carrenza highly automated clouds
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The Advantages of Highly Automated Clouds
Matthew McGroryManaging Director, Carrenza
Agenda
About Carrenza
CommuniGator – Chris Royall – Head of Infrastructure
NetApp / Solidfire – Andy Roberts – Principal Architect
Examples in Action
Q&A
High Performance Clouds
2015
About Carrenza
2004 2011 2013 20162008
2006 2009 2012
High Performance Clouds
SCALABILITY COSTREDUCTION
The Cloud
TOTALFLEXIBILITY
Why do businesses need performance?
Cope withhigh demand
ReduceLicensing Costs
Business CritcialApplications
E-CommerceEnvironments
High PerformanceDatabases
Examples in Action
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Communigator
GatorMail GatorLeads
GatorSocial
GatorDocs GatorEvents
GatorExpress GatorData GatorSurveys
Who are we?
Marketing Automation and Lead Generation
Marketing Automation and Lead Generation
• SAAS Provider• 8+ Applications• 2 Data Centres• 1,000+ SQL Databases• 25+ physical and virtual servers
Challenges:
• 3000+ own IP addresses• Performance at its limit• Legacy application limitations
Database Layer
Application Layer BApplication Layer A
Web Layer
SAN5 Physical Servers
20+ Virtual Servers incl DB Servers
SAN 2SAN 1Physical SQL Cluster
Virtual Servers
Data Centre 1
Data Centre 2
Carrenza
Before After
Database Layer
Application Layer BApplication Layer A
Web Layer
SAN 2SAN 1Physical SQL Cluster
Virtual ServersData Centre 2
CarrenzaSAN
5 Physical Servers20+ Virtual Servers incl DB Servers
Data Centre 1
Before After
Benefits of working with Carrenza:
• Can focus on Application (core business) • Growth on Demand• Great technical support where we’ve needed it• “Always responsive” technically and in person
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SolidFire & Carrenza
Andy RobertsPrincipal Architect & Office of CTODate
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Builtfor dynamic
infrastructure
Bornout of the cloud
Designedfor consolidation
of mixed workloads
Enablesa next generation
datacenter
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Self-healing, shared-nothing data protection
Deep automation integration with
management and orchestration platforms
Always-on global deduplication,
compression and thin provisioning
Granular, non-disruptive scale
Predictable, guaranteed storage performance
The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center
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NetApp Named a Leader2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
NetApp named a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arraysnetapp.com/2016gartner
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Data Assurance
GuaranteedPerformance
AutomatedManagement
Global Efficiencies
Scale-out
SolidFire Introduction
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Scale-Out Agility
Linear and non-linear scaleof performance and capacity through mixed node supportExpand / contract without disruption or reconfigurationAutomatic load balancing across nodesGuaranteed compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes
Performance
Capa
city
58TB 200,000 IOPS
78TB 250,000 IOPS
98TB 300,000 IOPS
138TB 400,000 IOPS
Future-proof your storage investment
Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
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4805
9605
Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
PERFORMANCE CAPACITY
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Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
SolidFireQoSEliminatesoftraditionalperformancerelatedstorageproblems–ESG2015
DynamicallyAllocate, Manage andGuaranteestorageperformanceindependentofcapacity
Define/enforceMin, Max andBurstsettingsforeachapplication/volume
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QoS in Practice
B E F O R E Q o S A F T E R Q o S
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BOOT STORM
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Boot Storm
SolidFireQoSEliminates
oftraditionalperformancerelatedstorageproblems– ESG 2015
93%
Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
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Complete System Automation
A fully automated next gen datacenter is critical to delivering greater strategic value to the businessNative REST-based API
Deep integration with management and orchestration platforms
Support development of user-facing storage controls
Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex administrative tasks
Enables rapid deployment of applications and services
“SolidFire Automation helps lower operating expenses by up to – ESG 2015
67%
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Complete System Automation
SDK
Self-Service PortalLeverage SolidFire’s upstream OpenStack integration for day
one operational efficiency
Simple Push Button Management
Allow clients to create volumes & accounts, set up new host
configurations, boot from SAN or image with
APIs through PowerShell
Completely Programmable Storage
Deep API integration builds upon the programmatic
nature of the Software Defined Data Center
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Next Generation Data Center
Private Cloud
Accelerate self-service and private cloud infrastructure
deployment
Web Infrastructure
Rapidly respond to what customers need from your
IT
Workload Consolidation
Consolidate all workloads within a single-all-flash
array
Managed Hosting
Develop and monetize new
servicesDev/Ops
Speed up application development and test cycles
Use Cases
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ProvenintheMostDemandingServiceProvider&EnterpriseDataCentersGlobally
The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center
Q&A