Private cloud adoption is growing, but it’s not without its challenges. Private clouds can be difficult to deploy and manage, often requiring specialized staff and skill sets. In this webinar, Cody Hill, systems engineer at Platform9 (formerly lead cloud architect at GE) discusses what’s driving private cloud adoption and what Platform9 is doing to make it easy. In this presentation you will learn: * the benefits of a private cloud * Get technical overview of how Platform9 works * customer stories and use cases * learn about the Platform9 SaaS experience for cloud admins, architects and users

1. Intro to Platform9:
Private Clouds Made Easy

2. Systems Engineer, Platform9
Prior to joining Platform9, Cody was the Lead Cloud
Architect at General Electric, where he built an enormous
private cloud based on VMware vCloud Director spanning
North America, Europe, and Asia. With more than 10 years
of IT infrastructure experience across multiple industries,
he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise,
particularly as an enterprise IT practitioner and strategist in
one of the world’s largest technology shops.
Cody Hill

3. Agenda
• Why private clouds?
• Introducing Platform9
• Why Platform9 for private clouds?
• Admin Demo
• Customers and use cases
• User Demo
• Q&A
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4. Why Private Clouds?

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The Promise of Private Clouds
Source: White paper: Taking the business benefits of private cloud to new heights ©2013 Avanade

6. Why Are 95% of Private Clouds Failing?
“I [recently] identified ten reasons private clouds
were failing. I …polled attendees at Gartner’s
Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas in December. I
asked the question “What is going wrong with your
private cloud?” I was a little surprised that 95% of the
140 respondents (who had private clouds in place)
said something was wrong with their private cloud…”
- Thomas Bittman, Gartner
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7. • Complexity is huge barrier to success
• Massive pain to install
• Nightmare to operate
•No support for existing assets
•No support for diverse virtualization
platforms
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Private Clouds Are Difficult

8. Introducing Platform9

9. Manifesto
Platform9’s mission is to make private
clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale.
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10. History
• Founded 2013 in Silicon Valley
• Founded by early VMware Engineers
• Private cloud management as a service
• “Easy Button” for private clouds
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Sirish Raghuram,
CEO
Madhura Maskasky,
VP Product
Roopak Parikh,
VP Engineering
Bich Le,
Chief Architect

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Global User Base

12. • Simple
• New approach: cloud management delivered as a SaaS solution
• < 5 minutes to get fully operational
• Fully managed (install, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade)
• Open
• Integrates with and leverages existing assets
• Hypervisors or containers
• Any server, any storage, any network
• OpenStack REST APIs for compatibility
• Enterprise-grade
• SLAs for operational continuity
• Single pane of glass for global visibility and control
• Multi-region support
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Why Platform9 for Private Clouds?

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Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Private Cloud-as-a-Service
• Enterprise’s servers host
their data
• Platform9 hosts the cloud
controllers as a managed
service, with an
operational SLA
• No need to install, monitor,
troubleshoot or upgrade
the cloud platform

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Platform9 Key Benefits

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Admin Demo
• Deploy and authorize Platform9 Gateway
• Discover existing infrastructure
• Create tenants and users

16. Customer Use Cases

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Customer Story
Need:
• Make life easier for developers and QA = improved productivity
• Reduce VMware license spend
• Short implementation timeframe
Solution:
• Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud
• Hundreds of sockets across multiple data centers and teams
• Migrate workloads from vSphere to KVM
Results:
• Reduced virtualization spend by 5x
• Doubled developer throughput
• Eliminated the need to hire OpenStack specialists
Box is a leading content
management and
collaboration platform,
with more than 40 million
users at more than 50,000
organizations worldwide.

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Customer Story
Need:
• Operationalize a hybrid cloud DevOps pipeline across AWS and
VMware vSphere
• Use tools such as Packer, Terraform to automate CI/CD
• Leverage existing investment in VMware vSphere and admins
Solution:
• Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud
• 80 sockets across three data centers
• OpenStack APIs to orchestrate underlying vSphere environment
• Integrated with Packer and Terraform
Results:
• Reduced “shadow IT” by providing self-service for developers
• Reduced overall costs with hybrid cloud
• Accelerated DevOps throughput via automation
Security software
company based
in Texas, USA

19. How Does Platform9 Work?

20. Customer Data Center
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How Does Platform9 Work?
Platform9 Cloud
Linux (KVM)
Hypervisor
ESXPlatform9
Agent
ESXESX
VMware
vCenter
Platform9
Appliance
ESXESX
Neutron
(Beta)
Platform9
Services
Other
OpenStack
Services
Glance-
api/registry
Keystone
Nova-api/
scheduler/
Heat

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User Demo
• Self-service provisioning of virtual machines
• Launch an application stack

22. • Learn:
• Read about Platform9 at http://platform9.com
• Follow us on Twitter @Platform9Sys
• Evaluate:
• Sign up for a 15-day trial http://platform9.com/free-trial.html
• Be up and running in minutes
• Contact:
• Call us at 650-898-7369
• E-mail us at customer-success@platform9.com
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