Performance Is More Than Just Fast VMs

November 6, 2012

Software Development Has Evolved

• Agile methodology means rapid iteration• Collaboration between cross-functional teams• Responding to change over following a plan• Customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of useful

software features• Welcome changing requirements, even late in

development

• Infrastructure must rapidly adapt to new requirements from new SW features

• New applications like Big Data are driving unique networking & performance requirements

• Rapid change in Dev & Ops drives need for more collaboration• Infrastructure must scale up & down quickly• Business stakeholders need visibility to systems• Fast evolution drives need for more documentation & greater

dependence on predictable management tools

Operations Must Evolve Too

Choosing a Cloud ProviderRequirements SolutionsCost Effective Agility Price performance optimized for DevOps

• Tiered configurations & automated deployment• Security, governance & compliance

Predictable High Performance Specialized dedicated servers• On Demand Bare Metal servers • Optional SSD storage

Deployment Capability Automated templates• 1-click deployment of applications & infrastructure stacks• Programmatic control using API

Configuration Management Support for industry standard tools• Simplified management of server configuration• Inherent knowhow

Robust System Flexible Networking• Unified broadcast domain• Built-in redundancy

Project Management Self-documenting with audit trail• Single file configuration manager• Build language for the cloud

Support High-touch support• Humans on a phone• 24/7 is required

NephOS the Cloud for the Future

NephoScale Cloud Services

A world where the cloud helps companies develop, deploy, and improve their applications faster & with greater predictability & efficiency than ever before.

The Mission

Build the best performing cloud platform to provide more than scalable compute & storage resources by enabling collaboration between development & operation teams based on best practices from agile software development with unique compute, storage, & networking technologies.

Vision

NephoScale Provides the ONLY Full Solution

• High performance cloud infrastructure– Fast VMs– Integrated virtual servers & dedicated servers

• NephOS Platform– CloudScript– Standardized Templates– Elastic Networking

• Collaboration between IT, Development & Business– Environment tailored for today’s DevOps methods

Fast VMs Aren’t The Only Thing, But…

• NephoScale leverages our founders’ experience in building three previous generation cloud platforms

• We believe speed is a secondary consideration in cloud performance, but our cloud flies

• NephoScale’s architecture is a uniquely tuned infrastructure delivering industry leading performance– CPU, RAM, disk & RAID– Virtualization software, BareMetal servers & SSD– Cloud Storage– Elastic networking

NephOS Platform

CloudScript

• Fully idempotent• Business readable domain specific

language• CloudScript Templates– Library of recipes & template for popular

environments– Build, customize & save templates

• Catalyst for new paradigm – Collaboration - DevOps– Rapid iteration, prototype & deployment– Automation & continuous delivery

The industry’s first Build Language for the Cloud

Treat Infrastructure as Code

Elastic Networking

• Dynamic – Adapts as servers are added/removed & workloads moved

• Flexible – Design & build unlimited isolated virtual networks w/layer 2 broadcast domains

• Scalable – Unlimited broadcast domains/sub-domains (beyond 802.1Q VLAN spec of 4096 IDs)

• Robust – Redundancy, intelligent self-healing routing, keeps traffic secure & rebuilds itself

• Independent – Abstracted from the underlying hardware

NephoScale High-TouchTM Support

• Market leaders often treat customers like numbers– Phone trees– Knowledge bases– Limited scope support

• Industry leaders realize their customers’ success depends great support – Personalized pre-sales support to help customers succeed– Proactive support on how to leverage CloudScript to best deliver your

application– Real-time operational support– US-based 24/7 phone support– Email, knowledge base, forum

Methods for Server Deployment

Customer Portal • Login and Provision server(s)

• Locate Credentials• SSH or RDC to server(s)• Login to server(s)• Download and configure Apps

Depending on the application complexity - end to end process could take up to 4 hours

Best for lower volume static environments

RESTful API • From Host Make API calls to

provision servers• Login to server(s)• Download and configure Apps

Application configuration is same as Portal deployment

Provisioning is streamlined for larger server deployments time reduced 50%

Best for higher volume deployments with limited modifications

CloudScript TM

• Define entire data center config in single text file - CloudScript

• Server parameters defined in one section (hostname, IPs, OS, etc)

• Define Config Mgmt dependencies such as configuring apps, and what data to inject

Single CloudScript file posted to NephoScale API that deploys entire cluster and stack

With pre-configured template, process can be reduced to 15 minutes or less

Best for varied server deployments requiring frequent iterations

Customer Adoption

Enablement Enterprise SMB-Mid Sized Commercial

Today Tomorrow

Internal and/or external infrastructure

Internal IT orgs leverage external resources (MSP, VARs, etc)

Manage infrastructure as code

Low legacy infrastructure Dynamic Resource -

based on application adoption rate

Legacy infrastructure conversion to private cloud

Mature IT practices Hybrid cloud models for

non critical applications

ApplicationDevelopers

NephoScale Compute Environments

• Configuration Options 0.5GB 1 Core 32GB 16 Core VMs

• Linux & Windows Server options• Persistent Storage (RAID6)

• Configuration Options 2GB 2 Core 144GB 8 Core servers

• Linux & Windows Server options• Optional High Performance SSD

• Object based cloud storage • Triple Replication – 99.999%

uptime• Accessible via Web Browser,

Cloud Fuse, or NephoScale API

NephoScale CoudletVirtual Servers

NephoScale BareMetalDedicated Servers

ObjectStorCloud Storage

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Summary

NephoScale delivers the highest performance in the cloud• Fast virtual servers• BareMetal Dedicated servers & SSD drives• Elastic Networking• CloudScript• Rapid deployments• Unmatched service and support• Rapid iteration—modify/update/reproduce environments• Finally…A solution for DevOps

Special Webinar Offer

• 30-day Full Trial• Program Details:– Free High-TouchTM On-boarding–Up to ten (10) CS4.4 cloud servers for 30 days–Unlimited ObjectStor bulk cloud storage–3TB of outbound data transfer & unlimited free inbound transfer

• Total value of over $2,500• No obligations – If we are not the best, we don’t deserve

your business

Changing the Way Software Applications are Developed & Delivered

For more information contact us at:www.nephoscale.comsales@nephoscale.com855-637-4679

NephoScale Advantage

With over 20 years experience building Cloud Services, NephoScale’s technical team created NephOS - launching one of the industries most advanced cloud platforms.

NephOSPlatform

Orchestration Suite

Elastic Networking

One Click Configurations

Hybrid Environments VPS and Bare Metal servers on single private NetworkStatic IP Addresses

Powerful Cloud Service Provisioning and management access methods• CloudScript• RESTful API• Web Portal

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App Development and Delivery

• 3x Performance• 10x

Configuration efficiency

• Reduced time to market

• Lowest total cost of delivery