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Trader Media Group RightScale User Conference - 8th June 2011

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The Challenge

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The Challenge

•  2 Co-Lo Data Centres (Live/Failover) •  Cost and complexity issues (circa 75% of capacity redundant 75%

of the time) •  Cost and complexity issues (circa 90% of capacity redundant 25%

of the time)

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The Challenge •  Core website platform ‘traditional’ virtualised VMWare environment – circa

1000+ VM •  Linux/Java/Tomcat/Apache/Endeca stack •  HP Server/NetApp Storage/Cisco Networking/F5 LB

•  Mix of current and heritage applications •  Accessing new capacity for Dev/Test and Production very inflexible,

inconsistent, labour intensive

•  I&O activities ITIL based creating unnecessary delays in getting products released into live (circa 150 releases/week - Agile/XP 2 Week Sprints)

•  Proactive DevOps engagement difficult due to the amount of fire fighting and manual work involved

•  Inconsistencies in the manual builds of the VM Images meaning issues with stability/availability and success of releases

•  New products require a lot of capacity guess work and capital investment in terms of infrastructure

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The Opportunity •  Senior Management nervous regarding migration of crown

jewels into ‘bleeding edge’ cloud stuff

•  New channels to the business coming on line •  Leisure and Commercial Vehicles (Heavy Trucks, Plant

Machinery, etc)

•  Green field application platform Linux/Java/Tomcat/MySQL/Endeca

•  Low budget •  Not clear as to how successful this would be (therefore

capacity planning guess work) •  1 Sys Admin

•  Ideal proving ground

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Spitfire?

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Spitfire Cloud Solution

Auto Scale - Array

Auto Scale - Array

Load Balancers & Cache

(HA Proxy & Squid)

Apache Tomcat App Servers

Load Balancers (HA Proxy)

Endeca MDEX Servers

Auto Scale - Array Endeca

Log Servers

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The Results (Spitfire)   120+ Releases/Month   99% Releases to Production Success   100% of environment is templated   99.999% Site Availability  Highly Engaged and Successful multi

functional product teams  Variable costs around demand

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Where next (Typhoon) o  Replace Hardware Platform in DCs o  Build out Private Cloud with RightScale

(Cloud.com/OpenStack) o  100% of hybrid environment to use

templates o  Migrate apps over 24 months to be cloud

deployable o  Variable costs around demand o  Remove Standby DC (36 months) tim.jones@tradermedia.co.uk Twitter @onestopbit

Thank You!