As AWS and Netflix learned this past Christmas Eve, outages happen. The question isn’t how to avoid outages, but rather how to recover quickly and effectively when they occur. One approach is to develop a multi-cloud strategy – utilizing either different providers or multiple regions from the same provider – to build in safeguards against anything from a natural disaster to the workman in the street who accidentally chops into a cable. But multi-cloud strategies carry their own challenges. Besides coping with architecture and resource allocation, businesses that leverage more than one cloud provider are faced with forecasting cloud costs that have suddenly become even more complex and managing a high availability architecture across multiple clouds. Related topics we’ll discuss: - How to translate an old IT budget into accurate costs for the new world of cloud - Is outage-proofing possible? - Using a global hybrid approach to cope with regional compliance regulations - Managing multiple private and public clouds from a single dashboard Who should attend: - CIOs - Data managers/developers - IT decision makers - Business strategists and decision makers - Cloud platform providers

1. Watch the video presentation for this webinar

2. Agenda for Today’s Webinar
• Introductions
• How to translate an old IT budget into accurate costs for
the new world of cloud
• Is outage-proofing possible?
• Using a global hybrid approach to cope with regional
compliance regulations
• Managing multiple private and public clouds from a
single dashboard
• Q&A

3. Panelists:
• Moderator: David Linthicum, CTO and
Founder, Blue Mountain Labs
• Dana Gardner, President, Interarbor
Solutions, LLC
• Shlomo Swidler, CEO, Orchestratus
• Michael Crandell, CEO, Right Scale

4. Abstract:
As AWS and Netflix learned this past Christmas Eve, outages
happen. The question isn’t how to avoid outages, but rather
how to recover quickly and effectively when they occur.
One approach is to develop a multi-cloud strategy – utilizing
either different providers or multiple regions from the same
provider – to build in safeguards against anything from a natural
disaster to the workman in the street who accidentally chops
into a cable. But multi-cloud strategies carry their own
challenges. Besides coping with architecture and resource
allocation, businesses that leverage more than one cloud
provider are faced with forecasting cloud costs that have
suddenly become even more complex and managing a high
availability architecture across multiple clouds.

5. The Reality We Face
Disasters happen Diversity of causes
7 major cloud outages in 2012 Top 3 causes are:
The average company has: Power loss and backup
failure
• 1 major and 3 minor
datacenter outages per year
Natural disasters
• $5,000 per minute of
downtime
DNS routing failures
Cloud Management

6. Resiliency Checklist
1. Create a cost vs. downtime equation
2. Validate your application architecture for failover
3. Evaluate vendor + internal capabilities & cost
4. Automate everything, test for portability
5. Separate the management layer from the
application/infrastructure layer
Cloud Management

7. How to translate an old IT budget into
accurate costs for the new world of
cloud

8. Is outage-proofing possible?

9. “Dozens of major websites that rely on
Amazon's Web Services have fallen off the face
of the public Web as a result of the
outage, including the usual suspects, such as
pseudo-social network Pinterest along with
check-in giant Foursquare and online travel
service Airbnb.”
- Zack Whittaker

10. Poll question
• Is outage-proofing possible?
– No
– Yes
– Only with planning
– Only with planning and the right technology

11. Using a global hybrid approach to cope
with regional compliance regulations

12. Poll question
• Do you have to deal with compliance regulations?
– No
– Yes
– With some data, but not all.
– Not now, but we will in the future

13. Managing multiple private and public
clouds from a single dashboard

14. “In addition to understanding what aspects of a
hybrid cloud you must manage, you also need to
understand how to manage those aspects. And a
common challenge in a hybrid cloud model is
consistently executing these tasks across
multiple domains.”
- Dan Sullivan

15. Q and A

16. Thanks!