2nd watch cto - kris blisner

Kris Bliesner, Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Public Cloud Use Cases

Today’s Talk

• A little about 2nd Watch• Innovation driving the Cloud• Digital Business in the Cloud• Common Cloud Use Cases• A Customer Use Case

The 2nd Watch Story

$37MM raised

Guide and protect enterprises throughout their journey in the cloud

Tested, Trusted and Proven

DesignerAWS TCO Calculator

100s2nd WatchCustomers

300+server migration to AWS in 8 weeksFixed-fee bulk migration service

400+Projects

ORIGINALAnd Current AWS PremierConsulting Partner & Managed Service Partner

75,000InstancesUnderManagement

VERIFIED APN Life Sciences Competency

BACKED APN Big Data Competency

The Future

Fast & Cool!

Technology & Same Form Factor!

Where is the engine?

Change the temp from my iphone?!Safest car on the road

No Gasoline ever!

Source: Oatmeal

Its about Utilization

Source: CNET

What powers this new innovation?

Workloads

Applications

Orchestration

Infrastructure

CSP 1 CSP 2 CSP 3 CSP N

Digital Business in the Cloud

CSP 1 CSP 2 CSP 3

Lifecycle Management

App DevBatch Computing

Cloud Native

General Business

The two predominant use casesDynamicSteady State

Lifecycle Management

App DevBatch Computing

Cloud Native

General Business

SteadyState

Dynamic

SteadyState

SteadyState

Dynamic Dynamic Dynamic

Steady StateFocus: Performance over timeUpdates vs. New Revisions

DynamicFocus: Managing Elastic ScaleNew Revisions vs. Updates

CSP Capabilities by Workload

General Business

SteadyState

Cloud Native

SteadyState

Dynamic

Batch Computing

Dynamic

App Dev

Key Takeaways:

• Gaps are closing between market leader and other providers • AWS remains the best place to host dynamic apps

Dynamic

A Managed Cloud for Marketing

WebsitesDev and testEcommerceContent deliveryDatabases

Migrated North American Websites in 2 months

Managed Workloads:

Will save 60% on hosted infrastructure costs

Lifted and shifted over 300 systems in 2 months

www.crateandbarrel.com migration

ERP System

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A Managed Cloud for Business Apps

Managed Workloads:Databases

BI

Big Data

ERP

Migrated key platform on AWS for

performance increase

Vital emergency communication app

Business Critical Underwriting application

compliance (SOC

Back office business critical applications

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A Managed Cloud for Big Data

Managed Workloads:Databases

Data Warehouse

Batch

HPC

Worked with Splunk to deliver global real-time machine data

Runs HPC jobs for Risk Modeling

Data Warehouse and analytics insights

Oracle Exadata Data Warehouse Solution

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A Managed Cloud for Native Apps

Managed Workloads:Social

IoT

Mobile

DevOps

Platform transformation from on-premises to SaaS

Platform transformation

Mobile B2B App

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Customer Use Case – Line of Business

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• Security, Confidentiality and Privacy of sensitive data is of utmost importance to the customer and their clients

• Line of Business application responsible for significant revenue stream

• Needed SOC2 Compliance across Infrastructure & Managed Services

• Financial Services Sector

Solution ComponentsAmazon AWS

EC2, S3, Workspaces, CloudTrail, IAM, Security Groups, VPC, Route 53, ELB, KMSNon-Amazon AWS

F5 (load balancer, reverse proxy, waf, firewall), Sophos UTM, Non-Amazon, Non-AWS

Office 365, TrendMicro, ManageEngine,Titus, Safenet

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Lessons Learned

• If it logs we log it, if it can be encrypted we encrypt it

• Optimization is best in phase 2• Education and Consumption are directly linked• Public Cloud is a Shared Responsibility Model –

make sure all parties are on the same page

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Thank You | Questions?

kris@2ndwatch.com