CLOUDFORMS. FROM ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION TO OPEN HYBRID CLOUDS Holistic Management of Your Heterogeneous Environment Summary

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1 CLOUDFORMS FROM ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION TO OPEN HYBRID CLOUDS Holistic Management of Your Heterogeneous Environment Summary

2 RED HAT S IaaS CLOUD STRATEGY PROVIDE OUR CUSTOMERS WITH BETTER VALUE WITH MORE FLEXIBILITY... 2

3 IT CHALLENGES FLEXIBILITY Scale-out on demand hampered by proprietary virtualization licensing Other solutions force singlevendor stack solutions, requiring migration and forklift Public cloud like future based on open source technology, enables economics of scaleout MANAGEMENT VM sprawl and management sprawl Multiple panes of glass with no central governance Demands for self service must balance with policy and security Orchestration of complex and repeatable tasks Discovery and monitoring of disparate systems WORKLOADS Legacy workloads require traditional datacenter virtualization New cloud enabled workloads need flexible scale-out, fault tolerant infrastructure Management tools must deal with both use cases Solutions must deal with a long term migration from one type to another 3

4 VIRTUALIZATION TO CLOUD CONTINUUM Virtual Infrastructure Management Server Virtualization Distributed Virtualization Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Drivers Consolidation Reduce Capital Expense Flexibility & Speed Reduce Operational Expense Automation Less Downtime Self-Serve Agility Standardization IT as a Business Usage Metering Capital Expense Elimination Increased Flexibility (up and down) Visibility Optimization Agility Federation Control Automation Self-Service Brokering Derived from Gartner Roadmap: From Virtualization to Cloud Computing (reference slide) 4

5 Industry Trend Hybrid Cloud Existing IT + Private Cloud + Public Cloud = Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud Physical IT Virtual IT Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud It's all happening at the same time!!! 5

6 WHO RELIES ON CLOUDFORMS TODAY? Heterogeneous Management Across Physical, Virtual, Cloud Private/Hybrid Clouds Self-Service Portal Automated Provisioning Lifecycle Management Best Fit Replacement Quotas/Chargeback Virtual Infrastructures Operational Dashboards Analytics Monitoring Optimization Visualization Intelligent Workload Mgmt Reporting Capacity Planning 6 Red Hat Confidential Do Not Distribute

7 CLOUDFORMS Cloud Operations Management Delivers an Open Cloud Management Platform that Supports Heterogeneous Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds Enables Evolution from Proprietary Infrastructures to Open, Hybrid Clouds Enables IT to Deliver IAAS and Broker Cloud Services, Optimize Resources and Reduce Costs Manages Service Deployment across Hybrid Clouds Using Policies, SLAs and Cost Provides Rich Integration into Existing Enterprise Management Systems and Processes Eliminates Proprietary Cloud Management Tool Vendor Lock-In 7

8 CLOUDFORMS Built for Enterprise Scale Cloud Operations Management 8

9 CLOUDFORMS Benefits Lower Acquisition Cost Lowest cost of leading commercial vendors Faster Time to Cloud Virtual Appliance, agent-free Lower Implementation Costs Out-of-the-box reports, alerts, policies, integration, automation Tool Reduction Integrated capabilities that eliminate need for many tools Continuous Optimization Maximize resource efficiency Increased Automation Highest operational efficiency Open/Flexible Leverage low cost virtual platforms for your cloud 9

10 CLOUDFORMS Customer Success Key Characteristics One of the world's leading financial services companies Broad range of financial products 64,000 employees; offices in 50 countries Very Large, distributed, IT infrastructure Americas, EMEA, APAC 7 DCs / 600 Hosts / 5,000 VMs (goal: 30,000 VMs) Mixed environment Linux, Windows Unified Monitoring, Management & Automation to Create a Global Cloud Key Objectives: Accelerate service delivery Increase ops efficiency reduce admin overhead Maximize utilization of compute resources & IT investment Challenges Faced Lack of visibility across global virtual infrastructure Business requests taking weeks to fulfill Trouble managing current capacity & planning future capacity needs Manual reconfiguration of workloads inefficient, time consuming Unable to enforce admin access policies in compliance with corporate standards Unable to offer self-service provisioning; no integration into Service Catalog Benefits Gained Implemented single-pane global visibility to easily monitor entire global virtual infrastructure Improved service delivery from 3 weeks to 15 minutes self-service Fully integrated CloudForms & Service Now service catalog Enabled fully automated workload & resource management Strictly enforced management policies SmartTagging & classification 10