Building Private Clouds - Actual Experiences Tuesday 14:00

Panel:
Greg Bybee VMware
Alan Russell Experian
Clint Greenwood General Electric
Glenn Harper Sabre Holdings
James Jones LabCorp
Jordan Janeczko Seimens IT Solutions and Services

- The key message about vCloud Director are being replayed - virtual data centres across shared hardware - clear logical boundaries

GE Project Rainmaker
Platform as a service and hybrid cloud is strategy, working on the internal cloud first
Internal cloud - 2011 Q2 delivery
CISCO UCS with vCloud on top
Gone for full VMware suite - chargeback, vShield etc
Using VDCs to deliver differential services to different businesses

Siemens IT Services
Delivering internal services
Delivering cloud services to customers
Focus on helping customers integrate their existing services with cloud and address security etc.
Most customers have hybrid cloud approach
Much adoption of VMware, Spring Source, Zimbra when providing services to customers
Offer secure virtual test cloud (vTC) for customers to run their own test services - the customer uses vCloud Director to help themselves with appropriate billing
HP Blades

Sabre Holdings
Airlines, hospitality, Last Minute, Travelocity etc
Follow the sun development environment
Suffering from VM sprawl
Using vCloud Director to allow devs to self service within the limits of resource that they have allocated in their virtual data centre
Building library of vApps in a catalogue - great for sales and training teams
Took 3 days to set up vCD, most of which was learning the terminology
Packaged a 3 tier app which can then be built and destroyed in multiple environments

EXPERIAN
Follow the sun development
Need to have multiple versions of applications due to local regulatory variations
Want to drive consistency into the organisation
Engage your customers - in this case as the developers what they want
Quick to deploy with very little cost - build the service using VMs on existing VMware clusters

LabCorp
Medical testing
IBM rack servers, EMC storage
vCloud has driven process standardization
30 days to provide physical, 7 days to provide virtual - most of this is through change control across all the infrastructure components
With vCloud a VM can be provisioned in 5 minutes due to pooling of server, network and storage resources - the existing teams provide the pools then the virtual data centre team manages within those pools
Leasing allowed significant resource reclaiming

Licencing can be an issue - are you big enough to have an all you eat contract?