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Building an open vision for the cloud

Flexible workload management

Bob Tarzey, Clive Longbottom,

Analyst and Director, Quocirca Service Director, Quocirca Ltd Ltd


June 20th 2012

Premise
To better deliver better applications businesses are more and more ready to use flexible resources included those from outsourcers To achieve this they need to make sure that the workloads that make up their applications are designed to be mobile This require commonality across inhouse and outsourced resources

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Drivers for IT innovation


Its the application.

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What are your top 5 priorities for 2012?

Source, Quocirca 2012 The year of APM


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Which of the following types of software does your organisation use?

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Source, Quocirca 2012 Outsourcing the problem of software security


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Relative increase in CPU and storage since 1996

Source, European Bioinformatics Institute


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The acceptance of outsourced data centre facilities is increasing

Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentres Index Cycle II , Jan 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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Once the data centre is outsourced why not the rest?


Traditional onCo-location premise Application software Infrastructure software Managed hosting

InfrastructurePlatform-as-a- Software-as-aas-a-service service (PaaS) service (SaaS) (IaaS)

Hypervisor

Hardware

Data centre

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Provided by user May be provided by either Provided by service provider

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What are your views on cloud security UK enterprises

Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II Cloud findings, April 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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What is the rate of movement to the cloud?

It depends who your ask!

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Plans for cloud adoption, change in 2011

Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II Cloud findings, April 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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Growth in use of cloud

Source, Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey


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Ovum forecast for I/P/SaaS, Oct 2011

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Cloud growth Forrester

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Other analyst views


Managed Services $217B by 2014, 15% CAGR

By 2013, hosted UC will represent 30%+ of Ciscos addressable UC market

Enterprise cloud services $9.2B worldwide in 2010, but that number is expected to grow to $22.3B in 20% of companies will no 2014, 30% CAGR Managed/Cloud longer run ICT equipment Services in-house in 2012 In 2 to 5 years 40% of business customers will buy their ICT from the Cloud
75% of IT Managers reveal that they are using or evaluating a cloud solution
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Courtesy of EuroLAN
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The flexible management of workloads Whatever opinion you believe the move to cloud will only happen if workloads can be moved

That requires open platforms and architectures

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What is a work load?


A workload is a computing task that requires access to a mix of resources:
Processing power Storage Disk input/output (i/o) Network bandwidth

Five basic types of workload: Application workloads Database workloads Desktop workloads Appliance workloads Functional workloads
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The business process triangle, utility versus inquire workloads


Value Risk

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Public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds


Private infrastructure Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Public cloud from CSP Hybrid cloud

Public cloud infrastructure


Server Server Server Server Server Server Private cloud from CSP

Server
Server

Server
Private cloud Corporate firewall

CSP = cloud service provider


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Why do we want to move workloads


Comfort of being able to go back (even if it never happens) Scalability Performance Flexibility Security Compliance Ability to use new architectures To be able to get better deals To find better SLAs
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What do we need to ensure workload portability?


The ability to move workloads from open platform to another
Open standards/APIs

The tools for moving workloads Common platforms and tools that are available for building and managing both public and private clouds
Open source?
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Never lose sight of what open source is


Did you think Linux would become so popular? Hell, no. My time frame is a couple of weeks, or months, instead of this vision of where I want things to be in 10 years and how I'm going to take over the world Do you ever wish you had become a Bill Gates? Bill Gates is clearly a genius and knew how to program, but what he did was business and that was never what I was interested in

Linus Torvalds
Interviewed in New Scientist on June 9th 2012 on his receipt of the Millennium Technology Prize
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What are others adopting? Open stack participants

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See all 180 at: http://openstack.org/community/companies/


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Conclusions?
The move to cloud will continue, the pace will vary For businesses the main driver is flexible application delivery That in itself requires flexible management or workloads Flexible workload management requires platforms based on open standards

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THANKYOU www.quocirca.com bob.tarzey@quocirca.com

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