Does Hybrid Cloud Work? 5 Success Stories with VMware Hybrid Clouds
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The document discusses the successes of VMware-based hybrid clouds through five success stories, highlighting their benefits such as flexibility, cost savings, and improved user experiences. It addresses the differing needs of application and infrastructure owners while outlining strategies for building cloud infrastructures and provides insights from organizations like Siemens and eMeter. Bluelock is presented as a key partner in these deployments, emphasizing the importance of security and support in hybrid cloud management.
Does Hybrid Cloud Work? 5 Success Stories with VMware Hybrid Clouds
- 1. Does Hybrid Cloud Work? Five Stories of Success with VMware-Based Hybrid Clouds
- 2. Let’s Get Acquainted Jake Robinson Bryan Bond Solutions Architect Senior Systems Engineer Bluelock eMeter, a Siemens Company Moderator: Alicia Gaba, Marketing Manager at Bluelock 2
- 3. Why Hybrid? “Our Bluelock Virtual Datacenters look and act like an extension of our own datacenter, and while the cost savings have been beneficial, the development team has more flexibility than ever and that means we can create new options for our customers in the future. We couldn’t be happier with the results of this relationship.” - Bryan Bond Senior systems administrator, Siemens (eMeter)
- 4. Primer 1 Hybrid cloud consumers Application owners, Infrastructure Owners and Finding A Path to Cloud
- 5. Needs are different Role: Infrastructure Owner (IT) Objective: Efficiency Challenges: – Pressured to be all things to all people – Conflicting priorities – Lack of resources – World is changing Role: Application owner (Business unit) Objective: Agility Challenges: – Not always a priority to IT – Lack of control – No visibility into technology costs – Needs are always changing
- 6. We See Three Approaches to Building Cloud Infrastructures 1 Walk before Follows Virtualization Journey path…first target you run low-hanging fruit and evolve from there… 2 Pick a Build out cloud infrastructure to serve a specific Project project or effort 3 Re-think Transform entire infrastructure to a Cloud in everything one shot
- 7. Primer 2 Hybrid Cloud Architectures Horizontal and Vertical
- 8. Hybrid Cloud Horizontal workload placement Private Cloud Public Cloud Secure
- 9. Hybrid Cloud Vertical workload placement options SaaS SaaS
- 10. How apps are moving around
- 11. Success Story #1 |DevCentral
- 13. Virtual Datacenter Models Commit Burst Quality Service Service Quality Burst 5100 Commit 5125 5200 5000 2000
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- 15. Success Story #2 US based global consumer electronics manufacturer
- 16. Management of multiple clouds CONTROL PANEL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD
- 17. Hybrid Cloud Management Tools vCloud Director
- 18. Workloads in motion CONTROL PANEL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD
- 19. TCO: Cost as a Consideration (Chargeback/Showback) “Cost by Resource” Images from Bluelock Portfolio™
- 20. Making cost visible changes behavior! “Cost by Application” Images from Bluelock Portfolio™
- 21. Being extremely efficient Manage Virtual Datacenter 1
- 22. Avoiding a bad user experience Manage Virtual Datacenter 1
- 23. Success Story #3 “Buying time” (Fortune 500 Retail Grocery Chain) Best produce aisle, ever!
- 24. Migration between clouds Boomerang phenomena! CONTROL PANEL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD
- 25. Success Story #4 “Lowering risk” Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company Keeping you alive and happy!
- 26. Lifetime of a workload Scenario 1 - Successful application - It takes off & investments/usage continue at a rapid pace Scenario 2 - Application is developed & continues to be needed but no incremental investments are needed Scenario 3 - Application is developed but future investment not continued because of change in business priorities or cancellation of project
- 27. Success Story #5
- 28. About • eMeter is the leader in energy information management • eMeter's suite of applications provide the fastest path to turning meter data into usable information for business units and customers. • In January 2012, Siemens added eMeter Corporation to the Smart Grid Division of the Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, creating eMeter, A Siemens Business.
- 29. eMeter’s Cloud Initiative • eMeter needed to provide around the clock development and testing – Allow teams around the world to utilize a common infrastructure – Offer scalable infrastructure to meet customer needs – Needed to be based on VMware’s cloud architecture and technology • Looked at public cloud to simplify IT operations and provide high security • Initiative has now grown to serve training courses in a hybrid cloud environment
- 30. Why Bluelock? • Experienced leader in the vCloud space – VMware vCloud® Datacenter Service Provider – At the time, they were positioned as a “Leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS (Dec 2011) – Highly knowledgeable & experienced in vCloud Director for public and hybrid cloud • Bluelock offered proper security accreditations and strong physical security & met eMeter’s need for control over security devices, alerts and audits • Acted as a partner and advisor, not just an infrastructure provider
- 31. Cloud Deployment Technologies • Began with Proof-of-concept environment • eMeter is now deployed on 2 Bluelock Virtual Datacenters – Test/dev VDC – Training course VDC • Use vCloud Director to manage the cloud infrastructure resources • Bluelock Portfolio™ – Enables visibility into current and planned usage, cost and analysis data
- 32. Benefits of VMware Hybrid Cloud • Improved user experience and better performance • Increased flexibility for development team and training courses • Significant savings on capital outlay • Access to new deployment options for customers • Less worries about security
- 33. So, now what? • What do you do with these stories of success? • Where do you begin your successful hybrid cloud journey? 33
- 34. Thank You for Your Time Please join us for our next webinar “How to Plan Your 2013 Budget with Cloud in Mind” November 29, 2012 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT Find Jake on Twitter Registration is open now. @JakeRobinson 34