RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.

1. Identifying Workloads toMove to the Cloud October 4, 2011 Watch the video of this webinar

3. PavelPragin, PS Architect, RightScale Q&A Jason Dorfman, Account Manager, RightScale Please use the “Questions” window to ask questions any time!

4. Agenda Characteristics of Ideal Workloads Scalable Web Apps – Social Media/Gaming Batch Processing – Encoding Disaster Recovery (DR) Multi-Region/Cloud Characteristics of Bad Workloads Live Q&A Please use the “Questions” window to ask questions any time!

5. CLOUD IS FOR EVERYONE,NOT EVERYTHING Not Every App Every Firm

6. RightScale Delivers Workload Deployment Freedom Application Portfolio Requirements Filter Resource Pools Public Cloud App 1 Performance App 1 App 2 Cost App 2 Private Cloud 1 Security App 3 App 3 Compliance … … Internal DC Reliability App N App N It’s about using multiple resource pools, not choosing one.

7. Characteristics of Great Workloads Unpredictable load or explosive growth potential Social gaming Software as a service product launch eCommerce Blogs Partial utilization Seasonal eCommerce load Month/Quarter/Year end data consolidation (batch processing) Applications that are easily parallelized (scale out, not up) Media streaming Websites/applications

8. Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud Scalable Web Apps

9. Scalable Web AppsChallenges Unpredictable traffic spikes Need to scale exponentially Need high level of automation

10. Scalable Web AppsCloud Strengths Autoscaling capability Unlimited resources on demand Pay for what you use RightScale enables automation and eases operations

11. Example Scalable Web App Architecture

12. Example Scalable Web App Architecture AMQP

13. Example Scalable Web App Architecture AMQP Load Balanced Riak

14. Example Scalable Web App Architecture MySQL DB Tier

15. Example Scalable Web App Architecture MySQL DB Tier Memcached

16. Example Scalable Web App Architecture Auto Scaling Python App Tier

17. Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud Batch Processing

18. Batch ProcessingChallenges Need extremely high processing power Need to process huge workloads Need to process workloads fast Fluctuating utilization cycle

19. Batch ProcessingCloud Strengths Autoscaling on demand using metrics Bring up large numbers of servers fast Throw huge numbers of servers at the problem Pay for what you use and when you need it

20. Example Batch Processing Architecture

21. Example Batch Processing Architecture Auto Scaling Application Tier (Squeeze)

22. Example Batch Processing Architecture MySQL DB Tier

23. Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud Disaster Recovery

24. Disaster RecoveryChallenges Need infrastructure in a different location Don’t want to pay for hardware and not use it Need to be able to launch a new deployment anywhere fast Affordable disaster recovery

25. Disaster RecoveryCloud Strengths Use any public and/or private cloud Run a scaled down deployment replica Replicating slave DB is the only “always on” server Use RightScripts and ServerTemplates to spin up deployments fast anywhere Launch the rest of the servers in your deployment Promote replicating slave DB to master High level of automation for smoother failover

26. Example Disaster Recovery Architecture

27. Example Disaster Recovery Architecture Slave DB’s (Always On)

28. Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud Multi-Region / Multi-Cloud

29. Multi-Region / Multi-CloudChallenges No public cloud in needed location Need to burst to public cloud Need better performance High cost of public cloud at huge scale Challenges and costs of DR

30. Multi-Region / Multi-CloudCloud Strengths RightScale enables you to deploy in multiple clouds and regions seamlessly Private cloud can be set up in any datacenter anywhere Burst to public cloud for more resources Achieve better performance with private cloud Save money by using your own hardware with private cloud at large scale

31. Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture

32. Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture Global Traffic Management via DNS

33. Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture Database Tier Replicated over SSL

34. Characteristics of Bad Workloads Very high performance applications (Disk I/O and Network) Databases with very high I/O requirements Application with very high I/O requirements No tolerance for I/O performance fluctuations High performance storage Poor application design Legacy and Enterprise Apps Low Latency Database Replication and Clustering that requires very high network throughput Legacy and Enterprise Apps Need for high performance network storage Hardware dependency

36. Talk with RightScale customers

37. Ask questions at the Genius Bar