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Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
GoGrid & Xen
Paul LappasVP Engineering & Co-Founder
About GoGrid
Info
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA
100+ Domestic employees
50+ International employees
Datacenters
US-WEST San Francisco (current)
US-EAST Ashburn, VA (June-2010)
GoGrid = IaaS
GoogleApp Engine
SaaS – Software as a ServicePaaS– Platform as a ServiceIaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
Features
Windows & Linux VMs
Hybrid (dedicated)
GUI & REST API
F5 Load Balancing (free)
Scalable NAS storage
Billing
RAM-hour
TransferXen Summit at AMD
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Web Portal – Grid View
Web Portal – List View
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
How we use Xen
• HVM mode
• EPT
• Hyper-threading (Nehalem)
• Credit CPU scheduler
Hypervisor adoption
• EC2 (Xen)
• GoGrid (Xen)
• Rackspace (Xen)
• OpSource (VMware)
• Azure (Hyper-V)
• Terremark (VMware)
• Hosting.com (VMware)
• AT&T Synaptec (VMware + Sun)
• VMforce (VMware)Xen Summit at AMD
April 28-29, 2010
Cloud customers want
• No vendor lock-in (ability to move between clouds)
• Reliability – SLA guarantees
• Security
• “two types of data in the cloud”
• Private cloud connections
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
B.C. (Before Cloud)
Evolution of Software Sales
• A long time ago…
• direct sales channels
• demos done by sales engineers or PowerPoint's
• Submit a budget request just to trial it
• Perpetual licensing
• With the rise of internet and fast downloads…
• DEMO versions and downloadable over the internet
• Licensing still perpetual
• And it was still a relative pain to install and trial
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Remember the Rio player?
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
The Virtual App Marketplace
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Migration toolsSyncing toolsCommercial SWEtc etc
The power of the eco-system
• The more IaaS clouds in the eco-system = more customer choice!
• ISVs need a way to sell their software
• Consumers want easy trial/test/eval. software
• Trial for free / Production hosting
• No perpetual licenses and no commits
• Real-time reviews & feedback
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Opportunities – Eco-system
• Seed a marketplace
• ISVs will create appliances for multiple hypervisors
• Make it easy to consume VMware & AMI appliances
• V2V is a great start
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
But there are serious cons to commercial hypervisors for IaaS
• Not free
• Vendor lock-in
• no control over your future costs
• difficult to switch if doesn’t meet your needs (see Apple)
• Very difficult to differentiate on features
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Opportunities – SLA guarantees
IO Scheduling
• Prevent starvation is a necessity
• Better: Fixed BW allocation (throttling)
• Best: QoS per domU
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
Opportunities
Oversubscription
• RAM
• Storage
Xen Summit at AMDApril 28-29, 2010
$100 Coupon code GGPL
Trial GoGrid Free
Contact Information
Paul Lappas
VP Engineering & Co-Founder of GoGrid
415.869.7006
Wiki – wiki.gogrid.com
Blog – blog.GoGrid.com
Twitter - @GoGrid
Facebook – www.facebook.com/gogrid
