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Patni views cloud computing as the next evolution of its own internal data center consolidation. The company went virtual and runs about 90% of its line of business applications in a private cloud -- it's now in the process of moving about 30% of that cloud into AWS - Amazon.
“In the last eight months we have started moving much of the dev environment onto the AWS platform,” said Satish Joshi, executive vice president for Patni.
Patni started by developing monitoring and provisioning systems based on VMware’s APIs and had managed an eye-popping level of consolidation.
Patni supports 15,000 users on about 80 high-octane servers (two racks) that run 400 virtual machines. It runs an additional 200 legacy physical servers for certain older applications that it’s not convenient to move but which may eventually get phased out. It also runs hosting environments for many customers, many of which are virtualized, but they’re not part of Patni’s private cloud environment.
The firm plans to move about 30% of that cloud infrastructure directly to Amazon overall, and expects the three-year cost to come in at around $1.7 million, a 15% savings over internal operation. While the savings weren’t out of this world, in his view, the real benefits were not in the cost, but in the flexibility a public cloud environment enables.
There isn't a good way to quantify that, but what you gain is definitely a benefit. … Our internal provisioning time used to be days and now that has been cut down to less than a day.
Patni has been in operation for more than twenty years, and he said the biggest headache in the move to a hybrid cloud platform was standardization across what was practically a living history museum of IT hardware.
We had all the vintages of server hardware, all vintages of networking gear. There was a lot of standardization we had to do. Patni’s move to cloud was really driven by the need to stay ahead of its customers, who were also clamoring for next-generation platforms. By now most of its customers will have done some kind of virtualization and some streamlining and now wanted different types of service. Probably the biggest change has been in the nature of the engagement.
Of course, there are always tradeoffs. Patni and other MSPs love the flexibility and utility of cloud, but it’s remote; and for a global organization, that is a critical issue. Joshi said that careful planning and study are necessary for anyone venturing into the cloud.
Part of this migration plan actually includes increased spending on communication infrastructure. If the expansion of communication infrastructure was not required, the saving would have been much more dramatic.
Patni views cloud computing as the next evolution of its own internal data center consolidation. The company went virtual and runs about 90% of its line of business applications in a private cloud -- it's now in the process of moving about 30% of that cloud into AWS - Amazon.
“In the last eight months we have started moving much of the dev environment onto the AWS platform,” said Satish Joshi, executive vice president for Patni.
Patni started by developing monitoring and provisioning systems based on VMware’s APIs and had managed an eye-popping level of consolidation.
Patni supports 15,000 users on about 80 high-octane servers (two racks) that run 400 virtual machines. It runs an additional 200 legacy physical servers for certain older applications that it’s not convenient to move but which may eventually get phased out. It also runs hosting environments for many customers, many of which are virtualized, but they’re not part of Patni’s private cloud environment.
The firm plans to move about 30% of that cloud infrastructure directly to Amazon overall, and expects the three-year cost to come in at around $1.7 million, a 15% savings over internal operation. While the savings weren’t out of this world, in his view, the real benefits were not in the cost, but in the flexibility a public cloud environment enables.
There isn't a good way to quantify that, but what you gain is definitely a benefit. … Our internal provisioning time used to be days and now that has been cut down to less than a day.
Patni has been in operation for more than twenty years, and he said the biggest headache in the move to a hybrid cloud platform was standardization across what was practically a living history museum of IT hardware.
We had all the vintages of server hardware, all vintages of networking gear. There was a lot of standardization we had to do. Patni’s move to cloud was really driven by the need to stay ahead of its customers, who were also clamoring for next-generation platforms. By now most of its customers will have done some kind of virtualization and some streamlining and now wanted different types of service. Probably the biggest change has been in the nature of the engagement.
Of course, there are always tradeoffs. Patni and other MSPs love the flexibility and utility of cloud, but it’s remote; and for a global organization, that is a critical issue. Joshi said that careful planning and study are necessary for anyone venturing into the cloud.
Part of this migration plan actually includes increased spending on communication infrastructure. If the expansion of communication infrastructure was not required, the saving would have been much more dramatic.
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