Aligning Your Cloud Service Delivery
to Your Customer’s Needs
Eric M. Hui | Director – Service Provider Markets Asia Pacific September, 2014
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Context
Control
Flexibility
Management
Choice
Best of Breed
Management
Global Public Cloud Market Size is
Growing 14% Annually
2012 2016 Management & Security IaaS PaaS ~$110B ~$212BMore Choices in a Growing Cloud Provider Market …
“Cloud is an essential ingredient for participating in the
next 20 years of growth and innovation…in the IT
industry, as well as every industry that depends on IT”
– Gartner (Feb 2013)
4 0 10 20 30 40 50% Data
security Cost-uncertainsavings Loss ofcontrol ComplianceRegulatory Reliability portabilityData compatibilitySW Performance Lock-in
Top Barriers to Cloud Adoption
Security, cost, and loss of control are the largest challenges
Source: AlphaWise, Morgan Stanley Research
Many of these challenges arise from
accessing the cloud over the public
Internet
“Through 2015, at least 50% of Cloud deployments will suffer from
business-impacting performance issues, requiring extensive network
redesign to address them”- Gartner
Vision of
Cloud Exchange
A network is as elastic as the cloud services it enables
Provide differentiated value to the CSP / NSP / ENT
Enterprise: Seamless access to the multi-cloud, multi-network
Cloud Provider: Access to the enterprise globally and right NSP for delivery Network Provider: Access to ecosystem of margin-rich services from the CSP
API will create a new
service creation
environment
Seamless intelligent
interconnection
Mapping of multiple resources within a single VLAN© 2014 Equinix Inc. www.equinix.com 6
Equinix Cloud Exchange
An Ethernet switching service that enables private virtual connections for direct
cloud access with automated provisioning
Benefits
• One to many virtual connections to multiple cloud providers
• Direct, secure, private connection • Automated, near real-time
provisioning
• Consistent throughput and low latency
• Cost-effective
• Flexible connectivity options
Features
• Layer 2 Ethernet service • 200M, 500M, 1G virtual
connections on 1GB or 10GB physical ports
• 99.999% High availability platform • 19 Global markets supported • Integrated APIs and Portal
Enabling Workload Connectivity
Latency & Throughput-sensitive, Control & Security-Oriented Enterprise Applications
Control & Security-oriented
Disaster Recovery Compliant Data
Unified Communications
Storage, backup,
and recovery
BI/big data
Dev/test lab
Hybrid apps Media
Productivity
apps
Workloads Addressed
Latency & Throughput-sensitive
Virtual Desktop Service Chaining
Big Data, Business Intelligence & Data Store
Transient and Short-term
Development/Test Hybrid apps
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APIs and Portal
Making direct access to the cloud easy, real-time and scalable
APIs
Cloud Exchange Portal
• Leverages Ethernet Exchange platform and expertise • Equinix manages API mapping sparing customers from
reacting to multiple API updates • Normalized interface
• Uses APIgee enterprise-grade API Management
End Customer Process
1. Select location and cloud provider 2. Select virtual circuit speed
3. Enter cloud service key or service identifier 4. Virtual circuit provisioned in 5 minutes
NSP-facing API Cloud Service Provider NSP CSP-facing API
API Roadmap
Equinix Cloud Exchange Availability
Deployment plan includes 19 top-tier metros globally
Asia Pacific –
launched July 1
st•
Hong Kong
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Singapore
•
Sydney
•
Tokyo
Asia Pacific – To Launch Q1 2015
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Cloud Exchange Use Case:
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery Challenges
Common problems with connecting an enterprise data center to public clouds
1. Unreliable performance, especially when using public Internet 2. Security and compliance concerns 3. IT skill gaps in integrating clouds 4. Inflexible infrastructure and limited connectivity options on the enterprise side
Customer Premises
NetApp Private Storage Replication to Secondary Site Branch Location Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service – Compute,Storage, and Other Services
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Cloud DR on Platform Equinix
Enabling
Performance, Security and Scalability
Disaster Recovery Use Case
Replicate application data from customer facility to array at Equinix Use AWS/Azure via Cloud
Exchange for cloud-based compute while keeping data on array
(Optional) Replicate setup between multiple AWS availability zones over private link
A B
C
Equinix IBX Data Center Equinix IBX Data Center
Cloud availability zone: Tokyo/Hong Kong Cloud availability zone: Singapore
B NetApp Private Storage NetApp Private Storage Private Link C Customer Premises NetApp Private Storage A
Cloud Exchange Use Case:
VDI Scaling
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VDI Scaling
Remote Users
Windows AD / VDI
Virtual Circuit Virtual Circuit
AWS Azure
VDI Farm
Customer Premises
Dynamic Cloud Bursting
VDI Farm
VDI Scaling Use Case
Leverage Application Delivery Control Solution to control “bursting”
Use AWS or Azure via Cloud Exchange for secure VDI access
Keep Windows AD or LDAP authentication in Equinix DC A A B C A B C
