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Powering Cloud Deployments
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Benefits of deploying applications to Cloud
● Simplicity Easy, self-service access
● Affordable Pay for what you use,
without upfront investments
● Agility Faster time-to-market
without long approval/sysadmin cycles
● User-centric Business user has feeling of
more direct control & access
Deployment Agent-based Management● Complex
5 agents per server
● Expensive $15,000 up front for 3 year
term
● Brittle Sysadmins manually
configure agents & provision accounts
● IT-centric Developers have to get log
files from IT
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Makara Cloud Application Platform
● Rapidly provisions new application environments Every developer has their own test environments Pro Services has environments for customer engagements Presales has environments for POCs
● Monitors & scales applications Consistency is ensured across environments Complete built-in management stack
● Supports Java & PHP applications
vCloud
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Makara Cloud Application PlatformLeverage cloud technology to dramatically reduce time to deploy and slash cost of operations for new and existing web applications
Company Overview
• Cloud Partners: VMware, Terremark, Amazon, Red Hat, Rackspace
• Investors: Sierra Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz
• Location: Redwood City, CA
• Team: Wily Technology, HP, Google, Transmeta, large-scale web engineers, linux hackers
• Product: In public beta
• Technology: Makara’s Application Capsule enables portability, scaling, performance monitoring & rollback.
• Pricing: $0.25/hr per virtual server or discounted yearly subscription
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Retail Company• Paying developers overtime to firefight issues because management tools are too complicated to deploy
• 2-3 weeks to deploy app update
How expensive is deploying and managing applications?
Midsize Bank• 12 FTEs maintaining application management tools & agents to support 50 web applications
• $1m/yr software maintenance
• 600 unmanaged applications
• 6-8 weeks to deploy app update
Financial Services Company• 100+ IT Project Managers to coordinate application deployment tasks
• 8-10 weeks to deploy app update
Telecommunications Company• $2.5m/yr opex on application management tools
• 1200 applications
• 6 FTEs devoted to agent upgrades, 3+ years behind on those upgrades
• 10-12 weeks to deploy app update
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Target customers 2010
● Mid-size SaaS vendors scaling up Need to automate deployment & management to scale Some running on-prem
● Departments of enterprises targeting public clouds Public-facing websites Normal IT tooling isn’t supported for them on public cloud
● Startups Websites & widgets Don’t have any IT support
● 2011: Enterprise private clouds
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How it works: Self-service portal
● User permissions & quotas
● Provisions to choice of cloud
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How it works: Wizard-based on-boarding to clouds
Traditional Agent-based Application
Management
webappVM’s Agentless
Management
OS
Metal Compute Cloud
Application Capsule
Application Code
Application ServerwebappVM Platform
Built-in Deployment, Performance, Log and Change Management
Application Code
Application Server
Load Balancer
Web Server
Configuration
Dependencies
Compute Cloud
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How it works: Management & scaling
NO AGENTS
NO MANAGEMENT
SERVERS
NO CODE
CHANGES
Dashboard
API
Compute Cloud
webappVM Platform
Auto-Scaling Auto-Scaling
Application Capsule
Application Code
Application Server
Load Balancer
Web Server
Configuration
Dependencies
• Portability• Rollback
• Clustering• Instrumentation
• Versioning• Log Search
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Get started
● Migrate your application to a cloud with Makara Wizards walk you through We’ll help you if you get stuck (this is why we’re in beta!) Our management features are awesome
● Join our Private Cloud Planning Panel Network with other IT professionals building private clouds Inform our private cloud offering