Scalr Solution Overview
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Scalr's enterprise-grade hybrid cloud management platform facilitates efficient deployment of public and private cloud infrastructures, emphasizing organizational autonomy and productivity while maintaining compliance and cost management. It addresses business agility, security, user productivity, and provides various tools such as a service catalog and a power console for customized user access and management. Scalr's policy engine enables fine-grained controls, ensuring financial oversight and minimizing operational overhead, allowing IT teams to focus on innovation and growth.
Scalr Solution Overview
- 1. Enterprise Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform OVERVIEW
- 2. Scalr’s Enterprise Grade Cloud Management Platform is designed for enterprises deploying public and private cloud infrastructure at global scale. Our Organizational Model allows for highly efficient policy and role based controls for security and cost management, while delivering localized autonomy and maximum productivity for IT teams. The resulting ‘Federation of IT’ is core to Scalr’s product design mission. “Scalr is the only tool I know of that multiple businesses voluntarily signed up to use. Usually they will shy away from any Corporate offering; it is a testament to what an amazing tool you and your team have built. It was truly a pleasure working with the Scalr team and building out the offering.” Scalr Customer: Global Fortune 25 Conglomerate The Hybrid Cloud Management Platform for the Enterprise
- 3. To Deliver Safe, Responsible, and Cost-Effective Self-Service, Scalr addresses 4 key areas BUSINESS AGILITY Drive productivity at scale with less overhead to achieve faster time to market COST OPTIMIZATION & VISIBILITY The ability to track, control, assign and reduce costs easily and at scale SECURITY & COMPLIANCE Encourage security best practices, control access and privileges at scale USER PRODUCTIVITY Create highly productive users with portable skills, who are able to leverage the full potential of the cloud
- 4. Reconcile The Needs of All Enterprise Groups END-USERS Developers QA Engineers Sales Reps Researchers DevOps ... MANAGERS AND ADMINS CIO Cloud Architect Security Admin Finance IT Admin Team Leaders ... Empower IT teams across the organization while maintaining compliance and cloud best practices
- 5. Federation of IT Teams IT teams gain autonomy and operational flexibility while maintaining corporate compliance and cloud best practices ENTERPRISE SCALR CENTRAL IT Central IT can enforce compliance policies on OS compatibility, Image management, security, cost, workload placement, and quotas. BUSINESS UNIT Each BU/Department is empowered to set additional policies that align with their best practices (i.e. lease management, encryption, region, VPC/Subnet, Security Groups, instance types and more) TEAMS Teams enjoy improved productivity with customized self-service and considerable autonomy to deploy and manage apps and infrastructure within policy boundaries.
- 6. Corporate The Scalr Organizational Model The Scalr Organizational Model combines proactive and reactive policies with a hierarchy that maps to your organization's structure, making policy enforcement easier and reports more actionable. Policies enforced at higher scopes are inherited by the lower ones, greatly reducing management overhead. Other Cloud Management Solutions provide a flat structure where all policies are applied at the application layer, which is inefficient to manage and does not scale. Updates and changes, which Gartner says takes up 90% of IT operations effort, become intolerable. Self-Service Environments Accounts Manage Accounts Setup Cost Centers LDAP/SAML Authentication 3. DIGITAL Manage Env 3a, 3b Manage Teams 2. HEALTHCARE Manage Env 2a Manage Teams 1. OIL & GAS Manage Env 1a, 1b Manage Teams Cost Analytics Policy Enforcement Farm 3 Farm 2 Farm 1 Env 1a Role Role Role Farm 3 Farm 2 Farm 1 Env 1b Role Role Role Farm 3 Farm 2 Farm 1 Env 2a Role Role Role Farm 3 Farm 2 Farm 1 Env 3a Role Role Role Farm 3 Farm 2 Farm 1 Env 3b Role Role Role
- 7. Differentiated Self-Service Self Service should not be limited to one type of user. Scalr’s policy engine and role based access controls (RBAC) allow administrators to grant all users customized access to the resources and controls needed for them to be productive in their jobs. Scalr provides a Service Catalog, Power Console, and API, all with policy guardrails in place. This allows users to not have to worry about compliance or corporate policies and focus on the things that matter to them. Other solutions provide guardrails only on basic user requests (Service Catalog). All other requests either need to be supported as one-off requests or subject to approvals or Ops team fulfillment. This creates a lot of operational overhead which results in a massive productivity hit. API Cloud Policy Engine Abstracted Applications Farm 1 Farm 2 Farm 3 Farm 4 Farm 5 Self Service Power Console Service Catalog Admin Dashboard Access Policy Workload Placement Policy Financial Policy Lifecycle Policy Integration Policy Auth (LDAP/SAML)
- 8. Power Console The Power Console is an advanced provisioning method for users who value operational flexibility. Within policy guardrails, Power Users and Administrators can edit their application stacks, link their applications to cloud services, configure automation and auto-scaling rules, and more. Advanced users get the autonomy they need to move fast, while workloads inherit the policies set at higher management scopes. Through the Power Console, admins and advanced users can: • Manage resources such as images, storage, networks • Set application lifecycle policies • Monitor workload health and usage • Build applications and package them as items on the Service Catalog
- 9. Service Catalog The Service Catalog is a simple provisioning method for users who value ease of use. Each catalog item can represent anything from a single machine or container, to a full application stack, complete with automation, scaling and cloud services. Admins can determine to what level they want to abstract complexity from the user, and what policies are enforced. The Service catalog is the easiest way for users to quickly get what they need, while all required standards are maintained.
- 10. Policy Engine The Scalr Policy Engine creates conditional policy guardrails around placement, security, access and resource usage. Scalr Policies adhere to The Organizational Model, which means admins can configure a policy at a higher scope of management, and enforce it on all relevant cloud environments. The Policy Engine centralizes policy definition and enforcement, and reduces management overhead. Admins can create policy profiles that cover security groups, tagging, instance types, container permissions, networks, and more. Policy Profiles can then be enforced on environments that serve all types of users.
- 11. Enable Innovation with Cloud Services Let developers innovate and take advantage of cloud services as the Cloud Platforms make them available. Scalr’s Cloud Service Gateway provides approved user access to requested cloud services while giving administrators the ability to track and manage usage. Native Cloud Services logically integrate with Scalr applications and are heavily adopted by our customers. These are services that map to applications and are tightly integrated within the Scalr UI (i.e. ELB, ALB, RDS, S3 EMR, EFS and more). The Cloud Services Gateway (CSG) enables access control, policy, and analytics for all other Cloud Services. It acts as a proxy between the user and the cloud platform, giving admins the control they need while developers enjoy a native API experience. Other solutions limit users to the services integrated into the platform, or offer costly professional services packages to build one-off custom integrations, which present other concerns like the handling of API keys.
- 12. Reduce Costs and Increase Visibility Enterprises need fine-grained control and visibility into cloud spend to responsibly budget, forecast, manage and chargeback based on cost centers, business units, projects, applications and users. Scalr provides extensive financial reports that adhere to The Organizational Model. Admins are able to assign and display expenses in the hierarchy that makes sense for the organization. Cost Control is more than reporting. Scalr policies are part of the provisioning workflow and prevent overspend, communicate prices and budgets to users, alert managers and reclaim resources when necessary.
- 13. You Gain: Across Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Datacenters VISIBILITY Virtual Machines Containers Cloud Services Cloud Spend Resource Usage CONTROL Preventative & Reactive Policies Inheritance Model - Configure Once, Enforce Everywhere Guardrails For All User-Types COST REDUCTION Reclamation Policies Automated Scaling Actionable Reporting SPEED & PRODUCTIVITY Service Catalog Power Console API End-to-end Automation App Portability
- 14. Deployment Enterprise Scalr can be deployed on a single machine, in an HA configuration, or a full production scale environment. Scalr can be deployed in private and/or public cloud infrastructure. POC Deployment HA Deployment Production Scale All modules, one machine Proxy Sessions App Statistics Worker Proxy (one or more) ReplicaReplica Main DB Cost Analytics DB App (one or more) Sessions (one or more) WorkerStatistics End Users Cloud API Cloud Instances