Citrix Cloud Works with ….the new IT reality

Blake Connell, Director of Product Marketing | Citrix CloudPlatform

Top 5 considerations when picking a cloud architecture

Marc Trouard-Riolle, Sr. Product Marketing Manager | Citrix Cloud Platforms GroupJuly 30, 2015

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Market Trends & Landscape

Building IaaS Clouds with Citrix

Top 5 Considerations

Q&A

Agenda

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#1 Desktop & App Virtualization

#2 Cloud Networking

#1 Public Clouds

#2 Web Collaboration

Market Leadership

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IT ChallengesAccelerating pace of business | hypercompetitive environment

Enterprises need to deliver new applications and services quickly and efficiently

Line of business demand flexibility to get things done

Traditional datacenter silo’s and manual processes can’t keep pace

Need always-on availability

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IT SilosDedicated infrastructure: time consuming to provision, inflexible

Compute Network Storage Firewall

ERP

Compute Network Storage Firewall

Database

Compute Network Storage Firewall

Big Data

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The New Dynamic IT

Efficient

Cloud Economics

Elastic

Seasonal Capacity

Scalable

Grow On-demand

Flexible

Address multipletenant needs

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Cloud Technologies Enable this IT Paradigm Shift

[Source: Gartner, 2013]

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Strategic Goals for the Cloud: Agility, Efficiency of all apps

[Source: EMA, 2014]

Top 5 considerations when choosing a cloud

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Do: Plan A Roadmap For Cloud Adoption

Run more workloads, gain more value

New cloud apps often starting point

Add Enterprise apps over time

Important: plan ahead of time• avoid lock-in to a cloud platform that only

accommodates a single workload

Cloud Value Growth

Workloads added to Cloud

Valu

e

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Do: Know Your Application Requirements

Many organizations support multiple hypervisors• …storage systems, operating systems etc.

Understand the requirements for apps moving to your cloud platform

Ensure multi-hypervisor support and other app dependencies are carefully considered

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Do: Pick A Flexible Platform

A key cloud attribute is abstraction• Applications from underlying infrastructure

Changes to compute, network and storage resources should not interfere with running applications

Choose different storage types (e.g. block or object )

Modify network design from basic to more advanced

Compute

Storage

Network

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Don’t: Get Locked-in

Many cloud vendors optimizing platform for their own stack• Difficult to breakout and integrate with other

offerings

Understand the platform APIs

Is there an AWS compatible API to interact with Amazon Web Services?

If yes, do you retain choice in compute, network and storage?

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Don’t: Turn It Into A Science Project

Pair flexibility with an integrated offering

Roll-your-own platforms require valuable engineering resources to design and develop• OpenStack is a collection of projects

Adds considerable time to projects

Building IaaS clouds with Citrix

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Networking

Storage

Compute

Datacenters

Networking StorageCompute

Virtualization

Cloud Orchestration

Private IaaS Cloud

Building a cloud

… not dramatically different than deploying traditional datacenter hardware

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Web App Virtual Desktops Exchange Database ERP Business

Intelligence

Web App Virtual Desktops Exchange Database ERP Business

Intelligence

Scale easily, can isolate and deploy any application

Private IaaS CloudData Center A

Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n

Data Center B

Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n

Data Center N

Rack 1 Rack 2 Rack n

Web App Virtual Desktops Exchange Database ERP Business

Intelligence

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Automated Application Deployment, Management and Scaling

Each application is deployed in an isolated virtual data center

All elements can be configured dynamically

Resources can be monitored and scaled to handle fluctuating demand

Virtual Data Center

Virtual FW

Virtual LB

Virtual Router

Virtual Machines Virtual Disks

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Proven product: Proven at scale

Flexible: Application-centric cloud uniquely delivers every workload

Scalable: Amazon-style operations and scale

Open: Built on Apache CloudStack, AWS-like APIs

New: Hyper-V support, XenDesktop optimizations

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Compute

XenServer VMware KVMHyper-V Bare metal

Hypervisor

Storage

Local Disk iSCSI NFSFibreChannel Object

Block & Object

Network

NetworkType Isolation LBFirewall VPN

Network & Network Services

Open Platform – No Vendor Lock Choose Best of Breed - Leverage Existing Technology Investments

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Citrix CloudPlatform is a complete solution for delivering clouds

• Implementation in days not months • Designed for scale and reliability

• Tennant isolation between virtual environments• Support for Usage Metering and Chargeback

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Cloud Workloads

Traditional WorkloadsExpect Reliability

Redundant hardwareBackup & restore on failure

Cloud-Native WorkloadsExpect Failure

Apps are built to withstand failureDeploy across multiple failure zones

Multiple Workloads

Both types of workloads must run reliably in the cloud

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Citrix CloudPlatform

Support for different workloads will be required

Software Defined Networks (e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)

Cloud-Native Availability Zone

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Elastic Block Storage

vCenter

ESXi Cluster

ESXi Cluster

ESXi Cluster

Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)

Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)

Traditional Availability Zone

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“”

“At SAP we have a range of applications running in the cloud, from SAP’s world-class Business Suite to

SAP HANA. As diverse as these solutions are, CloudPlatform has the unique ability to run them all,

despite their different architectures.”

Ralf LindenlaubVP Cloud Solutions Services

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250+ Large Scale

Production CloudsIn Deployment

Production sites with

40,000+Servers per Region

Enterprise | Education | Government | Web 2.0

Service Providers | Telcos

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Summary

Do: Create a roadmap for cloud adoption

Do: Know your application requirements

Do: Pick a flexible platform

Don’t: Get locked-in

Don’t: Turn it into a science project

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