RightScale Webinar: An Architectural View of RightScale and Why its Chosen For Hybrid Clouds - APAC...

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RightScale

What we do, and why an ASX-10 company included RightScale in their Cloud Strategy

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Agenda •  Architectural view of RightScale •  View of a local client •  How to transition in

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Who is RightScale?

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Creating the Cloud-Enabled Enterprise

7 years

10 clouds

65K+ users

5.5M+ servers

~250 staff Offices in Santa Barbara, Sydney, London, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Seoul and Seattle.

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Gaming!

Publishing!

Healthcare! Film, TV, Music!

Games!

Mobile!

Advertising!

Financial Services!

Consumer/Retail!Software!

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What is RightScale?

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Design architecture above the cloud

Abstracts the architecture to above the IaaS.

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Abstracts and standardises the clouds

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8VHUV�DQG�6\VWHPVElevates: •  Configurations •  APIs •  Automation behaviours •  Access control •  Billing and governance •  Monitoring

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Private Clouds!Public Clouds!

Control plane

Resource pools

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Configuration" Automation"Billing and governance"

Single pane of glass

Access control" Unified API"

Private Clouds!Public Clouds!

Resource pools

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How RightScale adds to AWS

•  Provisioning •  Marketplace •  Support for

Chef & Puppet

•  Integrated version control

•  Multi-region •  Pre-built HA

architectures •  Support for

Powershell and scripts

•  Monitoring •  Alerts •  Auto-scaling

•  Application

organisation •  One-click

cloning •  Advanced

orchestration •  Run scripts in

mass over fleet •  Unified API for

all clouds •  Auto-scaling on

hybrid clouds

•  User permissions

•  Detailed cost reporting

•  Control SSH access (user-level)

•  EC2 SSH key management (instance-level)

•  Audit histories •  Cost

forecasting

Configuration" Automation" Governance"

•  9 regions on 5 continents

•  Private cloud support

•  Public clouds in other countries

•  Unified multi-cloud access, cost and usage reporting

•  Provides images for all regions, clouds and OS

Global"

•  Solutions architects

•  24x7 support

•  End-to-end

engineering •  Application

migration: virtual to cloud

•  Strategic consulting

Services"

From RightScale

Common capabilities

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Example implementations

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Australian client A$30B+ revenue 500+ applications and 600+ staff in IT Hybrid cloud: AWS & CloudPlatform Purpose: •  Agility •  ‘Cloud first’ strategy •  Cost reduction

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Service catalogue" Billing and governance"

RightScale’s Unified API"

Self-service portal for end-users" Web interface for

service designers and system

administrators"

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No change to IT framework: firewalls, DMZ, internet access, operating system and security remains the same for cloud or non-cloud servers. Intend to move 1000+ Windows and Linux VMs within 3 years Why RightScale? •  Proven ability to move workloads between clouds •  Governance layer for access control and change control

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Solution: •  Serve Chinese customer

website •  Elasticity with auto-scaling •  Consistent configurations

Requirements: •  Public and private clouds •  Geographic reach •  Unpredictable demand

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New delivery models

Requirements: •  Large scale, 3M+ students •  Single-tenant SaaS •  Multi-cloud •  Fast customer onboarding

Solution: •  Consistent dev and production

environments •  AWS and Rackspace •  Ability to easily pilot and test

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How to transition into cloud

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Hybrid has complications

Technical differences

API

Network

Hypervisor

Storage

Latency between tiers and clouds

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•  Securing traffic •  User identity •  Access control •  Billing and metering

Governance

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RightScale helps move up maturity curve

Low High

Provisioning Time

High

Server Automation

Multi-Cloud

Application Automation

Continuous Optimization

Launch through OS Image Bootstrapping

Launch servers via scripts, Chef, Puppet, PowerShell, bash

Use of templates Code once, use everywhere Governance BC & DR

Service-oriented design Self-healing Auto-scaling

Dynamic workloads HA Production SDLC Test/Dev to Production

Mat

urity

Value to Business

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Public or private cloud

Cloud migration, optional DevOps

Virtualised servers

Your current state With RightScale

Subject to traditional change control and governance

Separate static vs dynamic

applications

Deployed by DevOps, with control and governance

Using familiar virtual machine image management

Transition

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•  Dynamic configuration

•  Abstract role and behavior from cloud infrastructure

•  Cloud agnostic

ServerTemplates

Image

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Expert Services for Where You Are

Strategy Design Build Operate

CloudSight

Implementation

Support

Expert Advisor

Training

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How to get started We can evaluate RightScale’s fit with your goals and technical environment Get in touch

Giri Fox gfox@rightscale.com

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Thank you

Giri Fox gfox@rightscale.com @girifox