Webinar: Top 5 Mistakes Your Don't Want to Make When Moving to the Cloud

December 14, 2011

Paul Carmody SVP, Product Mgmt and Business Development

Top 5 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make When Moving to the Cloud

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Agenda

Introduction

Is Everything Moving to the Cloud?

Top 5 Mistakes

Questions & Answers

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Platform Flexibility

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Performance to the End User

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Managed Hosting • Private Cloud • Public Cloud • Cloud Storage

Platform Flexibility

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Performance to the End User

Internap is intelligent IT Infrastructure

Connectivity • Enterprise IP • TCP Acceleration • Content Delivery Network

Colocation Cloud • Space, Power, Cooling •  Interconnection • Security & Monitoring

• Dedicated Servers • Complex Storage •  Integrated Security

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Cloud Definitions

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“IaaS” = OSaaS/FSaaS

“DCaaS” = Colo

“HWaaS” = MH

“SaaS”

= Turnkey App

“PaaS” = Code and Load

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Is Everything Moving to the Cloud?

Internet start-ups tend to migrate toward more dedicated infrastructure

Colocation Managed Hosting

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Enterprises tend to migrate their infrastructure toward the cloud

Cloud is a means to an end, not an end in itself

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Poll Question

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Are you currently leveraging the cloud

(IaaS) for any of your applications?

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As You Evaluate the Cloud, What Are the Five Mistakes YOU DON’T WANT TO MAKE?

You want this….

Not this….

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Mistake #1 – Leaping Before You Look

Cloud is a means to an end. You want happy end users using applications that meet your security and compliance needs.

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Mistake #1 – Leaping Before You Look

ü Can  the  cloud  deliver  my  applica3ons  with  acceptable  performance?  ü Do  I  have  any  compliance  considera3ons  that  restrict  my  ability  to  use                      shared  infrastructure?  

ü Will  the  cloud  meet  my  availability  requirements?  

Key factors to consider:

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Mistake #2 – Thinking You Have Found the One

Choosing a cloud provider is not like marriage. You may want to to change providers later on.

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Mistake #2 – Thinking You Have Found the One

ü Am  I  going  to  be  using  APIs  to  manage  my  cloud  infrastructure?  ü Are  the  APIs  proprietary  to  the  par3cular  provider?  ü Are  my  images  going  to  be  portable  to  another  provider?  ü Is  my  data  going  to  be  easily  portable  to  another  provider?  

Key factors to consider:

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Mistake #3 – If It Fits, It Ships

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Don’t make the assumption that every cloud supports your most complex applications.

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Mistake #3 – If It Fits, It Ships

Key factors to consider:

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   ü How  many  3ers  does  my  applica3on  have?  ü Do  I  require  layer  2  connec3vity  between  3ers?  ü Do  I  need  to  cluster  my  DB  for  performance  and  availability?  ü Do  I  need  specialized  networking  devices  in  the  configura3on?  

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Mistake #4 – Believing Tomorrow Will Be Like Today

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The cloud may be what you need today. In all likelihood, it won’t be the only thing you need tomorrow.

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Mistake #4 – Believing Tomorrow Will be Like Today

Key factors to consider:

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 ü Do  I  want  to  use  a  single  provider  to  help  manage  my  porFolio  of  applica3ons?  

ü As  my  applica3on  grows,  will  I  need  physical  infrastructure  for  performance  reasons?  

ü At  larger  scale,  do  the  economics  of  the  cloud  work  out?  

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Mistake #5 – Not Leveraging the Full Potential of the Cloud

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The cloud is a tool that opens up new possibilities.

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   ü Am  I  sizing  VMs  based  on  previous  physical  specs  or  am  I  op3mizing?  ü Am  I  leveraging  the  on-­‐demand  aspect  of  cloud  to  deal  with  the  “bursty”  parts  of  the  app?  

ü Am  I  designing  for  horizontal  scalability  and  Layer  3  communica3on?  ü Can  I  create  an  en3re  test/dev,  staging,  and  produc3on  environment  in  the  same  cloud?  

Key factors to consider:

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Mistake #5 – Not Leveraging the Full Potential of the Cloud

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Poll Question

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What type of cloud is your business

most interested in?

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Platform Flexibility

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Performance to the End User

Internap is intelligent IT Infrastructure

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Questions?

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