Impact of the Cloud on the IT Landscape

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Impact of the Cloud on the IT LandscapeJosh Fraser - VP Business Development, RightScale

Josep M. Blanquer - Senior Systems Architect, RightScale

June 8th, 2011

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Agenda• IT Landscape – new options for cloud infrastructure• What’s feasible now?• Private and hybrid cloud practicalities

• Demo• Challenges

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Private and Hybrid Cloud on the Rise

• 48% using/planning to use

private clouds in 2011 (Osterman Research)

• Enterprise survey found that:o 44% have private cloud plans o 15% looking at public cloudso 21% focusing on hybrid clouds (Unisys)

• 70% of cloud systems management purchases in 2010 were for private clouds – market will reach $2.5B by 2015 (IDC)

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Why?

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Production Deployments…

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Strong Movements …

Source: Rackspace Cloud Builders, May 2011

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Production IaaS Clouds …

Source: Cloud.com, May 2011

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• No lock-in• Utilize existing data centers• Geo-location• Price/performance• Compliance• ‘Single pane of glass’

• Private clouds• Public clouds

Private and Hybrid Cloud Drivers

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Application

Portfolio

Requirements Filter

Resource Pools

App 1

App 2

App N

Performance

Cost

Compliance

Reliability

Cloud #2

Cloud #1

Internal DCColocated

Security

App 1

App 2

App N

Goal: Workload Deployment Freedom

It’s about using multiple resource pools, not choosing one

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What’s Feasible Now?

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IT Vending Machine

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• THEN Single application stack Request a server (physical or virtual) Install OS

• NOW Multiple application stacks Click a button … 1x, 100x, 1000x

36,000 minutesto

30 minutes

IT Vending Machine

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• What happens when the cloud fails?

Disaster Recovery

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Disaster RecoveryStaged Server Configuration, pre-staged data and running Slave Database Server

• Generally recommended DR solution

• Minimal additional cost • Allows fairly rapid recovery

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Source: Zynga CTO – Centralized Operations; InterOp, May 2011

Cloud Bursting – Zynga’s Z Cloud

• “Scale fast or fail fast”• Low demand and low predictability Public• High demand and high predictability Private

• Concept to production in < 6 months• Built on commodity hardware• Supports no less than thousands of physical servers• Can (and have) fully provisioned over 1,000 physical

servers in less than 24 hours

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Hybrid Cloud Reality: Zynga’s Z Cloud

“This ability to invoke and coordinate both private and public clouds is the hidden jewel of Zynga’s success”- Lessons from Farmville: How Zynga Uses the Cloud, InformationWeek, May 13, 2011

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Private and Hybrid Cloud Practicalities

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Zone1 Zone2

The Start: A Typical Single-Cloud Application

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

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Cloud 1• Three tiered Application

• RR DNS Load Balancers• Array of Application Servers• Master – Slave Databases

• Isolation Features• Faults: using Availability Zones

• Security: Security Groups / Firewalls

• Plus• Monitoring• Alerts• Automation

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Scaling: Bursting App Capacity to another Cloud

LB

Master

LB

Slave

App App App…

Private Cloud Public Cloud

App App App…

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ServerArray

Scaling: Bursting App Capacity to another Cloud

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

… App App App…

Public Cloud

CPUScale UpScale Down

Private Cloud

Demo

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Public Cloud

ServerArray

CPUScale UpScale Down

Scaling: Bursting App Capacity to another Cloud

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

… App App App…

Contact DB:• Using DNS / IP• Executing a script

Security:• Access Control• Encryption

Public Internet

Private Cloud

Register with LB’s:• Using SSH• Using RightNet• Central repo

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Public Cloud

ServerArray

CPUScale UpScale Down

DR: Replicating Data in another Cloud

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

… App App App…

Private Cloud

Where’s the data?

Public Internet

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Access and encryption

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Public Cloud

ServerArray

CPUScale UpScale Down

DR: Replicating Data in another Cloud

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

… App App App…

Private Cloud

Public Internet

Slave

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• Global storage• Live replication + rsync• NoSQL

S3/Cloudfiles

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Public Cloud

ServerArray

CPUScale UpScale Down

Full distribution: Splitting the Load Balancers

LB

App

Master

LB

App App

Slave

… App App App…

Private Cloud

Public Internet

Slave

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Current Landscape• Proven technologies – production workloads; at scale

• Works on commodity hardware• Multi-hypervisor support• Easy to get started … deliver a POC

• Multi/Hybrid cloud deployments are a reality, yet complex• RightScale platform greatly simplifies their setup and management• But this help is no substitute for awareness and good architecting!

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Questions?

Josh Fraser - VP Business Development, RightScale

Josep M. Blanquer - Senior Systems Architect, RightScale

June 8th, 2011

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Offline Demo Slides

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Multi-cloud Burst Deployment

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Server Array: Same Template Different Cloud

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Server Array: Voting Status

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App Server: Getting help from scaling

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Array Instances: Absorbing Traffic