Presented on June 10th, 2015 at .NEXT Conference in Miami Beach: This strategic IT session will make the case for why enterprise datacenters should be built using hybrid cloud architectures. A Microsoft Azure expert will explain how to embrace public cloud resources, while still maximizing on-premise infrastructure. In addition, two IT professionals will share their first-hand experiences in building and operating a real-world hybrid cloud environments. The session will dive into ideal use cases, back up and recovery strategies, security and compliance considerations, and best management practices when using multiple infrastructures to deliver your applications and data.

2. VS201: Secrets of Building a Hybrid Cloud
Vijay Tewari
Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corp
Jon Forster
Consultant Global Program Manager – Data Centre Migration and Disaster Recovery
Tom Van Gramberen
Solutions Architect at Synergics, Managed ICT Services

3. Session Objective and Takeaways
Objectives
• Highlight Hybrid cloud approaches
• Showcase specific implementations
Takeaways
• Careful design, planning & validation, key to success
• Focus on scenarios that enable business function
• Crawl, walk, run

4. What is Hybrid Cloud?
The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more distinct cloud
infrastructures (private, community or public) that remain unique
entities, but are bound together by standardized or proprietary
technology that enables data and application portability (e.g. cloud
bursting for load balancing between clouds)*
* NIST: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing

5. Customers Ask for…
“I want my cloud and I want it now”
It’s a cloud, it should be always available
Portal and API
This just won’t cut it
1. It’s a bug in the OS
2. It’s a bug in the driver
3. It’s a bug in the NIC firmware
4. Can you collect logs
5. Can you collect more logs
6. Can you enable logging and then get a repro
7. GOTO 1

6. Some Key Hybrid Scenarios
Public CloudYour datacenter
Backup online
Application online
Disaster recovery
Hybrid storage
Colo facility/Service Provider
Operational management

7. 16 countries, 1 million members, 24 / 7 / 365
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8. • Old, physical hardware
• Inflexible, complex, expensive
Before

9. Data Centre Strategy
• Cost
• Simplicity
• Flexibility
• Optionality
• Business Continuity
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10. Single rack Hybrid hosting
After

11. Hybrid Solution
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Disaster
Recovery
Global & European Production
Web
Sites
Digital
Development
Australian
Production
Asia
Production
Software Development &
Release Management
Back Up

12. Learning and Challenges
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• Use Express Route
• Use Azure functionality
• Plan forward
• Bugs and patches
• Keep everything aligned

13. Simplified, flexible, cheaper, faster
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14. Our Vision
We help growth companies to improve their
competitive position by aligning IT and
business both at strategic (innovate), tactical
(transform) as operational level (manage).
We deliver flexible and innovative,
competitive solutions to unburden you from
your IT operational tasks. Customer intimacy,
operational excellence and cost optimization
are key delivering our managed services.
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Manage
Transform
Innovate

15. Our Past, What We Had
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16. What Customers Want
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Controlled Self-
service
People-centric IT
Data control Flexible, Hybrid
offerings

17. What We Needed
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Scalability
Business Continuity
Clear overview of costs & usage
Easy and fast deployment
Self service
Hybrid solution

18. Truly Hybrid Managed Cloud
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Microsoft
Azure
Synergics
Managed
Cloud
Customers
WAP in a
Box
VPN
ExpressRoute
VPN
A truly hybrid service built with web-scale technology, and fully managed by Synergics !!

19. Service Offerings
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20. Key Takeaways
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• Upfront Design is Key
• Know Cloud limitations and how to leverage them
• Think ahead about Networking
• P2S VPN, S2S VPN, ExpressRoute
• Public Cloud First
• Most flexible
• Leverage Certified Partners
• Synergics is a certified Cloud OS Network (COSN) partner
• Synergics employs Microsoft & Nutanix certified engineers

21. THANK YOU
Vijay Tewari
vijay.tewari@microsoft.com
Jon Forster
jon.forster@sencons.com
Tom Van Gramberen
tom@synergics.be
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