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Cloud Trends: what we see from our customers

Cloud Trends: what we see from our customers

In this presentation I cover some key areas that customers are increasingly leveraging our cloud locations for.

Robert Jenkins

September 03, 2015
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  1. CLOUD COMPUTING T O P T R E N D

    S I N from CloudSigma's CEO w w w . c l o u d s i g m a . c o m
  2. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to

    add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  3. OUR APPROACH SECTION A SECTION C SECTION B Public Cloud

    Private Cloud 1. Elasticity 2. Transparent TCO 3. Geo dispersal 4. Automation 1. Configurability 2. Mature tech 3. High Performance 4. Flexibility
  4. Talk Overview SECTION A SECTION C SECTION B 1. Getting

    Savvy About Billing & Usage 2. Disaster Recovery/Geographic Dispersion 3. A Maturing Approach to Storage 4. Leveraging Containers in the Cloud 5. Summary & Questions
  5. CORRECT SERVER SIZING SECTION A SECTION C SECTION B CPU

    RAM Undersized SECTION B CPU RAM RAM Limited SECTION B CPU RAM CPU Limited Green represents resources you are using, pink those you are purchasing but currently not using.
  6. SCALING SECTION A CPU RAM RAM Limited CPU RAM Typical

    CPU RAM CloudSigma 'Perfect provisioning' eliminates wasted resource & license purchasing.
  7. HOW TO KNOW THE CORRECT SIZE 1. Use ongoing server

    monitoring tools: - we recommend New Relic; free upgraded account for all customers 2. Consider tying resource utilisation to scaling - example using Flexiant Cloud Concerto with New Relic AppDex
  8. Billing Optimisation Try to achieve a balance between flexibility &

    better pricing Flexibility Long term purchasing Medium term purchasing Ad hoc purchasing Cost
  9. Billing Optimisation Key considerations: 1. Ratio of shorter to longer

    term purchasing options in terms of pricing 2. Relative size of time jumps between purchasing options Tip: A cottage industry has emerged around cloud billing with companies such as Cloudability & Cloudyn offering proactive approaches to billing monitoring and optimisation.
  10. Disaster Recovery 1. Traditional solutions require almost full duplication of

    storage and computing capacity 2. Cloud allows synching of data between two or more locations across wide geographies 3. Disaster recovery site compute resource needs are very limited offering huge savings over traditional solutions.
  11. Geographic Dispersion 1. Traditional physical solutions require direct access, the

    cloud allows services to be freely located 2. Geo-balancing and Geo-Failover are becoming widespread with many helpful tools to achieve this 3. Conclusion: Geographic location is defined by your customer base and high availability needs. Conclusion: Locate services to best serve customers not traditional supplier needs
  12. Storage Strategy 1. Stratify storage based on application needs: cloud

    allows combination of many storage types 2. Implement automatic snapshotting and backup of data: migrating data between performance tiers 3. Cloud back-up is relatively easy gateway to initial cloud adoption and usage
  13. Storage Strategy 1. RDMA over ethernet is taking networked storage

    to new performance levels 2. Quality of Service on storage allows 'virtual hardware' approach to storage 3. Wider choice of storage tiers emerging Advances in storage technologies are enabling better cloud storage from service providers:
  14. Containers in the Cloud Conclusion: For most cloud users, containers

    form part of a wider infrastructure strategy. Advantages - eliminate duplication of host OS - prioritise and contain individual processes in a fine grain way - easily manage & achieve an 'always on' environment Disdvantages - need for re-architecting of existing applications - only available under certain operating systems - service provider choice remains limited
  15. Containers in the Cloud Retain cloud server equivalent privacy &

    security combined with the flexibility of containers. Docker containers Docker containers Cloud Server Cloud Server Docker containers Cloud Server Monitoring service Web service Some other service!
  16. Containers in the Cloud 1. Scale Docker container clouds orientated

    around services - architect software services towards micro service based approach 2. Scale cloud server requirements based around cloud server load metrics - use a standard cloud library image (CentOS, Ubuntu etc.) - use cloudinit to auto-configure your cloud servers. See http://cld.sg/dockercloudinit 3. Prioritise key services using cgroups - use cgroups to protect key docker container clouds within your cloud servers - see http://cld.sg/dockercgroups
  17. “Ultimately, the cloud is the latest example of creative destruction:

    creating wealth for those who exploit it; and leading to the demise of those that don’t.” JOE WEINMAN
  18. YOUR QUESTIONS 1 Instant sign-up at https://www.cloudsigma.com 2 Email [email protected]

    for your upgrade 3 Enjoy our cloud & be sure to give us feedback! THE CLOUDSIGMA CLOUD