Plan for the Cloud
Features/Benefits
Sarita Sinha
[email protected]
November 2016
About Akasia
Funding
2014
TiE LaunchPad
Founded
2
Locations
• Santa Clara (HQ)
• Pune (India)
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Our Vision
Old CAPEX + OPEX model = Pay once and use.
New OPEX model = Pay subscription, optimize to immediately save $$
$$ Cost Modeling of Workloads will become
crucially important in new hybrid deployment of IT
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The Problem we Solve
Complex cost forecasting slows down cloud migration/DR projects
Hidden charges in cloud hold surprises
Akasia discovers on-premise workloads and presents recommended Cloud templates and costs in minutes!
Pricing Models
On-Prem CAPEX and OPEX
In-Cloud OPEX
The Problem we Solve
Complex cost forecasting slows down cloud migration/DR projects.
• Akasia also allows for Right-Sizing and What-If analysis
to further save costs from migrating to Cloud.
Cloud Cost Insights in Minutes!
• Get clear visibility into hidden costs in the cloud –
no more surprises.
• View detailed cloud costs for a variety of public
clouds side by side.
Typical Use of Akasia
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Akasia is popular for cloud migration planning and cloud assessment services – among
enterprises, Sis and Cloud Operators and
Enterprises - Get a handle on
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What they have; how is it being utilized
What would be the equivalent VM in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM/SL, Oracle)
What else is needed to run the application/infrastructure in the Cloud
How much will it cost in the Cloud – as is, or right sized
SI and Cloud Operators
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Pre-sales discussions – Akasia shows cloud costs in minutes during customer calls (instead of
waiting for weeks)
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RFP responses
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Akasia outputs give customer confidence for on-prem vs. in-cloud costs and inclusion of hidden costs
On-premise performance tuning is carried over to cloud
How Akasia Works
3. Model Cloud Costs in Minutes
2. Right-Size and What-If Analysis
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Discover On-Premise Workloads
Model costs for optimized
workload resources
Resources – allocated and used
Akasia presents
recommended cloud
templates for optimal costperformance of the
workload in AWS, Azure,
GCP, Oracle Cloud or
SoftLayer
Benefits from Akasia
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Proactively model costs of operating on-premise workloads in the cloud
(No cost surprises after migrating to the cloud!)
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Automated discovery of on-premise workload characteristics
Automated modeling of costs of running that workload in AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, SoftLayer or GCP
Right-Sizing to save Cloud costs
(Save 30-60% costs by only migrating used capacity to the cloud!)
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Editable options for sophisticated “what-if” analysis
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Automated analysis of allocated vs. usage of resources for on-prem workloads
Automated visualization of cost savings from right-sizing when moving to cloud
Ability to edit cloud templates recommended by the tool for what-if analysis
Consolidation algorithm for Bare Metal Servers
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Tool generates 3 recommendations for optimal consolidation of on-premise servers to IBM Bare Metal
servers
How Akasia is Unique
• We solve a targeted cost-performance modeling
problem that no one else solves
– Give most granular cloud cost estimates by taking on-premise
utilization into account and exposing hidden costs
– Provide estimates in minutes, unlike traditional budgeting software
that provide rough estimates in weeks
Customer Successes
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Large Global SI
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Problem: complex, spreadsheet-based cost analysis for cloud costs during cloud migration RFPs
How Akasia solved the problem
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Mid-sized Enterprise
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Problem: IT manager had to create a case to CFO for migration to Azure for 100+ VMs
How Akasia solved the problem
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Automated discovery of on-prem resources and detailed visualization of AWS costs
Wipro’s customers used the detailed Akasia cost analysis to quickly decide on cloud migrations
Automated discovery of on-prem resources and cost modeling for Azure
IT Manager used Akasia reports to clearly identify costs savings as well as expected costs of running workloads in Azure
Government - State
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Problem: Unsure if cloud was cheaper or more expensive than on-prem. What were relative costs of different clouds?
How Akasia solved the problem:
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Discovered on-prem workloads and showed on-prem vs. AWS, Azure, SoftLayer and GCP costs side by side
2 Product Offerings (SaaS & Desktop)
Overview of the Solution
• Create an Account
• Download the Collector application
• Collector generates 4 human readable .csv files.
No confidential information collected
• Upload the .csv files to Akasia CloudView SaaS
application
• Start modeling …
Screenshots for Desktop App
Akasia CloudView in Action
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Cost Modeling for Virtual Servers
• Automated Cost Modeling for AWS, SoftLayer, Azure and GCP
Step 1 – Ingest On-Prem VM details
Step 2 – Model Costs in the Cloud, Right-Size and perform “what-if” analysis
Step 3 – Add Cloud Services (load balancers, OS, backup, etc. directly from
Akasia CloudView)
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Enter
Username: admin
Password: admin
Enter your name,
Company Name and
work email id
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Enter vCenter
credentials or
upload CSV file from
remote collector
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Asset Summary
Cost Estimates if all
VMs are migrated
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How to Set On-Prem Costs
On-Prem Cost
On-prem VM/host
detail
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Lifetime (36 mo) costs
based on HW, VMs, SW,
Implementation,
Administration, etc.
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Click here to edit
default costs
Calculate in-cloud costs
On-Prem vs incloud side-by-side
comparison
Select Hosts/VMs to
migrate
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Select hosts/VMs to
compare (only 50!)
Generate cloud
estimates for
selected VMs
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Side-by-side
comparison in
chart form
Closest Equivalent SoftLayer VSI
template
Edit recommended templates for
what-if analysis
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Automatic calculation of IOPS, network
and storage costs
One-click calculations of savings from
Right-Sizing while moving to the cloud
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Model costs with additional
services such as load balancers,
backup, monitoring, etc. from the
SoftLayer Service Catalog
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Summary Chart and table showing
on-prem, one-time and in-cloud
monthly costs
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Screenshots – Bare Metal Consolidation
• Automated Cost Modeling and Consolidated Mapping for
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers
• 5 on-premise servers consolidated to 3 SoftLayer Bare Metal
options.
– On-Premise costs - $3116 per month.
– SoftLayer Bare Metal Costs - $1943 per month
– SAVINGS = $1173 per month!
Select Bare Metal Server
Choose consolidation
rules for consolidation
to SoftLayer Bare Metal
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On-premise hosts to be
consolidated to
SoftLayer Bare Metal
Summary Chart and table showing
Bare Metal consolidation options
for selected on-prem hosts
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1-1 Mapping for 5 servers
consolidated to SoftLayer Bare
Metal.
Total price: $2982/mo
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5 servers consolidated to 3
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers.
Total price: $1826/mo
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Order additional services for
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers.
Total price: $17/mo
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Summary Chart and table showing
on-prem vs. SoftLayer Bare Metal
Monthly Costs
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If you need more points
Go to Configuration then
click on “Add Points” tab
Enter points requested. 10 points
per VM. Pay $25 per VM. Once
payment is received we will send
you a license file. Apply the license
file to ingest points.
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More
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Ideal for cloud migration and DR assessments, and chargeback/showback
No more cloud cost surprises – automatic IOPS and VM template costing
Cost Calculation takes minutes vs. several weeks manually
Kept current with daily changes in cloud costs & templates
• For information call 408-666-7872 or email [email protected]
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