Control Your Costs with an On-premise Cloud

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Control Your Costs with an On-Premise Cloud: How to Automate Accounting for Self-Service IaaS Clouds


Today’s Presenters

Govind Rangasamy

Director, Product Management

Eucalyptus Systems

George Hadjiyanis

VP, Sales and Marketing

enStratus


Audience Poll


• Enterprise Cloud Challenges

• Controlling Costs

• Cloud Motives

• Cloud Solutions for Controlling Costs

• Demonstration

• Q & A

Agenda


• Flexibility/elasticity vs. control

• Meeting service level demands

• Extending IT policies and procedures

• Tracking and auditing for compliance

• Multiple clouds bring multiple challenges

Enterprise Cloud Challenges


• How much are you spending?

• Is your money being optimally allocated?

• Can you track where your money is going?

• Can you support the demand on your cloud resources today? Tomorrow? Next year?

• What about multiple currencies?

Today’s Challenge: Controlling Costs


Audience Poll


Cloud Motives Agility is key… but requires Trust

Flexibility Automation Speed Trust

Self-Service

Resource

Configuration

Self-Service

Resource

Provisioning

Dynamic

Resource

Management

Resource

Chargeback

and

Reporting


• On-premise and hybrid cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service

• Provides self-service and API access to virtualized resources

• Most complete Amazon Web Services compatible API

• Over 25,000 cloud starts to date

Eucalyptus Overview


Dev/Test/Deploy Environment Pain Points

• Frequent setup, teardown of resources

– Hard to manage

• Globally distributed dev/test groups do not share configs

– No standardization

• Lot of idle/dormant capacity

– Low utilization of infrastructure

There are 3-5 pre-production setups for every production environment

Infrastructure usage over a period

De

ma

nd

fo

r re

so

urc

es

Peak

development

Large scale

testing

Integration

testing


Scalable Web App Pains

• Scalability

• High Availability

• Performance

• Manageability

• Low Cost

Website/So

cialGaming

App

Server

App

Server

App

Server

MySQL MySQL Replication

Web

Server

Web

Server

Web

Server

LB

LB

External Firewall

Hardware or software to

open standard ports (80,

443)

Web Load Balancer

Hardware or software to

distribute network traffic

across several web servers

Web Server Farm to handle

http requests

Backend firewall to limit

access to App Servers

(software or hardware)

App Servers and Cache

servers that implement

business logic

Data Tier with protection


Cloud IaaS Technology Benefits

• Cloud separates servers/applications from infrastructure

• Cloud standardizes applications and servers into portable containers

• Cloud allows carrying security with portable containers

• Cloud provides greater availability with resource isolation

• Cloud allows scale-out using built-in elasticity

• Cloud allows easier scale-in

• Cloud allows rapid resource provisioning

• Cloud allows easy DR


Trust with Chargeback and Reporting

• Platform always knows allocated infrastructure resource capacity

• Platform accurately reports resource consumption

• Resource utilization exposed via API to billing and other systems


Test Zone 1

WEB App DB

WEB App DB

WEB App DB

WEB App DB

WEB App DB

WEB App DB

Built-in policy

enforcement

engine

• Allow or deny API and Resource* access

• Allow or deny specific API/User actions

• Specify resource access time limits

* Extension to AWS IAM

Lease

instances to

Dev groups

Exercise Control Over Cloud with Policies


• Cloud Management platform – SaaS or On-Premise

• Compatible with multiple cloud providers: private, public, hybrid

• Provides fine-grained user access management

• Self-service web UI for management, monitoring, and control

• Automated recovery, scaling, backups and cloud-bursting

• Financial controls

Governance

Automation

Independence

enStratus: The Enterprise Cloud Management Solution


• IT Department serving multiple divisions, each of which is treated as a separate entity

• Enterprise with multiple projects / clients that need to be accurately tracked and billed

• Organization, project, or division cannot exceed budget limit

Sample Scenarios


• Implement a self-service IaaS cloud model

• Set up budget groups

• Define and track quotas

• Audit activity

• Automate chargeback of spending across users, departments, and regions

Demonstration


Questions?


Next Steps

Free Trial of Eucalyptus 3

http://go.eucalyptus.com/Free-Trial





George Hadjiyanis Govind Rangasamy

VP, Sales and Marketing Director, Product Management

E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

T: @GDHadji or @enstratus T: @eucalyptuscloud

P: +1.612.355.5270 P: +1 (855) 845-9599

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