in the cloud, performance matters

In the Cloud, Performance Matters

Jamie Tyler, Solutions Engineering Manager, Savvis EMEA

Savvis Proprietary & Confidential 2

Today’s agenda

· IT challenges for the enterprise

· About Savvis and Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC)

· Cloud Harmony Benchmarking Report

· Summary & further information


Application Portfolio*

Infrastructure Domain

Data Center

WAN

ERP OLTP Batch Email Work-Group

Web Serving & Streaming

Data Analysis& Mining

DW & BI

App.Dev

Systems Mgt

File & Print

Business Processing Collaborative & Web Decision Support Shared Services

CRM

* Based on IDC’s Workload Category Taxonomy, 2008

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Enterprise IT ChallengeCloud Deployment Models


Pricing is Metered. Performance Matters

Infrastructure

• IP addresses• Load balancers• Firewalls• Server class• Virtualisation software

Compute

Hourly Usage based on:• CPU• RAM• OS• Location

Storage

• Per-GB costs• I/O fees above a

specific rate• Backup• Snapshot• Retention and vaulting• Drive options

Network

• Inbound / outbound Internet

• Network-to-network• IP addresses• Hourly per-SLB fee per

bandwidth fees• Load balancer

bandwidth

Security

• VPN’s• Threat management

service• Intrusion detection• Log management• URL filtering

Support Networking

• Business day email• Optional phone support• Additional 24/7• Monitoring


Performance and Availability of the Cloud

· Performance in the cloud is key – compute, memory, IO, network etc.

· To differentiate services and service profiles look at your cloud provider’s model for over-subscription– What is guarantee of availability?

You need to consider:· Absolute performance levels · Sizing · Cloud in the context of noisy neighbors

– Can apps tolerate performance impact due to other consumers in the cloud?

· Service levels – infrastructure and network · Remember

– You need a great performing cloud but not at the expense of security


10/01/12


The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting

The Recognised Leader

Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, Lydia Leong, Ted Chamberlin, March 5, 2012.Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Lydia Leong, Ted Chamberlin, December 8, 2011. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Savvis.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service


8/29/12

EuropeNorth America

• 54 data centers globally by end of Q3 2012

• 2 million sq. ft. of raised floor

Asia Pacific

Global Infrastructure

Savvis Data Center

New Savvis Data Center

Core Node

Metro Ring

Point of Presence

Savvis is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises


Savvis Symphony VPDC

An enterprise-class Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC) built on Cisco UCS and Nexus technology

· Pay as you go, on-demand Cloud – Hourly based pricing model– Flex your IT resources inline with business need

· Multi-Tiered Service Profiles– Environments suitable for Dev Test, Web Hosting and Mission

Critical environments

· Savvis Security & Reliability– Best-of-breed infrastructure: VMware, Cisco, Compellent– Secure: enterprise grade security components & principles

· Global Availability– Available in multiple Savvis Data Centres including UK, US East

& West Coast, Singapore and Canada


Cloud Harmony Benchmark

· CloudHarmony’s (www.cloudharmony.com) intent is to be the go to source for independent, un-biased and objective performance metrics for cloud services– CloudHarmony is not affiliated with, owned or funded by any

cloud provider

· Conducts extensive benchmarking of public clouds

· Developed suite including 44 measurements covering both synthetic (CPU, DISK IO, Memory IO) and real-world performance testing

· Benchmark test grouped into 5 aggregated metrics

http://www.cloudharmony.com/


CloudHarmony Project – June 2012

· Savvis asked CloudHarmony to run benchmarks including Symphony VPDC solutions against the following vendors:

– Amazon EC2 − Rackspace– IBM SmartCloud Enterprise − BlueLock– Terremark vCloud Express − GoGrid– OpSource Cloud − SoftLayer

· The results were grouped into three general server sizes based on memory– Small has less-then or equal to 2GB RAM– Medium has more the 2GB and less-than or equal to 8GB RAM– Large has greater than 8GB RAM


CloudHarmony Benchmark Methodology

· Multiple weighted-average test grouped to produce a single metric for:– CPU − Interpreted Language Processing– Memory − Encryption and Encoding– Disk I/O

· To improve accuracy, test are run multiple times until the standard deviation between each execution achieves a minimum threshold

· A common baseline compute instance is utilized so that the results indicate how much better or worse the tested compute instance performed relative to the baseline


Benchmark Details

CPU Memory Disk Encryption Language

Unit CCU MIOP IOP Encode Lang

Baseline Config

Amazon EC2 ECU Dual Intel E5504 Quad core 2.00GHz processors and 48GB DDR3 ECC ram

Dual Intel E5506 2.13 GHz (8 cores) with 4X15K RPM SAS drives with hardware RAID 1+0

Dual Intel E5504 Quad core 2.00GHz processors and 48GB DDR3 ECC ram

Dual Intel E5506 2.13 GHz (8 cores) with 4X15K RPM SAS drives with hardware RAID 1+0

Test 19 7 7 7 4

Test Names

c-ray, crafty, dcraw, espeak, geekbench, graphics-magick, hmmer, john-the-ripper-(blowfish, des,md5), mafft, nero2d, openss, opstone-(svd, svsp, vsp), sudokut, tscp, unixbench

CacheBench, Geekbench, hdparm, RAMspeed, Redis Benchmark, Stream, Unixbench

Blogbench, Bonnie++, Dbench, Flexible IO Tester, hdparm buffered disk reads, IOzone, Threaded I/O Tester

Monkey Audio Encoding, WAV To FLAC, WAV To MP3, WAV To Ogg, WAV To WavPack, FFmpeg AVI to NTSC VCD, GnuPG

SPECjvm, Ruby, Python, PHP


Small Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 1 2

Amazon 1 1.7

IBM 2 2

Rackspace 4 2

Terremark 1 1

CPU Results

Large Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 8 32

Amazon 16 23

IBM 16 32

Rackspace 8 30

Terremark 8 16

Medium Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 4 8

Amazon 1 3.75

IBM 4 8

Rackspace 4 4

Terremark 2 4

Savvis VPDC AWS EC2 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

Rackspace Terremark vCloud Express

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CPU Results – Single Core

1 core Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 1 2

Amazon 1 3.75

IBM 2 2

Rackspace 4 2

Terremark 1 1

Savvis VPDC AWS EC2 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

Rackspace Terremark vCloud Express

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Trying to compare a single core between all vendors. In the benchmark the smallest IBM configuration was a 2 core and the smallest Rackspace was a 4 core.


Why Performance Matters - Revenue

Source: Steve Souders @ Velocity Conference 2009

%400millisecond delay

0.59fewer searches/users

stated that a

%2 second slowdown 4.3 reduction in

revenue/userfound that a

reduced page load times from ~7 seconds to ~2 seconds,

leading to a 7-12 % increase in revenue

50% more pages/visits than users experiencingview

Noticed that users who experience the fastest page load times

the slowest page load times


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IOP

GoGrid and Rackspace tested with local storage. All

other vendors tested with off-instance storage such as

SAN

Disk Results

OpSource had best IOP in large class with 198.26 and best in medium class with 190.24. GoGrid had the best IOP in the small class with 150.72

Small

Medium

Large


Performance Matters- Customer Satisfaction

Web Performance Improvement from 14 to 7 seconds

Source: Microsoft Tech-Ed, May 2011


Memory Results

Large Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 8 16

Amazon 16 23

IBM 16 32

Rackspace 8 30

Terremark 8 16

Medium Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 4 8

Amazon 1 3.75

IBM 4 8

Rackspace 4 4

Terremark 4 8

Small Config Cores Memory (GB)

Savvis 1 2

Amazon 1 1.7

IBM 2 2

Rackspace 4 2

Terremark 1 1

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Why does performance matter? Awareness

Source: Microsoft Tech-Ed, May 2011


Interpreted Programming Language Results

Test include SPECjvm, Ruby, Python and PHP

Savvis VPDC AWS EC2 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Rackspace Terremark vCloud Express0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

Lang

LargeMediumSmall


Encoding and Encryption Results

Savvis VPDC AWS EC2 IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Rackspace Terremark vCloud Express0

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120

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Encode

LargeMediumSmall


Additional Performance Considerations

Network connectivity and performance concerns

Speed

· Quality of Service (QoS) policies ensure maximum utilization of available bandwidth and allow key applications can be prioritized over ones deemed less vital

Visibility and Control

· Web-based tools provide visibility into traffic composition and performance on all network links, allowing for proactive network administration

Security

· Multiple levels of network-based and premises-based solution options address compliance and privacy concerns


Summary

· Performance matters in the cloud

· Savvis has partnered with Cisco to provide enterprise class Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC) services

· VPDC performed at or near the top of all five categories in the recent CloudHarmony Benchmarking report

· VPDC is available today from Savvis Data Centres in the UK, US, Canada and Singapore


Savvis Symphony Cloud Services

● Visit Savvis at Booth G311 during the show

● Pick up a copy of the Cisco CloudHarmony Performance Benchmark

White Paper

● Request a demo of our Virtual Private Data Centre service

● Visit savvis.com/cloud for product overviews and customer case

studies

● Email [email protected] for further information after the show

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