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RightScale
What we do, and why an ASX-10 company included RightScale in their Cloud Strategy
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Agenda • Architectural view of RightScale • View of a local client • How to transition in
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Who is RightScale?
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Creating the Cloud-Enabled Enterprise
7 years
10 clouds
65K+ users
5.5M+ servers
~250 staff Offices in Santa Barbara, Sydney, London, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Seoul and Seattle.
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Gaming!
Publishing!
Healthcare! Film, TV, Music!
Games!
Mobile!
Advertising!
Financial Services!
Consumer/Retail!Software!
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What is RightScale?
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Design architecture above the cloud
Abstracts the architecture to above the IaaS.
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Abstracts and standardises the clouds
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8VHUV�DQG�6\VWHPVElevates: • Configurations • APIs • Automation behaviours • Access control • Billing and governance • Monitoring
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Private Clouds!Public Clouds!
Control plane
Resource pools
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Configuration" Automation"Billing and governance"
Single pane of glass
Access control" Unified API"
Private Clouds!Public Clouds!
Resource pools
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How RightScale adds to AWS
• Provisioning • Marketplace • Support for
Chef & Puppet
• Integrated version control
• Multi-region • Pre-built HA
architectures • Support for
Powershell and scripts
• Monitoring • Alerts • Auto-scaling
• Application
organisation • One-click
cloning • Advanced
orchestration • Run scripts in
mass over fleet • Unified API for
all clouds • Auto-scaling on
hybrid clouds
• User permissions
• Detailed cost reporting
• Control SSH access (user-level)
• EC2 SSH key management (instance-level)
• Audit histories • Cost
forecasting
Configuration" Automation" Governance"
• 9 regions on 5 continents
• Private cloud support
• Public clouds in other countries
• Unified multi-cloud access, cost and usage reporting
• Provides images for all regions, clouds and OS
Global"
• Solutions architects
• 24x7 support
• End-to-end
engineering • Application
migration: virtual to cloud
• Strategic consulting
Services"
From RightScale
Common capabilities
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planforcloud.com
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Example implementations
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Australian client A$30B+ revenue 500+ applications and 600+ staff in IT Hybrid cloud: AWS & CloudPlatform Purpose: • Agility • ‘Cloud first’ strategy • Cost reduction
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Service catalogue" Billing and governance"
RightScale’s Unified API"
Self-service portal for end-users" Web interface for
service designers and system
administrators"
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No change to IT framework: firewalls, DMZ, internet access, operating system and security remains the same for cloud or non-cloud servers. Intend to move 1000+ Windows and Linux VMs within 3 years Why RightScale? • Proven ability to move workloads between clouds • Governance layer for access control and change control
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Solution: • Serve Chinese customer
website • Elasticity with auto-scaling • Consistent configurations
Requirements: • Public and private clouds • Geographic reach • Unpredictable demand
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New delivery models
Requirements: • Large scale, 3M+ students • Single-tenant SaaS • Multi-cloud • Fast customer onboarding
Solution: • Consistent dev and production
environments • AWS and Rackspace • Ability to easily pilot and test
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How to transition into cloud
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Hybrid has complications
Technical differences
API
Network
Hypervisor
Storage
Latency between tiers and clouds
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• Securing traffic • User identity • Access control • Billing and metering
Governance
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RightScale helps move up maturity curve
Low High
Provisioning Time
High
Server Automation
Multi-Cloud
Application Automation
Continuous Optimization
Launch through OS Image Bootstrapping
Launch servers via scripts, Chef, Puppet, PowerShell, bash
Use of templates Code once, use everywhere Governance BC & DR
Service-oriented design Self-healing Auto-scaling
Dynamic workloads HA Production SDLC Test/Dev to Production
Mat
urity
Value to Business
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Public or private cloud
Cloud migration, optional DevOps
Virtualised servers
Your current state With RightScale
Subject to traditional change control and governance
Separate static vs dynamic
applications
Deployed by DevOps, with control and governance
Using familiar virtual machine image management
Transition
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• Dynamic configuration
• Abstract role and behavior from cloud infrastructure
• Cloud agnostic
ServerTemplates
Image
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Expert Services for Where You Are
Strategy Design Build Operate
CloudSight
Implementation
Support
Expert Advisor
Training
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How to get started We can evaluate RightScale’s fit with your goals and technical environment Get in touch
Giri Fox [email protected]
