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“I [recently] identified ten reasons private clouds
were failing. I …polled attendees at Gartner’s
Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas in December. I
asked the question “What is going wrong with your
private cloud?” I was a little surprised that 95% of the
140 respondents (who had private clouds in place)
said something was wrong with their private cloud…”
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![Why Are 95% of Private Clouds Failing?
“I [recently] identified ten reasons private clouds
were failing. I …polled attendees at Gartner’s
Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas in December. I
asked the question “What is going wrong with your
private cloud?” I was a little surprised that 95% of the
140 respondents (who had private clouds in place)
said something was wrong with their private cloud…”
- Thomas Bittman, Gartner
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Intro to Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy
Platform9 is a managed service that simplifies private cloud management, created to address the challenges associated with operating private clouds. The platform enables enterprises to deploy private clouds quickly while reducing operational complexity and costs, integrating with existing infrastructure. Key benefits include improved developer productivity, reduced virtualization spending, and operational continuity through managed services.
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- 1. Intro to Platform9: PrivateClouds Made Easy
- 2. Systems Engineer, Platform9 Priorto joining Platform9, Cody was the Lead Cloud Architect at General Electric, where he built an enormous private cloud based on VMware vCloud Director spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. With more than 10 years of IT infrastructure experience across multiple industries, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, particularly as an enterprise IT practitioner and strategist in one of the world’s largest technology shops. Cody Hill
- 3. Agenda • Why privateclouds? • Introducing Platform9 • Why Platform9 for private clouds? • Admin Demo • Customers and use cases • User Demo • Q&A 3
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- 5. 5 The Promise ofPrivate Clouds Source: White paper: Taking the business benefits of private cloud to new heights ©2013 Avanade
- 6. Why Are 95%of Private Clouds Failing? “I [recently] identified ten reasons private clouds were failing. I …polled attendees at Gartner’s Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas in December. I asked the question “What is going wrong with your private cloud?” I was a little surprised that 95% of the 140 respondents (who had private clouds in place) said something was wrong with their private cloud…” - Thomas Bittman, Gartner 6
- 7. • Complexity ishuge barrier to success • Massive pain to install • Nightmare to operate •No support for existing assets •No support for diverse virtualization platforms 7 Private Clouds Are Difficult
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- 9. Manifesto Platform9’s mission isto make private clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale. 9
- 10. History • Founded 2013in Silicon Valley • Founded by early VMware Engineers • Private cloud management as a service • “Easy Button” for private clouds 10 Sirish Raghuram, CEO Madhura Maskasky, VP Product Roopak Parikh, VP Engineering Bich Le, Chief Architect
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- 12. • Simple • Newapproach: cloud management delivered as a SaaS solution • < 5 minutes to get fully operational • Fully managed (install, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade) • Open • Integrates with and leverages existing assets • Hypervisors or containers • Any server, any storage, any network • OpenStack REST APIs for compatibility • Enterprise-grade • SLAs for operational continuity • Single pane of glass for global visibility and control • Multi-region support 12 Why Platform9 for Private Clouds?
- 13. 13 Platform9 Managed OpenStack PrivateCloud-as-a-Service • Enterprise’s servers host their data • Platform9 hosts the cloud controllers as a managed service, with an operational SLA • No need to install, monitor, troubleshoot or upgrade the cloud platform
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- 15. 15 Admin Demo • Deployand authorize Platform9 Gateway • Discover existing infrastructure • Create tenants and users
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- 17. 17 Customer Story Need: • Makelife easier for developers and QA = improved productivity • Reduce VMware license spend • Short implementation timeframe Solution: • Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud • Hundreds of sockets across multiple data centers and teams • Migrate workloads from vSphere to KVM Results: • Reduced virtualization spend by 5x • Doubled developer throughput • Eliminated the need to hire OpenStack specialists Box is a leading content management and collaboration platform, with more than 40 million users at more than 50,000 organizations worldwide.
- 18. 18 Customer Story Need: • Operationalizea hybrid cloud DevOps pipeline across AWS and VMware vSphere • Use tools such as Packer, Terraform to automate CI/CD • Leverage existing investment in VMware vSphere and admins Solution: • Platform9 Managed OpenStack private cloud • 80 sockets across three data centers • OpenStack APIs to orchestrate underlying vSphere environment • Integrated with Packer and Terraform Results: • Reduced “shadow IT” by providing self-service for developers • Reduced overall costs with hybrid cloud • Accelerated DevOps throughput via automation Security software company based in Texas, USA
- 19. How Does Platform9Work?
- 20. Customer Data Center 20 HowDoes Platform9 Work? Platform9 Cloud Linux (KVM) Hypervisor ESXPlatform9 Agent ESXESX VMware vCenter Platform9 Appliance ESXESX Neutron (Beta) Platform9 Services Other OpenStack Services Glance- api/registry Keystone Nova-api/ scheduler/ Heat
- 21. 21 User Demo • Self-serviceprovisioning of virtual machines • Launch an application stack
- 22. • Learn: • Readabout Platform9 at http://platform9.com • Follow us on Twitter @Platform9Sys • Evaluate: • Sign up for a 15-day trial http://platform9.com/free-trial.html • Be up and running in minutes • Contact: • Call us at 650-898-7369 • E-mail us at customer-success@platform9.com 22 Learn more