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Seven Habits of
Highly Effective
Private Cloud
Architects
Cloud computing provides economics of scale. Many startups
go ahead with public cloud computing which helps them start
with no upfront infra costs and grow as the business grows.
However, in the case of enterprises, public cloud computing
does not serve as a silver bullet. There are security concerns
that prevents them from utilizing the benefits of public cloud
computing. However, that does not mean, enterprise applica-
tions cannot not get the advantages of Cloud. The private
cloud comes to the rescue. Private cloud is not only virtualiza-
tion.
This paper discusses the habits of successful private cloud ar-
chitects.
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What is Private Cloud?
Cloud computing provides economics of scale. Many startups go ahead with
public cloud computing which helps them start with no upfront infra costs and
grow as the business grows. However, in the case of enterprises, public cloud
computing does not serve as a silver bullet. There are security concerns that
prevents them from utilizing the benefits of public cloud computing. However,
that does not mean, enterprise applications cannot not get the advantages of
Cloud. The private cloud comes to the rescue. Private cloud is not only virtual-
ization. There is much more to it. The private cloud depends on
 Virtualization
 Elasticity
 Monitoring / Metering
Many organizations, have built successful private cloud implementations. A
new genre of Private cloud architects have popped in. A cloud architect is a
combination of enterprise architect, SOA architect and a cloud technologist.
To be a cloud architect, one must understand the basics of enterprise architec-
ture, be an expert in SOA Implementations and understand about IT and their
operations. Any cloud implementation involves all of these.
The cloud architect should be an expert in the existing cloud technologies –
public, private, hybrid and different types of cloud services like IAAS, PAAS,
and SAAS. A private cloud architect should have a good understanding of
competing cloud technologies.
The architect expertise differs based on if someone is a private cloud architect
or public cloud architect. Let’s go ahead and see the traits that constitute an
effective private cloud architect.
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The first and foremost thing for any cloud architect to consider is to define the
value proposition for building a private cloud environment internally. This
translates to taking some key decisions such as:
 Is going the cloud way necessary?
 Can public clouds solve the current infrastructure problems?
Cloud is not a silver bullet to all your organizations infrastructure problems.
Before going the cloud way, a proper cloud assessment has to be done based
on the enterprise applications portfolio. Some of the questions that you
should ask yourself are
1. How much time is going to be saved in provisioning new infrastructure?
This could be arrived at based on the SLA timings and existing data related
to the Request/ response times of the infrastructure / IT Ops team to pro-
vision infrastructure for new applications, or scale infrastructure for existing
applications
2. How much optimization of infrastructure usage will be achieved due to an
elastic private cloud implementation?
3. What is the current average infrastructure usage of applications? The appli-
cations burst in usage at specific times and most of the other times, the
infrastructure remains underutilized. This data can be fetched from differ-
ent server reports collected and calculated over a period of time.
In addition there are many questions that could be specific to each organiza-
tion. Taking all these into consideration, a cloud architect, takes a decision of
go or no go for the private cloud.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 1:
Defining your value proposition
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Before going ahead with any organization wide cloud strategy initiative, an-
other important thing to do is, standardize the applications. The standardiza-
tions could be at many levels.
 Technology
 Architecture of applications
 Release procedure of applications
Private cloud implementation will not be successful, if the processes/
Technologies in the organization are not standardized. Think of a scenario
where 40% of your enterprise apps uses Microsoft Technologies, 30% uses Ja-
va/J2EE, and the rest 30% uses other technologies, like Ruby / Python. What
will you optimize the cloud for?
One of the basic needs of cloud computing is SOA. The application architec-
ture should adhere to SOA principles, thereby getting more benefits of a
Cloud initiative. The Enterprise architecture has to be defined and followed by
applications. Apart from these, the organizations also conform to standards in
terms of data storage, external services integration, Application integration,
Intranet / Extranet Communication/integration.
How the applications are released in the organization? Is there a separate IT
Ops team, which takes care of infrastructure procurement and the release of
applications or individual projects maintain their own infrastructure? There
should be standardization, so that the processes are controlled and the private
cloud implementation could be optimized for the standardized organizational
processes.
A private cloud architect, go ahead, finds the general organizational practices
on the above mentioned areas and devises a plan for standardization which
involves least effort. Then it should be ensured that the majority of the appli-
cations that are in the cloud migration path conform to these standards.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 2:
Standardizing applications
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Basic tenets of cloud computing is pooled resources. Cloud architects should
plan for consolidation of the infrastructure and virtualize. Though a set of
pooled resources alone does not make a private cloud, it is the first step in any
private cloud implementation.
Viewing the entire hardware infrastructure, data center as a set of pooled vir-
tualized resources is essential for a successful private cloud implementation.
Architects decide on various technologies for virtualization. VMWare, Mi-
crosoft Hyper v are some of the solutions that are popular and widely adopted
in enterprises.
The Virtual machines need to be managed and provisioned in an effortless
and efficient manner. Creating a resource management layer on top of the Vir-
tualized resources is the next priority of the Cloud architect. There are prod-
ucts/tools available for these. e.g. VM Ware DRS. Microsoft Hyper-v provides
Resource management capabilities too.
Given a set of system requirements, the tools should be available to provision
resources by administrators.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 3:
Think virtualization
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Many of the enterprise architectures align to services. The private cloud archi-
tect has to come up with ways of providing the entire Infrastructure / resource
as a service to the consumers (application teams in the organizations). The
service layer is built on top of Virtualization layer in the private cloud. The Plat-
form required should also be provided as a service.
Different aspects of the virtualized infrastructure like provisioning should be
exposed as services. This involves building APIs and tools that interact with the
Virtualized environment.
The Infrastructure should be provided as different service templates. Example
– a small database VM template could include a SQL server DB standard edi-
tion instance with 100 GB of storage and one active passive cluster combina-
tion. This allows the application teams to choose their configuration quickly.
The cloud architects should analyze different usage and deployment scenarios
and come up with different server templates suited to the organization. This
also could be based on category of applications or portfolio of applications.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 4:
Breathe services
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Private cloud architects, tend to automate, as much of the process as they can
in a typical private cloud implementation. The services that are built around
private cloud help them automate procedures of provisioning.
A typical infrastructure request looks like this:
The manual intervention in the process should be as minimal as possible. In-
ternal Services should be available for creating a new Provisioning requests
and the approval workflow mechanism. After these two steps are done, the
actual provisioning of the VMs begin, based on the services built on top of the
resource management layer. The automated provisioning system, queries the
pool of resources and makes sure, all the elements in the request could be
satisfied. Once the provisioning system is sure it has to go ahead and provi-
sion the infrastructure.
The automated provisioning system, brings down the entire infrastructure pro-
visioning from months to hours, and enable the application teams’ to start
with lower instances.
As a cloud architect, one should look at all the steps in the process that could
be automated and plan for them.
There should be systems to monitor the performance of the existing machine
instances and automatically increase or downsize the capacity, thereby opti-
mizing the usage. The design of efficient systems with least manual interven-
tion to automate provisioning and maintenance of the VMs will result in a very
high cost effective, customer friendly private cloud implementation.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 5:
Automate
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Cloud architects should be crazy about security. Testing every element of their
implementation for security becomes a habit. The fact that every piece of in-
frastructure is within the firewall does not mean the security is taken care of.
Think through all the best security implementations at different levels. Be it,
the hardening of the servers or robust and secure services and API.
Architects should plan for the penetration testing of their environment and be
crazy about the security implementations. Not only about a malicious user
getting access to the environment, but also the authorization issues within the
valid user base. One application developer should not be able to get access to
any of the elements of Private cloud of other Application.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 6:
Defining your value proposition
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The success of a private cloud implementation depends on the monitoring
and measuring mechanisms in place. A private cloud architect should plan and
create templates for different reports. Also tools around monitoring mecha-
nisms should be put in place. These monitoring mechanisms should provide
feedback to the automation tools that we discussed earlier.
Measuring the behavior of different application instances in the private cloud,
enable the decision making process of optimizing the private cloud imple-
mentation.
Keeping a tab on the private cloud utilization and performance and improving
it continuously should be a continuous activity for any private cloud architect.
This ensures that private cloud evolves over a period of time, to a more opti-
mal one for the organization.
What are the layers of
Architecture?
Habit 7:
Monitor and measure
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7 habits of highly effective private cloud architects

  • 1. 1www.aditi.com Seven Habits of Highly Effective Private Cloud Architects Cloud computing provides economics of scale. Many startups go ahead with public cloud computing which helps them start with no upfront infra costs and grow as the business grows. However, in the case of enterprises, public cloud computing does not serve as a silver bullet. There are security concerns that prevents them from utilizing the benefits of public cloud computing. However, that does not mean, enterprise applica- tions cannot not get the advantages of Cloud. The private cloud comes to the rescue. Private cloud is not only virtualiza- tion. This paper discusses the habits of successful private cloud ar- chitects. www.aditi.com
  • 2. 2www.aditi.com What is Private Cloud? Cloud computing provides economics of scale. Many startups go ahead with public cloud computing which helps them start with no upfront infra costs and grow as the business grows. However, in the case of enterprises, public cloud computing does not serve as a silver bullet. There are security concerns that prevents them from utilizing the benefits of public cloud computing. However, that does not mean, enterprise applications cannot not get the advantages of Cloud. The private cloud comes to the rescue. Private cloud is not only virtual- ization. There is much more to it. The private cloud depends on  Virtualization  Elasticity  Monitoring / Metering Many organizations, have built successful private cloud implementations. A new genre of Private cloud architects have popped in. A cloud architect is a combination of enterprise architect, SOA architect and a cloud technologist. To be a cloud architect, one must understand the basics of enterprise architec- ture, be an expert in SOA Implementations and understand about IT and their operations. Any cloud implementation involves all of these. The cloud architect should be an expert in the existing cloud technologies – public, private, hybrid and different types of cloud services like IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS. A private cloud architect should have a good understanding of competing cloud technologies. The architect expertise differs based on if someone is a private cloud architect or public cloud architect. Let’s go ahead and see the traits that constitute an effective private cloud architect.
  • 3. 3www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI The first and foremost thing for any cloud architect to consider is to define the value proposition for building a private cloud environment internally. This translates to taking some key decisions such as:  Is going the cloud way necessary?  Can public clouds solve the current infrastructure problems? Cloud is not a silver bullet to all your organizations infrastructure problems. Before going the cloud way, a proper cloud assessment has to be done based on the enterprise applications portfolio. Some of the questions that you should ask yourself are 1. How much time is going to be saved in provisioning new infrastructure? This could be arrived at based on the SLA timings and existing data related to the Request/ response times of the infrastructure / IT Ops team to pro- vision infrastructure for new applications, or scale infrastructure for existing applications 2. How much optimization of infrastructure usage will be achieved due to an elastic private cloud implementation? 3. What is the current average infrastructure usage of applications? The appli- cations burst in usage at specific times and most of the other times, the infrastructure remains underutilized. This data can be fetched from differ- ent server reports collected and calculated over a period of time. In addition there are many questions that could be specific to each organiza- tion. Taking all these into consideration, a cloud architect, takes a decision of go or no go for the private cloud. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 1: Defining your value proposition
  • 4. 4www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI Before going ahead with any organization wide cloud strategy initiative, an- other important thing to do is, standardize the applications. The standardiza- tions could be at many levels.  Technology  Architecture of applications  Release procedure of applications Private cloud implementation will not be successful, if the processes/ Technologies in the organization are not standardized. Think of a scenario where 40% of your enterprise apps uses Microsoft Technologies, 30% uses Ja- va/J2EE, and the rest 30% uses other technologies, like Ruby / Python. What will you optimize the cloud for? One of the basic needs of cloud computing is SOA. The application architec- ture should adhere to SOA principles, thereby getting more benefits of a Cloud initiative. The Enterprise architecture has to be defined and followed by applications. Apart from these, the organizations also conform to standards in terms of data storage, external services integration, Application integration, Intranet / Extranet Communication/integration. How the applications are released in the organization? Is there a separate IT Ops team, which takes care of infrastructure procurement and the release of applications or individual projects maintain their own infrastructure? There should be standardization, so that the processes are controlled and the private cloud implementation could be optimized for the standardized organizational processes. A private cloud architect, go ahead, finds the general organizational practices on the above mentioned areas and devises a plan for standardization which involves least effort. Then it should be ensured that the majority of the appli- cations that are in the cloud migration path conform to these standards. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 2: Standardizing applications
  • 5. 5www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI Basic tenets of cloud computing is pooled resources. Cloud architects should plan for consolidation of the infrastructure and virtualize. Though a set of pooled resources alone does not make a private cloud, it is the first step in any private cloud implementation. Viewing the entire hardware infrastructure, data center as a set of pooled vir- tualized resources is essential for a successful private cloud implementation. Architects decide on various technologies for virtualization. VMWare, Mi- crosoft Hyper v are some of the solutions that are popular and widely adopted in enterprises. The Virtual machines need to be managed and provisioned in an effortless and efficient manner. Creating a resource management layer on top of the Vir- tualized resources is the next priority of the Cloud architect. There are prod- ucts/tools available for these. e.g. VM Ware DRS. Microsoft Hyper-v provides Resource management capabilities too. Given a set of system requirements, the tools should be available to provision resources by administrators. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 3: Think virtualization
  • 6. 6www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI Many of the enterprise architectures align to services. The private cloud archi- tect has to come up with ways of providing the entire Infrastructure / resource as a service to the consumers (application teams in the organizations). The service layer is built on top of Virtualization layer in the private cloud. The Plat- form required should also be provided as a service. Different aspects of the virtualized infrastructure like provisioning should be exposed as services. This involves building APIs and tools that interact with the Virtualized environment. The Infrastructure should be provided as different service templates. Example – a small database VM template could include a SQL server DB standard edi- tion instance with 100 GB of storage and one active passive cluster combina- tion. This allows the application teams to choose their configuration quickly. The cloud architects should analyze different usage and deployment scenarios and come up with different server templates suited to the organization. This also could be based on category of applications or portfolio of applications. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 4: Breathe services
  • 7. 7www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI Private cloud architects, tend to automate, as much of the process as they can in a typical private cloud implementation. The services that are built around private cloud help them automate procedures of provisioning. A typical infrastructure request looks like this: The manual intervention in the process should be as minimal as possible. In- ternal Services should be available for creating a new Provisioning requests and the approval workflow mechanism. After these two steps are done, the actual provisioning of the VMs begin, based on the services built on top of the resource management layer. The automated provisioning system, queries the pool of resources and makes sure, all the elements in the request could be satisfied. Once the provisioning system is sure it has to go ahead and provi- sion the infrastructure. The automated provisioning system, brings down the entire infrastructure pro- visioning from months to hours, and enable the application teams’ to start with lower instances. As a cloud architect, one should look at all the steps in the process that could be automated and plan for them. There should be systems to monitor the performance of the existing machine instances and automatically increase or downsize the capacity, thereby opti- mizing the usage. The design of efficient systems with least manual interven- tion to automate provisioning and maintenance of the VMs will result in a very high cost effective, customer friendly private cloud implementation. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 5: Automate
  • 8. 8www.aditi.com ABOUT ADITI Cloud architects should be crazy about security. Testing every element of their implementation for security becomes a habit. The fact that every piece of in- frastructure is within the firewall does not mean the security is taken care of. Think through all the best security implementations at different levels. Be it, the hardening of the servers or robust and secure services and API. Architects should plan for the penetration testing of their environment and be crazy about the security implementations. Not only about a malicious user getting access to the environment, but also the authorization issues within the valid user base. One application developer should not be able to get access to any of the elements of Private cloud of other Application. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 6: Defining your value proposition
  • 9. 9www.aditi.com The success of a private cloud implementation depends on the monitoring and measuring mechanisms in place. A private cloud architect should plan and create templates for different reports. Also tools around monitoring mecha- nisms should be put in place. These monitoring mechanisms should provide feedback to the automation tools that we discussed earlier. Measuring the behavior of different application instances in the private cloud, enable the decision making process of optimizing the private cloud imple- mentation. Keeping a tab on the private cloud utilization and performance and improving it continuously should be a continuous activity for any private cloud architect. This ensures that private cloud evolves over a period of time, to a more opti- mal one for the organization. What are the layers of Architecture? Habit 7: Monitor and measure
  • 10. www.aditi.com USA WEST JONATHAN PARKER jonathanp@aditi.com USA CENTRAL JOHN SCHINDLER johns@aditi.com USA EAST UMESH WASON umeshw@aditi.com EMEA KAUSHIK BANERJEE kaushikb@aditi.com APAC PAWAN BORAR pawanb@aditi.com Microsoft Cloud Partner of the Year We take our own medicine. We run our own apps on Azure. We help Microsoft's internal IT implement Azure. 65+ companies trust us with Azure. ABOUT US Aditi helps ISVs, web businesses and enterprises lev- erage the power of cloud, social and mobile to drive competitive advantage. Our global leadership in Az-ure transformation is established around 3 core strengths: Deep global partnership with Microsoft IP led transformation acceleration services 100+ delta force team on Azure To learn more, visit www.aditi.com