gartner it symposium 2013: delivering it-as-a-service with cloud brokering and management

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Cloud Brokering and Management: Delivering IT-as-a-Service using a cloud solution factory

Praveen Asthana Chief Marketing & Strategy Of!cer

October 8, 2013


We make IT-as-a-Service a Reality

Multi-Sourced Supply Base

Governance & Business Mgmt

Expedia-like Consumption

Enterprise IT and or SI Broker

Managed Services

Existing Data Center

Private Clouds

IaaS

PaaS

SaaS

Business Users

Cloud Admins

Architects and Developers

•  As easy as SaaS •  10X faster to deliver IT •  Reduce costs by 50% •  Route demand

instantly to the best approved provider

•  Provide "exibility AND control

2 * *In contracts

Procurement Managers

CIO and CFO’s

Enterprise Cloud Consumption Processes

Cloud Broker Operations Processes

Cloud Provider Management Processes


On the CIO’s whiteboard today Gaps in our cloud strategy

What app should I move to the cloud?

What infrastructure design for cloud?

What cloud matches my need?

How do I provision and orchestrate to different clouds?

Web server in public cloud

Database in private cloud

Image data in public cloud10010

Amazon Google VMware Private

OpenStack Private

What are the right:- Features- Packaging- Pricing

Cloud Design

API 1 API 2 API 3

How do I read these bills?Are they accurate?How do I manage these contracts? Pricing keeps changing!

- Cost - Utilization- SLA- Demand v Supply- Compliance

Analytics for business support

KPI DashboardHow can I get a business support system that allows me to manage my business objectives and provide decision support?

I need multi-level integration with my existing IT and financial management systems and investments

Cloud Mgmt

$ Financial

Procurement

Current IT

General concerns: •  No processes for cloud operations-

Acq, Ops, Access, Governance

•  Many clouds à lots of complexity

•  Potential for lock-in?

•  How do I ensure resiliency?

•  How do I ensure governance?

•  Takes too long to deploy new app infrastructure

•  Growing shadow IT

•  Track costs & assets

CLOUD IS HARD!!!


On the CIO’s whiteboard today The ideal solution – get more out of cloud

Collaboratively Design

Security$

Backup

MonitorSLA

Match to Right Clouds

Add Managed Services

Estimated Bill of IT

Order, Orchestrate & Provision

Manage, Control,Decide

+ Connect Current IT

Financial Mgmt Systems

IT Service Mgmt

IT Ops Mgmt

Sys/Virtualization Mgmt

Supply Chain Mgmt Systems

Change Change Change

Technical

Financial

Legal

Flow of Approvals

Key bene!ts: •  Provide IT value add to biz users; corral Shadow IT •  Speeds overall process to deliver app infrastructure •  Improves my staff’s productivity through automation

•  Reduces lock-in and makes me future proof •  Provides governance and cost management •  Masks cloud complexity


Be!er Choice Cloud service providers are not created equal

Provider Match Description Average Price Location Security SLA Provisioning Time

On demand commodity cloud provider. Enterprise support available at additional cost

Compute: $17,234 Storage: $625 Network: $802 SW: NA Operations: $16,137

US East (VA) US West (OR) US West (N. CA) EU (Ireland) AP (Singapore) AP (Tokyo)

Virtual Perimeter Firewall and Routing between VLANs

99.95% annual uptime only for access to VM in particular region. Service credit up to 10%.

VM provisioning: 10-15 min 1st VDC: Hours Subsequent VDC: Hours 85%

Higher-level security & SLA: optimized for eCommerce & Web Hosting

Compute: $23,623 Storage: $7,489 Network: $500 SW: NA Operations: $12,957

US East (VA) US West (CA) Asia EMEA

Enterprise Grade Virtual Perimeter Firewall Additional Cost for IDS/IPS

100% infrastructure 99.9% end-to-end availability of customer assets. Service credit up to 30%

VM provisioning: 2-4 hours 1st VDC: 2 days Subsequent VDC: 4 hours 100%

Reserved capacity-based dedicated resources; !xed cost, simpler management, supports bursting

Compute: $45,000 Storage: $5,991 Network: $500 SW: $0 Operations: $11,897

Culpepper, CA Miami, FL Sao Paulo, Brazil Amsterdam, Netherlands

Enterprise Grade Virtual Perimeter Firewall Additional Cost for IDS/IPS

99.9% end-to-end availability of customer assets. Service credit up to 50%.

VM provisioning: 10-15 min 1st VDC: 10 days Subsequent VDC: 10 days 135%

Private, community cloud with dedicated capacity; !xed costs; physically secure

Compute: $15,000 Storage: $400 Network: $500 SW: $0 Operations: $18,000

Austin, TX Enterprise Grade Virtual Perimeter Firewall Limited outside access

99.9% end-to-end availability of customer assets. Service credit up to 50%.

VM provisioning: 15-30 min 1st VDC: 2-3 day Subsequent VDC: hours 115%

Pricing based on a production environment for a CRM.

30% variance between choosing any provider versus choosing the right

one.

Terremark

135%

Monthly cost: $63,388

Arbitrary Selection Savvis 100%

Monthly cost: $44,569

Optimal Selection


Code Factory (DevOps/PaaS)

Solution Factory (SolutionOps)

Solution Store (BusinessOps)

Problem Statement •  Geospatial Information Service app: update legacy systems with web-based apps •  Single vendor resulting in backlog of IT requests à project deadlines to be missed •  What clouds for which environments at what cost?

Aggregation

Prd

T/D

DR

S3

Provision

Deploy Order & Access

Enterprise Case Study GIS App for Texas Water Development Board


Enterprise Case Study Enabling State of Texas to transform to an IT-as-a-Service model

Before Gravitant: •  > 9 month cycle time to deliver IT solutions •  Limited vendor and middleware options •  Frustrating and lengthy service request process •  Dif!cult to decipher cloud provider bills •  Unexpectedly high !nal costs

After Gravitant: •  < 1 month cycle time to deliver IT solutions •  40% savings on cloud spend •  Choice of cloud vendors, PaaS, and services •  Visual cloud solution design with real time •  costing before provisioning

“There are so many complexities in making the cloud work for us. Gravitant’s cloud services platform helped us get on the cloud successfully.” -- Frosty Walker, State of Texas


What sets Gravitant Apart?

Open IT Framework. Multiple Choices, Control Any combination of the right PaaS, IaaS, SaaS and Managed Services you need

No Bare Apps. We ensure Complete Solutions Easily compose solutions with all necessary services

Choose the absolute best cloud services for your needs Powerful analytics and knowledge base for multi-criteria optimization Normalized Smart Catalog across Cloud Services Providers

Expedia-like Consumption Interface Advanced catalog and app store to publish and monetize IT solutions


Thank you Praveen Asthana [email protected] 512-831-3104

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