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• Growth in cloud adoption across markets

• Building on “salesforce” style model

• SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS

• 70+ servers already deployed for 20+ clients

• Options to bundle support & Platform in single model…

• Typical Deployments

• 1x CMS cloud server

• 2x Web cloud servers

• 1x Load Balancer

• Available in North America, Europe & Australia

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• Single solution for support & hosting

• Outsourced CMS and Web server(s)

• Spread costs over contract term

• Increased “ity’s”

• Reliability

• Security

• Availability

• Maintainability

• Faster deployment & development

• Ease of upgrades

• Scale for peak demands

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• Load balanced web servers with failover

• Can scale up (or down) based on need

• Can deploy across regions

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Availability

• Locked down configuration

• Firewall etc.

• Optional additional security monitoring

Security

• Ongoing Monitoring by hosting provider and T4

• Single consistent image

Reliability

• Up & running in minutes

• Publish live if required (no need for transfer)

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Deployment

• Pre packaged modules

• PHP base

• Calendar,

• Eforms

• Login

• XML search

• Others….

Delivery Speed

• Single Environment

• Faster support turnaround

• Barry loves it!

Support

• Authentication

• Can be tied into your LDAP etc.

• Access to your business systems

• For content syncer, data object etc.

• Site to Site VPN available as additional option

• Hybrid deployments

• Possible but needs analysis

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• More “out of the box” modules

• Clustered PaaS deployments

• For very large scale sites

• On demand cloud servers

• mysite.on.terminalfour – prototype available already to partners

• Will be used for v8 betas

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• Enterprise-grade Linux servers – Configured for security, stability and supportability

• Proven technologies at each tier – Carefully chosen components and architecture

• Information Security is not an afterthought

– Multiple backup tiers

– World leading provider of enterprise hosting

• Comprehensive Solution

– From content creation to distribution

• Pre-configured for fastest deployment

– Working … from the start … the actual start

TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Why?

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• Architecture allows for closer integration of components

• Internal Communication

– Fast, secure private network

• Publish Live

– NFS mounts – Fast, Secure and Stable

• Site Manager Everywhere

– Content Creation from anywhere, anytime

• Scalable for Demand

– Add a web server or a loadbalancer

– Firewall option for VPN

TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS - Architecture

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TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS - Stacks

Site Manager

Calendar

Forms

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Site Manager – PaaS - Security

• Fail2Ban

• Detects brute force attacks and kills the connection

• Ignores T4 IPs; we can’t type sometimes...

• Process Accounting

• Logs all user activity, commands, logins, resource use

• Firewall

• Restrictive host firewall - on by policy

• Configured to only allow necessary services

• Active monitoring – so it stays on!

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Site Manager – PaaS – Monitoring and

Alerting

Disk Space Firewall Uptime

Site Manager

Load

Site Availability

Database

Apache

Ping

Backups

Apache

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Agent Based Metrics

Network Based Metrics

RAM

Tomcat

Tomcat

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TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Historic Monitoring

Health Monitoring Graphs

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TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Backups

• Daily

• N-Gigabites of retention

• Site Manager Rollback

CMS Data

• Daily

• 30-day retention

• Server Reimaging and scaling

Server Image

• Daily

• 30-day retention

• Granular Restores

File Based

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Site Manager – PaaS - Clients

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Questions or Comments?

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