Tim Mackey discusses key considerations for planning a successful private cloud. Private clouds offer control, speed, and future-proofing compared to public clouds. While server virtualization focused on consolidation and hardware independence, clouds are designed for massive scale, open architectures, and failure tolerance. Key features for successful clouds include multi-hypervisor support, availability zones, flexible networking, and tenant isolation without per-VM licensing. Lessons from companies like Zynga, telcos, and CloudStack emphasize clearly defining offerings, infrastructure choices optimized for workloads, and designing for maintainability and monitoring in cloud operations.
Planning a successful private cloud - CloudStack Collaboration Europe 2013Tim Mackey
So your boss just asked you to build a private cloud. Now what? Successful private clouds require a bit of planning, and your existing best practices may need to be adjusted. This deck covers some of the issues you'll face, or be aware of, as you migrate from an existing data center operation to one which is more "cloud-like". Some things may seem obvious, but there are aspects to network and storage design which impact success. This deck draws from my experience in building my first CloudStack cloud in early 2012 and has applicability to anyone seeking to deliver cloud services.
Taming the cost of your first cloud - CCCEU 2014Tim Mackey
Today everyone is talking about clouds, and a few are building them, but far fewer are operating successful clouds. In this session we'll examine a variety of paradigm shifts IT makes when moving from a traditional virtualization and management mindset to operating a successful cloud. For most organizations, without careful planning the hype of a cloud solution can quickly overcome its capabilities and pre-existing best practices can combine to create the worst possible cloud scenario -- a cloud which isn't economical to operate, and which is more cumbersome to manage than a traditional virtualization farm.
Key topics covered include:
- Successful transition of operational and management paradigm
- How the VM density of clouds change Ops
- What it means to monitor the network in a cloud environment, at hyper-dense virtualization levels
- Preventing storage costs from outpacing delivery costs
OSCON2014: Understanding Hypervisor Selection in Apache CloudStackTim Mackey
A presented at OSCON 2014, this deck covers the matrix of capabilities each supported hypervisor brings to the Apache CloudStack table when building a cloud.
CloudOpen Japan - Controlling the cost of your first cloudTim Mackey
As presented at CloudOpen Japan in Tokyo in 2015.
Today everyone is talking about clouds, and some are building them, but far fewer are operating successful clouds. In this session we'll examine a variety of paradigm shifts must IT make when moving from a traditional virtualization and management mindset to operating a successful cloud. For most organizations, without careful planning the hype of a cloud solution can quickly overcome its capabilities and existing best practices can combine to create the worst possible cloud scenario -- a cloud which isn't economical to operate, and which is more cumbersome to manage than a traditional virtualization farm. Key topics covered will include; transitioning the operational paradigm, the impact of VM density on operations and network management, and preventing storage cost from outpacing requirements.
Consolidate your enterprise workloads without creating new performance constr...NetApp
In this presentation by SolidFire's vExpert Jeramiah Dooley, you will learn about how consolidating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial missing step as VMware customers transition from a legacy architecture into a Software Defined Data Center.
Storage has become the boat anchor of the modern, virtualized data center. Up until recently it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, required far too much operational overhead and was sized, deployed and managed using methods created in the 1980s. Worst of all, storage capacity and performance are often still locked together in fixed ratios, making it inevitable that even the best run storage environment will be wasteful and inefficient as you consolidate your applications.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. The technology and know-how exists to have storage be a predictable, flexible, and easily managed part of an overall virtualized platform designed to provide the performance and availability that today’s end user workloads demand.
(BIZ305) Case Study: Migrating Oracle E-Business Suite to AWS | AWS re:Invent...Amazon Web Services
With the maturity and breadth of cloud solutions, more enterprises are moving mission-critical workloads to the cloud. American Commercial Lines (ACL) recently migrated their Oracle ERP to AWS. ERP solutions such as Oracle E-Business Suite require specific knowledge in mapping AWS infrastructure to the specific configurations and needs of running these workloads. In this session, Apps Associates and ACL walk through the considerations for running Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS, including deployment architectures, concurrent processing, load balanced forms and web services, varying database transactional workloads, and performance requirements, as well as security and monitoring aspects. ACL shares their experiences and business drivers in making this transition to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Optimizing workloads in SAP HANA with Amazon EC2 X1 Insta...Amazon Web Services
AWS and SAP have worked together closely to certify the AWS platform so that companies of all sizes can fully realize all the benefits of the SAP HANA in-memory database platform on the AWS cloud. By placing SAP systems in the cloud, organizations are achieving greater agility, flexibility, and cost efficiency while saving resources to focus on their core businesses. We will discuss recent SAP and AWS innovations including the Amazon EC2 X1 instance type that offers up to 2TB of RAM, and dive into features of the AWS platform that bring significant flexibility to SAP HANA deployments.
Planning a successful private cloud - CloudStack Collaboration Europe 2013Tim Mackey
So your boss just asked you to build a private cloud. Now what? Successful private clouds require a bit of planning, and your existing best practices may need to be adjusted. This deck covers some of the issues you'll face, or be aware of, as you migrate from an existing data center operation to one which is more "cloud-like". Some things may seem obvious, but there are aspects to network and storage design which impact success. This deck draws from my experience in building my first CloudStack cloud in early 2012 and has applicability to anyone seeking to deliver cloud services.
Taming the cost of your first cloud - CCCEU 2014Tim Mackey
Today everyone is talking about clouds, and a few are building them, but far fewer are operating successful clouds. In this session we'll examine a variety of paradigm shifts IT makes when moving from a traditional virtualization and management mindset to operating a successful cloud. For most organizations, without careful planning the hype of a cloud solution can quickly overcome its capabilities and pre-existing best practices can combine to create the worst possible cloud scenario -- a cloud which isn't economical to operate, and which is more cumbersome to manage than a traditional virtualization farm.
Key topics covered include:
- Successful transition of operational and management paradigm
- How the VM density of clouds change Ops
- What it means to monitor the network in a cloud environment, at hyper-dense virtualization levels
- Preventing storage costs from outpacing delivery costs
OSCON2014: Understanding Hypervisor Selection in Apache CloudStackTim Mackey
A presented at OSCON 2014, this deck covers the matrix of capabilities each supported hypervisor brings to the Apache CloudStack table when building a cloud.
CloudOpen Japan - Controlling the cost of your first cloudTim Mackey
As presented at CloudOpen Japan in Tokyo in 2015.
Today everyone is talking about clouds, and some are building them, but far fewer are operating successful clouds. In this session we'll examine a variety of paradigm shifts must IT make when moving from a traditional virtualization and management mindset to operating a successful cloud. For most organizations, without careful planning the hype of a cloud solution can quickly overcome its capabilities and existing best practices can combine to create the worst possible cloud scenario -- a cloud which isn't economical to operate, and which is more cumbersome to manage than a traditional virtualization farm. Key topics covered will include; transitioning the operational paradigm, the impact of VM density on operations and network management, and preventing storage cost from outpacing requirements.
Consolidate your enterprise workloads without creating new performance constr...NetApp
In this presentation by SolidFire's vExpert Jeramiah Dooley, you will learn about how consolidating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial missing step as VMware customers transition from a legacy architecture into a Software Defined Data Center.
Storage has become the boat anchor of the modern, virtualized data center. Up until recently it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, required far too much operational overhead and was sized, deployed and managed using methods created in the 1980s. Worst of all, storage capacity and performance are often still locked together in fixed ratios, making it inevitable that even the best run storage environment will be wasteful and inefficient as you consolidate your applications.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. The technology and know-how exists to have storage be a predictable, flexible, and easily managed part of an overall virtualized platform designed to provide the performance and availability that today’s end user workloads demand.
(BIZ305) Case Study: Migrating Oracle E-Business Suite to AWS | AWS re:Invent...Amazon Web Services
With the maturity and breadth of cloud solutions, more enterprises are moving mission-critical workloads to the cloud. American Commercial Lines (ACL) recently migrated their Oracle ERP to AWS. ERP solutions such as Oracle E-Business Suite require specific knowledge in mapping AWS infrastructure to the specific configurations and needs of running these workloads. In this session, Apps Associates and ACL walk through the considerations for running Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS, including deployment architectures, concurrent processing, load balanced forms and web services, varying database transactional workloads, and performance requirements, as well as security and monitoring aspects. ACL shares their experiences and business drivers in making this transition to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Optimizing workloads in SAP HANA with Amazon EC2 X1 Insta...Amazon Web Services
AWS and SAP have worked together closely to certify the AWS platform so that companies of all sizes can fully realize all the benefits of the SAP HANA in-memory database platform on the AWS cloud. By placing SAP systems in the cloud, organizations are achieving greater agility, flexibility, and cost efficiency while saving resources to focus on their core businesses. We will discuss recent SAP and AWS innovations including the Amazon EC2 X1 instance type that offers up to 2TB of RAM, and dive into features of the AWS platform that bring significant flexibility to SAP HANA deployments.
Technical 101: AWS Innovation at Scale
This session, gives an insider view of some the innovations that help make the AWS Cloud unique. He will show examples of AWS networking innovations from the interregional network backbone, through custom routers and networking rotocol stack, all the way down to individual servers. He will show examples from AWS server hardware, storage, and power distribution and then, up the stack, in high scale streaming data processing. Rodney will also dive into fundamental database work AWS is delivering to open up scaling and performance limits, reduce costs, and eliminate much of the administrative burden of managing databases. Join this session and walk away with a deeper understanding of the underlying innovations powering the cloud.
Speaker: Rodeny Haywood, Manager Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
AWS Storage Tiering for Enterprise WorkloadsTom Laszewski
AWS provides end-to-end storage solutions that will fulfill all these needs of Enterprise Environments that are easily manageable, extremely cost effective, fully integrated and totally on demand. These storage technologies include Elastic Block Store (EBS) for instance attached block storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object (file) storage and Amazon Glacier for archival. An enterprise database environment is an excellent example of a system that could use all these storage technologies to implement an end-to-end solution using striped PIOPS volumes for data files, Standard EBS volumes for log files, S3 for database backup using Oracle Secure Backup and Glacier for long-time archival from S3 based on time lapse rules. In this session,
Day 2 - Amazon RDS - Letting AWS run your Low Admin, High Performance DatabaseAmazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and re-sizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. In this webinar we review the different types of Amazon RDS available and how to move your existing databases to Amazon RDS with minimum disruption.
Reasons to attend:
- Learn how Amazon RDS can reduce the overhead of running high performance mission critical databases.
- Learn how to migrate your existing database workloads into Amazon RDS running on the AWS Cloud.
- Learn how to scale up and scale down your Amazon RDS instance and save money with reserved instances.
AWS Summit Auckland 2014 | Why Scale Matters and How the Cloud Really is Diff...Amazon Web Services
A behind the scenes look at key aspects of the AWS infrastructure deployments. Some of the true differences between a cloud infrastructure design and conventional enterprise infrastructure deployment and why the cloud fundamentally changes application deployment speed, economics, and provides more and better tools for delivering high reliability applications. Few companies can afford to have a datacenter in every region in which they serve customers or have employees. Even fewer can afford to have multiple datacenter in each region where they have a presence. Even fewer can afford to invest in custom optimized network, server, storage, monitoring, cooling, and power distribution systems and software. We'll look more closely at these systems, how they work, how they are scaled, and the advantages they bring to customers.
IBM Storage and VMware – A Winning CombinationPaula Koziol
Get an overview of how IBM and VMware are partnering together to help their joint customers innovate and grow. Storage offerings from IBM are integrated and optimized for VMware, ensuring you can extend your investment as you transform to a digital business.
MySQL in the Cloud, is Amazon RDS for you?Continuent
With more and more business moving into the cloud, the inclination is to use more cloud-based databases services, such as Amazon RDS. Deployment of Amazon RDS is capable with just a few buttons, but there are big differences between firing up a simple database for testing, and translating that into a full deployment to be used in production. For this to work properly, you have to consider many other aspects of the deployment, including high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and scalability of your solution within your application's requirements.
Continuent Tungsten provides a full data management solution that is already handling hundreds of millions of transactions daily for our customers. This webinar explores how your business can benefit from Continuent Tungsten, a flexible clustering solution that helps data-driven businesses handle billions of transactions daily across a wide range of environments. We'll focus on the following problems in particular:
- Ensuring fully capable cloud DBMS operation
- Avoiding lock-in by choosing solutions that run across clouds as well as on-premises
- Spreading MySQL data over regions using flexible primary/DR and multi-master topologies
- Controlling maintenance intervals and the DBMS stack directly
- Integrating in real-time to data warehouses and on-premises DBMS like Oracle
- Ensuring immediate access to top-notch, 24x7 support when things go south.
Learn how you can use Continuent Tungsten to build scalable management solutions that offer the economic benefits of the cloud with the enterprise capabilities required by businesses that live and die by their data. Your data is too precious to take shortcuts.
AWS Webcast - Best Practices for Deploying SAP Workloads on AWSAmazon Web Services
With AWS, it is easier for enterprises to deploy SAP workloads such as HANA and Business Suite. In this webinar, you'll learn the best practices for deploying SAP HANA and Business Suite on AWS. Additionally, you will learn about architectural considerations and pitfalls to look out for when migrating from on premises to AWS. This webinar will also discuss how Kellogg deployed SAP HANA on AWS and on-premises.
Learning Objectives:
• How to set SAP workloads on AWS
• Migration tips and tricks
• How to set up your architecture for optimal results Who Should Attend:
• Business and technical professionals who use SAP
AWS offers customers a range of different database options. These include Amazon DynamoDB, a fully-managed NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data as well as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud with support for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database. In this session you’ll get an overview of AWS database options and how they might help support your application and see how to get started.
Introduction to types of cloud storage and overview and comparison of the SoftLayer Storage Services. Topics covered include Block and File offerings"Codename: Prime", Consistent Performance, Mass Storage Servers (QuantaStor), and Backup (EVault, R1Soft), Object Storage (OpenStack Swift), CDN, Data Transfer Service, and Aspera.
Make your first CloudStack Cloud successfulTim Mackey
As presented at the 2014 CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Denver (CCCNA14), this deck covers some of the decision points impacting a successful deployment of CloudStack within your organization. Critical elements such as storage and networking are discussed to create a blueprint which seeks to remove some of the learning curve associated with the transition from data center management to cloud management.
Technical 101: AWS Innovation at Scale
This session, gives an insider view of some the innovations that help make the AWS Cloud unique. He will show examples of AWS networking innovations from the interregional network backbone, through custom routers and networking rotocol stack, all the way down to individual servers. He will show examples from AWS server hardware, storage, and power distribution and then, up the stack, in high scale streaming data processing. Rodney will also dive into fundamental database work AWS is delivering to open up scaling and performance limits, reduce costs, and eliminate much of the administrative burden of managing databases. Join this session and walk away with a deeper understanding of the underlying innovations powering the cloud.
Speaker: Rodeny Haywood, Manager Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
AWS Storage Tiering for Enterprise WorkloadsTom Laszewski
AWS provides end-to-end storage solutions that will fulfill all these needs of Enterprise Environments that are easily manageable, extremely cost effective, fully integrated and totally on demand. These storage technologies include Elastic Block Store (EBS) for instance attached block storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object (file) storage and Amazon Glacier for archival. An enterprise database environment is an excellent example of a system that could use all these storage technologies to implement an end-to-end solution using striped PIOPS volumes for data files, Standard EBS volumes for log files, S3 for database backup using Oracle Secure Backup and Glacier for long-time archival from S3 based on time lapse rules. In this session,
Day 2 - Amazon RDS - Letting AWS run your Low Admin, High Performance DatabaseAmazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and re-sizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. In this webinar we review the different types of Amazon RDS available and how to move your existing databases to Amazon RDS with minimum disruption.
Reasons to attend:
- Learn how Amazon RDS can reduce the overhead of running high performance mission critical databases.
- Learn how to migrate your existing database workloads into Amazon RDS running on the AWS Cloud.
- Learn how to scale up and scale down your Amazon RDS instance and save money with reserved instances.
AWS Summit Auckland 2014 | Why Scale Matters and How the Cloud Really is Diff...Amazon Web Services
A behind the scenes look at key aspects of the AWS infrastructure deployments. Some of the true differences between a cloud infrastructure design and conventional enterprise infrastructure deployment and why the cloud fundamentally changes application deployment speed, economics, and provides more and better tools for delivering high reliability applications. Few companies can afford to have a datacenter in every region in which they serve customers or have employees. Even fewer can afford to have multiple datacenter in each region where they have a presence. Even fewer can afford to invest in custom optimized network, server, storage, monitoring, cooling, and power distribution systems and software. We'll look more closely at these systems, how they work, how they are scaled, and the advantages they bring to customers.
IBM Storage and VMware – A Winning CombinationPaula Koziol
Get an overview of how IBM and VMware are partnering together to help their joint customers innovate and grow. Storage offerings from IBM are integrated and optimized for VMware, ensuring you can extend your investment as you transform to a digital business.
MySQL in the Cloud, is Amazon RDS for you?Continuent
With more and more business moving into the cloud, the inclination is to use more cloud-based databases services, such as Amazon RDS. Deployment of Amazon RDS is capable with just a few buttons, but there are big differences between firing up a simple database for testing, and translating that into a full deployment to be used in production. For this to work properly, you have to consider many other aspects of the deployment, including high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and scalability of your solution within your application's requirements.
Continuent Tungsten provides a full data management solution that is already handling hundreds of millions of transactions daily for our customers. This webinar explores how your business can benefit from Continuent Tungsten, a flexible clustering solution that helps data-driven businesses handle billions of transactions daily across a wide range of environments. We'll focus on the following problems in particular:
- Ensuring fully capable cloud DBMS operation
- Avoiding lock-in by choosing solutions that run across clouds as well as on-premises
- Spreading MySQL data over regions using flexible primary/DR and multi-master topologies
- Controlling maintenance intervals and the DBMS stack directly
- Integrating in real-time to data warehouses and on-premises DBMS like Oracle
- Ensuring immediate access to top-notch, 24x7 support when things go south.
Learn how you can use Continuent Tungsten to build scalable management solutions that offer the economic benefits of the cloud with the enterprise capabilities required by businesses that live and die by their data. Your data is too precious to take shortcuts.
AWS Webcast - Best Practices for Deploying SAP Workloads on AWSAmazon Web Services
With AWS, it is easier for enterprises to deploy SAP workloads such as HANA and Business Suite. In this webinar, you'll learn the best practices for deploying SAP HANA and Business Suite on AWS. Additionally, you will learn about architectural considerations and pitfalls to look out for when migrating from on premises to AWS. This webinar will also discuss how Kellogg deployed SAP HANA on AWS and on-premises.
Learning Objectives:
• How to set SAP workloads on AWS
• Migration tips and tricks
• How to set up your architecture for optimal results Who Should Attend:
• Business and technical professionals who use SAP
AWS offers customers a range of different database options. These include Amazon DynamoDB, a fully-managed NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data as well as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud with support for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database. In this session you’ll get an overview of AWS database options and how they might help support your application and see how to get started.
Introduction to types of cloud storage and overview and comparison of the SoftLayer Storage Services. Topics covered include Block and File offerings"Codename: Prime", Consistent Performance, Mass Storage Servers (QuantaStor), and Backup (EVault, R1Soft), Object Storage (OpenStack Swift), CDN, Data Transfer Service, and Aspera.
Make your first CloudStack Cloud successfulTim Mackey
As presented at the 2014 CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Denver (CCCNA14), this deck covers some of the decision points impacting a successful deployment of CloudStack within your organization. Critical elements such as storage and networking are discussed to create a blueprint which seeks to remove some of the learning curve associated with the transition from data center management to cloud management.
In this presentation (originally presented to vExperts on March 31, 2015), you will learn about SolidFire’s technology preview showcasing integration with Rawlinson Rivera’s VMware’s vRealize Automation (vRA) project. As an automation solution for VMware, vRA provides a service catalog of application blueprints to build, move, add, and change application infrastructure resources. Enterprise organizations benefit from reduced administrative duties to service the needs of applications running in a Software Defined Data Center.
This tech preview will showcase application service catalog building of software defined infrastructure through VMware’s vSphere 6, vRA, and SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out storage system. You’ll see a database and other applications being built from a template that allows you to select from exposed SolidFire capabilities, such as Quality of Service, encryption, and even Site Recovery Manager (SRM) protection.
Ask The Architect: RightScale & AWS Dive Deep into Hybrid ITRightScale
With the increased use of cloud services, organizations are faced with finding the most efficient way to use existing IT infrastructure alongside cloud-based compute, storage and networking resources. This has resulted in the rise of hybrid IT whereby companies leverage both on-premises and cloud resources to drive increased agility, stability and accessibility.
Flexiant and 451 Research Discuss the Service Provider Path from VPS to IaaSFlexiant
Liam Eagle, analyst at 451 Research Group covering the Internet infrastructure business, joins Flexiant Founder and Product Champion, Tony Lucas in a presentation that explored the strengths and benefits of moving from VPS to an IaaS platform.
Expanding your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Cloud is a new common for the Hybrid IT strategies. In this session, we will explain what’s different between cloud and your datacenter as well as how to make your Hybrid Cloud strategies
Expanding Your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Cloud is a new common for the Hybrid IT strategies. In this session, we will explain what’s different between cloud and your datacenter as well as how to make your Hybrid Cloud strategies.
Adelaide Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 - Azure 101Balabiju
A one day session that covers all the foundation of Azure services.
Microsoft Cloud Overview - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Microsoft Azure Storage
• Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
• Microsoft Azure Identity
• Microsoft Azure Backup
Pace of Innovation at AWS - London Summit Enteprise Track RePlayAmazon Web Services
In this session we will present some of the stories around innovation in the Amazon Web Services Datacenter including how it partners with other vendors in the hardware space.
AWS Business Essentials helps IT business decision makers understand the concepts and advantages of cloud computing and how a cloud strategy can help you meet your business objectives.
AWS Business Essentials Day 2.2 (full deck)
Module 1: Getting Started with the Cloud
Module 2: Leveraging AWS for Competitive Advantages
Module 3: Cloud Economics
Module 4: Security and Compliance
Module 5: Migrating to the Cloud
Caching for Microservices Architectures: Session IVMware Tanzu
In this 60 minute webinar, we will cover the key areas of consideration for data layer decisions in a microservices architecture, and how a caching layer, satisfies these requirements. You’ll walk away from this webinar with a better understanding of the following concepts:
- How microservices are easy to scale up and down, so both the service layer and the data layer need to support this elasticity.
- Why microservices simplify and accelerate the software delivery lifecycle by splitting up effort into smaller isolated pieces that autonomous teams can work on independently. Event-driven systems promote autonomy.
- Where microservices can be distributed across availability zones and data centers for addressing performance and availability requirements. Similarly, the data layer should support this distribution of workload.
- How microservices can be part of an evolution that includes your legacy applications. Similarly, the data layer must accommodate this graceful on-ramp to microservices.
Presenter : Jagdish Mirani is a Product Marketing Manager in charge of Pivotal’s in-memory products
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session. After migrating the initial workloads, understand how to migrate at scale to the AWS cloud. Hear about real life experiences from the AWS Professional Services team and learn about common use case examples, frameworks, and best practices. Hear about what to avoid when migrating applications at scale to AWS and understand the tools and partner services that can assist you when migrating applications to AWS.
Uses, considerations, and recommendations for AWSScalar Decisions
From an information session on Amazon Web Services (AWS), looking at uses, considerations, and recommendations for leveraging AWS in your organization.
Topics covered:
- AWS Services Overview
- Some ideal use cases: Disaster Recovery, Backup and Archive, Test/Dev
- Data residency and security considerations
IBM PureApplication System - Application platform system with integrated expertise. It consolidates workloads, simplifies infrastructure and delivers services rapidly using built-in expertise.
Hosted by PolarSeven Cloud Consulting - http://polarseven.com
Our monthly AWS User Group Sydney presentation night.
http://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/
Introductions and Whats New AWS - by PolarSeven
» Whats new - Efs and step functions,
» AWS Filesystems - understanding how EBS and Instance store are implemented
Session 1 - Westcon:
http://au.westcon.com/
Learn about the new types of Reserved Instances that are now available, the importance of optimising your environment before purchasing RI's and making sure that once purchased they are correctly utilised.
Session 2 - Brocade:
http://www.brocade.com/en.html
When using your AWS resources, network optimisation and traffic inspection remains a challenge, in this session we'll look at how to get visibility for your internet traffic and secure your website.
Building a Just-in-Time Application Stack for AnalystsAvere Systems
Slide presentation from Webinar on February 17, 2016.
People in analytical roles are demanding more and more compute and storage to get their jobs done. Instead of building out infrastructure for a few employees or a department, systems engineers and IT managers can find value in creating a compute stack in the cloud to meet the fluctuating demand of their clients.
In this 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn:
- How to identify the right analytical workloads
- How to create a scalable compute environment using the cloud for analysts in under 10 minutes
- How to best manage costs associated with the cloud compute stack
- How to create dedicated client stacks with their own scratch space as well as general access to reference data
Health systems departments, research & development departments, and business analyst groups all face silos of these challenging, compute-intensive use cases. By learning how to quickly build this flexible workflow that can be scaled up and down (or off) instantly, you can support business objectives while efficiently managing costs.
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Bio
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Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com
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In this talk Suresh will discuss how Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) helps overcome the challenges that cloud service providers and large enterprises face delivering, and managing, large multi-tenant clouds. He will discuss how Nuage Networks delivers a massively scalable SDN solution that ensures that datacenters, and wide area networks, are able to respond instantly to demand, and are boundary-less. The talk will also provide an overview of the SDN capabilities that Nuage VSP adds to CloudStack.
Bio
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In this talk, we will discuss how L4-L7 devices can integrate in various SDN architectures, discuss benefits and some of the challenges that such integration represents. We will also talk about how SDN and NFV relate, and what are the different challenges to successfully deploy L4-L7 devices as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or provide such services to the NFV Infrastructure (VIM).
Bio
Youcef Laribi is a Principal Architect in the Delivery Networks BU at Citrix. He is responsible for driving the integration projects of the NetScaler ADC product with several Cloud, SDN and Automation environments including OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI. He is also the Citrix representative on the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. His background is mainly in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, and he worked on several middleware technologies from DCE and CORBA in the early days, to J2EE and .NET to SOA and micro-services today. Youcef speaks 4 languages and holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the French INPG Institute in Grenoble, France.
Jenkins, jclouds, CloudStack, and CentOS by David Nalleybuildacloud
Setting up continuous integration for a single project can be a pretty daunting task. Doing that for hundreds of projects becomes a challenge of a different magnitude. Not only are their capacity problems, but some tests are destructive to the testing environment, some have esoteric environment demands. See how this is solved in the real world using Jenkins, jclouds, CloudStack to build an on-demand build infrastructure.
About David Nalley
David Nalley is the Vice President, Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation and a CloudStack PMC member.
This session will introduce monitoring CloudStack with Zenoss, and the CloudStack ZenPack. I will cover in detail what you get out of monitoring CloudStack with Zenoss. Additionally I will cover installation of Zenoss, interacting with our community and Q&A.
About Andrew Kirch
Andrew D Kirch is the Community Manager at Zenoss, a software development company specializing in Unified Monitoring with 130 employees, headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company offers an open source network and systems monitoring product called Zenoss Core, and a commercial product called Zenoss Service Dynamics. The company has over 35,000 users in over 180 countries. Customers include major organizations such as Chic-fil-a, Huntington Bank, Netflix, SunGard, Accenture, NASA, FIS Global, and many more.
As Community Manager, Andrew works directly with product users every day. He has over 10 years of experience as a Systems/Network Administrator, with specialization including SNMP and network monitoring. Prior to working at Zenoss he was principal at a unified communications VAR focused in the Midwest. In his spare time he puts computer crackers in prison.
Guaranteeing Storage Performance by Mike Tutkowskibuildacloud
This session will introduce the basics of primary storage in CloudStack. Additionally, I discuss the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud and how by leveraging the latest enhancements to CloudStack, storage administrators can deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. I'll review the CloudStack enhancements in detail, outline the management benefits they provide and discuss common go-to-market approaches.
About Mike Tutkowski
Mike Tutkowski, a member of the CloudStack PMC, develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.
Cloud Application Blueprints with Apache Brooklyn by Alex Henevaldbuildacloud
So you have your cloud running, what now? Extend the devops agility from infrastructure to applications by learning how to use Brooklyn, the Apache-incubating project for application management. Create blueprints for applications to enable one-click deployment into Cloudstack, Docker, localhost, or other targets. Leverage your favourite server management tools, from Bash to Chef. Automatically change the deployment after it's deployed. Attach policies to support scaling, failover, and alerting in the way your application needs.
In this session we'll show how with just a few lines of YAML, you can build powerful application blueprints by composing pre-existing components, from polyglot web stacks to big data tools such as Riak. We'll also cover defining new blueprints using custom scripts, configuring machine selection and runtime policies, and managing new locations such as Clocker -- the cloud of docker.
About Alex Henevald
Alex brings twenty years experience designing software solutions in the enterprise, start-up, and academic sectors. Most recently Alex was with Enigmatec Corporation where he led the development of what is now the Monterey® Middleware Platform™. Previous to that, he founded PocketWatch Systems, commercialising results from his doctoral research. Alex holds a PhD (Informatics) and an MSc (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh and an AB (Mathematics) from Princeton University. Alex was both a USA Today Academic All-Star and a Marshall Scholar.
Introduction to Apache CloudStack by David Nalleybuildacloud
Apache CloudStack is a mature, easy to deploy IaaS platform. That doesn't mean that it can be done without thought or preparation. Learn how CloudStack can be most efficiently deployed, and the problems to avoid in the process.
About David Nalley
David is a recovering sysadmin with a decade of experience. He’s a committer on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) project, a contributor to the Fedora Project and the Vice President of Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation.
Monitoring CloudStack in context with Converged Infrastructure by Mike Turnlundbuildacloud
CloudStack is a powerful, flexible technology that greatly expands the economic potential for a datacenter. Performance management of CloudStack in context with the rest of the datacenter is critical for quick fault diagnostics, proactive management of bottlenecks and quickly bringing up or tearing down services. Learn how proper tooling can make the difference in running an excellent service versus a problem plagued environment.
Mike is a 25+ year technology veteran with past roles in software engineering, product development, planning, and operations at CA Technologies, Cisco, and AMD. He currently leads a business development team at CA Technologies driving their partnerships in virtualized infrastructure and converged compute environments. Mike is based in Santa Clara, California. His time outside of work is spent with wife and four children, biking, and running triathlons. He has bachelors and masters degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
As you go into the cloud, the applications you are building will often be built on service-oriented architectures that communicate through RESTful APIs. Where API design and development used to be an uncommon thing, today it has become a basic application requirement. George Reese will cover the basic considerations in designing and implementing an API for your applications.
George Reese is the author of a number of technology books and a regular speaker on RESTful APIs, cloud computing, Java, and database systems. His most recent books are The REST API Design Handbook and O’Reilly’s Cloud Application Architectures. Professionally, he is the Executive Director of Cloud Computing at Dell as a result of Dell's recent acquisition of Enstratius, a company George co-founded. George has also led a number of Open Source projects, including several MUD libraries and the Imaginary Home home automation libraries for Java. He is also the primary maintainer of Dasein Cloud, a cloud abstraction API for Java.
George holds a BA from Bates College in Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Enterprise grade firewall and ssl termination to ac by will stevensbuildacloud
CloudOps has add support for enterprise grade security products in ACS. CloudOps has developed an integration with the Palo Alto Networks firewall appliance to enable ACS to orchestrate network features such as network creation, Source NAT, Static NAT, Port Forwarding and Firewall rules on the Palo Alto device. Additionally, CloudOps has extended ACS to support SSL certificate management as well as SSL termination by external load balancers. The existing ACS NetScaler plugin has been improved to support this new SSL termination functionality. The talk will cover the features added as well as a basic overview of how they are used.
Will Stevens is the Lead Developer at CloudOps. He has been directly involved in extending ACS to support more enterprise grade security functionality. Will has over 10 years experience as a software developer and is primarily focused on cloud integrations at CloudOps.
Securing Your Cloud With the Xen Hypervisor by Russell Pavlicekbuildacloud
The Xen Project produces a mature, enterprise-grade virtualization technology designed for the Cloud featuring many advanced and unique security features. For this reason, it's a hypervisor of choice for government agencies like NSA and the DoD, as well as for new security-minded projects the QubesOS Secure Desktop. However, while much of the security of Xen is inherent in its design, many of the advanced security features, such as stub domains, driver domains, and Xen Security Modules (XSM), are not enabled by default. This session will describe many of the advanced security features of Xen, as well as explaining why Xen is an excellent choice for secure Clouds
DevCloud - Setup and Demo on Apache CloudStack buildacloud
Hands-on Hacking Session by Amogh Vasekar
1. Demo of CloudStack using DevCloud
2. How we got there -
A) Building CloudStack from scratch
B) Deploying databases
C) Configuring your own DevCloud using Marvin
Cloud Network Virtualization with Juniper Contrailbuildacloud
Description: Contrail Technology will be discussed covering architecture, capabilities and use cases. It will be followed by a demonstration on current Contrail implementation on CloudStack/Openstack.
Parantap works as a Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering for Contrail Product within Juniper. Before Juniper, Parantap led the network architecture team for Microsoft Online Services (Windows Azure, MS Bing). Prior to Microsoft, Parantap worked as a core engineering manager for UUNet Technologies building Internet backbones.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Planning a Successful Cloud - Design from Workload to Infrastructure
1. Planning a Successful Cloud
Design from Workload to Infrastructure
Tim Mackey
Citrix Cloud Evangelist
2. Private Cloud, Why Now?
• Valid alternative to public clouds that are cheap
and readily available
• Speed and agility of deployment
• Control of corporate assets
• Cloud Management Platform market maturity
• Future-proofing for nextgen, webscale workloads
“An IaaS cloud is a
highly automated
virtual infrastructure
that enables self-
service resource
requests, and
consumption of the
shared environment is
tracked for either
chargeback or
showback purposes.”
Forrester Research
100’s of pilots and few production deployments in 2011; expected to be 10 times more in 2012 - Gartner
4. Enterprise Objectives for Cloud
Remove IT as a service delivery critical pathSelf Service
Reduce IT operational costs
Management
Automation
Consistent application and service deployment
Workload
Standardization
Manage complete infrastructure, regardless of scale
Centralized
Management
Drive reduced capital requirements
Smarter
Virtualization
CapitalLeverageWorkforceLeverage
Visibility into user and line of business usageUsage Metering
5. Server Virtualization++ Cloud
Built for traditional enterprise apps and
client-server compute
• Architected for 100s of hosts
• Scale-up (server clusters)
• Applications assume reliability
• IT Management-centric [1:Dozens]
• Proprietary vendor stack
Think: vCloud Director
Designed around big data, massive scale and
next-gen applications
• Cloud architecture for 1000s of hosts
• Scale-out (multi-site server farms)
• Applications assume failure
• Autonomic [1:1,000’s]
• Open, value-added stack
Think: AWS, RAX, GCE, eBay, etc.
• More scalable
• Lower cost
• More open
6. Key Features for Successful Clouds
• Select the correct hypervisor to best match workload needs
• Seamlessly manage provisioning process across hypervisors
Multi-Hypervisor Support
• Provide optimal workload performance and availability
• Management of multiple availability zones from a single console
Availability Zones
• Define virtual and physical network isolation rules
• Support load balancing and VPN access rules
Flexible Network
Management
• Flexible user, network and provisioning isolation rules
• Ability to delegate tenancy for departments and divisions
Tenant Isolation
• Freedom to define capacity with no per-VM licensesNo per-VM Licensing
7. Server Virtualization++ Amazon-style Cloud
Availability
Zone
Availability
Zone
Object Storage
vCenter
vSphere
ESXi
Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
ESXi
Cluster
ESXi
Cluster
CloudStack Management ServerServer Virtualization Availability Zone
Availability
Zone
ORAND
15. Along Comes Server Virtualization
• Multiple VMs/host
ᵒLoss of visibility
ᵒLoss of control
• Edge moves into host
ᵒNetwork admins need to understand
server virtualization
16. Example 1 – Mirroring Traffic
• Without virtualization this is pretty
easy
• With virtualization you now have
multiple VMs
17. Example 1 – Mirroring Traffic
• Without virtualization this is pretty
easy
• With virtualization you now have
multiple VMs
ᵒPlus VMs can move
• Better to monitor at virtual switch
18. Example 2 – Network Policies
• Server admins have significant impact
on the network
ᵒIP and MAC Address
ᵒVirtual NICs
ᵒProtocols and ports
• Granular network control requires
awareness of virtual machines
ᵒDefine policies at virtual switch
19. Network Management Tools Lag
• Assumptions of fixed topology
ᵒFine for physical
ᵒChallenge for dynamic environment
• Not virtualization aware
ᵒIncorrect topology
ᵒIncomplete topology
ᵒVM actions obsolete data
X
20. Virtual Machine Density Planning
• Host capacities are growing rapidly
ᵒvSphere 5 > 512 VMs
ᵒRHEV 3 > 1000 VMs
ᵒHyper-V > 2048 VMs
• Clouds and VDI push limits
• Top of rack switch selection matters?
ᵒARP table
ᵒSwitching performance drops
ᵒVM starts, but can’t connect
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Host 1
Host 2
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
22. Shared storage growth and provisioning time
1,000
500
VMs
Cost,
AU
100 200
500
VMs
Provisioning efficiency
AU – arbitrary units
23. Combined efficiency and storage evolution
Redesign
1,000
500
VMs
100 200 Cost, AU
VMs
1,000
500
Cost, AU100 200
?
Alternatives
AU – arbitrary units
24. Redesign
Efficiency and pod storage
1,000
500
VMs
100 200 Cost, AU
POD #1
POD #2
POD #3
1,000
500
VMs
100 200 Cost, AU
AU – arbitrary units
No redesign
25. What about local storage?
1,000
500
VMs
Cost, AU100 200
50
VMs
Provisioning efficiency
AU – arbitrary units
31. Cloud Builder Lessons from Zynga
• Public clouds are minivans
• zCloud is a race car
ᵒzCloud is optimized for social gaming
ᵒKnow your application requirements
• Don’t rent what you can own cheaper
ᵒCloud operator doesn’t care about your success
ᵒOptimized applications might be key
• Ensure you have backup plans
ᵒUsage can and does spike
ᵒOutages can and do happen
vs.
32. Cloud Builder Lessons From Telcos
• Utility computing fits business model
ᵒTraditionally operate a low margin business model
ᵒUnderstand tiered service offerings
ᵒHave a history with instant provisioning
• Tiered service demands infrastructure flexibility
ᵒ“Cost per instance” is paramount
ᵒCharge extra for premium features
ᵒInstance doesn’t imply virtualization
ᵒBe prepared to change vendors if better model appears
• Provisioning agility expected
ᵒCustomers expect instant self service access and detailed billing
33. Service Offerings
• Clearly define what you want to offer
ᵒWhat types of applications
ᵒWho has access, and who owns them
ᵒWhat type of access
• Define how templates need to be managed
ᵒOperating system support
ᵒPatching requirements
• Define expectations around compliance and availability
ᵒWho owns backup and monitoring
34. Define Tenancy Requirements
• Department data local to department
ᵒWhere is the application data stored
• Data and service isolation
ᵒVM migration and host HA
ᵒNetwork services
• Encryption of PII/PCI
ᵒWhere do keys live when data location unknown
ᵒNeed encryption designed for the cloud
• Showback to stakeholders
ᵒMore than just usage, compliance and audits
35. Virtualization Infrastructure
• Hypervisor defined by service offerings
ᵒDon’t select hypervisor based on “standards”
ᵒUnderstand true costs of virtualization
ᵒMultiple hypervisors are “OK”
ᵒBare metal can be a hypervisor
• To “Pool” resources or not
ᵒIs there a real requirement for pooled resources
ᵒCan the cloud management solution do better?
ᵒReal cost of shared storage
• Primary storage defined by hypervisor
• Template storage defined by solution
ᵒTypically low cost options like NFS
36. Cloud Operations
• Design for maintainability
• Monitor critical components
ᵒManagement servers and system support VMs
ᵒHypervisor hosts, and critical infrastructure
ᵒEnd user deployment environments
If your cloud has maintenance windows, you’re doing it wrong.
- Allan Leinwand Former CTO Zynga
37. Secure multi-tenant cloud orchestration platform
• Turn-key platform for IaaS delivery
• Hypervisor agnostic
• Massively scalable, secure and open
• Simple deployment and administration
History
• Project open sourced (GPLv3) May 2010
• Acquired by Citrix July 2011
• Relicensed under ASL v2 April 3rd, 2012
• Apache incubating project April 16, 2012
• Graduated March 20, 2013
Over 200 contributing organizations
