The Utility Metered Cloud

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6fusion Background & Overview

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Background• 6fusion was founded in 2008 to make accessing, consuming and billing

commodity simple and globally ubiquitous.• Developed the Workload Allocation Cube (WAC) to radically simplify the

metering, consumption and billing of compute, storage and network resources.

• Federating data center providers and provide UI to access and manage computing resources as a service.

What We Do• 6fusion leverages a proprietary software platform and robust ecosystem

to deliver cloud computing supply, demand, and management for IT Service Providers, Independent Software Vendors and Infrastructure Owners/Operators.

Partners• 6fusion is expanding a strong ecosystem of leading technology vendors,

including HP, Synnex, Asigra, Autotask and many others

Financial Backing• Funded by Grotech Ventures and Intersouth Partners

There Are Powerful Market Forces At Work

The cloud is real and is here to stay

IT consumerization and the emergence of shadow IT

Virtual machine sprawl

How Do You Deal with VM Sprawl?

• According to IBM, virtual images are tripling every two years, outpacing Moore’s law

• 90 percent of organizations expect to adopt or substantially deploy a cloud model in the next three years.

• Most larger enterprises have between five to twenty thousand virtual machines

• According to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index, more than 50% of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014.

Virtualization sprawl occurs when the number of virtual machines on a network reaches a point where the administrator can no longer manage

them effectively.

Introducing the Utility Metered Cloud

Measure Accurately profile your compute supply, demand and cost base

ModelMeter and optimize workload allocation across on-prem and cloud environments

MigrateMove workloads to the cloud as business and technical requirements demand

ManageOngoing change management – provision new machines, adjust workloads and machines, etc.

6fusion is leading the

advancement of utility

computing

MeasureYou can’t improve what you can’t measure

Measure

Accurately profile your

compute supply,

demand and cost base

• Cloud Resource Meter Free and Pro

• Estimator

Cloud Resource Meter Free

Cloud Resource Meter Pro

Estimator

Interactive, “what-if” tool that dynamically adjusts VM parameters before you build

Meter existing environments from within the native console or in UC6

What is it? How does it help?

Profile your existing environments from within the native console or in UC6

Determine the compute resources required before you build machines

Determine computing supply, demand and cost basis

Efficiently manage and allocate compute resources

ModelMeter and optimize workloads across environments

Model

Meter and optimize workload allocation across on-prem and

cloud environments

• Cloud Resource Meter Free and Pro

• Cloud ROI

Cloud Resource Meter Free

Cloud Resource Meter Pro

Cloud ROI

Assess your maximum compute capacity and cost structure to get your cost/WAC

Meter existing environments from within the native console or in UC6

What is it? How does it help?

Profile your existing environments from within the native console or in UC6

Gives you a clear view of compute limitations, ROI, break-even points

Determine computing supply, demand and cost basis

Efficiently manage and allocate compute resources

MigrateMove workloads between environments as needed

Migrate

Move workloads to the cloud as business and

technical requirements

demand

• Enterprise iNode

• iNode Network• UC6 Platform

Enterprise iNode

iNode Network

UC6 Platform

Cloud Management Platform supporting multiple hypervisors and hardware platforms

Federated network of IaaS providers that run 6fusion’s UC6 platform

What is it? How does it help?

Private Cloud Management Platform

Visibility into migrated workloads across platforms

Private cloud security with public cloud flexibility and functionality

Quickly and easily deploy workloads in a variety of public clouds

ManageUtility computing orchestration and optimization

Migrate

Ongoing orchestration

and optimization – provision new

machines, adjust

workloads, etc.

• Enterprise iNode

• iNode Network• UC6 Platform

Enterprise iNode

iNode Network

UC6 Platform

What is it? How does it help?

Cloud Management Platform supporting multiple hypervisors and hardware platforms

Federated network of IaaS providers that run 6fusion’s UC6 platform

Private Cloud Management Platform

Single UI to manage private, public and hybrid utility computing

Private cloud security with public cloud flexibility and functionality

Geographical flexibility without vendor lock-in

6fusion Landscape

Public CloudPrivate CloudCloud Resource Meter

Free

VMware

Linux

Pro

Windows

Cloud App Store- Backup/Recovery- PSA- Security

Decision Support Tools- Estimator- Cloud Accelerator- ROI

Enterprise iNode

6fusion Console

iNode NetworkiNode

NetworkiNode NetworkiNode

NetworkiNode Network

PLATFORM MANAGER

INODE MANAGER ACCOUNT MANAGER WAC

METER MANAGER WORKLOAD MANAGER

REPORTING

ORCHESTRATION

UC6 Control Room

Cloud Starter Kit

Cloud Starter Kit includes:• 1 year software subscription for up to 75

processor cores• Gold level support for 1 year• Access to the UC6 console, Cloud

Resource Meter, and Profiler Tools• Unlimited (pay-as-you-go) access to the

iNode Network• Custom infrastructure capacity and cost

analysis• Implementation support and services

Designed to help organizations get started with the cloud, it provides all of the necessary 6fusion software and services to get up and running quickly and effectively.

Benefits:• Get your customers started in cloud today• Limited upfront investment• Excellent revenue and margin growth opportunity• Implementation and support services included

6fusion Cloud Resource Meterfor VMware vSphere

Profile any vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment directly from the vSphere Console – at no cost – giving you a current and accurate view of the computing resources being used and by whom.

KEY FEATURES• Simple installation – deployed as a VMware

vApp; installs in vSphere environment in minutes • Any workload – meter any workload running on

either physical or virtual servers including web applications or traditional client/server applications

• Real time consumption – access real time WAC consumption information for the entire system

• vSphere Client UI – Cloud Resource Meter data is available in real time through the vSphere Client interface along with 30-day historical data

• Reporting – log into 6fusion’s UC6 web based console to access longer-term data as well as run and export reports

6fusion Cloud Resource Meterfor VMware vSphere

KEY Benefits• Accurate cost projections – cloud cost estimation

before deployment, accurate billing/charge-backs• Metered reporting – real time and historical

metered reporting• Efficiently allocate compute resources –

accurate, comprehensive data enables optimized resource allocations

• Consolidated visibility – vSphere and cloud workloads in one view

• Ultimate flexibility – measure any application, any deployment model

• Benchmark reporting and consumption – leveraging same reporting engine enables simple, accurate benchmarking

Estimator

Key Features• Designed specifically for “net

new” applications that cannot be profiled

• Available through the UC6 Console

• Available to all users of the product

• No incremental charge

A tool designed to help users, solution providers, and resellers to “cost out” what new workloads will consume in the cloud

iNode Network

• State-of-the-art Tier 2/3/ Data center facilities (SAS70 Type II)

• High Availability Fault Tolerant Servers (N+1 Clustered)

• Redundant Internet Capacity• Limitless Scalability (elastic)• 99.99% SLA – financial penalties• 4 Datacenters:

• Toronto and Calgary Canada• Littleton MA, Spartanburg SC USA

6fusion’s iNode Network is a federated network of third party data centers – A.K.A. iNodes – that run 6fusion’s UC6 Cloud Management Platform to create a massive

public utility metered cloud.

Enterprise iNode

• Profile, provision and meter workloads directly from the console

• Unique metering & billing technology (WAC)

• Real-time IT cost trend analysis• Multi-Tenant Account Management• Integrated Media Management and

App Library• On-demand access to global data

centers (iNode Network)

The Enterprise iNode is 6fusion’s award-winning cloud management software deployed in your environment as a private cloud management platform.

Cloud ROI Model

• BoM resources are processed into the 6 key metrics to determine the maximum available WAC consumption

• Flexibility to dynamically change inputs and output for “what-if” scenario planning

• The model demonstrates that the more capacity you add, the more money you make with 6fusion

Cloud ROI Output

Cloud ROI Input

6fusion has developed a powerful Cloud ROI analysis tool to identify precisely the amount of revenue you can earn in the 6fusion ecosystem

How does the 6fusion utility metered cloud work?

The Workload Allocation Cube

Total CPU in Mhz

Total MEM in MB

Total DISK I/O in KBps

Total LAN I/O in Kbps

Total WAN I/O in Kbps

Total STORAGE in GB

Measurement of 6 key metrics to determine the total compute consumption

= 1 WAC Unit• Metering – Billing

• Cost Allocation/Chargeback

• Performance Benchmarking

• Utilization Profiling

The 6fusion Cloud Ecosystem

UC6 Platform Architecture

PLATFORM MANAGER

INODE MANAGER ACCOUNT MANAGER PROFILER

METER MANAGER WORKLOAD MANAGER

UC6 Control Room

UC6 Console User Interface

6fusion Platform

Compute Infrastructure

Hardware

Virtualization

UC6 Engine Room

Media Store- OVF- ISO

Data Center Network

Enterprise Datacenter

Reliability / Availability / Security / Scalability / Resource Balancing / etc

VM1

VM2

VMn

Hardware

Virtualization

UC6 Engine Room

Media Store- OVF- ISO

Data Center Network

Multi-tenant Datacenter

Reliability / Availability / Security / Scalability / Resource Balancing / etc

VM1

VM2

VMn

Boston

Metering Architecture

Workload Meter

Workload A

VM1

Key Advantages

• Deploy machines in multiple data centers with single workload rollup

• Relocate workloads to different meters

• Single billing meter for global deployments

Toronto

VM2

Private1

VM4

VM3 VM5

Singapore

Workload B

VM7

Milan

VM9

Private2

VM10

VM11

VM6

VM8

Console

Why 6fusion?

Why 6fusion?

• Profile existing compute supply and demand

• Increase cost transparency and accuracy for chargeback/showback

• Tame VM sprawl• Rapid time to value• Model the optimal workload

balance for internal and external workloads

• Real-time IT cost trend analysis• Avoid vendor lock-in

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