Case Studies for moving apps to the cloud - DLD 2013

Four Case Studies for Moving Mission Critical Apps to the

Cloud

Enterprises are moving to Cloud

In 2 years

in 5 years

in Saving

5% able to migrate successfully

26%

44%

16.B$

So far only

BUT..

Managing Big Data on the Cloud

• IaaS First- It’s the apps stupid!

• CM Tools (Chef, Puppet, etc.) - Setup Only, but apps are a living organism

• PaaS - Good for new, relatively simple apps

Current Approaches

Reality Check..

My Cloud is Better than Your Cloud!

Cloud Maturity

Cloud Is Evolving .. Cope With It!

Virtualization Public Cloud Hybrid, Open CloudPrivate Cloud

Cloud Is Evolving .. Cope With It!

Bring App- Management

and Infrastructure- Management

Together

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Cloudify provide the equivalent of Amazon OpsWork on OpenStack

App Centric Devops – the AWS way…

Migrating apps – the Cloudify way…1 Upload your recipe

2 Cloudify creates VMs & installs agents

3 Agents install and manage your app

4 Cloudify automates monitoring, healing and scaling

1. Moving from existing Data Center to the Cloud

Existing Data Center OpenStack Cloud

Cloud Driver

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• To 100 Investment Bank

Industry :Banking

Primary Challenge :Cloud-enable thousands of application (in and out-facing) and on board then to the Bank private cloud environment in a cost efficient manner

Solution :Leverages Cloudify and Puppet as a foundation for the self-service configuration, deployment and on going management and scaling of a range of applications in the bank, on top of Bankexisting private cloud infrastructure

Results :So far a few tens of applications converted, with plans to expand the offering to a few hundreds of apps by the end of the year

Enterprise Private Cloud

2. Carrier Grade Cloud

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Industry :Telecommunications

Primary Challenge :Build a carrier grade PaaS offering that can a wide range of mission critical legacy Telco apps and services on top the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand ™ Cloud infrastructure product

Solution :Leverages Cloudify as a foundation for the configuration, deployment and on going management and scaling of a wide range of Telco services

Results : CloudBand ™ is Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship product for next generation Telco services, and is in advanced deployment stages in a few major carriers across the globe

With Cloudify we have a solidfoundation for our carrier grade PaaS offering and the realization of our vTelco vision

Carrier cloud: Alcatel-Lucent

3. BigData On OpenStack Cloud

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Moving Big Data to the Cloud

• To Tier System Integrator

Industry: IT services (Business Intelligence & Analytics)

Primary Challenge: Provide BI and analytics for big data, as a service for enterprise customers, based on an IBM stack.

Solution: Leverages Cloudify and Chef to automate the deployment and management of complete IBM BI stack (including WebSphere & Cognos) for each of their customers on top of the OpenStack based RackSpace cloud

Current Status: Going to production in 2 months, most of the recipes already implemented and beta tested

4. Multi Cloud DR

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• Technology-based concrete process control and information service

• Deployments across North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe for nearly a decade

• Part of W.R. Grace & Co , $6.3 B Company.

• The problem: On-Demand HA/DR over multiple Cloud regions.

Case Study: VErifi

High Availability

Data Replication

Disaster Recovery

Managing Big Data on the Cloud

• Be ready to accept changes as they happen..

• Automation First

• Decouple the Application from the infrastructure

• Use Plug-In approach to plug the right cloud for the Job

Putting it All Together:

Application Centric Approach

Thank You!