Intuit and Parallels: Transforming IT into an internal Service Provider

Intuit and Parallels:Transforming IT into an internal Service ProviderMike Sharp

Parallels – Optimized ComputingTM

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Agenda• Introduction to Intuit

• IT business direction

• How leveraging Parallels as a component to get there

• Enterprise mindset shifts with this direction


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Agenda


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Intuit’s Changing Direction

To be a premierpremier innovativeinnovative growthgrowth companythat empowers individuals and businesses to achieve their dreamsTo be a premierpremier innovativeinnovative growthgrowth companythat empowers individuals and businesses to achieve their dreams

Shrink WrapShrink Wrap Web BasedWeb Based

Annual Release CyclesAnnual Release Cycles Release at WillRelease at Will


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Architecture Overview


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The Current Landscape

• Container “targets”

• Current deployment … Dev through Prod

• Growth Profile


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Partnering with Parallels• SLM – resource guarantees

• Resource usage analysis

• Dynamic redistribution of containers

• Patching of Linux instances

• Automated Builds of new run nodes

• Redundancy in a run node to prevent failure

• IP Storage


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Where we are heading

• Single Pane of Glass for all Environments

• Rapid Provision of physicals via Orchestration engine

• Better Self Service

• Seamless Migration between Full and OS partitioned platforms

• “Scale-down”


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Areas we need to shift mindset internal

• Application coding transformation– Solution: Engage the App Architects early & often

• Understanding true App capacity needs– Solution: Educate & influence the developers

• Operating Practices (Business Unit & Operations)– Solution: Training, Training, Training


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Wrap up

Intuit and Parallels: Transforming IT into an internal Service Provider

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