tour de clouds: understanding multi-cloud integration

Tour de Clouds:Understanding MultiCloud Integration

Keith Vidal

Partner Integration Services

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Talk with the Experts.2006-8

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Talk with the Experts.

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2009-10

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2012 >

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One “Cloud” – Many Resource Pools

Amazon Web Services

Datapipe

HP Cloud

IDCF / Yahoo! Japan

Singapore

Hong Kong

Tokyo

Dallas

DC Area

NYC Area

SF Area

Seattle

Chicago

Dublin

London Amsterdam

Seoul

Beijing

Hyderabad

Private Clouds

Public & Managed Clouds

Oregon

São Paulo

SoftLayer

Tata

UnGeo

Las Vegas

Korea Telecom

Logicworks

Microsoft Azure

Rackspace

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We see your future. Cloud IaaS providers are ubiquitous and

different. This is a good thing.

You need a reusable evaluation framework to

decide which cloud services are right for you.

You need to understand the strengths of the

available public cloud offerings.

RightScale can help.

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Take it for granted. Go ahead.

Cloud marketing buzzwords you won’t

see in ads on the airport people movers: LOW availability.

Fault INtolerance.

A full suite of UNrobust cloud services.

APIs: Really. Who needs them.

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There can be more than one.

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The proverbial “Single Pane of Glass”

A single API and UI that enables similar

actions across all supported clouds.

Terminology is the same across all clouds

through RightScale.

RightScale is your translator for multi-cloud.

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6 - l o n g years…

How did RS choose our public cloud

providers?

Informed by a broad set of use cases.

No shortage of providers. Triple-digits in our

partner engagement queue.

So…how do we manage? A reusable cloud

evaluation framework. Here it is.

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Know thyself.

Know your application dependencies.

Know your human resources.

Know your organizational strengths.

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Start at the foundation…

Hardware. Should you care?

Virtualization technology as a competitive

differentiator? Yes and no.

Basic IaaS resources exposed via an API via

a Cloud-Enabling Technology (CET). It’s about how the cloud provider implements and

how they package their cloud offering…these are the differentiators.

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Four key IaaS differentiators… Geographic Availability, Regions, and

Availability Zones Networking Cloud Services Human Services

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Amazon Web ServicesFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET Xen-virtualization on a proprietary cloud orchestration layer

Geography, Regions, and Azs

5 countries (US, IRL, SG, JP, BR), 7 regions, each with 2 or more availability zones.

Networking Public-to-public, private-to-private, Direct Connect with Equinix, VPC

Cloud Services EC2, EBS, S3, CDN, DNS, ELB, RDS, PaaS, EMR

Human Services IaaS Support

Target Use Cases Anything and everything

Takeaway Original mega-cloud. Market and capacity leader with a full suite of PaaS-like cloud services; built for self-service but supported by a HUGE partner ecosystem. PCI, ISO, FISMA, SAS70, SSAE16 compliance.

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Datapipe StratosphereFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET KVM -virtualization on CloudStack orchestration layer


3 countries (US, UK, CN), 4 regions, each with 2 or more availability zones.

Networking Physically- and virtually-isolated private networks, Direct Connect with Equinix, private-to-private, public-to-public

Cloud Services Compute, Block and Object Storage, CDN

Human Services Integration Services, Managed Cloud Services, AWS Managed Services, Managed Database Services (Oracle and SQLServer)

Target Use Cases Hybrid hosting using Datapipe dedicated infrastructure and AWS; Managed Private Cloud

Takeaway Mid-sized, up-and-coming traditional hosting provider; creative managed services portfolio spanning proprietary cloud, AWS, and database services

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HP Cloud ServicesFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET KVM virtualization on a Openstack-based cloud orchestration layer


1 country (US); 1 region; 2 availability zones

Networking Virtually-isolated private networks; public-to-public; private-to-private (coming soon)

Cloud Services Compute, Object and Block Storage, RDB

Human Services IaaS Support, Consulting and Managed Services (coming soon)

Target Use Cases Self-service Developer and Enterprise; HP software licensed product deployments

Takeaway HP’s “soup-to-nuts” Converged Cloud spans hardware, networking, storage, IaaS, and human services; access to HP ISV ecosystem; AWS-alike cloud services roadmap

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IDC FrontierFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET ESXi-virtualization on a CloudStack –based cloud orchestration layer


1 country (JP), 1 availability zone (Japan-West coming soon)

Networking Virtually-isolated networks, public –to-public, private-to-private

Cloud Services Compute, Block Storage


Target Use Cases Public Cloud

Takeaway Traditional hosting provider with strong regional presence in Japan backed by large investment; targeting Enterprise and Gaming segments; new and growing with large existing Japanese Enterprise customers

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LogicworksFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET Xen-virtualization on a CloudStack cloud orchestration layer


1 country/region (US), 2 availability zones (NY/NJ)

Networking Virtually-isolated networks, public –to-public, private-to-private

Cloud Services Compute, Block Storage

Human Services IaaS Support, Managed Services

Target Use Cases Public Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Managed Private Cloud

Takeaway Strong regional provider; Specialization in Drupal CMS, Media and Healthcare, Private AZ, Regional, High-touch services, “PCI and HIPPA clouds”; fast-follow support of CloudStack features; aggressive pricing, contracts, and SLAs

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Microsoft AzureFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET Hyper-V virtualization on a proprietary cloud orchestration layer


3 continents (US, EU, APAC), 2 regions, 8 sub-regions

Networking Regions connected by a large ,private network

Cloud Services Compute, GRS and Object Storage, CDN, SQL DBaaS


Target Use Cases Self-service Developer; Enterprise Public and Hybrid Cloud;

Takeaway Newest mega-cloud IaaS. Strong initial offering includes fundamental Paas-like cloud services; developer friendly PaaS-to-IaaS path; HA, performant blob storage; Linux and MS; MS ISV ecosystem; Azure-in-a-box.

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RackspaceFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET Xen-virtualization on a proprietary cloud orchestration layer; Next-gen Openstack GA release imminent


2 countries (US, UK), 3 regions

Networking Large private network

Cloud Services Compute, Object Storage, CDN, LBaaS, DNS, Rack Connect, Monitoring

Human Services IaaS Support, Extensive Managed Services


Takeaway Leading hosting provider offers “Fanatical Support” and a variety of hybrid cloud and hosting products; Driving the Openstack trunk; next-gen cloud will fill-in today’s holes

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SoftLayerFeature / Service Key Strengths

Virtualization and CET Xen-virtualization on a proprietary cloud orchestration layer


3 countries (US, NL, SG), 7 regions

Networking Worldwide private network with access to dedicated hosting

Cloud Services Compute, Object Storage, CDN, LBaaS, DNS, Monitoring

Human Services IaaS Support, Managed Services


Takeaway Innovative traditional hosting provider with strong cloud offering; proprietary, dynamic provisioning offers the most flexible IaaS hardware configuration options, everything on-demand…even private cloud.; high-speed-region-to-region connectivity


Questions?