IOS Software Solutions

Your Cisco Cloud Builder

Razvan Velican

Executive Director

razvan.velican@ioss.ro

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Agenda

• IOS Software Solutions – Cisco Cloud Builder

• Create a Private Cloud „Virtual Desktops Empower Students” Cloud Computing Case Study - Paris Institute of Political Studies

• Adopting Public Cloud – „First School in Cloud”

• IOS Software Solutions – Cloud Services

• Q & A

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IOS Software Solutions – Cisco Premier Partner

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IOS Software Solutions is a system integrator

that provides IT&C consultancy, implement custom

solutions and provide to customers extensive

support services.

As system integrator IOS Software Solutions has

expertise in consulting, audit, design,

implementation, optimization, maintenance and

support for complex projects since 2006.

The strength of the company is to develop

creative solutions for ensure integration, optimization

and efficient use for all internal processes or

external activities for our clients.

IOS Software Solutions – Cisco Premier Partner

Hightlights

- Doing business since 2006

- Advanced Routing & Switching Specialization

- Advanced Collaboration Architecture Specialization

- Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization (* ongoing)

- IOS Cloud Services ( august 2014)

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IOS Software Solutions – Our Team

Cisco Certifications

• 2X CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert)

• 2 X CCNP(Cisco Certified Network Professional)

• 1 X CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional)

• 2 X CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate)

• 7 X CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

• 1 X CRSFS( Cisco Routing and Switching Field Specialist)

• 1 X CRSDS( Cisco Routing and Switching Design Specialist)

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IOS Software Solutions – Our Team

• 1 X CCADS (Cisco Collaboration Architecture Design Specialist)

• 1 X CUCUCSS (Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing Systems Specialist)

• 1 X CWDIS (Cisco Webex Design and Implementation Specialist)

• 1 X CVNS (Cisco Video Network Specialist)

• 1 X CSSDS (Cisco Security Solutions and Design Specialist)

• 3 X CSE (Cisco Sales Expert)

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The „Cloud” concept

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Hype clycle 1950 - The underlying concept of cloud

computing dates back to the 1950s, when

large-scale mainframe computers became

available in academia and corporations.

1960 - John McCarthy opined in the 1960s

that "computation may someday be organized

as a public utility.„ (* Singapore – wifi project)

1990 - In the 1990s, telecommunications

companies, who previously offered primarily

dedicated point-to-point data circuits, began

offering virtual private network (VPN) services

with comparable quality of service, but at a

lower cost. 1999 - Founders launch salesforce.com in small San Francisco apartment. 2000 - After the dot-com

bubble, Amazon played a key role in the

development of cloud computing by

modernizing their data centers, which, like

most computer networks, were using as little

as 10% of their capacity at any one time, just

to leave room for occasional spikes.

Cloud Delivery Models

SaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

Compute, storage, networking, etc

Ex.: IOS Cloud Services ;

Platform as a Service

Middleware, directories, etc

Ex.: Google App,Open Shift

Software as a Service

Applications, collaboration, etc

Ex.: Exchange, Lync, Salesforce.com

Data Center as a Service

Data center facilities, power, cooling

Ex.: IOS Cloud Services ;

PaaS

IaaS

DCaaS

Cloud Delivery Models

IT Ad

min

s

IT Op

eratio

ns

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud with Cloupia

Partn

er Eco

system

Pod Physical Infrastructure Virtual

Infrastructure

Compute Network Storage Customer Choice

Multi-Cloud

Infrastructure Management

vCloud Director

MSCVMM RHEV-M

WAN

End Users

Cloud Service Providers

Self Service Portal Hybrid Cloud

• Enterprise-Wide Orchestration

• Extensible Service Catalog for IT Governance

• Integration with IT Operations & Management Tools

Cisco

Intelligent

Automation

For Cloud

Network

Services

Manager

FlexPod

DC Core

Nexus 1000v

VSPEX

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud

• Web-based self-service portal and service catalog

• Service delivery automation

• Operational process automation

• Resource management

• Lifecycle management

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Adopting cloud Virtual Desktops Empower Students – Case study Paris Institute of Political Studies

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Challenge Established in 1872, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d’études politiques de Paris or, more familiarly, Sciences Po) is one of the world’s most prestigious social science higher education institutions, traditionally educating France’s political and diplomatic elite. Catering for such an exclusive student body poses a challenge in IT terms, however.

• „Bring your own device” - For a start, most students expect to be able to bring their own mobile and computing devices onto campus, and to use these to access Sciences Po systems and applications. At the same time, the students and faculty spend a lot of time working and publishing via web-based tools, and thus expect high levels of application performance and availability.

• „Fast response for business needs”- These circumstances were problematic for Sciences Po, given the relatively small size of its IT team and the limitations of its traditional data center technology. For example, deploying a physical server could take up to six weeks. The institution needed to upgrade its data center infrastructure to one that would support a secure bring-your-own-device (BYOD) ethos, while at the same time improving IT performance and helping enable easier delivery of services.

• Efficiency was also important, given the restrictions of the Sciences Po data center facilities.

Franck Epaillard, head of user services in the Sciences Po IT Systems Department, says:

“The answer to these issues would be to provide people with a virtual desktop infrastructure

to allow access on demand.”

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Cisco – Unified Computing System

Cisco Unified Computing System is an integrated system that is configured through unified, model-based management to simplify deployment of enterprise-class applications and services running in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments.

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Solution

A Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution, based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), was the solution.

The Institute used Cisco Catalyst® 4500 Series Switches and Nexus® 7000 Series Switches to connect its network to the data center, so when it decided to implement a Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS™) architecture, plugging the latter into two Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects was relatively easy. In concert with this, Sciences Po deployed three blade chassis with a mix of UCS B250 M2 Blade Servers and B200 M2 Blade Servers, all equipped with Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series Processors.

Together with Citrix XenApp, UCS delivers virtual desktops to 1200 users, along with virtual servers for teaching and social sciences applications. Virtualization is enabled by Citrix XenSource and XenServer, Oracle VM, and VMware.

A host of other services run on the Cisco UCS platform, including print servers, Samba services, Apache web servers, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol servers, and Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. Other applications virtualized on the UCS Blade Servers include Cisco Wireless Control System, LANDesk, and Microsoft Active Directory 2.

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Results • Sciences Po has achieved desktop virtualization, class-leading enterprise application

performance, server consolidation, and service-oriented infrastructure delivery. The deployment was carried out over the summer break and, to accelerate the transformation, Sciences Po chose the Cisco Unified Computing Support Service to help sustain performance and high availability.

• Cisco UCS is the primary production platform with legacy servers retained as a secondary backup for added redundancy and fault tolerance. “We have already decommissioned 80 percent of our physical servers through server consolidation and virtualization,” says Epaillard. “Our ultimate objective is to completely transition to a green data center using a highly efficient server set up with minimal environmental impact.”

• The Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution allows Sciences Po to provision new desktops quickly and easily whenever needed, for example for students on short-term courses. Epaillard says: “The major advantages of Cisco UCS include ease of configuration, administration, and expandability. The technology provides added value and better performance for our applications by providing outstanding load balancing and availability.”

• Having a simpler architecture means Sciences Po no longer has to spend as much on technology. And at the same time, the IT department is able to deliver improved service to its users. “We’ve increased uptime by decreasing system failures,” says Epaillard, “and thanks to the integrated auto recovery features and advanced system design, availability has improved from three nines to four nines. Meanwhile, the Cisco technology has permitted our IT staff to adopt a more flexible schedule between weekly rotations.”

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Sugata Mitra – the man who build the first school in „Cloud”

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Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education.

First School in Cloud – Sugata Mitra

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The Killingworth School in the

Cloud opened its doors on November

22 (2013), with a group of students

investigating the question: “Who

invented algebra?” As the students

gathered around computers and

began their research, they were

guided by an online mediator from the

“Granny Cloud,” which Skypes retired

teachers into the lab not so much to

instruct the students but to offer them

encouragement. Appearing on a large

screen on the wall, this “Granny

Cloud” volunteer appeared almost life-

sized.

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IOS Cloud Services

IOS Cloud Services

• Data Center as a Service : Space, Power, Cooling, Security;

• Infrastracture as a Service : Compute, Storage, Networking, OS ;

• Platform as a Service : Hardware arhitecture , OS(Microsoft, Red Hat );

• Software as a Service : Microsoft AD, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lync,Veeam Backup&Replication;

Why IOS Cloud Services ?

• Reduce Costs. TCO for cloud services are smaller ;

• No CAPEX just OPEX ;

• More productivity. Cloud services run on faster and scalable infrastructure ;

• Very high availability & disaster recovery ;

• Upgrade all the time. Using the latest technology;

Before After Total savings/ year

Location Servers IOS Cloud Services 88,695kW

Location 1 14 VM’s 1 250W 9.221 EUR Location 2 11 VM’s 2 250W Location 3 6 Backup 250W Location 4 1 Storage 500W

Total 32 Total 3 Server power consumption/ hour 250W consum orar total 1250W

Total servers power consumption /hour 8 kWh

Total servers power consumption /hour 1.25 kWh => 16%

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ hour 12 kWh

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ hour 1.875 kWh

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ month 8640 kW

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ month 1350 kW

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ year 105120 kW

Total servers power consumption + cooling/ year 16425 kW

Total cost / year ~ 11.000 EUR Total cost / year 1.707 EUR

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Thank you

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