud Foundry, containers, microservices, and their approach of combining agile processes with these technologies to help organizations become more innovative and responsive to customers.
This document discusses why cloud native computing matters and provides three case studies. It begins by explaining how infrastructure is changing with the rise of containerization solutions in the 2010s. It then discusses why people use cloud native technologies because they work well and have a great community behind them. Three case studies are presented where companies moved workloads to cloud native solutions on Kubernetes to increase agility, reduce costs, and improve developer productivity. The document concludes by noting that while technology challenges can be solved, changing organizational culture can be the hardest challenge to address.
Devops is a cultural movement gathering developers and IT Pros responsible for operating applications around common values, goals, practices and tools in order to accelerate development and deployment cycles, creating fast feedback loops between development and operations. Like agility 15 years ago, Devops adoption, accelerated by Cloud platforms adoption, involves organizational, cultural, as well as tehcnical aspects. Emerging movement a few years ago, now well established at consumer web and mobile companies, Devops starts to get in the Enterprise.
This presentation will explain the cultural and organizational aspects of the Devops movement, then will give an overview of the most common tools that are used to implement a Devops approach, showing that Microsoft is one of the few providers proposing a complete and integrated toolset, that works seamlessly for .NET developers, while integrating the most popular third party open source and proprietary tools, making Azure a great platform to implement a Devops approach for Linux, Java and open source workloads. We will talk about Visual Studio Online, Windows Azure, System Center, Windows Server, Azure Pack, PowerShell, NewRelic, Chef & Puppet integrations, Jenkins, …
This deck was presented at Microsoft Techdays 2014, Read more at http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays/programmes/2014/fiche-session.aspx?ID=07af5982-c413-46c3-8214-bba12365529b#0CDPXYrtwEbWxrgW.99
StorageOS - 8 core principles of cloud native storageStorageOS
This document outlines 8 core principles of cloud native storage: 1) storage should be application-centric rather than tied to operating systems or hypervisors, 2) storage should be platform agnostic, 3) storage resources should be declared like other resources via orchestrators, 4) storage should be managed via API and self-managed, 5) storage should dynamically react to changes, 6) storage should integrate native security features, 7) storage should offer deterministic performance efficiently, and 8) storage should ensure high availability, durability and consistency of data. StorageOS is presented as a cloud native storage solution designed from the ground up to meet these principles.
Continuous Everything in a Multi-cloud and Multi-platform EnvironmentVMware Tanzu
This document discusses continuous delivery strategies using Pivotal technologies like Pivotal Build Service, Pivotal Container Service, and Spinnaker. Pivotal Build Service allows building Docker images without Dockerfiles using buildpacks. Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud delivery platform that provides deployment strategies and rollback capabilities. The document demonstrates continuous deployment of a Spring Boot app to PKS using Concourse CI and Spinnaker for deployment automation and monitoring.
Cloud Native is more than a set of tools. It is a full architecture, a philosophical approach for building applications that take full advantage of cloud computing and a organisational change. Going Cloud Native requires an organisation to shift not only its tech stack but also its culture, processes and team setup. In this talk I'll dive into possible operating models for Cloud Native Systems.
This document discusses how cloud computing can provide value for application development. It outlines common development infrastructure building blocks like team member desktops, collaboration environments, pre-production, and production environments. It then provides examples of how tools in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform can help improve agility, enable continuous delivery, and reduce costs through on-demand provisioning and pay-as-you-go models. Specific services highlighted include cloud-based load testing, automated builds/continuous integration, and application monitoring. Sample pricing models and a Telenor case study demonstrate how organizations have benefited from migrating development infrastructure to the cloud.
The document summarizes key topics from the Cloud Native Summit conference, including:
- Distributed tracing and Zipkin, which allows visibility into request paths and troubleshooting of latency issues. Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system.
- Production ready Kubernetes clusters on Catalyst Cloud, which provides security, high availability, and scalability for containerized applications.
- Building serverless applications at scale using services like AWS Lambda, and addressing concurrency bottlenecks when autoscaling.
- Istio service mesh, which provides control of traffic policies, authentication, and observability across distributed services through its control plane and sidecar proxy architecture.
- GitOps for infrastructure as code deployments on Open
The document discusses how a security operations center (SOC) must adapt to monitor organizations that use cloud-native technologies. While the core functions of a SOC remain, aspects like tools, data sources, skills, and processes must change. Specifically, a cloud-native SOC would focus on detection engineering over analyst roles, integrate more closely with development teams, and rely heavily on automation, observability data, and security tools tailored for cloud platforms. The key is for a SOC to modernize its functions while still fulfilling its primary mission of threat detection and response.
This document discusses DataOps, which is an agile methodology for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. DataOps supports cross-functional collaboration and fast time to value. It expands on DevOps practices to include data-related roles like data engineers and data scientists. The key goals of DataOps are to promote continuous model deployment, repeatability, productivity, agility, self-service, and to make data central to applications. It discusses how DataOps brings flexibility and focus to data-driven organizations through principles like continuous model deployment, improved efficiency, and faster time to value.
This document provides an overview of CI/CD on Google Cloud Platform. It discusses key DevOps principles like treating infrastructure as code and automating processes. It then describes how GCP services like Cloud Build, Container Registry, Source Repositories, and Stackdriver can help achieve CI/CD. Spinnaker is mentioned as an open-source continuous delivery platform that integrates well with GCP. Overall the document outlines the benefits of CI/CD and how GCP makes CI/CD implementation easy and scalable.
This document provides information about the Red Hat Application Development: Building Microservices with Quarkus course. The course teaches students how to develop microservice-based applications in Java EE using MicroProfile and OpenShift. Students will learn architectural principles for microservices, how to develop, test, and deploy microservices applications, and how to implement features like configuration, health checks, fault tolerance, and security using JSON Web Tokens. The course is intended for experienced Java developers familiar with Java EE, OpenShift, and tools like Maven.
DevOps Spain 2019. Pablo Chico de Guzmán -OktetoatSistemas
This document discusses cloud native development. It begins by introducing the speaker and their background in DevOps. It then defines cloud native as having dynamic resources, centralized logging and metrics, and being replicable and automatizable. The document explains that cloud native development means moving the entire development environment to the cloud to integrate with the same hardware, network, ingress controllers, certificates, Kubernetes versions, and metrics/logging as production. It discusses tooling like Skaffold and namespaces for effective cloud native development and synchronization between environments. The goal is to standardize development platforms across teams while gaining high performance, collaboration, and access to full stacks and third party APIs during development.
Using Pivotal Cloud Foundry with Google’s BigQuery and Cloud Vision APIVMware Tanzu
Enterprise development teams are building applications that increasingly take advantage of high-performing cloud databases, storage, and even machine learning. In this webinar, Pivotal and Google will review how enterprises can combine proven cloud-native patterns with groundbreaking data and analytics technologies to deliver apps that provide a competitive advantage. Further, we will conduct an in-depth review of a sample Spring Boot application that combines PCF and Google’s most popular analytics services, BigQuery and Cloud Vision API.
Speakers:
Tino Tereshko, Big Data Lead, Google
Joshua McKenty, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Pivotal
A Technical Deep Dive on Protecting Acropolis Workloads with RubrikNEXTtour
This document discusses Rubrik's integration with Nutanix AHV and provides an overview of Rubrik's data management capabilities. It includes demos of backing up a Nutanix cluster with Rubrik, using Rubrik's SLA policies to automate data protection, and performing real-time search across all protected data. Case studies are presented showing how Rubrik helped the Tampa Bay Rays and Galliker Transport improve backup reliability, reduce management overhead, and achieve faster recovery times.
Microservices are the new black. You've heard about them, you've read about them, you may have even implemented a few, but sooner or later you'll run into the age-old conundrum: How do I break my monolith apart? Where do I draw service boundaries?
In this talk you will learn several widely-applicable strategies for decomposing your monolithic application, along with their respective risks and the appropriate mitigation strategies. These techniques are widely used at Wix, took us a long time to develop and have proven consistently effective; hopefully they will help you avoid the same battle scars.
Mendix Maker Meetup - London (2019-10-17)Iain Lindsay
Automating the boring stuff
Using the Mendix Platform and Model SDK to automate repetitive tasks. Presented by Alistair Crawford and Iain Lindsay at the Mendix Maker Meetup in London on 17th October 2019
RedisConf18 - Using Redis as a Backend in a Serverless Application With KubelessRedis Labs
This document discusses Bitnami's products and services including their Application Catalog containing 150 applications and development runtimes packaged in multiple formats, their Stacksmith enterprise cloud migration tool, and their work defining packaging and deployment tools for Kubernetes. It provides examples of using Bitnami containers for Redis and Helm charts for Redis, and discusses how Redis can be used in a serverless way with Kubeless. Key takeaways are that Kubeapps and Helm provide great building blocks, and that features can be built with Kubeless and Redis in just minutes.
Tasos Moustakis, Infrastructure Technology Solutions Manager at Uni Systems, explains how Microsoft Azure migration runs smoothly through Ansible Automation platform. From Cloud Migration Through Automation: Next Level Flexibility virtual event, hosted on September 30, 2020
DevOps KPIs as a Service: Daimler’s SolutionVMware Tanzu
1. Daimler developed a DevOps KPI-as-a-Service solution to provide transparency into key performance indicators for its Cloud Foundry-based platforms.
2. The solution collects and stores platform data daily and generates reports in Excel format on demand to analyze metrics like usage, capacity, and adoption over time.
3. Initial goals were to leverage existing platform data with little effort using a "learning by doing" approach; the team now aims to improve integration, documentation, automation, and marketing of the KPI tool within Daimler.
Jonathan Donaldson, VP & GM, Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies, Intel Corporation talks about Intel's work in the community to help make Kubernetes ready for the enterprise.
12/12/16
Enterprise Development Trends 2016 - Cloud, Container and Microservices Insig...Lightbend
In the past, infrastructure was left to operations teams. Today, it’s JVM developers themselves being brought into the DevOps tent based on the new characteristics of the modern enterprise application, as well as major innovations in the infrastructure running it. Lightbend surveyed 2,151 global respondents working on the JVM to discover:
Correlations between development trends and IT infrastructure trends
How organizations at the forefront of digital transformation are modernizing their applications
Real production usage break-downs of today’s most buzzed about emerging technologies
The survey gathered responses from a diverse range of companies, with 20 percent of respondents hailing from companies with more than 5,000 employees (large organizations), 28 percent from companies with 200-5,000 employees (medium sized organizations) and 52 percent from companies with fewer than 200 employees.
Data-Driven DevOps: Improve Velocity and Quality of Software Delivery with Me...Splunk
Much of the value of DevOps comes from a (renewed) focus on measurement, sharing, and continuous feedback loops. In increasingly complex DevOps workflows and environments, and especially in larger, regulated, or more crystallized organizations, these core concepts become even more critical.
This session will show how, by focusing on 'metrics that matter,' you can provide objective, transparent, and meaningful feedback on DevOps processes to all stakeholders. Learn from real-life examples how to use the data generated throughout application delivery to continuously identify, measure, and improve deployment speed, code quality, process efficiency, outsourcing value, security coverage, audit success, customer satisfaction, and business alignment.
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure combining on-premises and public cloud capabilities allows enterprises to maximize flexibility and performance. Nearly three-quarters of enterprises now use a hybrid model. When developing a hybrid strategy, organizations should consider how to better control "shadow IT," manage fluctuations in application demand, ease application development and testing, handle varied workloads and user bases, and meet changing workload demands through a flexible network. Workload awareness is also important, with most critical "Tier 1" workloads run on-premises where there is better control and security.
Cloud Computing is an information technology gold rush. Everything from social media and smart phones to streaming video and additive games come from the cloud. This revolution has also driven many to wonder how they can retool themselves to take advantage of this massive shift. Many in IT see the technology as an opportunity to accelerate their careers but in their attempt to navigate their cloud computing future, the question of what type of training, vendor-neutral or vendor-specific, is right for them
Cloud Native is more than a set of tools. It is a full architecture, a philosophical approach for building applications that take full advantage of cloud computing and a organisational change. Going Cloud Native requires an organisation to shift not only its tech stack but also its culture, processes and team setup. In this talk I'll dive into possible operating models for Cloud Native Systems.
This document discusses how cloud computing can provide value for application development. It outlines common development infrastructure building blocks like team member desktops, collaboration environments, pre-production, and production environments. It then provides examples of how tools in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform can help improve agility, enable continuous delivery, and reduce costs through on-demand provisioning and pay-as-you-go models. Specific services highlighted include cloud-based load testing, automated builds/continuous integration, and application monitoring. Sample pricing models and a Telenor case study demonstrate how organizations have benefited from migrating development infrastructure to the cloud.
The document summarizes key topics from the Cloud Native Summit conference, including:
- Distributed tracing and Zipkin, which allows visibility into request paths and troubleshooting of latency issues. Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system.
- Production ready Kubernetes clusters on Catalyst Cloud, which provides security, high availability, and scalability for containerized applications.
- Building serverless applications at scale using services like AWS Lambda, and addressing concurrency bottlenecks when autoscaling.
- Istio service mesh, which provides control of traffic policies, authentication, and observability across distributed services through its control plane and sidecar proxy architecture.
- GitOps for infrastructure as code deployments on Open
The document discusses how a security operations center (SOC) must adapt to monitor organizations that use cloud-native technologies. While the core functions of a SOC remain, aspects like tools, data sources, skills, and processes must change. Specifically, a cloud-native SOC would focus on detection engineering over analyst roles, integrate more closely with development teams, and rely heavily on automation, observability data, and security tools tailored for cloud platforms. The key is for a SOC to modernize its functions while still fulfilling its primary mission of threat detection and response.
This document discusses DataOps, which is an agile methodology for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. DataOps supports cross-functional collaboration and fast time to value. It expands on DevOps practices to include data-related roles like data engineers and data scientists. The key goals of DataOps are to promote continuous model deployment, repeatability, productivity, agility, self-service, and to make data central to applications. It discusses how DataOps brings flexibility and focus to data-driven organizations through principles like continuous model deployment, improved efficiency, and faster time to value.
This document provides an overview of CI/CD on Google Cloud Platform. It discusses key DevOps principles like treating infrastructure as code and automating processes. It then describes how GCP services like Cloud Build, Container Registry, Source Repositories, and Stackdriver can help achieve CI/CD. Spinnaker is mentioned as an open-source continuous delivery platform that integrates well with GCP. Overall the document outlines the benefits of CI/CD and how GCP makes CI/CD implementation easy and scalable.
This document provides information about the Red Hat Application Development: Building Microservices with Quarkus course. The course teaches students how to develop microservice-based applications in Java EE using MicroProfile and OpenShift. Students will learn architectural principles for microservices, how to develop, test, and deploy microservices applications, and how to implement features like configuration, health checks, fault tolerance, and security using JSON Web Tokens. The course is intended for experienced Java developers familiar with Java EE, OpenShift, and tools like Maven.
DevOps Spain 2019. Pablo Chico de Guzmán -OktetoatSistemas
This document discusses cloud native development. It begins by introducing the speaker and their background in DevOps. It then defines cloud native as having dynamic resources, centralized logging and metrics, and being replicable and automatizable. The document explains that cloud native development means moving the entire development environment to the cloud to integrate with the same hardware, network, ingress controllers, certificates, Kubernetes versions, and metrics/logging as production. It discusses tooling like Skaffold and namespaces for effective cloud native development and synchronization between environments. The goal is to standardize development platforms across teams while gaining high performance, collaboration, and access to full stacks and third party APIs during development.
Using Pivotal Cloud Foundry with Google’s BigQuery and Cloud Vision APIVMware Tanzu
Enterprise development teams are building applications that increasingly take advantage of high-performing cloud databases, storage, and even machine learning. In this webinar, Pivotal and Google will review how enterprises can combine proven cloud-native patterns with groundbreaking data and analytics technologies to deliver apps that provide a competitive advantage. Further, we will conduct an in-depth review of a sample Spring Boot application that combines PCF and Google’s most popular analytics services, BigQuery and Cloud Vision API.
Speakers:
Tino Tereshko, Big Data Lead, Google
Joshua McKenty, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Pivotal
A Technical Deep Dive on Protecting Acropolis Workloads with RubrikNEXTtour
This document discusses Rubrik's integration with Nutanix AHV and provides an overview of Rubrik's data management capabilities. It includes demos of backing up a Nutanix cluster with Rubrik, using Rubrik's SLA policies to automate data protection, and performing real-time search across all protected data. Case studies are presented showing how Rubrik helped the Tampa Bay Rays and Galliker Transport improve backup reliability, reduce management overhead, and achieve faster recovery times.
Microservices are the new black. You've heard about them, you've read about them, you may have even implemented a few, but sooner or later you'll run into the age-old conundrum: How do I break my monolith apart? Where do I draw service boundaries?
In this talk you will learn several widely-applicable strategies for decomposing your monolithic application, along with their respective risks and the appropriate mitigation strategies. These techniques are widely used at Wix, took us a long time to develop and have proven consistently effective; hopefully they will help you avoid the same battle scars.
Mendix Maker Meetup - London (2019-10-17)Iain Lindsay
Automating the boring stuff
Using the Mendix Platform and Model SDK to automate repetitive tasks. Presented by Alistair Crawford and Iain Lindsay at the Mendix Maker Meetup in London on 17th October 2019
RedisConf18 - Using Redis as a Backend in a Serverless Application With KubelessRedis Labs
This document discusses Bitnami's products and services including their Application Catalog containing 150 applications and development runtimes packaged in multiple formats, their Stacksmith enterprise cloud migration tool, and their work defining packaging and deployment tools for Kubernetes. It provides examples of using Bitnami containers for Redis and Helm charts for Redis, and discusses how Redis can be used in a serverless way with Kubeless. Key takeaways are that Kubeapps and Helm provide great building blocks, and that features can be built with Kubeless and Redis in just minutes.
Tasos Moustakis, Infrastructure Technology Solutions Manager at Uni Systems, explains how Microsoft Azure migration runs smoothly through Ansible Automation platform. From Cloud Migration Through Automation: Next Level Flexibility virtual event, hosted on September 30, 2020
DevOps KPIs as a Service: Daimler’s SolutionVMware Tanzu
1. Daimler developed a DevOps KPI-as-a-Service solution to provide transparency into key performance indicators for its Cloud Foundry-based platforms.
2. The solution collects and stores platform data daily and generates reports in Excel format on demand to analyze metrics like usage, capacity, and adoption over time.
3. Initial goals were to leverage existing platform data with little effort using a "learning by doing" approach; the team now aims to improve integration, documentation, automation, and marketing of the KPI tool within Daimler.
Jonathan Donaldson, VP & GM, Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies, Intel Corporation talks about Intel's work in the community to help make Kubernetes ready for the enterprise.
12/12/16
Enterprise Development Trends 2016 - Cloud, Container and Microservices Insig...Lightbend
In the past, infrastructure was left to operations teams. Today, it’s JVM developers themselves being brought into the DevOps tent based on the new characteristics of the modern enterprise application, as well as major innovations in the infrastructure running it. Lightbend surveyed 2,151 global respondents working on the JVM to discover:
Correlations between development trends and IT infrastructure trends
How organizations at the forefront of digital transformation are modernizing their applications
Real production usage break-downs of today’s most buzzed about emerging technologies
The survey gathered responses from a diverse range of companies, with 20 percent of respondents hailing from companies with more than 5,000 employees (large organizations), 28 percent from companies with 200-5,000 employees (medium sized organizations) and 52 percent from companies with fewer than 200 employees.
Data-Driven DevOps: Improve Velocity and Quality of Software Delivery with Me...Splunk
Much of the value of DevOps comes from a (renewed) focus on measurement, sharing, and continuous feedback loops. In increasingly complex DevOps workflows and environments, and especially in larger, regulated, or more crystallized organizations, these core concepts become even more critical.
This session will show how, by focusing on 'metrics that matter,' you can provide objective, transparent, and meaningful feedback on DevOps processes to all stakeholders. Learn from real-life examples how to use the data generated throughout application delivery to continuously identify, measure, and improve deployment speed, code quality, process efficiency, outsourcing value, security coverage, audit success, customer satisfaction, and business alignment.
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure combining on-premises and public cloud capabilities allows enterprises to maximize flexibility and performance. Nearly three-quarters of enterprises now use a hybrid model. When developing a hybrid strategy, organizations should consider how to better control "shadow IT," manage fluctuations in application demand, ease application development and testing, handle varied workloads and user bases, and meet changing workload demands through a flexible network. Workload awareness is also important, with most critical "Tier 1" workloads run on-premises where there is better control and security.
Cloud Computing is an information technology gold rush. Everything from social media and smart phones to streaming video and additive games come from the cloud. This revolution has also driven many to wonder how they can retool themselves to take advantage of this massive shift. Many in IT see the technology as an opportunity to accelerate their careers but in their attempt to navigate their cloud computing future, the question of what type of training, vendor-neutral or vendor-specific, is right for them
Techaisle SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Market Research Report DetailsTechaisle
Techaisle's SMB Cloud Computing Adoption survey in US and Germany provide a detailed outline of what is needed by SMBs as we move through a period of intense growth spurred by the combination of increasing cloud penetration and increasing cloud workload density. Techaisle provides readers with the fact-based insight needed to take share-building action on these issues in this 360° on Cloud in the SMB market report. Its seven major sections are aligned with our clients’ key information requirements:
• Why is cloud being used by U.S. SMBs?
• Who is driving cloud adoption?
• What is in use
• Where is cloud being deployed?
• When will cloud usage patterns change – and how?
• Managing cloud security: roles and responsibilities
• Assessing success: key cloud solution elements
Report is delivered in PowerPoint format. Clients may also have access to Techaisle analysts, who can provide additional context for these findings and their implications for your firm. To inquire further contact inquiry@techaisle.com or visit www.techaisle.com
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, which utilize a mix of colocated data centers, managed services, and cloud computing, allow organizations to balance IT agility demands with cost constraints. It notes that a recent survey found most companies will rely on a hybrid model for the next 5 years. The hybrid approach allows companies to select the right infrastructure type for each application based on factors like risk, cost, and agility needs. Colocation is often the initial step as it provides control and quick deployment, while managed services and cloud use will grow over time.
The document discusses the evolution from capacity clouds to capability clouds. Capacity clouds focus on IT benefits like scalability and cost savings, while capability clouds focus on business outcomes and processes. Capability clouds offer finished services addressing business objectives. To realize the potential of capability clouds will require cloud orchestration, as organizations integrate an increasing variety and number of cloud and on-premises services. Cloud orchestration is becoming critical for successful cloud implementation and developing strategies to aggregate cloud and on-premises assets.
This document discusses how adopting a hybrid cloud solution can transform an IT manager's role from a reactive maintainer of infrastructure to a proactive leader focused on addressing business needs. It emphasizes that a hybrid cloud, which combines on-premise and public cloud resources, allows IT managers to automate routine tasks and focus on more strategic opportunities through tools that integrate different environments. The document provides guidance on developing an effective cloud governance strategy by focusing on goals, metrics, processes and operations. It also outlines management, builder, developer and intermediary tools that can help streamline processes in a hybrid cloud environment.
The document discusses implementing a Cloud Enabled Data Center (CEDC) using infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Key points include:
1) A CEDC combines advantages of public and private clouds by providing standardized, automated IaaS resources on-premise for increased security, customization and quality of service control.
2) Common business drivers for a CEDC include managing costs, responding quickly to changing needs, and faster time to deploy new services.
3) Risks include lack of alignment between IT and business units on services, inadequate governance, and resistance to change.
4) Benefits are ability to quickly shift focus to core business needs and lower costs of deployment
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IT professionals need to develop new skills to work with cloud technologies. Their core skills in areas like system configuration and virtualization transfer well, but they must learn skills for managing services in the cloud. These include skills in provisioning, monitoring, automation, security, and service management. Developers also need new skills like identity management, middleware use, and application architecture for the cloud. Database administrators should learn cloud storage services and how to design databases for any location.
"The transition of companies to cloud-based will be quicker for some and slower for others depending on their individual circumstances, But the change will happen."
This document discusses hybrid cloud strategies and addresses common views presented by cloud vendors. It summarizes that while public cloud promises simplicity and low costs, it may not be suitable for all workloads and could limit integration, agility, and control. A hybrid approach using public and private clouds can provide more flexibility and choice to align IT with business needs. IBM's hybrid cloud approach aims to provide open standards, choice of deployment options, and consistent management across environments to help businesses innovate quickly.
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Hybrid Architecture: Is Cloud the Inevitable
Best Practice When it Comes to the Data Center?
LEADERS LAB
WHITEPAPER
WHAT IS A LEADERS LAB?
Leaders Labs bring AFCOM’s mission to life by fostering in-depth dialogue, coupled with collaborative
work, helping data center managers address the rapidly changing demands in the industry. In each lab,
15-20 data center professionals worked side-by-side to tackle critical industry challenges and map out
directions and recommendations for the future.
CERTIFIED BY THE DATA CENTER INSTITUTE
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Whitepaper Contributors
The following thought leaders participated in this AFCOM Leaders Lab and contributed to this whitepaper.
Leaders Lab Advisor
Mark Monroe, Energetic Consulting
Kyle Moore, Neustar
Jeff Potter, Xcel Energy
Christopher Reece, The TJX Companies
Nat Tafuri, zColo, A Zayo Company
Terry Barrett, West Corporation
Kelly Bates, Department of Veteran Affairs
Jim Bearce, Walmart Global Business Services
Michael Brunson, OneNeck IT Solutions
Hector Diaz, Intermountain Electronics
Jeremy Gigliotti, University of Colorado Boulder
Laura Cunningham, Data Center Consultant
With extensive experience in developing business cases for enterprise Fortune 500 companies
to justify data center investments emphasizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return
on Investment (ROI), Laura’s efforts have been instrumental in obtaining approval for multi-
million dollar enterprise data center developments.
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Why the Clamor for Cloud Context is Growing
Many organizations prefer cloud-based data centers, and
for good reason. The model has freed up time and mon-
ey, enabling data center personnel to focus on strategic
business initiatives. But the cloud—be it private, public or
hybrid—may be out of reach for some. This white paper
focuses on the spectrum of data center options currently
available for businesses and the key drivers that influence
which solution may be the best fit.
The questions of whether, when, and how to move to the
cloud underscored discussions during the AFCOM Leaders
As the term cloud-based computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, most companies are considering how leveraging the
cloud could benefit the business. “I think the biggest reason this is a topic of interest is that many companies are experi-
encing exponential data growth even with technology advances, which is putting pressure on data center requirements”
Cunningham said, adding added “since all of that data needs a home, it is up to the business to determine if that home is a
data center belonging to an organization or to a service provider.”
Is Cloud the Inevitable Best Practice When it Comes to the Data Center?
Lab: Hybrid IT Architecture. In this workgroup, attendees
discussed the dominant data center models based on
industry, company size, and other factors, and collaborated
to determine whether and when the cloud tide will shift for
organizations that don’t currently leverage the model for
data center systems and services. The Leaders Lab experts
worked to address the rapidly changing demands on the
data center, with the goal of tackling current challenges
while mapping out future direction for their companies—
and the technology community at large.
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Key Takeaways
“Cloud” is different things to different people.
Organizations must come up with a definition
that makes sense for them.
Companies must remain flexible as the business
requirements will inevitably change.
Stakeholders from across the organization must
be involved in weighing in on the right data cen-
ter decision
“Most of the companies I work with are changing the way they are implementing technology and experiencing the data
center,” she said. “Therefore, they need to know how to expand their existing data center footprint.” Add to the fact that
an increasing number of data centers are quickly reaching useful life, and it’s not surprising that so many companies are
grappling with the need for both expansion and renovation of their existing data centers, Cunningham pointed out
During the Leaders Lab meeting, attendees considered the spectrum of options for data center expansion and worked to
determine how different data center scenarios fit into, and across, the different options. Options considered include reno-
vating an existing site, building custom, adding a modular unit, leasing data center space, moving applications to the cloud
and just about any combination in between.
If the right talent is in-house, then a hybrid model or
on-premise scenario may be the best choice.
Cloud is not all or nothing: Consider options, and ex-
plore on an ongoing basis what level of cloud exposure
is right for the business.
Types of Data Centers
Greenfield/
Brownfield
BUILD / BUY SERVICE PROVIDERS
Greenfield: New purpose
built data center, new
construction from ground up,
brick and mortar.
Brownfield: Significant
renovation, expansion, or
upgrade of an existing
structure.
Modular Colocation
Colocation: Service provider
leases data center space
including facility
management and MEP
maintenance.
Managed Services
Managed Services: Service
provider leases data center
space including facilitiy
management, MEP
maintenance, hardware,
maintenance, and technical
support.
Cloud
Cloud: Service provider
leases data center space
including facililty
management, MEP
maintenance, hardware,
maintenance, technical
support and operating
systems.
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Before determining what data center systems and workloads may or may not make sense in the cloud.
It’s important to ensure that everyone in the organization is working from the same
definition of the cloud.
To help organizations determine what cloud means to them, it is helpful to use a standardized description. For example,
the Leaders Lab used the NIST’s definition of cloud, for its purpose. According to NIST, “cloud computing is a model for
enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources
(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction.”
The “right people” at that data center table come from three sides of the company that rarely interact with each other, but
have mutually big impacts: facilities, IT, and the business itself. Because these entities have historically worked in isolation,
it will be important to ensure that each side clearly articulates its needs and goals. It will also be important to determine, as
a group, where those needs and goals align and where they may be in conflict with each other.
In the end, business requirements drive IT requirements, and IT requirements drive facility requirements.
One key—if not the key—driver of the discussion among these three groups is the following
question: Does creating a data center strategy dictate what the IT and application strategy of
the business will be, or should the data center strategy be led by the business requirements?
Whether or not the cloud figures into a company’s data center
future, an effective data center strategy depends on one thing:
input from all stakeholders.
The data center may have once been a technical ivory tower, but
with the importance of data to the business today, the data center
must be a relatively open book. For example, the CEO may never
walk the data center floors, but he or she must know what’s being
done to store, protect, integrate, and ensure compliance of data.
He or she will also have increased expectations of being able
to easily decipher data and get quick and accurate results—not
matter where and across what systems that data is stored.
Define Cloud
Bring the Right People to the Table
IT Facilities
Business
Data Center
Strategy
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The answers to this question will depend in large part on what is driving the company itself. For example:
A company with a land portfolio is driven by facility requirements and available real estate.
An enterprise is driven by IT requirements.
A webscale/hyperscale company is driven by economic incentives.
To determine the best course of data center action,
companies must carefully evaluate three major areas:
capacity, investment strategy and location.
Capacity, specifically kW capacity, is the IT equivalent
of “space”. Consider the short-term and long-term kW
forecast. How variable are the capacity requirements
over time? For many businesses uncertainty in capacity
requirements drives applications toward the cloud as it
can provide the scalability as needed. On the other hand,
more certainty in capacity requirements drives the strategy
toward on premise. Forecasting how soon additional
capacity is required is another key in choosing a data center
strategy because the sooner secured capacity is reached
and utilized, the faster the payoff period of the investment.
Also consider the types of applications: Can they exist
outside of the existing data center footprint, are they cloud
ready, or what level of redundancy is required?
Key Factors & Major Considerations
Capacity Factors
Capacity Forecast
IT Equivalent of “Space” = kW
Investment and Ownership Strategy
CapEx vs. OpEx
Location Requirements
Geographic Risks, Costs, Latency, Tax incentives
kW
Legacy to Optimized
Applications
Time
to
Deploy
kW
Capacity
Flexibility and
Scalability
Optimized
Legacy
High
Low
High
Low
High
Low
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Second, consider what financial mix the organization prefers: Capital Expenditures (CapEx) or Operating Expenditures
(OpEx)? Building or buying a data center makes more sense for businesses that have or can more easily access capital and
want to maintain lower ongoing costs. Utilizing a service provider makes more sense for businesses that need to conserve
capital and want to better match expenses to revenue. Startups generally find cloud to be especially attractive due to
the minimal initial investment. However, legacy organizations must consider how to balance investments in existing
infrastructure and in outside service providers.
Control, or the perception of control, can a big role in choosing the data
center strategy.
On-premise data centers are still perceived by most organizations as offering the most control over operations as compared
to off-premise solutions. Feeding into the perception of control are regulatory or policy constraints that may require certain
systems to remain onsite.
Investment Strategy
As most businesses have varying levels of capacity and application requirements,
a one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate, and a combination of solutions
will likely be the best fit.
Capacity Factors continued
Control
OpEx
CapEx
Facility Option
Modular
Colocation
Managed Service
Cloud
High High
High
Greenfield/Bloomfield
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Of course, there are a number of other considerations that must be made when determining the most effective way to
establish or expand data center presence. For example, renewable energy drives the decisions many energy-conscious com-
panies make, and a potential shortage in the availability of relevant talent affects the way companies think about the data
center and how (and with whom) it will be staffed.
While there are many issues muddying the data center waters today, what’s clear
is that there is no one right way to establish and expand a company’s compute,
storage, and network capabilities.
Cloud usage will continue to increase, but other options will not go away. The key to making the right decision about the fu-
ture of the data center is to have the right people at the table, in an ongoing and open discussion designed to align the goals
and requirements of all sides of the business.
Conclusion
Finally, location plays a significant role in developing a data center strategy. Geographic risk such as earthquakes, tor-
nadoes and hurricanes should be considered when determining the required resiliency of the data center and business
continuity plans. Major geographic differences in cost of construction, energy and workforce can greatly impact building
and ongoing operating costs. Many companies want to maintain presence around current operations and leverage existing
real-estate portfolios for expansion. If you’re moving or expanding, consider that there are more than 20 states currently
offering some type of tax incentives for new data center sites.
How important is latency? Proximity hosting and interconnection services offered by colocation providers are popular with
many companies that want the ability to interconnect to the stock exchanges or cloud data centers. In many cases a dedi-
cated network connection is available from the colocation data center to cloud providers which can reduce bandwidth and
provide consistent network performance.
Location
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About AFCOM
AFCOM is the industry’s longest running professional association for individuals who
plan, develop, deploy and manage on-premises, colocation, hybrid cloud, and pure
cloud data center solutions. By building an open environment for information and idea
exchange, AFCOM supports the critical IT infrastructure team by bringing together all
principals of the mission critical ecosystem. Uncovering and addressing the paradigm
shifts within the industry, AFCOM provides members with the education, professional
relationships, and industry specific tools to support their full career development.
About Data Center Institute
The Data Center Institute is the think tank of AFCOM that focuses on the emerging
trends around innovation, technological change, macro-economic shifts and workforce
dynamics shaping the data center and IT infrastructure industry worldwide. Its mission
is to advance knowledge and inform data center and IT infrastructure professionals
through producing independent research, presenting webcasts and speaking at
industry conferences like Data Center World on major issues and opportunities
affecting the future of data centers and IT infrastructures.
Advancing Data Center and
IT Infrastructure Professionals
www.AFCOM.com