The African cloud company

Who is Wingu?

Wingu is a public cloud computing platform, built using the latest open standards

technology, to enable the easy provisioning of virtual servers, networks and storage.

Our technology enables customers to build programmable infrastructure on a “pay-as-

you-go” basis.

Wingu highlights● Designed, built and hosted in South Africa.

● Powered on a platform that allows programmable infrastructure by allowing customers access to our Application Programming Interfaces.

● Powerful and flexible Software Defined Networking technology layer.

● Designed and implemented to be highly available.

● Hosted in Teraco.

● AS 327850. We are a true service provider.

● Connected to multiple upstream Internet Service Providers and the NAP Africa open peering point. Delivers fast network performance!

● Certified as an Ubuntu Public Cloud platform.

● Built and charged in local currency.

Wingu's technology philosophy● We love Open Source and freedom of choice with no vendor lock-in.● Take from the OS community, improve the code and upstream our

changes.● Build our platform using commodity x86 hardware platforms – we

manage cattle not pets.● Leverage the hottest future proof technology to drive African innovation.● Improve the commercial technology that we do use, actively partner with

our vendors.● Deploy commercial technology in such a way that we prevent lock-in,

enabling us to move to a competing technology if needed in future.● We use technology to enable business level innovation. What can we do

faster, better, cheaper or different, ensuring that our customers get a better experience.

Wingu technology partnerships

● Ubuntu OpenStack reference platform adapted for public cloud.

● Canonical is our OpenStack consulting partner.● Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud.● Leverage Ubuntu MAAS, JuJu and Landscape services.● KVM hypervisor.● Ceph storage platform.● Scale-out architecture using commodity hardware

technology.

Wingu technology partnerships

Wingu technology partnerships

● Juniper for carrier class routing, switching and security technology.

● High speed, low latency QFX data switching platform.● MX routing platforms.● EX for management network functions.● Pulse SSL VPN security.● SRX firewall and DPI platform.● Contrail SDN platform for scalable network overlay.

Wingu technology partnerships

● Talligent OpenBook to provide cloud financial and user management.

● LSD Information Technology is our local Ubuntu and general open source technology service partner.

● PayFast and PayPal as payment processors. We accept credit cards, debit cards, instant EFT's and Bitcoin.

● Canonical provides 24x7 support to augment our local skills.

● Full fault and performance management of the platform.

Main features● Delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Includes virtual

servers, selection of operating systems, advanced networking and storage.

● Developing powerful Software Defined Networking with Network Function Virtualization. Includes virtual routers, firewalls, virtual DPI, virtual SBC and others.

● Fully automated provisioning and payment system.● From sign-on to first server up in under 10 minutes.● An ever expanding catalogue of cloud hosted software

applications and services.

Wingu architecture

Key capabilities – Virtual Servers

● Choose from a selection of pre-defined server sizes (RAM, vCPU count, ephemeral storage)

● Select from a number of popular open source operating systems or run Microsoft Windows.

● Attach additional disk volumes as required.● Snapshot virtual machines when needed.● Attach a public IP address.● Create custom network designs by adding subnets,

ports and routers as needed.

Key capabilities – virtual servers

Key capabilities – virtual servers

Key capabilities - Storage

● All data stored on a triple replicated, fault tolerant storage platform.

● Instances are launched from SSD backed compute nodes.

● Select from public images (Ubuntu, Windows etc) or privately created images that are not publicly shared.

● Pay for storage on a per month, per GB basis.● Provides block device storage as well as Amazon S3

compliant object storage.

Key capabilities - storage

Key capabilities - Provisioning● Easy to use dashboard from which services can be

configured.● Quota limits can be set to allow full customer control and

prevent bill shock.● Service API endpoints are made available to enable

programmable infrastructure.● Platform is enabled to use Ubuntu JuJu within customer

projects to provision services and applications as needed. Requires a running JuJu VM per project.

● Customers can easily set and adjust provisioning resource limits.

Key capabilities – financial management

● Online quota management for resources.● Can have sub users under account.● Accept credit card, debit card and direct

instant EFT payments.● 24/7 access to billing information.● Includes reseller capabilities to resell Wingu

technologies.● Never get bill shock.

Key capabilities – financial management

Key capabilities – API access

Key capabilities - networking

Key capabilities - security● Provision security groups with firewall rules for access to VM's.● SSH key pairs for authentication to virtual servers.● Data is stored in “crush map” which cannot be reconstructed if

intercepted.● Working with Yubico to add multi-factor authentication. Short

term release roadmap.● Platform is physically secured in Teraco.● Multiple layers of firewall and intrusion prevention.● We ensure compliance to regulatory frameworks that apply to

us.

Key capabilities - security

Key capabilities - security

Wingu business case

Questions?

Thank you

Thomas LeeWingu - CEO

thomas@wingu.co.za