Success in the Cloud. Mark williams

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1 Success in the Cloud Mark williams 1

2 Ancient History Delivered SaaS after on premise deployment didn t work zynga servers to tens of thousands 100,000 Daily Users to Tens of Millions Daily zcloud Largest Private Cloud 2

3 Happening Now CTO, 2013 Delivered over 1,000 Racks for Zynga Provisioning Automation Platform Private Cloud Solutions Practice Application Modernization/Migration 3

4 Topics for Today Why Cloud? Risks and Rewards Challenges and Opportunities with Public, Private, and Hybrid Planning Ahead for Cloud (Costs/ROI, Maturity, Collaboration) Success Stories (Zynga FarmVille) Back to Reality Why Cloud? Trends in Cloud Computing Security

5 Why Public Cloud? Risks Rewards

6 Challenges and Opportunities Challenges Infrastructure as Code Controlling Cost Modernizing Applications IT Control / Governance Opportunities Repeatable / Self-Service Time to Market / Scale or Plant the seed for the Next Gen Transparency / Audit Trails

7 Planning Ahead for Cloud Understanding your Workloads Investments in Scripting and Configuration Management Start small and iterate Align with an early adopter. Common Approaches Start with Development environments in the Public Cloud Start with Object Storage in the Cloud Send Backups to the Cloud Training your experts to automate infrastructure Sit together Developers + Operators

8 Success Story (or Luck?) 8

9 Daily Users FarmVille Predicted Workload (About 6 weeks before launch) Users in 3 Months Weeks

10 Actual Users FarmVille Predicted vs. Actual Week Million Users in 1 Week Actual Month Prediction Days

11 Daily Users FarmVille Predicted vs. Actual Workload Million Users in 1 Week 13 Million Users in 3 Months Users in 3 Months Weeks

12 Daily Users FarmVille Predicted vs. Actual Workload (Logarithmic Scale) Great Problem to Have Weeks

13 One Crazy Month 13

14 Why Cloud? Critical Factors for Zynga Pace of change Scale Unpredictable workloads Self-Service Decentralized access to Infrastructure Enabled Operations to Stay out of the way of the business Critical Factors for Everyone Treat Infrastructure as Code Focus on your business Multi-location Compute with Elasticity Multi-location Storage with Durability

15 ScaleVille Why Zynga decided to change Zynga pivoted from Public Cloud to Private Cloud Why? Pre-IPO: CapEx Game Code increasingly demanding Amazon EBS was a bottleneck (IOPS). OpEx Z Amazon EBS IOPS Data Warehouse investments already in Colo Capacity Forecast showed it was more economical 15

16 Considering All Costs Data Center: Space, Cooling, Electricity Data Center Technicians Hardware Maintenance Internet Service Providers Training and Certifications Domain-Specific Knowledge 24x7 Support Staff Hardware Lifecycle Management Capacity Planning Retention of Key Personnel (especially Network Engineers) 16

17 Comparison: zcloud and Kumo zcloud System Integrator: 1,000+ racks Kumo Cloud Architects, Engineers, & Professional Services Orchestration Cloud Orchestration Cloud Multi-Data Center; 24 x 7; Hybrid Capable Multi-Data Center; 24 x 7; Hybrid Capable 17

18 Trends in Cloud Technology Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud Zynga was an early adopter of Private Cloud / It took lots of resources Public Cloud providers are more Customer Focused AND not OR Best Hybrid Clouds leverage Local Public Cloud Providers Some Private Cloud Adopters are moving back to Public Clouds Why? What business do you want to be in? Treat infrastructure as a commodity service Level your people up to the next challenging task Security Perspectives are Changing

19 Cloud Security Security is a process, not a technology Risk Management Investment Prioritization Applying appropriate technology Continuous Security in the Public Cloud Assess your provider Security Standards Consider Virtual Private Clouds Log Everything Configuration Management / Change Management If you can save on Public Cloud, can you invest in more Security process?

20 Thank you

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