An enterprise journey in the Cloud
- 1. An enterprise journey in the Cloud CII Conference on Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence 27 September 2012
- 2. Cloud Computing Definitions Cloud computing is a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using Internet technologies. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction
- 3. Enterprise Systems Customer Support / Help CRM / ERP Systems Desk Collaboration Tools Email Prod / Dev / Test Environments
- 4. Cloud Service Models Software as a Platform as a Infrastructure as a Service Service Service 1. Consumed by end 1. Development 1. Raw Compute / users as a service Platform to build Storage offered as 2. Subscribe for apps Service services and start 2. Build business 2. Build Virtual using them apps, social apps on infrastructure and the platform manage
- 5. Characteristics Self Service / On Demand Resource Pooling Broad Network Access Elasticity Measured Service
- 6. Benefits Agility Elasticity Use what you need & when you need
- 8. Web Frontends Collaboration Tools Disaster Recovery & Backup Dev & Test environments Online Marketing Campaigns Data center extension
- 9. Case Study – largest low cost Airline in Asia Major online presence – keeping costs low Sales promotion every quarter “3X” monthly traffic during promo hours (~6 hours) Web engine goes down within few minutes of promotion Existing infrastructure cannot be scaled on demand
- 10. Solution brief Migrated web frontend to AWS public cloud for scalability Data to reside on-premise due to regulation Secured VPN connectivity from public cloud to on- premise data center Integration with third party web services requiring IP whitelisting Custom scaling solutions to scale infrastructure
- 11. Cloud Architecture 1. Security Elastic Load 2. IP WhiteListing Balancer 3. Inter Connected Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 4. Scalability Amazon 5. HA Route 53 PC Web / App EC2 Web / App EC2 with Elastic IP with Elastic IP EC2 Instances on AWS VPC Subnet 1 VPC Subnet 2 Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2 Mobile VPN Connection Corporate Data center ( DC1) 3rd Party (DC2) Services Pad / Tab Inventory /Schedules Database CRM Email
- 12. Aligning infrastructure to needs Traditional Scaling • Fixed capacity • Under utilization of resources • Cost Leakage Cloud Scaling • Align no.of instances with demand • Flexible capacities and scaling sizes • Save costs
- 13. Benefits Automated provision of 60+ servers within 25 minutes before promo start Increased site availability by utilizing multiple data centers More business conversions & happy customers ~40% savings in promotion infrastructure cost Promo infrastructure turned off after promo period
- 14. Get a Partner / Expert • Centre of Excellence for Cloud Computing, Mobility and Big Data • 4+ years of experience on entire suite of AWS offerings and expertise in Public, Private and Hybrid clouds • Offices in United States, India & Singapore • Expertise in Retail (e-Commerce), Media / Gaming, Airline, Travel and Healthcare domains • Awarded NASSCOM IT innovator 2009 & amongst the NASSCOM EMERGE 50 – Top 10 companies in India in 2010 • Clients include Tech Start-ups, Energy, Airline, Retail, Media, Gaming & Healthcare companies • Very early and Strategic Partner of Amazon Web Services
- 15. Q &A Contact Raghuraman Balachandran Principal Architect raghu@8kmiles.com http://cloud.8kmiles.com