Five Stories of Success with VMware-Based Hybrid Clouds

Does Hybrid Cloud Work?

Let’s Get Acquainted

Jake Robinson

Solutions Architect

Bluelock

Bryan Bond

Senior Systems Engineer

eMeter, a Siemens Company

2Moderator: Alicia Gaba, Marketing Manager at Bluelock

Why Hybrid?

“Our Bluelock Virtual Datacenters look and act like an extension of our own datacenter, and while the cost savings have been beneficial, the development team has more flexibility than ever and that means we can create new options for our customers in the future. We couldn’t be happier with the results of this relationship.” - Bryan BondSenior systems administrator, Siemens (eMeter)

Hybrid cloud consumers

Application owners, Infrastructure Owners

and Finding A Path to Cloud

Primer 1

Needs are different

Role: Infrastructure Owner (IT)

Objective: Efficiency

Challenges:– Pressured to be all things to all people– Conflicting priorities– Lack of resources– World is changing

Role: Application owner (Business unit)

Objective: Agility

Challenges:– Not always a priority to IT– Lack of control– No visibility into technology costs– Needs are always changing

We See Three Approaches to Building Cloud Infrastructures

Follows Virtualization Journey path…first target low-hanging fruit and evolve from there…

Walk before you run

1

Build out cloud infrastructure to serve a specific project or effort

Pick a Project

2

Transform entire infrastructure to a Cloud in one shot

Re-think everything

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Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Horizontal and Vertical

Primer 2

Public Cloud

Secure

Private Cloud

Horizontal workload placement

Hybrid Cloud

Vertical workload placement options

SaaS SaaS

Hybrid Cloud

How apps are moving around

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Success Story #1

DevCentral Cloud Architecture

Virtual Datacenter Models

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Agility

Control

Working together

US based global consumer electronics

manufacturer

Success Story #2

Management of multiple clouds

CONTROL PANEL

PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

vCloud Director

vCloud Connector

Hybrid Cloud Management Tools

Workloads in motion

CONTROL PANEL

PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

“Cost by Resource”

Images from Bluelock Portfolio™

(Chargeback/Showback)TCO: Cost as a Consideration

Making cost visible changes behavior!

“Cost by Application”

Images from Bluelock Portfolio™

Manage Virtual Datacenter 1

Being extremely efficient

Avoiding a bad user experience

Manage Virtual Datacenter 1

“Buying time”

(Fortune 500 Retail Grocery Chain)

Best produce aisle, ever!

Success Story #3

Migration between cloudsBoomerang phenomena!

CONTROL PANEL

PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

“Lowering risk”

Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company

Keeping you alive and happy!

Success Story #4

Lifetime of a workload

Scenario 1- Successful application- It takes off & investments/usage continue at a rapid pace

Scenario 2- Application is developed & continues to be needed but no incremental investments are needed

Scenario 3- Application is developed but future investment not continued because of change in business priorities or cancellation of project

Success Story #5

About

• eMeter is the leader in energy information management

• eMeter's suite of applications provide the fastest path to turning meter data into usable information for business units and customers.

• In January 2012, Siemens added eMeter Corporation to the Smart Grid Division of the Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, creating eMeter, A Siemens Business.

eMeter’s Cloud Initiative

• eMeter needed to provide around the clock development and testing – Allow teams around the world to utilize a common

infrastructure– Offer scalable infrastructure to meet customer needs– Needed to be based on VMware’s cloud architecture and

technology

• Looked at public cloud to simplify IT operations and provide high security

• Initiative has now grown to serve training courses in a hybrid cloud environment

Why Bluelock?

• Experienced leader in the vCloud space– VMware vCloud® Datacenter Service Provider– At the time, they were positioned as a “Leader” in Gartner’s

Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS (Dec 2011)– Highly knowledgeable & experienced in vCloud Director for

public and hybrid cloud

• Bluelock offered proper security accreditations and strong physical security & met eMeter’s need for control over security devices, alerts and audits

• Acted as a partner and advisor, not just an infrastructure provider

Cloud Deployment Technologies

• Began with Proof-of-concept environment• eMeter is now deployed on 2 Bluelock Virtual

Datacenters – Test/dev VDC– Training course VDC

• Use vCloud Director to manage the cloud infrastructure resources

• Bluelock Portfolio™– Enables visibility into current and planned usage, cost

and analysis data

Benefits of VMware Hybrid Cloud

• Improved user experience and better performance

• Increased flexibility for development team and training courses

• Significant savings on capital outlay• Access to new deployment options for

customers• Less worries about security

So, now what?

• What do you do with these stories of success?

• Where do you begin your successful hybrid cloud journey?

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Thank You for Your Time

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