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Frederik DemetsSolutions Architect

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Agenda

• Me• Acquia• Acquia Cloud Enterprise• Cases• Q&A

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Acquia gathering 2013

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Acquia is the Enterprise Guide to Drupal

• Co-founded by the creator of Drupal in 2007• 250% 3 year CAGR• 4000+ customers, 400+ employees• Offices in Boston, Portland OR, Washington DC, UK,

France, Netherlands, Australia and Sweden• Positioned as Visionary by Gartner 3X • Deloitte’s Fast500 Fastest Growing Private Company

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Dries Buytaert,Creator of Drupal

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Media Entertainment Public Sector Higher Ed

Acquia Customers

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL - do not redistribute

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High Tech Pharma / Healthcare Financial Services Others

Acquia Customers

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL - do not redistribute

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Acquia Customers Benelux

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Digital Lifecycle Management: What we do.

Solution architects

Technical AccountManager

Continuous Integrationdevelopment platform

Trusted hosting platform

Burstable resources & team expertise

24x7x365

Maintenanceburden reduced

Develop

TestDeploy

Scale

Maintain Plan

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Digital Lifecycle Management: What we do.

Solution architects

Technical AccountManager

Continuous Integrationdevelopment platform

Trusted hosting platform

Burstable resources & team expertise

24x7x365

Maintenanceburden reduced

Develop

TestDeploy

Scale

Maintain Plan

Test

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Is my site up?

Two Biggest Concerns of IT Teams

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Is it performing as expected?

Two Biggest Concerns of IT Teams

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The Reality

“A slow business service is no better than no business

service.”

Realize Practical ApplicationPerformance ManagementFebruary 2013

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What does it take to develop, deploy, host and maintain great Drupal sites?

High quality code & config

Consistent testing to ensure performance

Deployments that just work

Burstable, resilient resources

Easy maintenance

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Let’s dig in

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What Makes a Web Project Successful?

HIGH QUALITY CODE & CONFIG

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Streamline Development With our Automated & Integrated Platform

• Separate Dev, Staging and Production environments

• Source code repository – Git or SVN

• Integrates with Drush

• On-server editing

Develop

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Acquia Insight QA’s DevelopmentConfiguration monitoring Monitors more than 130 settings:

• Performance. Page caching, memcache, devel… do you have the right config to speed performance?

• Security. SSL, user privileges, PHP errors – are you settings optimized.

• Best Practices. Views module not enabled? You’re going to want to fix that.

Proactive alerts & recommendationsConfigurable email alerts and practical ‘Help Me Fix’ recommendations.

Develop

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What Makes a Web Project Successful?

TESTING TO ENSURE PERFORMANCE

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Testing Code & Config Quality is Easy in Our Staging Environment

• Cloud API allows access to control environment• Cloud API enables customers to use Cloud Hooks

to build custom tests• Automate tests when moving from Dev Stage

Test

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Ensure Success with Optimization Tools

Machine load testing

100% Jmeter compatible load testing

Test

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What Makes a Web Project Successful?

DEPLOYMENTS THAT JUST WORK

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Deployments just work when you push to our prod environment

Deploy

• Production environment protected until code, files, and db go through staging

• Once test environment is stable, push to prod for a successful launch!

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What Makes a Web Project Successful?

BURSTABLE, RESILIENT

RESOURCES

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High performance is ensured with Acquia’s Drupal-tuned platform

Drupal-tuned platform for sites large & small

• Single & multi-server configurations

• Multiple caching layers

• Multi-site configuration support

• 24x7 monitoring

• Nightly backups

• 4 hour disaster recovery snapshots

Scale

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Low ComplexityLow Usage

Moderate ComplexityModerate Usage

Higher ComplexityHigher Usage, Critical

Uptime

Acquia Cloud hardware options

Web

DB

FS

Web

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Web

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Web

DB

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Varnish Varnish Varnish Varnish

Small1 x m1.small512MB RAM

1 ECU

Medium1 x c1.medium

1.7GB RAM5 ECU

Large1 x m1.large7.5GB RAM

4 ECU

Hi CPU1 x c1.xlarge

7GB RAM20 ECU

Web

DB

FS

LBLB

Web

DB

FS

Web

DB

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LBLB

Web

DB

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Web

DB

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LBLB

DB

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WebWeb Web

ACQUIA CLOUD

ACQUIA CLOUDENTERPRISE

HA - Large2 x m1.large Web/DB Server

High-Availability

Multi-Tier Medium2 x m1.large Database Server

2 x c1.medium Web ServerHigh-Availability

Multi-Tier Large2 x m1.large Database Server

4 x c1.medium Web ServerHigh-Availability

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Burstable resources never let your best day become your worst

Dollars wasted

Potential outages

Pay for what you need, 99.95% uptime

Scale

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Multi-region failover offers resiliency for sites that can’t tolerate failure

Scale

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What Makes a Web Project Successful?

EASY MAINTENANCE

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Drupal Lifecycle events

Requires expert skills and significant time

Set-up/Launch Production Site Evolution

Build•Load balancers•Fast page cache•App Servers•Database•File systems•Web servers•App Configuration•HA architecture

Deploy•Integrated Git/SVN•Drag and drop content management

Application updates• Drupal App code• Security release

Infrastructure updates• OS• Debugging• Security

Operations• 24X7 monitoring & alerts• Backups• Load testing

Diagnosis•Site/App failure•Infrastructure failure•Security Breach•DDOS•Traffic spike

Resolution•Resize•Recover (Multi-region)•Staging/QA•Caching strategies•Customize

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Can I build this myself?

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Platform as a Service stack

Low Cost, Flexible, Reliable

Virtual elastic cloud resources, High availability, Configuration management, Monitoring, Optimization, Caching

Platform Features

ApplicationLifecycleManagement

Customized environment, Analyze, Code management, Workflow, Cloud migration

Platform Architecture

Search, Spam, Insight, Mobile, Functional testing, Marketing testing, Load testing, Runtime reporting

Application NetworkServices

24/7 break-fix, Advisory support, Technical account managers, Audits: Site, security, performance

World Class Application Support

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Sure, but some assembly is required

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Count on stability thanks to our globalops team working 24x7

Custom code

Drupal Support

Network Services

Remote administration

Development lifecycle

Monitoring

Optimization

Configuration management

High availability

Virtual Machine

• We manage the 10 layers of PaaS

• Everything from virtual machines to config management

• We even support your custom code!

Maintain

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You won’t be caught off guard with infrastructure & security monitoring

Infrastructure & Application Health

Security Scanning Third party tools

• Acquia has instant access to vital real time and historical metrics of the servers we provision.

• Acquia monitors over 50

metrics, which are linked to alerts via email, SMS, and pager.

• Acquia uses Rapid7 to perform authenticated host based vulnerability scans on our servers.

• Acquia utilizes Qualys at the Drupal layer to conduct vulnerability scans on request for customers.

• Acquia uses OSSEC to detect brute force login attempts.

• Customers can take advantage of free access or free trials for these testing and monitoring tools to improve performance.

Maintain

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Sleep better; We’ve got your backAn SLA that won’t let you down:

• 24x7x365 critical issue response

• You choose the level of engagement your business needs

World class team of Drupalists:

• Global team of support pros

• Resolve thousands of tickets and advisory hours per year

Automated site monitoring

Support that follows the sun.

Maintain

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Rest-assured you’re in compliance with security requirements

Acquia Cloud is the most secure Drupal-tuned platform available. The status of our compliance with these regulations can be found in Documentation.

Maintain

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Comparing Acquia Cloud

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Comparing Acquia Cloud

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Comparing Acquia CloudAcquia Cloud Traditional Managed Hosting Internal Hosting

Drupal Tuned Stack ✓ MAYBE DIY

Multi-tier Caching Support ✓ DIY DIY

Server Support ✓ MAYBE ✗Disaster Recovery ✓ MAYBE DIY

24x7 Monitoring ✓ DIY DIY

Security ✓ MAYBE DIY

Drupal Support ✓ ✗ DIY

Drupal Maintenance ✓ ✗ ✗Drupal Administration ✓ ✗ DIY

Drupal Optimization Tools ✓ ✗ ✗Drupal Developer Tools ✓ MAYBE ✗

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Cases

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- Gentse Feesten- Mobistar- RTL Nieuws- Swift

Cases

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60 + 40 60% reduction in cost

40% faster time to market

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Thank you!Any questions?

frederik.demets@acquia.com@fdemets