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At the UKOUG Apps 2013 conference I gave a presentation on two of Succeed's clients and moving their PeopleSoft systems from on-premises hardware to the cloud, the costs savings made and the agility gained.
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Succeed Consultancy - 2013 16th October 2013
Two Customers and their Journey to the Cloud
Duncan DaviesCTO – Succeed UK
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Who are Succeed?
Succeed are a PeopleSoft consultancy that specialises in implementing complex HCM, CRM, Time & Attendance, Payroll, and Financials applications for large companies.
Since 1999 we’ve grown to an almost strong 80 UK-based team, three quarters of whom are permanent staff, and most with more than 5 years experience of PeopleSoft. Our teams currently work across 15 different client sites.
We’ve just won Gold in the ‘PeopleSoft Partner of the Year’ award for the 3rd year running!
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What do we do?
Succeed offer:
- PeopleSoft Consultancy
- Products / Bolt-ons
- Support
- Hosting
- Free ‘PeopleSoft Weekly’ newsletter
www.PeopleSoftWeekly.com
What do we do?
In your inbox at 3pm every Wednesday
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Which Customers are you talking about?
Cloud Customer #1:
Client #1 – A Large Retailer:Parent Company for a range of catering and hospitality companies.
12,000 Employees across UK and Europe.
Full HCM and Global Payroll implementation.
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Which Customers are you talking about?
Cloud Customer #2:
Client #2 – A Large Retailer:A leading UK pub retailer and brewer.
22,000 Employees across the UK.
Full HCM and Global Payroll implementation.
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Why are these companies different?
Succeed have hosted PeopleSoft development instances in the cloud for other large UK and multi-national household names …
But these two companies wanted to host their Production environment into the Cloud too.
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What were the challenges that they had?
The 5 biggest business drivers for these two clients were:
- Minimise Cost
- Minimise Expenditure
- Minimise Price
- Minimise Outlay
- Minimise Spending
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Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 3 –
On Premise
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What options did they have?
Physical Hardware
Virtualisation
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Physical Hardware and Virtualisation
- Physical Hardware used to be needed for Production Databases due to inefficiency in virtualisation.
- Vendors have slowly started supporting Virtualisation Tech for client production use (and internal use)
- Benefits of Virtualisation include:- Increased Capability (faster provisioning, better DR, QA Envs)
- Decreased cost (sharing servers, lower energy usage, smaller server footprint)
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Zone 2 – Midway point
Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 3 –
On Premise
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What options did they have?
Physical Hardware
Virtualisation
Co-location
Co-existence
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Co-Location (aka Hosting)
- Hosting your PeopleSoft virtual servers in a 3rd party Data Centre
- Identical to in-house virtualisation, except the 3rd party manages the VMs under an SLA
- Can be used to reduce DBA / Sys Admin headcount
- No technical benefit (in fact, it can sometimes be a restriction)
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Co-Location (aka Hosting or Oracle OnDemand)
- Client #1 chose this ‘half way to the cloud’ model, electing to host their PeopleSoft infrastructure with Oracle Cloud Services (previously Oracle OnDemand), and have now been Live for 6 months
- OnDemand perform the DBA services offshore
- Succeed provide the PeopleSoft skills (we’re the only UK partner to have a client with Oracle OnDemand)
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Co-existence
- eg. PeopleSoft Core HR, GP, Financials on-premise, PeopleSoft/Fusion Talent in the cloud
- Delivers some benefits, - Cheaper rollout of extra modules
- Proof of concept/capability (on non-mission critical modules)
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Zone 2 – Midway point
Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 1 – The Cloud
Zone 3 – On Premise
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What options did they have?
Physical Hardware
Virtualisation
Co-location
Co-existence
FullCloud
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The Full Cloud
What does this mean?
- All of your PeopleSoft infrastructure is contained in the cloud
It’s not as scary as you might think …
- Instances (servers) are contained within a isolated network segment (Virtual Private Cloud - VPC)
- Multiple levels of firewall and access control
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The Full Cloud - Costs
The Cloud is very cheap (and has dropped by ~30% in the last 2 years):
Medium Large High Mem XL
Processors 2 4 8
Memory ~4GB ~8GB ~17GB
Price/hr 11p 23p 46p
Price/yr £742 £1,484 £2,970
Prices are for Windows instances in Ireland/EU data-centre using exchange rate as of 14 th Oct 2013Hourly prices are ‘on-demand’ instances.Yearly prices are ‘reserved instances’ powered on for the whole year.
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The Full Cloud – Variable CostsS
yste
m L
oad
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Traditional hardware sizing/costs to peak usage
Cloud baseline
‘Elastically’ burst hardware where
required
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The Full Cloud – Fast Provisioning
- From zero to a blank instance in less than 3 minutes
- From an AMI template to booted in the same time
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The Full Cloud – Reliability and DR
We use the EU (Ireland) Region – to ensure data stays within the EU, avoiding data protections issues.
Availability zones are physically and logically distinct (different electricity grids, different flood plains, different seismic zones, ultra-fast networking between)
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Cloud Concerns
- Will it connect fast enough?“If there’s lag, it’s your end”
- Is it Reliable?SLA is 99.95% uptime (4 hours a year) – in reality it’s far better
- SecurityFirewalled by defaultControl which IP Ranges have accessVirtual Private Cloud – site-to-site VPNMilitary grade protection at Data CentresIf it’s good enough for the CIA (recent $600m deal) …
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Choosing a Cloud vendor
- There are many vendors to choose from (Rackspace, MS Azure etc)
- Amazon Web Services dwarfs all others
- Gartner: “AWS is the overwhelming market leader”
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Choosing a Cloud vendor
- AWS has more than five times the combined computational capacity of the next 14 rivals combined
- “Every day Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global infrastructure through the company’s first 5 years, when it was a $3 billion annual revenue enterprise”
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Choosing a Cloud vendor – Http Response Time
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Choosing a Cloud vendor
Factors against Amazon:
- Enterprises always want a deal, and AWS does not budge on pricing (unless you’re really big)
- Enterprises always want a one-sided contract, but AWS also does not budge on its SLAs
- Enterprises typically don't get the Public Cloud
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What are we doing for Client #2?
Client #2 chose the ‘Full Cloud’:
- Power-down environments when not in use
- Auto-scaling which keeps servers running
- Failover / DR in a second Availability Zone
- Jenkins automates refreshes and runs monitoring
- Attachments stored in S3
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Zone 2 – Midway point
Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 1 – The Cloud
Zone 3 – On Premise
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Where does our Journey End?
Physical Hardware
Virtualisation
Co-location
Co-existence
FullCloud
Client #1 / Oracle OnDemand
Client #2 / Amazon Web Services
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Online:Succeed Website: www.succeed.co.ukSucceed Blog: blog.succeed.co.uk
Direct:
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Need More Information?
John Whitby(Commercials)
Michelle Upton(Functional / Pre-Sales)
Duncan Davies(Hosting / Technical)
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Thank you for your time
I’m happy to answer questions now, or around the venue