Evolving Infrastructure and Management for Business Agility
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The document discusses the challenges and strategies for IT organizations to enhance their agility and adopt cloud solutions in a bimodal IT environment. It emphasizes the importance of integrating development and operations (DevOps) practices to improve efficiency and service delivery while leveraging existing infrastructure and open source technologies. Key recommendations include aligning IT goals with business objectives, optimizing current infrastructure, and adopting flexible cloud solutions like Red Hat's offerings.
Evolving Infrastructure and Management for Business Agility
- 1. Evolving Infrastructure and Management for Business Agility Sukanta Biswas Consulting Solution Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Practice, Red Hat India 8 October 2015
- 2. Your world is changing You Need a Continuous Competitive Advantage Everyone is a Software Company Your Competition is Everywhere
- 3. You’re under pressure from all sides Deliver applications faster Reduce Costs Compete with Public Cloud providersTransform to a digital business Improve security Get more control Simplify the user experience
- 4. There is helpful advice everywhere . . . The Cloud will save us! No, Big Data! Move to DevOps! It’s all about Containers! IoT is the answer!
- 5. There is no box for this
- 6. There is no quick fix for this
- 7. You live in a bimodal world VirtualPhysical By 2017, 75% of IT organizations will have gone bi-modal in some way Private Public Mode 1 Mode 2
- 8. How do I make IT more relevant to developers and the business and improve the services we provide? How do I keep track of all our VMs and data, and get better control of my environment and budget? How do I deliver a more flexible and scalable IT environment for my users without a huge budget increase or physical buildout? How do I move to a more agile development and operations process while aligning more closely with the business? COMPLEXITY AGILITY RELEVANCE SCALABILITY ACCELERATE DELIVERY OPTIMIZE INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVER PUBLIC CLOUD-LIKE SERVICES MODERNIZE DEVELOPMENT & OPS Top pains we are hearing . . .
- 9. Everyone is at a different stage in the journey Optimize Integrate Automate Accelerate Achieve Agility Innovate Virtualize
- 10. Open Source is driving innovation
- 11. But you have existing assets to leverage Virtual PrivatePhysical Public Infrastructure: Hardware Infrastructure: Software Application Platforms Applications Security Management Middleware
- 12. Large Engineering Investment Difficulty Integrating Disparate Projects and Supporting Lifecycle Not the Core Business INNOVATION According to the Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey 76% of clouds are built on open source technologies Enterprise Support Input into New Features Tested, Stable, Certified Rapid Bug Fixes & Predictable Lifecycles Advanced Functionality X X X X X INTEGRATION Yesterday’s choices
- 13. High Price Tag Vendor Controlled Innovation High Exit Cost due to Proprietary Model INTEGRATION According to Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey 54% indicated that integrating and protecting their cloud infrastructure is their primary challenge INNOVATION Yesterday’s choices
- 14. Large Engineering Investment Difficulty Integrating Disparate Projects and Supporting Lifecycle Not the Core Business High Price Tag Vendor Controlled Innovation High Exit Cost due to Proprietary Model INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION Well Integrated to Reduce Investment Access to Open Innovation Delivers De Facto Standards for Enterprises An Alternative
- 15. Red Hat meets you where you are 3rd Party Infrastructure Hardware 3rd Party Infrastructure Software 3rd Party Application Platform Third Party Applications 3rdPartySecuritySolutions Red Hat CloudForms & Satellite Management Solutions 3rd Party Middleware 3rd Party Management Red Hat OpenShift Application Platform Red Hat JBoss Middleware Red Hat OpenStack Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RedHatSELinux,IdMandother securityproductsandservices
- 16. “Mode 1 IT organizations should look to DevOps as a bridge to a Mode 2 orientation by continuing to assess where other patterns and practices of DevOps can enable a Mode 1 environment to deliver better service to customers” DevOps in the Bimodal Bridge (April 2015) Virtual PrivatePhysical Public COMPLEXITY AGILITY SCALABILITY RELEVANCE Environments Delivered in Minutes Instead of Days or Weeks Implement Policy Driven Automation to Increase Efficiency Create More Agile Development and Operations Processes Programmable and Scalable Infrastructure and Platforms Helping you bridge the gap Mode 1 Mode 2
- 17. Service Management Request Developer VI Admin Task Time (Minutes) Create Virtual Machine 30 Add Storage and Networking 30 Queue Between Teams 120 Install Operating System 60 Wait After Install 60 Configure Operating System 90 Install Application Platforms 90 Configure Application Platforms 45 Queue Between Teams 120 Security Configuration and Scan 90 Active Work Time 5 Hours 15 Minutes Total Time 10 Hours Sys Admin Sec Ops “What Networks should this be on?” “Do you really need 16GB?” “What version of Java again?” “What goes into this config file?” “This is not configured securely” “This version is insecure” Head of Operations The Head of Development is complaining that developers are waiting to get development environments and it’s slowing time to market My administrator and security operations teams made a few mistakes Example: Accelerating Service Delivery
- 18. Service Management Request Developer Sys AdminVI Admin “Approve” Request Request “Approve” Service Designer Catalog Item Creation VI and System Requirements Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Developer Environment Automation Sec Ops Request “Approve” Security Requirements Developer Environment Requirements Example: Accelerating Service Delivery
- 19. Service Management Request Developer Task Time (Minutes) Create Virtual Machine 1 Add Storage and Networking 1 Queue Between Teams 60 Install Operating System 5 Wait After Install 30 Configure Operating System 3 Install Application Platforms 4 Configure Application Platforms 5 Queue Between Teams 90 Security Configuration and Scan 2 Active Work Time 0 Total Time 21 Minutes Head of Operations Reduced Human Error Removed Active Work Time Cut Total Time By >95% Example: Accelerating Service Delivery with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure
- 20. http://www.redhat.com/en/resources/g-able-improves-resource-allocation-red-hat-solutions “We used to require around 60 days from a physical server request to the actual installation. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and support through Red Hat CloudForms, provisioning now is almost 95% faster than it used to be.” WORATHEP ARAMKUL CLIENT MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, G-ABLE https://www.redhat.com/en/files/resources/en-rhcf-union-bank-12308517.pdf “Our internal experts were spending too much time managing inefficient processes. We needed a solution that would help us standardize and automate these processes so we could reduce our time to market for new applications.” DON O’CONNOR MANAGING DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS “We have eliminated manual processes and bottlenecks by leveraging automation. Delivery of new application environments which used to take weeks, now takes a few hours.” FRANK VENDITTI, CHIEF INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT UNION BANK Accelerating Service Delivery: Customers
- 21. Head of Operations “How can I use commodity servers to create pools of computing and storage to control costs at scale?” “How can I provide a distributed asynchronous architecture for massive scalability?” “How can I deploy, and update this cloud infrastructure securely and without causing outages for tenant workloads?” “How can I manage a federated cloud infrastructure and use information on utilization to forecast future needs?” “How do I bring enterprise manageability features to a cloud infrastructure platform like chargeback, quotas, and control policies?” Network Compute Storage $$ Network Compute Storage $$$$$ SCALE-UP Financially and Technically Unsustainable DO-IT-YOURSELF SCALE-OUT Complex and Incomplete Network-Service Compute-Service Storage-Service Chargeback Self-Service Audit Control Policies C C C C S S S S N N N N Control Policies Network Compute Storage ?????? Example: Delivering Public Cloud-like Services
- 22. Head of Operations Reducing Cost with Commodity Hardware Massively Scalable Distributed Architecture Deploy and Update Securely while Ensuring Tenant Uptime Forecast Capacity Requirements based on Utilization Deliver enterprise functionality required for private cloud ENTERPRISE GRADE SCALE-OUT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE Consumable and Complete Chargeback Self-Service Audit Control Policies Workflow New York London Tokyo Operator Operator Operator Network-Service Compute-Service Storage-Service C C C C S S S S N N N N Network-Service Compute-Service Storage-Service C C C C S S S S N N N N Network-Service Compute-Service Storage-Service C C C C S S S S N N N N Example: Delivering Public Cloud-like Services with Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure
- 23. Provided a unified cloud environment with the functionality and scalability benefits of Amazon, which was seen as a viable alternative for internal teams Internal private cloud provides increased security and protection from security threats and data breaches Control of environment allows for leveraging existing hardware purchases Secure and controlled Infrastructure as a Service environment for agile computing Improved reliability using a highly available architecture and design Structured approach to integrating private and public Infrastructure as a Service Delivering Public Cloud-like Services: Customers Global Insurance Company Leading South American Bank
- 24. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Value for YOU ● Not a rip and replace solution ● Flexible path to cloud and current infrastructure optimization ● Only integrated solution with Virtualization, OpenStack, Management and OS ● Future proofs investment ● Cost effective
- 25. Next Steps 1. Align with Business: What are the top business goals? 2. IT Reality Check: Where are you and where do you want to go 3. Set Priorities: What’s the right next step. Remember, it’s a journey. 4. Set Success Metrics: Can everyone agree on what success would look like? 5. Work with Trusted Partners: Like Red Hat!
- 26. Thank you
- 27. Red Hat Forum 2015 Energize Your Enterprise
- 28. Hybrid Management Red Hat CloudForms
- 29. Systems Management Red Hat Satellite
- 30. Infrastructure-as-a-Service Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
- 31. Virtualization Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- 32. With experts to help you along the way