Boston
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Today’s Agenda!
3:00 
Accelerate to Cloud





Robert Shroll, RightScale, Sales Director

3:45 "Demo: Agility in a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise

 
 
Claudio Gentile, RightScale, Cloud Solutions Engineer
4:30 
Plotting Your Route





Robert Shroll, RightScale, Sales Director!

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4:45 
Using Cloud at Percipio Media





Tony Deigh, Percipio Media, CTO



5:30 "Networking and Cocktails
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Global Cloud Management Service!
Midwest

Chicago

London

Amsterdam

Seattle
Dublin
Oregon
NYC Area
SF Area

Tokyo
DC Area

Shanghai

Southeast

Las Vegas

Hong Kong

Hyderabad
Singapore

Dallas

São Paulo

Private Clouds

Sydney

Public Clouds
Amazon Web Services

Tata

Datapipe

Logicworks

Windows Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Rackspace

HP Cloud

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IDCF / Yahoo! Japan

SoftLayer
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3 Steps to Accelerate Your Cloud!
1 
Get Out Your Map

 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
2 
Pick Your Destination

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3 
Plan a Route

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Get Out Your Map!

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Choice!
The Rise of the Clouds

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What a Difference a Year Makes!

Launched

Goes OpenStack

GA

2012!
Apr

Jun

Launched

Open Sourced
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Aug

Oct

2013!
Dec

Adds Australia

Feb

Apr

Jun

vCHS GA

Grizzly Released

Aug
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Hybrid Matures!
All of the Above

Multi-public
15%

No plans
7%

Multi-private
15%
Single public
11%

Multi-cloud
77%

Hybrid cloud
47%

Single private
5%

Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013

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Evolution of Hybrid Architectures!
From a Portfolio of Resource Pools…









…to a unified Resource Pool.

Public Cloud!

App 1

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App 2

Private Cloud!

App 3
2

App 4
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Using!
Cloud!
Unlocks!
Value 

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Cloud Maturity Model!

8%!

17%!

26%!

23%!

26%!

No!
Plans!

Cloud!
Watchers!

Cloud!
Beginners!

Cloud!
Explorers!

Cloud!
Focused!

Planning!

First project!

Apps running!

Heavy use!

Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013

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Benefits Grow!
100%

% of Respondents

80%

60%

Business continuity
Higher performance
Geographic reach
IT staff efficiency
Higher availability
Faster time to market with apps
Greater scalability
Faster access to infrastructure

40%

20%

0%
Cloud Beginners

Cloud Explorers

Cloud Focused

Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013

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Pick a Destination!

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What Do You Need to Consider?!

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Consideration: Consistency !


Consistent performance & reliability
Consistent utilization

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Consideration: Security !
Security outside the private network
Heterogeneous APIs and behaviors

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Consideration: Waste!

Simple, flexible ordering
Complex merchandising and procurement
Self-service de-provisioning
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Consideration: Automation!
Architectural rework
Dynamic configuration
Integrated monitors and orchestration

#rightscale!
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Consideration: Tracking & Planning!

Budgeting
Chargeback
Purchase options

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Why!
Cloud!
Management?!
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What Defines Business Value For You?!
Increase Enterprise Agility
Drive Operational Efficiencies

Faster Time to Market
Accelerate Innovation
Fail (or Succeed) Fast
Cut Infrastructure Costs
Reduce Overprovisioning
Increase IT Efficiency

Expand Markets & Capabilities

New Geographies
New Capabilities
Web-Scale Applications

Increase Investment Flexibility

CapEX to OpEX
Reduce sunk costs
Increase spending visibility

Reduce Risk

Increase service availability
Secure environments
Reduce vendor lock-in

#rightscale!
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Cloud Management is…!
A framework of tools to solve cloud challenges and increase your
ability to enjoy cloud benefits 
!
1.  Self-service accessibility of an approved configuration menu
2.  Consistency and reliability of shared, commodity resources
3.  Elastic, instantaneous scalability driven by automation!
4.  Visibility across the organization and security across resources
5.  Usage and cost transparency and optimization!

#rightscale!
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Time for a Test Drive…!

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The RightScale SaaS Platform!
Cloud Now

On-Demand Access to Cloud

Rock Solid

Proven Scalability and Reliability

Freedom of Choice
Enterprise SLAs

Deploy Anywhere, Move Anywhere
Data-Center Independent Control Plane

No Worries

Auto-Upgrades Keep You Current

Connection-Ready

Extensive API for Easy Integration

#rightscale!
Percipio Media LLC

PERCIPIO MEDIA
IN THE CLOUD
15-Oct-13

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Who is Percipio Media?
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Operate > 100 job sites
¨  25mm members
¨ 

Job Seeker Products

Database Marketing
via email, phone, text, retargeting

Paid Traffic
(e.g., Google Search)

Percipio Media LLC

Monetization

Arbitrage & Member Acquisition

Monetization

(e.g., clicks, leads, job applications)

(e.g., clicks, leads, job applications)

15-Oct-13
Who is Percipio Media?
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Organic growth – bootstrap funding
¨  Data is at the core of our business
¨ 

¤  HypothesizeèExperimentèAnalyzeèIterate
¨ 

Speed is more important than perfection

We try to judge every activity by potential lift to gross
profit

Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-13
Percipio Media Growth
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Percipio Media LLC

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What is an Internet Start-up?
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¨ 

Open Source Software
¤  Huge

¨ 

leverage with no cash outlay

Cloud Computing & Services
¤  Scalable,

¨ 

Internet Marketing
¤  Scalable,

¨ 

low cash entry, low people entry
targetable, optimizable

Smart People
¤  Data

Percipio Media LLC

savvy

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Why?
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¨ 

Most critical things in any start-up
¤  People
¤  People
¤  People
¤  Speed-to-market
¤  Cash

¨ 

flow

OSS, Cloud Computing, Internet Marketing provide
leverage on all of these
Oh, we can solve that problem with money? Great!

Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-13
Cloud Stuff We Use Today
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As of 8/2013 100% of our production & development infrastructure is at Amazon
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EC2 – servers and storage – since 5/2010
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84 instances
14.5Tb provisioned EBS storage

S3 – storage – since 12/2011
CloudFront – Content delivery network – since 10/2010
Route 53 – DNS – since 10/2012
Redshift – Data warehouse – since 4/2013
DynamoDB – Key/value storage – in test
CloudHSM – hardware key management – evaluating

¨ 

RightScale – server management – free service since 5/2010; paid since 1/2012

¨ 

EngineYard – Ruby environment management – since 2/2012

¨ 

NewRelic – Java & Ruby performance monitoring – since 9/2010

¨ 

Scout – server monitoring – since 7/2010

¨ 

Airbrake – exception monitoring – since 7/2010

¨ 

24x7 – DNS/server response monitoring – since 7/2010

¨ 

Salesforce.com – CRM – since 10/2010

¨ 

Github – (limited) source control – since 2/2012

¨ 

JIRA & Confluence – Issue tracking & Wiki – since 5/2011

¨ 

Yammer – intra-company communication – since 12/2012

¨ 

Casper – Mac laptop management – in test

Computing
Percipio Media LLC

Support

Services
15-Oct-13
Amazon Web Services
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Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1IMDMZ5&ct=130819&st=sb&ref_=8

Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-2013
Key Systems using Cloud Computing
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¨ 
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7 RoR Web applications
Core decision engine
3 MySQL database shards with 2 read-only mirrors
¤  J2EE Web application
¤  HAProxy load balancers
¤ 

¨ 

Job search engine
Replicated MySQL + Ultrasphinx
¤  Riak DB
¤  J2EE Web application
¤ 

¨ 
¨ 
¨ 

Analytics DB (Redshift)
Bid computation (Redshift + MySQL + Java)
2 Source Control systems (SVN & git/Gerrit)

Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-13
Our Philosophy
34

¨ 

Do as little as possible
¤  We

¨ 

are still using some 2-year-old RightScripts

Push-button scaling and staging environments
¤  90%

¨ 

automation is often good enough

You can engineer whatever uptime you need
¤  Don’t

¨ 
¨ 

over-engineer

Over-engineer capacity – it’s just $$$
Try stuff!
¤  Clone

and test via EBS, Redshift snapshots
¤  Look for higher leverage services (e.g., Redshift)
Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-13
Tools
35

RightScale
¨  MySQL replication
¨  ec2-consistent-snapshot
¨  pt-online-schema-change
¨  RAID/LVM w/dedicated IOPS
¨ 

Percipio Media LLC

15-Oct-13
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Plot Your Route!

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Where to Start: Segment Your App Portfolio!
ROI

Nightmare
•  Monolithic
•  Hairball

#rightscale!

Traditional
•  Legacy
•  Standard
technologies

Elastic Web
• 
• 

Web
architecture
Elastic design

Cloud-Ready
• 
• 

Greenfield
Designed for
cloud
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Evaluating Applications for the Cloud!
•  Business impact
•  Should we put this app on the cloud?
•  What benefits will we get?

•  Technical requirements
•  Can we put this app on the cloud?
•  How much will migration or build out cost?


•  Choose the best ROI
•  High business impact
•  Appropriate technical requirements

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Business Impact: Framework Sample!
App 1

Business Impact
Fast time to market
Experimental
Demand fluctuation
Transitory/Time limited
Many instances
Many changes
DevOps
New geographies
New capabilities
OpEX is desirable
#rightscale!

App 2

App 3

App 4

App 5

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Technical Fit: Framework Sample!
App 1

Governance Factors
Data Residency
Regulatory (PCI, HIPAA)
Security Requirements

Technical Requirements
Load Balancer: Session
Affinity
Application: Licensing
Cache: Persistent
Database: Working set size
Security: Egress filtering
…
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App 2

App 3

App 4

App 5

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Rank Your Apps to Prioritize!
Refactor

Quick Wins

Business Impact

App 3

App 5
App 4

App 6

App 1
App 2

App 8

App 9
App 7

Don’t Migrate

Hold Off

Technical Fit
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4 Common Starting Points!
Marketing Campaigns

Self Service Test & Dev

Mobile Apps

Batch Processing

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Your Cloud Team: Org Implications!

Create a cloud team with a mix of new and existing talent
Evaluate existing processes, tools are only part of the story
Focus on business drivers – agility, efficiency, new markets, opex
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A Cloud Itinerary!
•  Lay out your cloud strategy
•  Understand your Business Value Tracks
•  Develop your goals, what you want to accomplish
•  Determine how you will evaluate success

•  Select applications and use cases based on ROI
•  Start with the best, not the worst, technical fit
•  Align to meaningful business impact
•  Favor greenfield and cloud-friendly applications

•  Get started
•  Stand up an application on a public cloud
•  Run a POC private cloud
•  Start using tools that will make scaling your cloud strategy easier
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What Defines Business Value For You?!
Increase Enterprise Agility
Drive Operational Efficiencies

Faster Time to Market
Accelerate Innovation
Fail (or Succeed) Fast
Cut Infrastructure Costs
Reduce Overprovisioning
Increase IT Efficiency

Expand Markets & Capabilities

New Geographies
New Capabilities
Web-Scale Applications

Increase Investment Flexibility

CapEX to OpEX
Reduce sunk costs
Increase spending visibility

Reduce Risk

Increase service availability
Secure environments
Reduce vendor lock-in

#rightscale!
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Driving Business Value from Cloud!
Agility

Efficiency

#rightscale!

New Markets and Products

Changing the Financial Model
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Agility at Pearson!
Requirements: 
•  Large scale, 3M+ students
•  Single-tenant SaaS
•  Multi-cloud
•  Fast customer POC & onboarding

Solution:
•  Clone-able, customizable
environments
•  Consistent dev and production
environments
•  AWS and Rackspace
•  Ability to easily pilot and test
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What is Pearson Doing?!
Our Goals
•  A test-bed for automation and integration
•  A showcase for transformation

Our Objectives
•  Push-button deployment 
•  Automated integration into existing management tools.
•  Asset Management
•  Monitoring
•  Configuration and Software Deployment


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Using RightScale!
•  Integration Bus model
•  RightScale brokers the APIs
•  Simple hooks: RightScale provides the hooks
•  Loose binding: Pearson owns most of the logic

•  Cross cloud support
•  Templates
•  Images
•  API (almost)

•  Easy to shift the integration points


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Efficiency at Samsung SDS!
Requirements: 
•  Private cloud offering by ‘central
IT’ to business units
•  AWS-like and AWS-integrated
•  Low latency for data replication

Solution:
•  Hybrid OpenStack & AWS cloud
•  Additional ‘Availability Zone’ for
cost, HA, and performance
•  Unified management with
RightScale

#rightscale!
BUSINESS DRIVERS	
Global, Elastic infrastructure to support unpredictable B2C Service traffic

B2C Service Requirements
§  Predictable High Performance 

SDS Directions
Openstack

B2C Private Cloud (SPCS) 	

§  Samsung SDS Security Policy compliance
§  Flexible and Low Cost Infrastructure

§  Unpredictable Demand
§  Low upfront investment

§  Unified Cloud Management System
§  Global Deployment that meets user performance

Copyright © 2013 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. All rights reserved

Customized security

Scalability
& Cost

SPCS + Public Cloud = Hybrid

Cloud Controller

Global
Service

Dedicated infra

Cloud Bursting/DR

Integrated Global Operations

Unified NOC

CDN/ADN
HYBRID CONTROLLER!

Hybrid Cloud Controller (RightScale)

App Deployment	

Monitoring
Automation	

Governance	

Resource/App
Control/Management

Load Balnacer
Application Server
Database Server

Private Cloud(SPCS)	

Copyright © 2013 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. All rights reserved

•  VPN
•  Dedicated Line

Load Balnacer
Application Server
Database Server

Public Cloud
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New Markets at Intercontinental!

•  Targeted Consumer Website for China
•  Global Training Environment

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Using RightScale!

•  Consumer site and training sites use auto-scaling to run
efficiently
•  Minimizes the number of administrators needed to run these
environments
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Opex at American Girl!
Requirements: 
•  10x load increase after Christmas
•  Quickly deploy infrastructure to
meet a marketing deadline

Solution:
•  Scale 10 days in advance to
ensure capacity can handle load
•  Stable system that does not need
to be actively managed
•  Increased utilization and decrease
costs using AWS and RightScale
#rightscale!

RightScale Roadtrip Boston: Accelerate to Cloud

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    2 # Today’s Agenda! 3:00 Accelerateto Cloud Robert Shroll, RightScale, Sales Director 3:45 "Demo: Agility in a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Claudio Gentile, RightScale, Cloud Solutions Engineer 4:30 Plotting Your Route Robert Shroll, RightScale, Sales Director! ! 4:45 Using Cloud at Percipio Media Tony Deigh, Percipio Media, CTO 5:30 "Networking and Cocktails #rightscale!
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    3 # Global Cloud ManagementService! Midwest Chicago London Amsterdam Seattle Dublin Oregon NYC Area SF Area Tokyo DC Area Shanghai Southeast Las Vegas Hong Kong Hyderabad Singapore Dallas São Paulo Private Clouds Sydney Public Clouds Amazon Web Services Tata Datapipe Logicworks Windows Azure Google Cloud Platform Rackspace HP Cloud #rightscale! IDCF / Yahoo! Japan SoftLayer
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    4 # 3 Steps toAccelerate Your Cloud! 1 Get Out Your Map 2 Pick Your Destination 3 Plan a Route #rightscale!
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    # Get Out YourMap! #rightscale!
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    6 # Choice! The Rise ofthe Clouds #rightscale!
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    7 # What a Differencea Year Makes! Launched Goes OpenStack GA 2012! Apr Jun Launched Open Sourced #rightscale! Aug Oct 2013! Dec Adds Australia Feb Apr Jun vCHS GA Grizzly Released Aug
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    8 # Hybrid Matures! All ofthe Above Multi-public 15% No plans 7% Multi-private 15% Single public 11% Multi-cloud 77% Hybrid cloud 47% Single private 5% Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013 #rightscale!
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    9 # Evolution of HybridArchitectures! From a Portfolio of Resource Pools… …to a unified Resource Pool. Public Cloud! App 1 #rightscale! App 2 Private Cloud! App 3 2 App 4
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    12 # Benefits Grow! 100% % ofRespondents 80% 60% Business continuity Higher performance Geographic reach IT staff efficiency Higher availability Faster time to market with apps Greater scalability Faster access to infrastructure 40% 20% 0% Cloud Beginners Cloud Explorers Cloud Focused Source: RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013 #rightscale! 12
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    14 # What Do YouNeed to Consider?! #rightscale!
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    15 # Consideration: Consistency ! Consistentperformance & reliability Consistent utilization #rightscale!
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    16 # Consideration: Security ! Securityoutside the private network Heterogeneous APIs and behaviors #rightscale!
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    17 # Consideration: Waste! Simple, flexibleordering Complex merchandising and procurement Self-service de-provisioning #rightscale!
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    18 # Consideration: Automation! Architectural rework Dynamicconfiguration Integrated monitors and orchestration #rightscale!
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    19 # Consideration: Tracking &Planning! Budgeting Chargeback Purchase options #rightscale!
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    21 # What Defines BusinessValue For You?! Increase Enterprise Agility Drive Operational Efficiencies Faster Time to Market Accelerate Innovation Fail (or Succeed) Fast Cut Infrastructure Costs Reduce Overprovisioning Increase IT Efficiency Expand Markets & Capabilities New Geographies New Capabilities Web-Scale Applications Increase Investment Flexibility CapEX to OpEX Reduce sunk costs Increase spending visibility Reduce Risk Increase service availability Secure environments Reduce vendor lock-in #rightscale!
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    22 # Cloud Management is…! Aframework of tools to solve cloud challenges and increase your ability to enjoy cloud benefits ! 1.  Self-service accessibility of an approved configuration menu 2.  Consistency and reliability of shared, commodity resources 3.  Elastic, instantaneous scalability driven by automation! 4.  Visibility across the organization and security across resources 5.  Usage and cost transparency and optimization! #rightscale!
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    23 # Time for aTest Drive…! #rightscale!
  • 24.
    24 # The RightScale SaaSPlatform! Cloud Now On-Demand Access to Cloud Rock Solid Proven Scalability and Reliability Freedom of Choice Enterprise SLAs Deploy Anywhere, Move Anywhere Data-Center Independent Control Plane No Worries Auto-Upgrades Keep You Current Connection-Ready Extensive API for Easy Integration #rightscale!
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    Percipio Media LLC PERCIPIOMEDIA IN THE CLOUD 15-Oct-13 25
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    Who is PercipioMedia? 26 Operate > 100 job sites ¨  25mm members ¨  Job Seeker Products Database Marketing via email, phone, text, retargeting Paid Traffic (e.g., Google Search) Percipio Media LLC Monetization Arbitrage & Member Acquisition Monetization (e.g., clicks, leads, job applications) (e.g., clicks, leads, job applications) 15-Oct-13
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    Who is PercipioMedia? 27 Organic growth – bootstrap funding ¨  Data is at the core of our business ¨  ¤  HypothesizeèExperimentèAnalyzeèIterate ¨  Speed is more important than perfection We try to judge every activity by potential lift to gross profit Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-13
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    What is anInternet Start-up? 29 ¨  Open Source Software ¤  Huge ¨  leverage with no cash outlay Cloud Computing & Services ¤  Scalable, ¨  Internet Marketing ¤  Scalable, ¨  low cash entry, low people entry targetable, optimizable Smart People ¤  Data Percipio Media LLC savvy 15-Oct-13
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    Why? 30 ¨  Most critical thingsin any start-up ¤  People ¤  People ¤  People ¤  Speed-to-market ¤  Cash ¨  flow OSS, Cloud Computing, Internet Marketing provide leverage on all of these Oh, we can solve that problem with money? Great! Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-13
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    Cloud Stuff WeUse Today 31 ¨  As of 8/2013 100% of our production & development infrastructure is at Amazon ¤  EC2 – servers and storage – since 5/2010 n  n  ¤  ¤  ¤  ¤  ¤  ¤  84 instances 14.5Tb provisioned EBS storage S3 – storage – since 12/2011 CloudFront – Content delivery network – since 10/2010 Route 53 – DNS – since 10/2012 Redshift – Data warehouse – since 4/2013 DynamoDB – Key/value storage – in test CloudHSM – hardware key management – evaluating ¨  RightScale – server management – free service since 5/2010; paid since 1/2012 ¨  EngineYard – Ruby environment management – since 2/2012 ¨  NewRelic – Java & Ruby performance monitoring – since 9/2010 ¨  Scout – server monitoring – since 7/2010 ¨  Airbrake – exception monitoring – since 7/2010 ¨  24x7 – DNS/server response monitoring – since 7/2010 ¨  Salesforce.com – CRM – since 10/2010 ¨  Github – (limited) source control – since 2/2012 ¨  JIRA & Confluence – Issue tracking & Wiki – since 5/2011 ¨  Yammer – intra-company communication – since 12/2012 ¨  Casper – Mac laptop management – in test Computing Percipio Media LLC Support Services 15-Oct-13
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    Amazon Web Services 32 MagicQuadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1IMDMZ5&ct=130819&st=sb&ref_=8 Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-2013
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    Key Systems usingCloud Computing 33 ¨  ¨  7 RoR Web applications Core decision engine 3 MySQL database shards with 2 read-only mirrors ¤  J2EE Web application ¤  HAProxy load balancers ¤  ¨  Job search engine Replicated MySQL + Ultrasphinx ¤  Riak DB ¤  J2EE Web application ¤  ¨  ¨  ¨  Analytics DB (Redshift) Bid computation (Redshift + MySQL + Java) 2 Source Control systems (SVN & git/Gerrit) Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-13
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    Our Philosophy 34 ¨  Do aslittle as possible ¤  We ¨  are still using some 2-year-old RightScripts Push-button scaling and staging environments ¤  90% ¨  automation is often good enough You can engineer whatever uptime you need ¤  Don’t ¨  ¨  over-engineer Over-engineer capacity – it’s just $$$ Try stuff! ¤  Clone and test via EBS, Redshift snapshots ¤  Look for higher leverage services (e.g., Redshift) Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-13
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    Tools 35 RightScale ¨  MySQL replication ¨ ec2-consistent-snapshot ¨  pt-online-schema-change ¨  RAID/LVM w/dedicated IOPS ¨  Percipio Media LLC 15-Oct-13
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    # Where to Start:Segment Your App Portfolio! ROI Nightmare •  Monolithic •  Hairball #rightscale! Traditional •  Legacy •  Standard technologies Elastic Web •  •  Web architecture Elastic design Cloud-Ready •  •  Greenfield Designed for cloud
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    38 # Evaluating Applications forthe Cloud! •  Business impact •  Should we put this app on the cloud? •  What benefits will we get? •  Technical requirements •  Can we put this app on the cloud? •  How much will migration or build out cost? •  Choose the best ROI •  High business impact •  Appropriate technical requirements #rightscale!
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    39 # Business Impact: FrameworkSample! App 1 Business Impact Fast time to market Experimental Demand fluctuation Transitory/Time limited Many instances Many changes DevOps New geographies New capabilities OpEX is desirable #rightscale! App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5 u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
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    40 # Technical Fit: FrameworkSample! App 1 Governance Factors Data Residency Regulatory (PCI, HIPAA) Security Requirements Technical Requirements Load Balancer: Session Affinity Application: Licensing Cache: Persistent Database: Working set size Security: Egress filtering … #rightscale! App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5 u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
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    41 # Rank Your Appsto Prioritize! Refactor Quick Wins Business Impact App 3 App 5 App 4 App 6 App 1 App 2 App 8 App 9 App 7 Don’t Migrate Hold Off Technical Fit #rightscale!
  • 42.
    42 # 4 Common StartingPoints! Marketing Campaigns Self Service Test & Dev Mobile Apps Batch Processing #rightscale!
  • 43.
    43 # Your Cloud Team:Org Implications! Create a cloud team with a mix of new and existing talent Evaluate existing processes, tools are only part of the story Focus on business drivers – agility, efficiency, new markets, opex #rightscale!
  • 44.
    44 # A Cloud Itinerary! • Lay out your cloud strategy •  Understand your Business Value Tracks •  Develop your goals, what you want to accomplish •  Determine how you will evaluate success •  Select applications and use cases based on ROI •  Start with the best, not the worst, technical fit •  Align to meaningful business impact •  Favor greenfield and cloud-friendly applications •  Get started •  Stand up an application on a public cloud •  Run a POC private cloud •  Start using tools that will make scaling your cloud strategy easier #rightscale!
  • 45.
    45 # What Defines BusinessValue For You?! Increase Enterprise Agility Drive Operational Efficiencies Faster Time to Market Accelerate Innovation Fail (or Succeed) Fast Cut Infrastructure Costs Reduce Overprovisioning Increase IT Efficiency Expand Markets & Capabilities New Geographies New Capabilities Web-Scale Applications Increase Investment Flexibility CapEX to OpEX Reduce sunk costs Increase spending visibility Reduce Risk Increase service availability Secure environments Reduce vendor lock-in #rightscale!
  • 46.
    46 # Driving Business Valuefrom Cloud! Agility Efficiency #rightscale! New Markets and Products Changing the Financial Model
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    47 # Agility at Pearson! Requirements: •  Large scale, 3M+ students •  Single-tenant SaaS •  Multi-cloud •  Fast customer POC & onboarding Solution: •  Clone-able, customizable environments •  Consistent dev and production environments •  AWS and Rackspace •  Ability to easily pilot and test #rightscale!
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    48 # What is PearsonDoing?! Our Goals •  A test-bed for automation and integration •  A showcase for transformation Our Objectives •  Push-button deployment •  Automated integration into existing management tools. •  Asset Management •  Monitoring •  Configuration and Software Deployment #rightscale!
  • 49.
    49 # Using RightScale! •  IntegrationBus model •  RightScale brokers the APIs •  Simple hooks: RightScale provides the hooks •  Loose binding: Pearson owns most of the logic •  Cross cloud support •  Templates •  Images •  API (almost) •  Easy to shift the integration points #rightscale!
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    50 # Efficiency at SamsungSDS! Requirements: •  Private cloud offering by ‘central IT’ to business units •  AWS-like and AWS-integrated •  Low latency for data replication Solution: •  Hybrid OpenStack & AWS cloud •  Additional ‘Availability Zone’ for cost, HA, and performance •  Unified management with RightScale #rightscale!
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    BUSINESS DRIVERS Global, Elasticinfrastructure to support unpredictable B2C Service traffic B2C Service Requirements §  Predictable High Performance SDS Directions Openstack B2C Private Cloud (SPCS) §  Samsung SDS Security Policy compliance §  Flexible and Low Cost Infrastructure §  Unpredictable Demand §  Low upfront investment §  Unified Cloud Management System §  Global Deployment that meets user performance Copyright © 2013 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. All rights reserved Customized security Scalability & Cost SPCS + Public Cloud = Hybrid Cloud Controller Global Service Dedicated infra Cloud Bursting/DR Integrated Global Operations Unified NOC CDN/ADN
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    HYBRID CONTROLLER! Hybrid CloudController (RightScale) App Deployment Monitoring Automation Governance Resource/App Control/Management Load Balnacer Application Server Database Server Private Cloud(SPCS) Copyright © 2013 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. All rights reserved •  VPN •  Dedicated Line Load Balnacer Application Server Database Server Public Cloud
  • 53.
    53 # New Markets atIntercontinental! •  Targeted Consumer Website for China •  Global Training Environment #rightscale!
  • 54.
    54 # Using RightScale! •  Consumersite and training sites use auto-scaling to run efficiently •  Minimizes the number of administrators needed to run these environments #rightscale!
  • 55.
    55 # Opex at AmericanGirl! Requirements: •  10x load increase after Christmas •  Quickly deploy infrastructure to meet a marketing deadline Solution: •  Scale 10 days in advance to ensure capacity can handle load •  Stable system that does not need to be actively managed •  Increased utilization and decrease costs using AWS and RightScale #rightscale!