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Managed Grid Services and SaaS at COLT
Service Migration and the CGP
Frank Falcon
COLT Managed Services
COLT today
MAN with Data Centres
IP/MPLS
MAN
> 15,000km
European fibre network
COLT connected
city cities
connecting
100+
Ethernet
Operational network
> Typically
96 fibres/route
managed
end-to-end
> Latest 10Gbit/s optical technology
DWDM
Amsterdam
Hamburg
London
Berlin
> 5,000km access networks in 32 European cities
> Industry-leading services
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Frankfurt
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> First Ethernet service in 1993
> Ethernet over SDH from 2003
Zuric
> Switched Ethernet services from 2005
Turin
> 14 data centres fully integrated
with fibre network
Madrid
> 60,000 sq metres data centre space
> Security Operations Centre
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SDH
Barcelona
Milan
COLT evolution
Embracing Innovation within COLT
> Innovation is a fundamental driver for Colt as it evolves and it has
embraced appropriate innovative developments to create a
compelling company-wide Vision
Helping customers evolve
> Colt has recognised that Service Providers need to work closely with
customers to help them with the transition from the IT-centric world
of today to the web-centric world of tomorrow
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Evolutionary drivers
1. Legacy applications
> Virtualisation of delivery capabilities at every level of the stack is driving
Service migration
> Services are moving to “on demand”
> Migration path to the emerging Web-centric world
> Seamless and cost-effective
> Continuity of operations
> NO re-engineering of application software
2. Web-centric applications
> New applications from “mashing” plus ASP-type hosting
> Incorporate New and Legacy applications into delivery model
What are the challenges for each ……?
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1. Legacy applications challenges
Within the Enterprise Data Centre
environment
> Lack of agility due to statically-bound
resources
> Applications are over-provisioned to peak
loads
> Will not scale dynamically or adapt in any
way
> Difficult to align resources with business
imperatives
> Rising complexity and Total Cost of
Ownership
> Server sprawl – physical and virtual
> Rising operational costs
> Distributed systems are costly to manage
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> Increasing space, power, and cooling costs
App A
App B
App C
Product
Infrastructure
Product
Infrastructure
Product
Infrastructure
Staging
Environment
High Availability
DR
Staging
Environment
Test and
Development
Staging
Environment
1. Legacy applications challenges
Within the Enterprise Data Centre
environment
> Lack of agility due to statically-bound
resources
> Applications are over-provisioned to peak
loads
> Will not scale dynamically or adapt in any
way
> Difficult to align resources with business
imperatives
> Rising complexity and Total Cost of
Ownership
> Server sprawl – physical and virtual
> Rising operational costs
> Distributed systems are costly to manage
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> Increasing space, power, and cooling costs
Meeting the
challenges needs:
1. Step-change
improvement in
operating costs
2. Future-proof
environment for
continuing operation
1. Legacy applications – addressing the challenges
> Currently challenges addressed on an individual basis
> Hardware configurations and efficiencies upgrades
> Operational Process revisions
> New management/information systems
> Produces incremental gains but no “step-change”
> Deliver “step-change” improvement through holistic services
> Undertake three key actions
> Harness virtualisation
> Create Service Migration Path
> Create suite of services
> What does this model look like…?
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1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
Applications
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
Applications
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
Application virtualisation – NO code re-engineering
> Usually application virtualisation is partial in that the application
software is allocated to a Cluster within which execution can be
managed across the cluster resources
> Full application virtualisation is the complete separation of the
application software from the hardware it executes upon. Run-time
execution is directed across clusters by an intelligent device on a
task-by-task basis
> Typically provided by wrapping the native application in a wrapper
that specifies all the run-time parameters and submitting to the runtime intelligent controller
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1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
What services will deliver
the Step-change?
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
Applications
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
Utility
Compute
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
Applications
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
Utility computing model
> A “dynamic-infrastructure” only play within Providers‘ environment
> Service Providers create capability for on-demand provisioning and sharing of their IT
resource platform
> Service Providers offer Enterprise customers access to specified parts of this remote
compute environment on pay-as-you-go basis
> Applications/tasks allocated onto infrastructure assets
> Sophisticated Load-balancing and Cluster management ensure performance
parameters met by manipulating assets in pool
> Supports wide variety of real/virtual servers, OS, databases
> Customer benefits: NO software re-coding required; Low Capital expenditure; Peaks
met without having to address own internal IT utilisation inefficiencies; cost-effective
e.g. Sun Utility computing $1.00/cpu/hr; AT&T $0.35/cpu/hr
> Customer dis-benefits: No application-level guarantees; Must plan ahead and
forecast needs accurately; Staff with expert team; Self-Manage operations; Still
statically-bound at runtime
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1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
Virtualised
Applications
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Utility
Compute
Grid
Compute
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
Existing grid computing model
GRID Computing
> Application & dynamicinfrastructure play
> Grid engines incorporated within
the Enterprise customer’s own
LAN / Data Centre(s)
> Virtualises customers own IT
assets raising utilisation rates
from 5 ~ 10% to above 70%
AND
> Provides dynamic mapping of
Users and Applications to
resources (decouples jobs from
underlying infrastructure)
> Applications/tasks allocated on a
“pull” basis (polled)
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> Customer benefits:
> NO software re-coding required;
> Substantially reduces TCO (40% reduction in
hardware possible);
> Improves ROI by addressing utilisation inefficiencies
> Embryonic SLAs by Application performance
management & flexibility controls
> Multiple simultaneous application-execution
instances economically feasible
> Customer dis-benefits:
> Staff with expert team;
> Self-Manage operations;
> IT asset base limited by Firewall;
> Multi-node enterprise cannot utilise geographicallyspread assets easily.
> Network connectivity still “statically” provided
Grids today & next steps
> Well-established model
Enterprise
> Many operational Enterprise Grids
(some saturating)
> Provides application services to end-users
WANS
LANS
> Shares transparent resources across
multiple users
> Operates to parameters set by
Grid Administrator
Next step
> Provide explicit Application-level SLAs
with QOS guarantees to users
Grid Engine
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Extending the grid concept – the CGP
> Create Grid platform with Network
> Add Network controls to virtualise
connectivity – Adaptive Networks
Enterprise
WANS
LANS
> Use these to dynamically link to additional
IT resources across Grids
> Add controls for the whole virtualised
infrastructure through set of configurable
policies
> Encapsulate control within a Policy Engine
LINKED to Grid Engine
> Creates the COLT Grid Platform
- the CGP
What does the CGP enable…?
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Existing Grid Engine
IPVPN
COLT
IT Assets
COLT
Network
Networked Grid & Policy Engine
Extending the grid concept – the CGP
CGP enables COLT to provide
> Managed Grid Services with explicitly
specified Application-level SLAs
Enterprise
WANS
LANS
> Pro-active management of application
performance within secure environment
And additionally
> Provides a future-proof Service Migration
path…
> …through Managed Grid Services
Existing Grid Engine
IPVPN
COLT
IT Assets
COLT
Network
Networked Grid & Policy Engine
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1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
Virtualised
Applications
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Utility
Compute
Managed Grid
Services
Grid
Compute
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
Managed grid services model
Network-centric GRID Computing
> Application & dynamic-infrastructure
including network connectivity play
> Grid engines incorporated within the
COLT Network
> Virtualises customers own IT assets
together with the COLT IT assets and
network assets
> Adds a Policy Engine to the
management layer
> Provides dynamic mapping of Users
and Applications to resources under
the control of the Policy Engine
> Applications/tasks allocated/moved
anywhere into the Pool on a “push”
basis by the Policy and Grid engines
working in tandem
> Full application virtualisation with NO
code re-engineering
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> Provides compete end-to-end
virtualisation as a Network-centric
Managed Grid Service delivering
complete end-to-end managements
controls
> Pro-active management of applications
within a highly secure environment
Customer benefits:
> Provides Application-Level SLAs;
> SLAs provided at differing levels
mediated by customers QoS
requirements against costs
> SLAs tailored to meet individual
customer’s specific needs
> Staged buying/implementation
decisions with simple fall-back at each
stage
Full application virtualisation - Computational
Application
Developer
Development
GRID Services
API’s
Application
User Interface
● Submits
● Retrieves
● Status
Under control of a policy engine grid
engines send executables and data to
specific grid agents across grid cores
Native
Application
Submission
Build
Module
Native
Application
Policy
Engine
Registration
Self-extracting
XML wrapper
defining
environment
GRID Core
GRID
Engine
Existing grid engines send
executables and data to
capable grid agents in core
> Policy Engine enables dynamic DARK-SERVER working
> Pay ONLY when server is operational
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Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Providing the step-change improvements
> Through the provision of Managed Grid Services COLT will enable
customers to implement a step-change improvement in the operation
of their existing legacy applications without costly re-engineering of
application software
…. as they migrate to the future service delivery models
> Services and the subsequent migration path will be tailored to meet
the differing needs of customers
> Customers already running an internal Grid
> Customers ready to take the first steps on the migration path
> Customers needing to address specific application performance
challenges
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Typical managed grid services suite
Services
Experienced grid users
New grid users
Customer-managed
network-centric
grid service
Network-centric
grid extension
service
Pay-as-you-go
utility computing
Managed resilience grid
service
Full managed grid
service based on
application level SLA’s
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Typical managed grid services suite
> For existing Grid users a Grid extension service based on Managed Grid Computing
services running on customer’s own virtualised IT assets plus Colt virtualised
IT/Network assets
> For new customers a Managed Grid Computing service based on the COLT networkcentric Grid Engine. Service initially managed by the customer himself running on that
customer’s own virtualised IT assets
> For all customers a Utility Computing service on a pay-as-you-go basis, delivered
through virtual servers on a variable costs model
> For all customers a Managed Resilience Service based on multiple site working
and/or multiple application instances working reducing the effect of outages to near
zero
> For all customers a Managed Grid Computing services managed by Colt running on
sites within a “pool” of virtualised assets mediated by “Colt Value Optimiser”
requirements. Provides Application-level SLA guarantees of various grades and prices
for single and multiple application cases
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1. Legacy applications - Services migration layers
Managed Grid
Services
Grid
Compute
Virtualised
Applications
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Utility
Compute
Future
Services?
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
2. Services migration layers
Web-based Applications
Tomorrows Business Driver
Virtualised
Applications
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
STATIC
Dedicated
servers
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Utility
Compute
SaaS
Managed Grid
Services
Grid
Compute
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
2. Web-centric challenges - SaaS
Web-based Applications
Tomorrows Business Driver
Trend
SaaS
> One of the key trends in tomorrows computing environment
will be Software as a Service (SaaS), where businesses no
longer have to buy and maintain software applications
themselves, but access them ‘on demand’ via the web
(Google’s view is “tomorrow” has arrived …)
Challenges
> Requires complete separation of Applications and the
Hardware Platform they run on
>
With NO application code re-engineering
> Support Application development / mashing / hosting
> Support multi-tenancy and multi-users
> Provide virtual run-time space for applications
> Dynamic, configurable, configuration controls
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Services migration layers
Web-based Applications
Tomorrows Business Driver
STATIC
Private circuits
ON
DEMAND
VPN
WAN/LAN
Network Layer
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STATIC
STATIC
Dedicated
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtualised
storage
ON
DEMAND
Virtual
servers
STATIC
Direct/Hosted
Applications
Dedicated
servers
Grid
Platform
Virtualised
Applications
ON
DEMAND
Utility
Compute
SaaS
Managed Grid
Services
Grid
Compute
API / SDK
Virtualised Application
Application Layer
Virtualised Compute
Compute Layer
Virtualised Storage
Storage Layer
Virtualised Network
Meeting the challenge
Web-based Applications
Tomorrows Business Driver
COLT is focusing on developing innovative
infrastructure and services, such as Managed Grid
Services incorporating APIs / SDKs through which
customers can seamlessly migrate to tomorrow’s
web-based services
SaaS
Grid
Platform
API / SDK
Typical service
SaaS offering based on the Colt Managed Grid
Service providing the enabling infrastructure for
ISVs and application providers to develop and host
their application images with all the service
controls necessary for multi-tenancy
Virtualised Application
Virtualised Compute
Virtualised Storage
Virtualised Network
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CGP adoption strategy
COLT
Internal IT Assets
Application
“Virtual” runtime space
Applications
COLT Managed
IT Resource
“Pool”
Enterprise A
WANS
LANS
Service
Provider
Resource
Broker/Trader
GRID Engine
Policy Controls
N/W Resource
“Pool”
COLT Managed
> CGP Service initially virtualises a single Enterprise’s assets
> Links them logically with COLT’s own IT and Network connectivity assets
> Progressively virtualise additional Enterprise’s ICT resources
> Link in logically to the resource pool
> Provide Application-Level SLA guarantees controlled by Policy Engine
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PLATFORM
THE
UTILISATION
RATE
1950’s – 1960’s
EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING TO GRID
2000’s – 2010’s
MANAGED SERVICES
DELIVERED ON UTILITY
ENVIRONMENT ON A
MASSIVE SCALE
COMPUTING
AS A UTILITY
Mainframes (few)
Enabled by Service Providers with:1.
Job submission
2.
Adaptive High-Bandwidth IP
Network connectivity
Web-centric business applications
delivery capability
GRID ENGINE
1960’s – 1970’s
Job submission
Mini-Computers
(Thousands)
1970’s – 1980’s
PCs / Servers
(Millions)
1990’s – 2000’s
PDAs
(10s Millions)
Job
submission
Job
submission
Job
submission
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0
USER EFFICIENCY
Next steps
COLT and selected vanguard customers drive developments
> Suite of services tailored to agreed requirements
> Create tailored service migration path capabilities
Thank You – Any Questions?
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Adaptive networks
> The Adaptive Network, derived from
software-controlled virtualised
connectivity, is a key component of the
new Network-Centric SaaS world
> COLT will provide Adaptive Networks
by offering virtualised connectivity
configuration controls at levels 1, 2 and
3 in the OSI stack to dynamically meet
application performance requirements
> Network controls of the virtualised
connectivity will include:
Video
4
AF
Classes
3
SAP
1
Email
2
DE
Classes
Overall
Bandwidth
Web Browsing
Voice
EF
Class
> Manipulation of MPLS VPN labels and
Class of Service tags
> Dynamic control of router tables
> Flow control at the Physical and Data
Link layers
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MPLS Classes of service