Does hybrid cloud work? 5 success stories using a VMware vCloud-based cloud solution. Learn how to successfully implement a hybrid cloud strategy while capitalizing on your existing vSphere and VMware technology. What you'll learn: - How to place your workload between public, private, and non-cloud for optimal efficiency. - Hear hybrid cloud success stories on identifying the need and implementing a solution. - How to make your hybrid cloud strategy work for you to save you money.

1. Does Hybrid Cloud Work?
Five Stories of Success
with VMware-Based Hybrid Clouds

2. Let’s Get Acquainted
Jake Robinson Bryan Bond
Solutions Architect Senior Systems Engineer
Bluelock eMeter, a Siemens Company
Moderator: Alicia Gaba, Marketing Manager at Bluelock 2

3. Why Hybrid?
“Our Bluelock Virtual Datacenters look and act like an
extension of our own datacenter, and while the cost
savings have been beneficial, the development team
has more flexibility than ever and that means we can
create new options for our customers in the future.
We couldn’t be happier with the results of this
relationship.” - Bryan Bond
Senior systems administrator, Siemens (eMeter)

4. Primer 1
Hybrid cloud consumers
Application owners,
Infrastructure Owners
and Finding A Path to Cloud

5. Needs are different
Role: Infrastructure Owner (IT)
Objective: Efficiency
Challenges:
– Pressured to be all things to all people
– Conflicting priorities
– Lack of resources
– World is changing
Role: Application owner (Business unit)
Objective: Agility
Challenges:
– Not always a priority to IT
– Lack of control
– No visibility into technology costs
– Needs are always changing

6. We See Three Approaches to Building Cloud Infrastructures
1
Walk before Follows Virtualization Journey path…first target
you run low-hanging fruit and evolve from there…
2
Pick a Build out cloud infrastructure to serve a specific
Project project or effort
3
Re-think Transform entire infrastructure to a Cloud in
everything one shot

7. Primer 2
Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Horizontal and Vertical

8. Hybrid Cloud
Horizontal workload placement
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Secure

9. Hybrid Cloud
Vertical workload placement options
SaaS SaaS

10. How apps are moving around

11. Success Story #1
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12. DevCentral Cloud Architecture

13. Virtual Datacenter Models
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14. Working together
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15. Success Story #2
US based global
consumer electronics
manufacturer

16. Management of multiple clouds
CONTROL PANEL
PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

17. Hybrid Cloud Management Tools
vCloud Director

18. Workloads in motion
CONTROL PANEL
PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

19. TCO: Cost as a Consideration
(Chargeback/Showback)
“Cost by Resource”
Images from Bluelock Portfolio™

20. Making cost visible changes behavior!
“Cost by Application”
Images from Bluelock Portfolio™

21. Being extremely efficient
Manage Virtual Datacenter 1

22. Avoiding a bad user experience
Manage Virtual Datacenter 1

23. Success Story #3
“Buying time”
(Fortune 500 Retail Grocery
Chain)
Best produce aisle, ever!

24. Migration between clouds
Boomerang phenomena!
CONTROL PANEL
PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD NON-CLOUD

25. Success Story #4
“Lowering risk”
Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical
Company
Keeping you alive and happy!

26. Lifetime of a workload
Scenario 1
- Successful application
- It takes off & investments/usage
continue at a rapid pace
Scenario 2
- Application is developed & continues
to be needed but no incremental
investments are needed
Scenario 3
- Application is developed but future
investment not continued because of
change in business priorities or
cancellation of project

27. Success Story #5

28. About
• eMeter is the leader in energy information
management
• eMeter's suite of applications provide the
fastest path to turning meter data into
usable information for business units and
customers.
• In January 2012, Siemens added eMeter
Corporation to the Smart Grid Division of
the Siemens Infrastructure & Cities
Sector, creating eMeter, A Siemens
Business.

29. eMeter’s Cloud Initiative
• eMeter needed to provide around the clock
development and testing
– Allow teams around the world to utilize a common
infrastructure
– Offer scalable infrastructure to meet customer needs
– Needed to be based on VMware’s cloud architecture
and technology
• Looked at public cloud to simplify IT operations
and provide high security
• Initiative has now grown to serve training courses
in a hybrid cloud environment

30. Why Bluelock?
• Experienced leader in the vCloud space
– VMware vCloud® Datacenter Service Provider
– At the time, they were positioned as a “Leader” in
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS (Dec
2011)
– Highly knowledgeable & experienced in vCloud
Director for public and hybrid cloud
• Bluelock offered proper security accreditations and
strong physical security & met eMeter’s need for
control over security devices, alerts and audits
• Acted as a partner and advisor, not just an
infrastructure provider

31. Cloud Deployment Technologies
• Began with Proof-of-concept environment
• eMeter is now deployed on 2 Bluelock Virtual
Datacenters
– Test/dev VDC
– Training course VDC
• Use vCloud Director to manage the cloud
infrastructure resources
• Bluelock Portfolio™
– Enables visibility into current and planned usage,
cost and analysis data

32. Benefits of VMware Hybrid Cloud
• Improved user experience and better
performance
• Increased flexibility for development team
and training courses
• Significant savings on capital outlay
• Access to new deployment options for
customers
• Less worries about security

33. So, now what?
• What do you do with these stories of
success?
• Where do you begin your successful
hybrid cloud journey?
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34. Thank You for Your Time
Please join us for our next webinar
“How to Plan Your 2013
Budget with Cloud in Mind”
November 29, 2012
1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT
Find Jake on Twitter
Registration is open now. @JakeRobinson
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