# # [email protected]om Twitter: @mikemetral Mike Metral Solution Architect Rackspace Build a Better Way of Delivering IT April 25, 2013 cloud success starts here april25-26 sanfrancisco Unlock Your Cloud Mike Metral, Rackspace Solution Architect [email protected]@mikemetral
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Define Your Cloud• What customization do you need for your business?
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Unified Management
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Case StudyBehance is a platform to showcase and discover creative work.
CHALLENGES:Fast-growing company with huge amount of images to store, process, and deliver.
RACKSPACE and RIGHTSCALE SOLUTION:Rackspace® Dedicated Servers, Cloud Servers, RackConnectTM, Dedicated Network Attached Storage (dNAS) all managed with RightScale Cloud Management
BUSINESS OUTCOME:Company can rapidly scale its business; able to store lots of user-generated content; saves time and money; allows their development team to focus on building a better product.
“Rackspace Cloud Servers and RightScale allow us to add capacity the moment
we need it, and not a moment later.”
Chris Henry, Head of Technology at Behance (an Adobe company)
• Commitment to new Philosophy• Willing to “break-the-glass”• Identifying appropriate next-gen architecture• Decouple application layer• Transformation of data layer• Enhancing & evolving personnel skill set
• Identifying appropriate targets for on-demand capacity
Activities• Kick-off call
• Project scoping call
• Rackspace + RightScale architect and engineer is assigned to your team
Deliverables• Architecture design document
• Step-by-step work plan
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Project Planning & Guidance
• Use of pre-built RightScale Templates, Alerts, Escalations and Monitoring
• Advise on application deployment and management best practices
• OpenStack Training
• RightScale Training
Activities• Dedicated project management and scrums
• Technical guidance to track progress and troubleshoot
Deliverables• Tracking of project work plan
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Go-Live Support
• Testing, Optimization and Automation Test|
• Rackspace 24x7x365 Fanatical Support®
• Access to OpenStack expertise• Monitoring• Remote Patches & Upgrades
• RightScale/Rackspace Support• “No Hand Off” policy• Infrastructure and Application support unified
• Post Evaluation Review
• Next Phase Planning
Activities• Testing & Optimization assistance and guidance
• Pre-launch deployment review
• Launch day support
•Account Manager is assigned
Deliverables• Live System
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Why RightScale and Rackspace?
• Keep the “why” in mind• We believe in a new and better way to deliver IT to your business• We will help you get there• You’ll escape the drudgery, flakiness and inflexibility of the old way• You’ll become the person who moves your company forward
• Tap into the RightScale & Rackspace Braintrust • Work with the cloud experts• RightScale is the first cloud management platform and has launched over
5 million cloud servers through it’s platform • Rackspace is known as the leader in providing choices for customers,
starting the OpenStack initiative and Fanatical Support. • You won’t find a better team to work with