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2010Virtualizing the data center – is

private cloud more than just a buzz word?

Virtualizing the data center – is private cloud more than just a buzz word?

Neil Sanderson neilsand@live.com

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilsand Twitter: http://twitter.com/neilsand

Rising to the Challenge

• Green IT, power, and space constraints

• Workplace boundaries stretching and users evolving

• Services need to support 7x24 global business (SLAs)

• Governance, risk and compliance issues are on the rise (GRC)

• Save costs by automating and standardizing processes (ITIL)

1st wave of virtualisation

• New efficiencies in IT

• Cost savings in power, cooling, space

• CO2 emissions and kit disposal reduction

• Low cost high availability and DR

• Increase flexibility

• Speed deployment of servers, apps

• Scale capacity to meet business needs

TraditionalDatacenter

VirtualizedDatacenter

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

Adapting to Market: Datacenter Evolution

TraditionalDatacenter

VirtualizedDatacenter

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

• Well-known, stable and secure

• Utilization <15%

• Utilization Increases to >50%

• Management Costs Decrease

• Management Costs Decrease Significantly

• IT as a Service

• Capacity on Demand

• Global Reach

A fifth of enterprises will hold no IT assets by 2012 as cloud computing and mobile working practices become commonplace…

Gartner

Private IT to wither away?

Only the Cloud can scale?What to do? There is only one way. Rent

access to huge infrastructure. The modern web is seeing the emergence of a number of infrastructure superpowers. The web-infrastructure equivalents of Boeing, of FedEx, of Amtrak, of Qantas. We can debate which ones will succeed but I don't think we can sensibly debate their necessity.

The future is shared infrastructure. The future is the cloud. Not because it is trendy but because only the cloud can scale.

Sean McGrathhttp://www.itworld.com/offbeat/53445/only-

cloud-can-scale

A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. …. Hooked up to the Internet’s global computing grid, massive information-processing plants have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it’s computing that’s turning into a utility.

Nicholas Kerr, The Big Switch

IT like electricity?

Re-skin of existing IT infrastructures?

• Culture change?• ROI?• Priority for investment?

“Here’s the really scary part … it won’t be a private cloud unless we learn to manage it like a private cloud … efficient, flexible, dynamic zero-touch processes”

Private Clouds: lipstick on old IT model?

• Comparison with electricity / water ?

• Economies of skill • People/process/culture• Investment to re-skin

existing infrastructure

Private

Public

Private Clouds: lipstick on old IT model?

• Compliance/audit• Sound business model?• Integration and

federation• Data controls

Private

Public

Compliance in the CloudCan you audit, with absolute certainty, its

file systems, logs and physical access? Can you be absolutely certain that it is physically secure? Can you be absolutely certain that its virtualized file systems are not mingled on a physical disk with somebody else's data? Absolute certainty is required for compliance. You can't find absolute certainty out there in a cloud, by definition…. So in the end, the cloud is a place to put things of little importance -- items of a temporary nature.

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1343864,00.html

Trust“Trust" becomes the biggest problem to be

solved in cloud computing. The value of the external cloud is worthless if it can't be trusted. The speed and agility provided to developers and operators alike just can't be leveraged if cloud systems can't be secured and audited, the data stored in a way in which the accountable parties can control what happens to it, and the laws of the land protect the cloud vendor, cloud customers, and (perhaps most importantly) the privacy and safety of all of us.

James Urquharthttp://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-

10296370-240.html

Business Model• Data centers, as we know, are capital-

intensive places. It is very hard to deliver something so large and unwieldy in an instant to meet sudden demand, even using modular techniques. Demand fluctuates, and unless you are going to charge usurious rates when demand comes in, you will burn cash at terrifying rates when demand is down. … You cannot have a truly scalable, redundant, reliable data center infrastructure at low cost... No cloud provider wants to be a break-even prospect, much less a money-losing one. So how will any of them survive unless they charge their users far more than it costs to build and run their facilities?

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1343864,00.html

• While not sexy like cloud computing, a data-integration strategy needs to be within the foundation of your cloud computing plan. This includes cloud-to-enterprise and cloud-to-cloud. This integration needs to be innate to the architecture …

David Linthicumhttp://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/data-

integration-buzzkill-cloud-computing-587

Data integration

Private Clouds: lipstick on old IT model?

• Comparison with electricity / water ?

• Scale• People/process/culture• Why invest to re-skin

existing infrastructure

• Compliance/audit• Sound business model?• Integration and

federation• Data controls

Private

Public

Implications for architectures

• “Enterprise” systems • Heritage of typical corporate

IT• Optimised for

– transaction processing– operation control– Integration between different

technologies and apps

• Greater visibility of underlying architectures and processes

• “Global” systems• Internet / consumer IT

heritage• Minimal knowledge /

control of users• Assume hostile environment• Optimised for

interoperability• Greater scalability

Private

Public

Off PremisesOn Premises

Scale OutAutomated

Service Management

High Availability

Multi-Tenancy

Cloud introduces more choices

Location

Considerations

Fundamentals

Infrastructure

Business model

Ownership

Management

HomogeneousHeterogeneous

CapEx OpEx

Own Lease/Rent

Self Third Party

Virtualised datacentre

High-Value Workloads

Core Workloads

Data derived from Microsoft “Spotlight on Cost” Server Study 2009

Reduce cost per server by over 63%

Reduce cost per serverby over 90%

Manage 170% more servers per FTE

40% less cost per user per year

Reduce cost per user by 93%

Reduce cost per userby over 80%

www.spotlightoncost.com

Microsoft Cloud Computing Continuum

Private

Public

Dynamic Data Center ToolkitFor Hosters| Dynamic Data Center Toolkit

For Enterprises|

IT a

s a

 Serv

ice

Software as

a Service(SaaS)

Platform as

a Service(PaaS)

Infrastructure as a

Service(IaaS)

Dynamic Data Center ToolkitFor Enterprises

|

Foundation for Private CloudCloud Computing Infrastructure

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Distributed and Elastic

Infrastructure Fabric

Automated Management

SLA Driven

Dynamic Data Center ToolkitFor Enterprises|

Delivering the service

Managing the fabric

Laying the Foundation for the Future of Datacenter Services and Management

Move beyond HW abstraction by separating server applications from OS Infrastructure.

Logical pooling of all fabric resources

Dynamically scale and provision capacity

Manage the Datacenter Fabric

Manage (deploy, patch etc.) in context of service

Deep understanding of service dependencies and needs

Elastic applications to deliver scale up and scale down

Establish Private and Public Clouds

Federate Services & Management

Enable Solutions That Exploit Capabilities Across Clouds

Federate Across Private and Public

Clouds

Datacenter Service Based Management

Deliver the Service

Neil Sanderson

Email: neilsand@live.com LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilsand Twitter: http://twitter.com/neilsand 

Thank you

PRESENTATIONVIRTUALISATION

Microsoft Virtualisation Solutions

APPLICATION VIRTUALISATION

SERVERVIRTUALISATION

DESKTOPVIRTUALISATION

VDIVIRTUAL WINDOWS XP

Dynamic Data Center ToolkitFor Enterprises

|

Foundation for Private CloudCloud Computing Infrastructure

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Distributed and Elastic

Infrastructure Fabric

Automated Management

SLA Driven

Dynamic Data Center ToolkitFor Enterprises|

Delivering the service

Managing the fabric

Goals for next wave of virtualization

Cost

– ROI – which workloads, server or desktop

– Driving down management costs

Flexibility

– Optimise across diverse environments

– Service and application focus

Futures

Private cloud, public cloud