Connections in AWS with cloud native services
- 1. Munich, December 2020 – Martin Schmidt Beck et al. @RNUG HCL Connections with AWS cloud native
- 2. Deliverymodels/ Revenuestreams Enable Digital Work Creating the conditions for digital work, providing platforms, promoting sustainable use. Change Leadership, accompanying, organizational development. Form Data to Results Support data-driven decisions, AI-based analytics in the area of IT data and unstructured content AI driven solutions; social media analytics. Shape a Flexible IT We help corporate IT organizations transform their own IT into flexible, adaptive and robust IT services based on modern hybrid cloud environments. Beck et al. Current Positioning A professional, experienced consultancy and Digital Transformation service provider with a continuous start-up mentality. work. together. Enable Digital Work Human-centric transformation Employees become corporate digital citizens Form Data to Results Data-driven transformation Big Data becomes business value Shape a flexible IT Flexible & agile infrastructure & operations Save corporate IT departments from becoming obsolete Our Business Practices Projects based on T&M or fixed service fees Managed services based on monthly service fees Subscription based services Provisions from software license sales & cloud commissions. Services are delivered from our virtual teams from Germany, Romania & Brazil 3 © Beck et al. 2020
- 3. 4 Beck et al.‘s HCL Connections Offering We cover the complete supply chain of HCL Connections © Beck et al. 2020
- 4. 5 Facts & Figures Locations Munich (DE), Cluj (RO), Florianópolis (BR) Employees Total 103; DE 51 – RO 35 – BR 17 (Headcounts) Certified Technicians Technicians 75% of all employees Shareholder Since spring 2020 Beck et al. together with binary, direktgruppe and infoWAN have been forming a new Digital Champion for D/A/CH. Revenue DE 2018: € 9 Mio 2019: € 12 Mio Revenue Share 45% recurring revenue, 45% projects, 10% licenses/ provisions Equity (DE/Group) € 1.2 Mio/ 1.5 Mio (as of 1.1.2018) Relevant customer segments Automotive (Dräxlmaier, TRATON, Continental, Magna, Infineon,) Travel & Transport (Lufthansa Group, Amadeus) „Hidden champions“ (KWS SAAT SE, pfm medical, Viridium, …) Public clients (BMVG, German Forces, EU agencies) Technology partnerships Microsoft, AWS, HCL, OKTA, Nexthink, CloudHealth, Splunk, Beezy, MangoApps, Coyo, … © Beck et al. 2020
- 5. © Beck et al. 2020 6 Beck et al. Romania, Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania „Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe“ Set-up 2006; currently 35 employees (headcount). Second largest university city in Romania Very stable team with a strong management team Beck et al. Brazil: Florianópolis ”Silicon Island of Latin America” Set-up 2008; currently 17 employees (headcount). Young, stable team with strong technical background Beck et al. Switzerland: Urdorf, Zürich area representation only, no operational office Beck et al. Subsidiaries
- 6. Fritz Dräxlmaier GmbH & Co. KG KWS SAAT SE European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) AXINOM GmbH ARDEX GmbH Infoscreen GmbH Beck et al. provides cloud consulting services ranging from strategy, design, build, implementation to managed services. Our team of experienced certified experts is a trusted partner for all cloud initiatives and scenarios. Our focus is to hand over individual cloud solutions that will best solve our customers actual business challenges. AWS Competency Program • Microsoft Workloads on AWS • DevOps Competency (coming soon) AWS Advanced Consulting Partner • AWS customer since 2008 • AWS Advanced Partner since 2013 • Founded in 1999 • Offices in Germany, Romania, Switzerland and Brazil • 100+ employees Service Delivery Program • Certified Amazon EC2 for Windows Server Partner • FSx for Windows File Server References What we do AWS Partnership. 7
- 7. 8 Some of our technology partners. © Beck et al. 2020
- 8. 9 Related customers. © Beck et al. 2020
- 9. 11.12.2020 on RNUG Online Forum 2020 HCL Connections with AWS cloud native Martin Schmidt 10
- 10. Senior IT Architect Martin Schmidt IBM / HCL Connections since 2007 Experience in • Deployment, Migration, Operation and Customization • Kubernetes EKS and AWS, Container Focusing on • enhancing with own containers • make the most out of customizer More and more • DevOps, Automation © Beck et al. 2020 11
- 11. 12 We will look at • Infrastructure • AWS Costs • Why AWS cloud native? HCL Connections with AWS © Beck et al. 2020
- 12. Proof of Concept Infrastructure – Minimum requirements 13 © Beck et al. 2020
- 13. Full Redundant Connections Infrastructure 14 © Beck et al. 2020
- 14. Full Redundant Connections Infrastructure on AWS 15 © Beck et al. 2020
- 15. Cost Estimation on AWS 16 HCL Connections full redundant Cost estimation on AWS 1 Year all upfront (cheapest) System Number Upfront Costs Monthly Costs Yearly Costs Dmgr Linux RHEL m5a.large 1 1.013,79 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Dmgr Disk Space (all) 180 0,00 € 20,47 € 245,60 € IHS Node Linux RHEL m5a.large 2 2.027,57 € 0,00 € 0,00 € IHS Node Disk Space (all) 260 0,00 € 29,56 € 354,76 € WAS Node Linux RHEL m5a.2xlarge 3 7.773,95 € 0,00 € 0,00 € WAS Nodes Disk Space (all) 480 0,00 € 54,58 € 654,94 € Oracle RDS db.m5.xlarge BYOL 2 4.353,26 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Oracle RDS Disk Space 200 0,00 € 26,18 € 314,16 € EFS Data Shared (GB) 512 0,00 € 176,12 € 2.113,41 € IHS LB 1 0,00 € 20,98 € 251,79 € EKS Master 1 0,00 € 69,94 € 839,31 € EKS Node Linux m5.xlarge 3 3.070,02 € 0,00 € 0,00 € EKS Node Storage (GB) 300 0,00 € 34,11 € 409,34 € EFS EKS Store (GB) 200 0,00 € 68,80 € 825,55 € EKS LB 1 0,00 € 20,98 € 251,79 € EKS Admin Server 0,3 0,00 € 21,65 € 259,85 € Elastic Search Server m5.large.elasticsearch 3 2.774,77 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Elastic Search Server Storage (GB) 150 0,00 € 23,08 € 276,90 € Traffic (GB) 2048 0,00 € 15,65 € 187,86 € Monitoring 16 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Backup 16 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Backup Storage EBS 2000 0,00 € 103,19 € 1.238,33 € Backup Storage EFS 2000 0,00 € 687,96 € 8.255,52 € Backup Storage RDS (storage > RDS Disk) 0 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € Backup Storage ES 50 0,00 € 4,78 € 57,33 € AWS & OS Operations 10 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € RDS Operations 1 0,00 € 0,00 € 0,00 € 21.013,36 € 16.536,45 € © Beck et al. 2020
- 16. Costs • It depends … Security • It depends … Available / Usable services • It depends … Why AWS Cloud native? © Beck et al. 2020 17
- 17. 18 Costs When comparing costs, take also into account: • On premises Costs • Energy • Cooling • Room • Hardware depreciation • …. • How flexible is your internal IT / current provider? • Add more Hardware / Investment ? Why AWS Cloud native? © Beck et al. 2020
- 18. 19 Security When comparing security requirements, take this into account: • Are you allowed to go into the cloud? • Corporate Security requirements • … • What are your security requirements for Kubernetes Cluster? • Do you have the necessary competencies in cloud operations? • Security Groups • Network encryption • data-at-rest encryption Why AWS Cloud native? © Beck et al. 2020
- 19. 20 Available / Usable services By using the cloud services, the knowledge of the cloud provider can be used in regards of: • Load Balancer • Kubernetes • Database • Redundant Network File System (NFS) • Elastic Search (in version 6.x with limitations) Why AWS Cloud native? © Beck et al. 2020
- 20. 21 • Documentation HCL Component Pack on managed Kubernetes: https://becketalservices.github.io/beas-cnx-cloud/ • AWS Elastic Load Balancing https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html • AWS EKS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks.html • AWS EFS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html • AWS RDS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html • AWS Elastic Search https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/what-is-amazon- elasticsearch-service.html Sources and Resources © Beck et al. 2020
- 21. 22 By using the cloud services, the knowledge of the cloud provider can be used . What do you think? Costs – It depends Security – It depends Available / Usable Services ! Why using AWS cloud native? © Beck et al. 2020
- 22. The way you get to the future is the future you get. Martin.Schmidt@becketal.com @beck_et_al