Overview of the 4 international IaaS cloud providers that presented their solutions to the Belgian public.

1. Workshop
IT Automation
as a Service
- Infrastructure as Code Daniel Bartz, CEO
Focus on your business
Leave your
IT infrastructure
to the cloud
daniel.bartz@comodit.com
+32 4 372 93 15
February 11 – 2014

2. Cloud Computing Providers – IaaS
Workshops
Amazon – AWS
Rackspace – OpenStack
IBM – SoftLayer
CSC – BizCloud
But you should consider others international providers
Google
HPcloud
OVH
Linode
GoGrid
Joyent
CloudSigma
Terremark (Verizon)
OpSource (Dimension Data)
Savvis
LeaseWeb
...
And many many local players
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3. Maturity of the Cloud Providers
The 4 Cloud Providers
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Focus on “Business First”, Security, SLA, Enterprise Support
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Big infrastructure / DC : > 100 000 servers and PB of data
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Global presence around the world
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Resources on demand and elasticity with an OPEX model
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Segregated resources : dedicated servers or private clouds
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Standardization
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Pretend reduce costs & increase agility ( IDC pretends up to 70% )
What are the key Features - Differentiators ?
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4. How to compare Cloud Providers ?
Some criteria
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Typical Target Customers
● Big Companies
● Small and Medium Enterprises
● Startup / Innovators
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Completeness of the solution < > Lock-in ?
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Service Level or Enterprise Support
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Innovation enabler
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Agility enabler (RoA)
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Used Technologies
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Costs (TCO) and price transparency – Pricing Model
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5. Some examples
Customer or business Target
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CSC & IBM started their Cloud journey with Big Companies
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Amazon started with innovators
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Rackspace is somewhere in between
“Today “20% innovators and 80% cost reduction, we would love the opposite”
Enterprise Support
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IBM & CSC provide comprehensive solutions, obviously for Enterprise
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But
- AWS and the $600M CIA deal in competition with IBM
- Rackspace provides “Fanatical Support”
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6. Some more examples
Used Technologies
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Virtual < > Physical Servers, Network & Storage
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Virtualization & Cloud technologies (Xen, KVM, VMware, OpenStack)
➢ Does (should) it matter in the cloud ?
Resources & Management Tools
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“BASIC”
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Resources :
Management :
instances, storage & network
start, stop, save, restore
“ADVANCED”
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Archive, object storage, SQL, NoSQL, CDN, Streaming, VPN, queuing, mail, DNS,
Direct Connect, ...
Load-balancing, auto-scaling, automatic deployment, monitoring, ...
Completeness of the API
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7. First electric clock ...
... used electricity to move the pendulum
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8. Use the AWS API
[#]ec2-run-instance ami-CB813A9B
[#]ssh ...
But then log in and do
the OPS the “old” way

9. platform = {
"name" : "AWS Cloud",
"settings" : {
"ec2.instanceType" : "m1.small",
"ec2.securityGroups" : "comodit",
"ec2.keyPair" : "comodit",
"ec2.zone" : "cluster1"
}
}
What about using an API
to completely describe
your infrastructure ...
... up to the most detailed
configurations
application = {
"name"
: "MySQL",
"settings" : {
"password" : "secret",
"databases" : ["wordpress"],
"users" : [{"name": "wordpress", "password": "secret", "host": "%"}],
"grants" : [{"tab": "*", "db": "wordpress", "user": "wordpress"}]
}
}

10. Infrastructure as Code [ IaC ] – with ComodIT
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Innovation initiated by AWS
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Manage your Infrastructure and compliance via an API
➢ From instances to applications, including all the configurations
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Agility on steroid, reduce sysadmin labor hours and errors.
Examples of IaC use cases
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Orchestrate the deployment of a complete workload
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DRP (remember, with the help of on-demand & elasticity)
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Duplicate your environment for testing purpose
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Extend Unit Testing and UAT with infrastructure deployment (DevOps)
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Monitored KPI triggering orchestration such auto-scaling
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11. Workshop
IT Automation
as a Service
- Infrastructure as Code Daniel Bartz, CEO
Focus on your business
Leave your
IT infrastructure
to the cloud
daniel.bartz@comodit.com
+32 4 372 93 15
February 11 – 2014