This document discusses four case studies of organizations moving mission critical applications to the cloud using Cloudify. The first case study is of an investment bank moving thousands of applications to their private cloud. The second is of a telecommunications company using Cloudify to build a carrier-grade PaaS offering on their cloud platform. The third case study is of a systems integrator using Cloudify to automate deployment of an IBM big data stack for customers on OpenStack. The fourth case study is of a company using Cloudify for multi-cloud disaster recovery across regions.
2. Enterprises are moving to Cloud
26%
In 2 years
BUT..
So far only
44%
16.B$
in 5 years
in Saving
5%
able to migrate
successfully
3. Current
Approaches
• IaaS First- It’s the apps
stupid!
• CM Tools
(Chef, Puppet, etc.) - Setup
Only, but apps are a living
organism
• PaaS - Good for
new, relatively simple apps
10. App Centric Devops – the AWS way…
Cloudify provide the equivalent of
Amazon OpsWork on OpenStack
11. Migrating apps – the Cloudify way…
1
Upload your recipe
2
Cloudify creates VMs & installs agents
3
Agents install and manage your app
4
Cloudify automates monitoring, healing
and scaling
12. 1. Moving from existing Data Center
to the Cloud
Cloud Driver
Existing Data Center
OpenStack Cloud
13. Enterprise Private Cloud
• To 100 Investment Bank
Industry:
Banking
Primary Challenge:
Cloud-enable thousands of application (in and out-facing) and on board then to the Bank private
cloud environment in a cost efficient manner
Solution:
Leverages Cloudify and Puppet as a foundation for the self-service configuration, deployment
and on going management and scaling of a range of applications in the bank, on top of Bank
existing private cloud infrastructure
Results:
So far a few tens of applications converted, with plans to expand the offering to a few hundreds
of apps by the end of the year
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15. Carrier cloud: Alcatel-Lucent
Industry:
Telecommunications
With Cloudify we have a solid
foundation for our carrier
grade PaaS offering and the
realization of our vTelco
vision
Primary Challenge:
Build a carrier grade PaaS offering that can a wide range of mission critical legacy Telco apps
and services on top the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand ™ Cloud infrastructure product
Solution:
Leverages Cloudify as a foundation for the configuration, deployment and on going management
and scaling of a wide range of Telco services
Results :
CloudBand ™ is Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship product for next generation Telco services, and is in
advanced deployment stages in a few major carriers across the globe
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17. Moving Big Data to the Cloud
• To Tier System Integrator
Industry:
IT services (Business Intelligence & Analytics)
Primary Challenge:
Provide BI and analytics for big data, as a service for enterprise customers, based on an IBM
stack.
Solution:
Leverages Cloudify and Chef to automate the deployment and management of complete IBM
BI stack (including WebSphere & Cognos) for each of their customers on top of the OpenStack
based RackSpace cloud
Current Status:
Going to production in 2 months, most of the recipes already implemented and beta tested
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19. Case Study: VErifi
• Technology-based concrete
process control and information
service
• Deployments across North
America, Latin America, Asia, and
Europe for nearly a decade
• Part of W.R. Grace & Co , $6.3 B
Company.
• The problem: On-Demand HA/DR
over multiple Cloud regions.
High
Availability
Data
Replication
19
Disaster
Recovery
20. Putting it All
Together:
Application
Centric Approach
• Be ready to accept changes
as they happen..
• Automation First
• Decouple the Application
from the infrastructure
• Use Plug-In approach to
plug the right cloud for the
Job
Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 percent revealed plans to move mission-critical apps at some point over the next two to five years.A more recent survey, by research firm MeriTalk and sponsored by VMware and EMC (NYSE:EMC), showed that one-third of respondents say they plan to move some mission-critical applications to the cloud in the next year. Within two years, the IT managers said they will move 26 percent of their mission-critical apps to the cloud, and in five years, they expect 44 percent of their mission-critical apps to run in the cloud.
Source: right scalehttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/rightscale-state-cloud-2013-new-industry-survey