Naveen Noel Sr. Solutions Architect
(Dec 15th 2011)
Introduction to ZSL
Explore a clear definition for Cloud Computing
Market Landscape
Cloud Management – Introduction, Challenges
Scenario
SmartPrise Cloud Manager
SmartPrise Cloud Services – offered by ZSL
Work out of Edison, NJ.
Practice Lead of the Enterprise Computing Competency (IDEA Lab)
Handle Cloud Computing Competency – Applications
Pre-Sales and Projects
Engage current clients and bring in new clients
Key focus areas: Value Added R&D, Product Development, Product Engineering
Have been working on Cloud Technologies since early 2007
15+ years Global Technology Integrator & Business Solutions Provider,
Headquartered in Edison, NJ
State-of-the-art Technology Research & Development Centers in US, Canada and
India
4000 employees with offices in US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Malaysia,
Singapore, Middle-East and India
Dedicated R&D Division to Offer Value Added R&D Services & Product
Development Services to the ISVs and SPs
Emerging Technologies Specialization with the leading technology vendors
alignment
Pioneer in Industry Solutions Development (Insurance, Finance, E-Governance,
Consumer Electronics, Pharmaceutical & Telecom)
Award Winning & Proven Partnership Program “Get IT Together” Partnership for
ISVs, VARs, SPs and SIs
ISO and CMM Certified Solution Provider
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a
definition:
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand
network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources
(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction.
In simple words: Flexible hosted resource pools delivered on the internet
On-demand Self Service – Ready to use services; minimal intervention from provider.
Broad Network Access – Access wider network services.
Resource Pooling – Pool resources on demand like Compute, Memory, Storage/disk etc.
Rapid Elasticity – Scale up and down, out and in with demand.
Measured Service – Metered Usage & Billing – Pay as you go and only for the what is used; “Opex vs. Capex.”
Multi-tenant – Usually share the platforms with others; but not always.
Public Cloud – External premises, multi-tenant, self-provisoned public service over the internet offered by vendor, available to all. Utility Computing Model.
Private Cloud – Internal or external premises, single-tenant, tightly controlled access.
Hybrid Cloud – Combination of the above – some resources private, others public; or public during heavy load, etc.
Community Cloud – A cloud infrastructure shared by similar organizations for mutual benefit. Popular with Universities and Governments.
Source - Lew Tucker, Cisco
Forrester: http://bit.ly/ijJy70
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Consolidation
Reduce Complexity
Flexibility/Scalability
Time to Market
Cost Reduction
Top Drivers for Cloud Projects
IaaS SaaS
Cost Reduction Cost Reduction
Consolidation Process Improvement
Time to Market Reduce Complexity
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Buy-In
Security
Cost
Complexity
Change/Learning
Top Roadblocks to the Cloud
IaaS SaaS
Change/Learning Change/Learning
Complexity Complexity
Cost Security
Source: TheInfoPro Final Cloud W2: Full sample, n=97. Note that due to multiple responses per interview, total exceeds 100%
11%
13%
15%
16%
18%
19%
20%
21%
22%
24%
24%
25%
0% 10% 20% 30%
Out of the box cloud applications
Public cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Community Cloud
Security
Enterprise and/or Mission Critical
Hosted applications
Extending existing application to the cloud
Private Cloud
Storage
Virtualization
Develop New Applications for the cloud
How Organizations plan to implement cloud computing
Source: 2011 IBM Tech Trends - http://ibm.co/t1B3zA
"Cloud Management" is a loose term that means the abstraction of infrastructure resource pools and delivery of
those resources through a standardized design and operational process. To the end user this means the ability
to leverage the infrastructure pool most relevant to a project or environment rather then force fitting an
application or service into the infrastructure you already have (or have access to)
In other words: Cloud Management means 'providing value added services on top of users existing Cloud services, and empowering users to do more than is possible from a single
Cloud vendor'.
Todays IT environment – Legacy processes and policies to tools and management that are not cloud enabled yet?
Multi-Clouds – Too Many clouds, each one follows different architecture? API’s
differ (Different formats, resources, encodings), Abstractions and features differ, (Network, Storage, hypervisors) .
Too Many tools – Too many management tools doing the same (or) different things for different clouds and trying to solve the same problem “Managing the cloud”?
Orchestration of Services – The main challenge is to cobble the best of breed
services into one unified solution.
Management Consoles – Most clouds are a set of APIs and/or a simple UI to launch servers . These are basic building blocks, not a management system. Not very business friendly, needs technical knowledge.
Automation – Legacy processes and policies to tools and management that are not cloud enabled yet?
Cloud Ready Solutions – Too many management tools doing the same (or) different things for different clouds and trying to solve the same problem “Managing the cloud”?
Governance and Control – Monitoring, User Management, Accountability and Billing
Portability – So, why just run everything in one data center.
Allows users to provision, manage and control various public clouds and private cloud platforms
Helps manage users, security, financial controls, configuration management and automation across cloud infrastructures
Manages ‘Backup’ and ‘Recovery’.
Deploys applications with automated scaling, recovery, both within one cloud as well as bursting across clouds.
Protects from single cloud vendor lock-in to allow cross-cloud operations and migration.
Facilitates Disaster recovery configuration and management (sometimes).
Manages your service level requirements. Executive dashboard showing end user service levels along side cloud resource utilization efficiency.
Tracks, audits and reports for compliance.
Provision instances, when needed, stop them when not required
Provision storage
General network management – configure ports etc.
Build base Images
Backup and Restore data
Backup/Restore the database
Configure Load Balancers and Manage them
Auto-Scale or manually add worker nodes when necessary
Monitor Instance’s health and act on it.
Cost Management – Watch your meter and bill.
Configure Security of instances
Configure and manage the VPN connection between the cloud and your corporate network
Schedule many of the above tasks
Create automation scripts
Configure and manage Applications
SmartPrise Cloud Manager (SCM) A versatile Cloud Management Solution
SmartPrise Cloud Manager(SCM) is a unified
cross-cloud management solution which
Provisions, Configures, Orchestrates,
Automates and Monitors the public cloud.
Competitors ZSL
Single Cloud Support Support for Multiple Clouds like Amazon,
OpSource, Rackspace, Azure etc. (Major)
Multiple solutions have to be integrated to
form a complete cloud solution.
Available as an integrated, all-in-one or
modular solution. (Major)
Not applicable or different interfaces Single unified interface (Minor)
Focus is one or two of Provisioning,
Configuration Management, Orchestration
and Monitoring.
Focus is on Provisioning, Configuration
Management, Orchestration and
Monitoring. (Major)
More feature driven – targeted towards
Technical audience
More process driven (based on Wizards) -
– targeted towards Business and Technical
audience (Minor)
Not very cost effective Cost effective (Minor)
Feature Benefit
An All-In-One Solution for public cloud: Available as
an integrated, all-in-one solution. A Multi-Cloud
Management for public clouds.
- Support for Multiple Clouds like Amazon, OpSource,
Rackspace, Azure etc, so Organizations need not
consider a combination of products from different
vendors with the inherent compatibility and support
responsibility issues.
Provisioning: Installation of operating systems and
other software
- Rapidly setup of network installation environments..
Remote provision and manage your servers by
scripting it out and by running commands.
- Easily configure applications that require knowledge
about your entire infrastructure.
Configuration Management: Sets the parameters for
servers, can specify installation parameters
- Quickly deploy across multiple servers in the cloud
with predefined configuration, automatically, every
time.
- Simulate deployments, giving you the agility to make
small and big changes without disruption to your
infrastructure. Automatically maintain asset inventory.
- Every change is reported and SCM keeps your
systems in their desired state.
Orchestration/Automation:
Supports progressive deployment in live environments
- Automate tasks across systems and build server
orchestration or parallel job execution systems.
Primarily used as a means of programmatic execution
of Systems Administration actions on clusters of
servers.
Feature Benefit
Monitoring: Records errors and health of IT
infrastructure
- Distributed monitoring solution for your cloud. Remote any
manual intervention. Events are triggered when things go wrong.
Delegated control Delegate control to authorized users. Frees the IT infrastructure
team from the need to provision and manage every instance thus
increasing agility and flexibility.
User Interface: Very intuitive and Common
User Interface for all cloud providers.
Simple, intuitive, web based context and process aware graphical
user interface. Single point of control that can be immediately
accessed by any authorized user from any location. Easy to
understand and operate, reducing training times, and promoting
user confidence.
SaaS Model: No installation, SaaS Model No installation required for organizations. Organizations can
leverage SaaS capabilities and pay a subscription model.
Licensing: Flexible licensing Flexible licensing available, different subscription options
available through Silver, Gold and Platinum packages.
API: Simple, flexible and common API
for connecting and managing multiple Cloud
Providers.
Standards based Allows interfacing with third party products and systems,
interoperability, selection of components to corporate standards,
and rapid support of new and additional products and devices.
Applications Integration
Management Infrastructure
• Cloud-based Managed
Services
• SmartPrise Cloud Manager
(Provisioning,
Orchestration,
Configuration,
Management, Metering and
Billing)
• Private/Public/Hybrid Clouds
• Cloud Infrastructure
Deployments
• Server and Desktop
Virtualization
• Data Center as a Service
• Backup, Disaster Recovery
and Continuity Services
• Application Migration
• Application Modernization
• Migration to SaaS
• Inter-Cloud Migration
• Cloud Strategy Consulting
• Cloud Integration
• Cast Iron
• Cloud – SaaS integration
SmartPrise Cloud Services
SmartPrise Cloud Manager – NJTC’s cool products competition.
CRN Magazine names ZSL as one of the “30 Cloud VARs that GET IT.”
ZSL debuts in the Top 250 of InformationWeek 500 Top Technology Innovators Across America in 2010
SocNet wins NJTC’s 2010 Mid-Atlantic Technology Innovation Award in the IT Industry Category
PowerCube DaaS is recognized at IBM’s Lotus Awards 2010
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