Cloud of tomorrow

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Kevin Clarke

Director Cloud Platform Engineering

Cloud of Tomorrow

Independent Architecture

Multi-tenant / Dedicated

What are Clouds?

Independent Architecture

Multi-tenant / Dedicated

What are Clouds?

Different Controls

“The hard stuff”

What are Enterprise Applications?

What’s Difficult?

Security

Dependencies

Management + Performance

Protecting Servers

What’s Difficult?

Security

Protecting Data

Protecting Servers

What’s Difficult?

Security

Infrastructure

Stack

What’s Difficult?

Dependencies

Updates/Patches

Lifecycle

What’s Difficult?

Management

Triggers:- Cloud

Update-

Virtualization- Drivers- Agents- 3rd Party

SW- OS

For every VM deployed

Consistency!

Storage & Networking

What’s Difficult?

Performance

The Cloud of Tomorrow

More Security

Performance Guarantees

Configurable Networking

Flexible Environment

Security

Isolation is Key

Dedicated IaaSMulti-Tenant IaaS

Hypervisor

Performance Guarantees

Quality of Service Control

Better than

or equal to…

The Data

Center

Provisioning Mechanisms

Compute & Storage Control

Manage Performance

Virtually

Advanced Networking

Arbitrary restrictions lifted

Broader set of options (L2/L3), NICs, Subnets, F/W, LB

User driven decisions

Environment Flexibility

Business Processes Tools Templates Management

Practices Drivers

Your choice of…

Simplified infrastructure management

… independent of the choices of your cloud provider.

The Cloud of Tomorrow

Control & Choice Go Back to the User!

Q & A