Accelerating the

Deployment of Emerging
Cloud Trends in 2016

Presenter
Background
An IT professional with over 30 years of experience in developing,
designing, testing, validating, delivering and marketing end-to-end data
solutions to Service Provider and Enterprise customers.

Project Experience
AT&T Hosting CaaS, PaaS and STaaS Design and Deployment Project
AT&T Consolidation and Application Rationalization Projects
Managed Hosting Private Cloud Migration Project for BNSF Railroad
Data Center Strategy and Roadmap Engagement for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

John Cupit, 320843

Director, Cloud and DC Solutions
Global Solution Elite Team
john.cupit@huawei.com
+1-972-333-1839
Plano, Texas

Cloud-Based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution for Meritor, Inc.

Specialist Skills
Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud Model Design and
Deployment
Data Center Consolidation and Transformation
Assessments
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions
ITIL Best Practices and Maturity Assessments
IT System Design and Integration

Communication Skill
English (native)

Agenda

Trends and Challenges in the Cloud Marketplace

Case Studies Enterprise Transformation via Cloud

How can Huawei Help?
Summary and Questions

Why Should You Care?

The emerging cloud trends create strategic

imperatives for the Enterprise.
They are evidence of further transformation in the
Enterprise
IT as a Support Platform to Value Generating Platform
Focus shifts from support of devices to support of user
context

The trends support competitive differentiation

They have to be considered collectively not
unilaterally

Key Trends in the Cloud Marketplace

Computing Everywhere
The Internet of Things
Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics
Context-Rich Systems
Smart Machines
The Rise of the Container Movement

Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure

Web-Scale IT
Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection

Emerging Trends are Driving Toward an Agile, Next

Generation Infrastructure
Trends toward Agile Infrastructures
Data Center

SOA, SaaS,
Commoditization, Cloud
Computing

Shared Services - Orchestration and

provisioning beyond the traditional Data
Center Firewall

Workplace

Mobility, greener

Network

Convergence:
VOIP Mashups

Enterprise networks: Unified

Communications, IP Telephony,
Seamless Collaboration, HighPerformance CRM

IT Service
Excellence

Industrialized operations :
ITIL v3

Continuous improvement, robust

services and service : BSM, selfprovisioning/healing, Service Level
Management

workplaces

are driving toward Next

Generation Infrastructures

Unified Communications and

Collaboration: Thin Clients, SaaS, Social
Computing

that seamlessly
integrate traditional fixed
infrastructure with both
on-premise and offpremise cloud computing
capabilities to provide a
flexible pool of compute
resources managed
seamlessly as if one
environment.

Cloud Taxonomy Considerations

Cloud

Source: IDC

The Opportunity
Most of the IT investments made today are not directly adding value to the business

Today operating and maintaining enterprise applications / infrastructure takes the lion share
of effort and resource intensive activities
Utilize Cloud, Agile Data Center techniques and Converged Infrastructure to create a Value
Generating Platform

In conjunction with Pre-Packaged Industry Solutions, the aim is to ensure shortest time to
market to enable the required capabilities for the Enterprise

Business

Applicatio
n

Infrastructure

The Potential is Significant: Value-Add on Three Levels

IT Business Value

3. Let the CEO explore new business

models that surpass the limitations of
the traditional non-cloud model
3. Create new cloud-enabled
business model(s)

2. Use elastic services to change the way

business processes are executed and
unlock constrained opportunities

2. Optimize current business

processes & model using cloud

1. Optimize existing IT
1. Leverage IT capabilities to provide
more efficient and elastic services to
the business

Value
Today

Time

Potential
Value

Challenge #1 IT Transformation
Single, Closed -> Distributed, Open Architecture

Cloud OS

1955 1980

1980 2014

2015 & Beyond

Single system
HW, SW tightly coupled
Closed architecture

Smokestacksystems
HW, SW decoupled
Semi-open architecture

Physically distributed,
Logically managed,
Open architecture

323
Companies

Members: 24 Total
Sponsors: 51 Total
Supporters: 201 Total

CUMULATIVE
CONTRIBUTORS

AVERAGE MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTORS

2,052 400
OpenStack Momentum

INDIVIDUAL
MEMBERS

(Mem bers + Sponsors + Supporters)

ECOSYSTEM SIZE

Challenge #2 The Proprietary Tax

Proprietary -> Open

14,565

PATCHES
MERGED

TOP 10 Countries
1) United States
2) China
3) India
4) Great Britain
5) France

20,000+
Havana Release Six Months

6) Russia
7) Australia
8) Canada
9) Japan
10) Germany

Challenge #3 - Value Shifts to Software and Services

Hardware Defined -> Software Defined

HARDWARE-Defined Approach

Software Layer

Manual Operations

PROPRIETARY
HARDWARE

Intelligence

SOFTWARE-Defined Approach

SOFTWARE
LAYER

Intelligence

Automated Operations
Existing Hardware

IT Struggles to Keep Up

IT Moves at the Speed of the

Business

Challenge #4 Achieving Web Scale

Server-Centric Silos

Web-Scale Cloud
(Converged Cloud)

Unit of Scale

Add VMs (<10) for long term use

Spawning and releasing

hundreds of VMs in seconds..
With Chef/Puppet via APIs

Software Architecture

Tightly coupled singled instance apps

(vertical scaling)

Loosely coupled multi-instance

apps (horizontal scaling)

Fault Tolerance

In Hardware, With vMotion DR/HA

Built into the applications

State Management

App-centric database for transactional

processing with one definitive record

Stateless apps with state

maintained in multiple content
stores for redundancy

# of Sites per App

Max 2

2+ can start to take advantage

of location closer to
customers

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Case Studies
DRaaS Manufacturing
Distributed Cloud Architecture Media

DRaaS Case Study Summary

Solution Value/Benefits

Customer Challenge/Objectives

Primary and Secondary Managed Data Center locations were less

than one mile from each other. A disaster event at the Primary DC
would have impacted Secondary DC site
Heterogenous Storage Architecture made remote replication of data
sets very complex
Customer did not have Runbooks or an executable DR Plan even
though they had an existing BCP

Response

A BCP gap assessment was conducted which analyzed several viable

DRaaS solution alternatives from a technical and business
perspective
A DraaS solution was selected and deployed utilizing OpenStack
Resource Pool approach
Runbook templates were created for the selected DRaaS solution

DRaaS solution facilitated automation of DR

process
DRaaS solution was located over 2000 miles from
production environment
Runbooks were created to facilitate operational
consistency
Standardization of DC architecture across multiple
DCs
Continuous availability of Tier 1 applications
Segmentation of DR solution to support different
RTOs across the application stack
Solution reduced annual DR costs by $34 Million
USD

Key Solution Features

Heavy Equipment Manufacturer primarily

serving Military customers.

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Segment Tier 1, 2 and 3 applications in DR solution

Deploy DRaaS solution in managed hosting site

outside of region in which production DC was
located

Utilize 4 hour RTO and near zero RPO for Tier 1

applications

Assist Xinhua News Agency to Build Globally Distributed

Cloud Data Centers
Customer Requirements

Existing architecture cannot support omnimedia & global

service strategy.

Insufficient O&M engineers for service expansion.

Solutions

Two-layer architecture: HQ & regional centers. HQ provides

general services, regional center provides customized services.

VDC and right and domainbased management for secondary

units.

"Huawei's distributed cloud DC solution perfectly meets our

planning objectives to build a globally distributed cloud computing

Benefits

system with multiple DCs centering on the headquarters, oriented

to global services. The solution also supported our emerging media

Operational Efficiency is improved by a factor of 5 X.

Service rollout time shortened from 90 days to 1 week.

O&M efficiency improved from 50 to 300 per person, no

development as well as our strategic transition to an omnimedia

organization."

Xinhua News Agency

additional O&M engineers for new cloud platform.

How Can Huawei Help?

Make IT Efficient and Elastic, Make Business Agile

Current

Goal

O&M

TCO of Data Center Infrastructure

Bandwidth

OPEX

Power

Cloud

TTM
Agility
Innovation
O&M

Server

Bandwidth
Power
Storage

Cloud

CAPEX

Server

Network
Storage
Facilities

OPEX

Network
Facilities

CAPEX

Shared Elastic Resource Pools Minimal Node

Architecture utilizing FusionSphere/FusionCube
EDW

OS

All In
One

CRM

Billing

LINUX

MS
Exchange

OA/
DNS/AD/E
mail/VDI

Oracle
DB

ERP

Other DC for DR and

Remote Backup

UNIX

Windows

X86 Virtualization or Physical X86

Resource Pool

FMS
&RA

UNIX Virtualization or Physical

UNIX Resource Pool

Data-Level DR Environment

Storage Network

Business Network
Storage Network

Remote VTL Backup

WAN

Huawei
Storage
Virtualization
EMC
Storage Pool
FC SAN Disk Array

HP

Local Data Backup

(CV Server)

Storage
Replication
(VIS)
AND
SAN
Storage

Local VTL Storage

Physical
Tape

Physica
l Tape

Optional

Main Production DC
Converged heterogeneous virtualization to reduce reliance on one technology & reduce costs
Lower cost virtualization platform to reduce cost
Appropriate data protection Tiered Data Protection

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MNA DC Logical Architecture Layer Concepts

Service Center (SC)

Management
Layer

DR Management (Optional)

Maintenance Center (OC)

User
management

Service catalog

Self-service
network

Alarm
management

Performance
management

Health analysis

DR strategy

Visible DR

Service
request

Process
approval

Service
automation

Topology
management

Capacity
management

Risk analysis

DR drill

DR switchover

Alarms, topology, capacity, and performance

Open API

eSight

Security zone

Third-party
monitoring

Security zone

VDC-1

VDC-2

VRouter

Service Layer

Logical Layers
Security zone

VRouter

VFW
VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

Data Center A

VM

Data Center B

Virtualization
Layer
Network resource pool

Computing resource pool

Network resource pool

Storage resource pool

Computing resource pool

AZ
Physical DC
Infrastructure
Layer
Data Center A

Data Center B

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Data Center C

Storage resource pool

Infrastructure Layer: provides

physical computing, storage, and
network resources.
Virtualization Layer: implements
computing, storage, and network
resource pooling.
Service Layer: provides various cloud
services in the tenant VDC.
Management Layer: provides the
global cloud DC operation,
maintenance, and DR management
capabilities on the domain level.

The Transformation Process

Strategic Cycle
What is the strategic imperative?
Engagement of Leadership in transformation

Planning Cycle
Current State
Future State Vision
Transformation Plan

Execution Cycle
Implementation Results
Strategic Implications of Transformation

The Transformation Roadmap

How Do I Start the Journey?

What is the ultimate Corporate strategy? The IT Strategy must be linked with the Corporate
Strategy moving forward.
Dont focus too much time on the technology decisions these are not the most important
considerations
Discover your infrastructure
Discover your applications and application dependencies
Engage in Application Rationalization what can be replaced; what can be virtualized
Facility evaluation Retrofit, Build, Colo
Evaluate viable solution alternatives based on your discovery information
Choose a solution based on your established requirements
Migration strategy is driven by several considerations:
Bandwidth between existing sites and new sites
Use of swing gear where appropriate
The need to change data formats
BC/DR requirements
Hypervisor changes
The need to utilize new O/S licenses
How much application reinstall will be required?

GRACIAS