Achieving

Performance,
Flexibility, and
Security in Cloud
Michael Agarwal
Director & Global Cloud Databases Practice Leader,
Datavail
 25 years in IT

Past: Software Developer, DBA, TPM,

Cloud Architect

M
Currently Global Practice Leader at

Michael Datavail (Lead Database Migration &

Modernizations, Site Reliability

Agarwal Engineering, and NoSQL practices)

8 years of experience with AWS

Director & Global
Cloud Databases Connect or follow me on LinkedIn:
Practice Leader, https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Datavail MichaelAgarwal/

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 15 $25
+ M

Datavail at
a Glance Years Invested
building and operating in IP that improves the
Delivering a superior mission critical data and service experience and
application systems drives efficiency
approach to leveraging
data through application of
a tech-enabled global
delivery model & deep

1,000
specialization in databases, +
data management, and
application services.
Employees

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Datavail Cloud Provider Partnerships

Advanced Tier Partner Azure Partner Oracle Application partner for Fusion
11+ years experience 19+ years of experience Apps (ERP, SCM, HCM, CSX, EPM)

100+ AWS Certified Consultants Data + AI Solution Partner Legacy Application partner for EBS,
Hyperion, JDE, PeopleSoft, Essbase,
250+ AWS Migrations, Modernizations Digital and App Innovation Solution Weblogic
Windows (Microsoft) Workload Competency, Partner
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Partner
One of top 5 Windows partners 550+ Microsoft Consultant
Certifications 17+ years of experience
Oracle Services Competency, 1 of top 10
Oracle App partners Recognized in 2017 by Microsoft as 18 – Specializations

1 of top 10 Database Specialist Partners Cloud for Global Good Partner MySQL Expertise Badge
(Open Source / NoSQL) of the Year 300+ Oracle Certifications
1 of 3 partners selected to deliver Aurora 1 of 5 partners for Oracle App Certified Cloud Excellence Implementor
Optimizations Workloads to Azure Program for EPM
Service Delivery Partner – Amazon EC2, RDS, Selected as a go to partner for Regularly selected by Oracle to present at
Aurora NoSQL databases Industry Conferences
Launch partner for Babelfish (SQL Server Strong expertise in cloud analytics and Selected by Telecom Eq Manufacture for
to Aurora) data management one of the largest Oracle Cloud
1 of top 50 Analytic partners Strong expertise in app modernization implementations for ERP, EPM, SCM, HCM

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Inputs:
Best A unique
perspective on
Practices Industry
cloud best
practices!
and Lessons Analysts

Learned

Datavail’s Leading
500+ Cloud
Customers Providers

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Why Cloud? Technical Drivers

Improve Reduce
Reduce Costs
Performance Licensing Cost

Easy to Modernize
Easy to Scale Automate Using
Applications &
(Or Autoscaling) DevOps & IaC
Databases

Easy to Scale Easy to Configure

Improve Security
Globally for HA & DR

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 Performance

Network: Single digit milliseconds latency within a region

Disk: HDD, General purpose SSD, Provisioned IOPS SSD
Vertical scaling: Changing instance type
• 1 to 128 vCPUs
• 0.5 to 512 GB Memory

Horizontal scaling: Auto scaling groups, Containers,

Serverless, NoSQL databases, Load Balancer, etc.
GPU, Quantum computing, etc.

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 Flexibility

Infrastructure-as-a-code
Destroy it if not needed and only pay for hours you used
Easy to configure HA
Easy to configure DR
No need to order or wait for hardware
Keep it the same or adopt Cloud-Native option
Compute: Virtual Machine / Containers / Serverless
No long-term commitments
No licensing fees (almost always)
No upfront cost (almost always)

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 Security

Data center security

Encryption / Decryption
Keys
Certificates
Secrets management
Permissions
Security-as-a-code

* Adopting cloud native often means cloud provider takes bigger role in
security, but it is always shared security model.

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What is Cloud Center of Excellence?
Cloud adoption enabler (and not “red tape”)
Business Transformation is aligned with
Technology Transformation SRE / DBA

Standardization (e.g., tagging, regions, naming

conventions, etc.) Partnerships Certifications

Architecture patterns references COE

Leaders +
Perform Self Well Architected Reviews Architects

Cloud Maturity Model

DevOps
Engineer Software
Cost governance / optimization Developer /
Data Engineer
Prescriptive guidance in place for DevOps, Training
SRE/DBA, Analytics, and Development teams

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Application Portfolio Rationalization
6 R’s
Retire (Sunset App.)

Retain (Keep on Prem)

Manual

Install Config Deploy

Rehost (IaaS) Automate

Use Migration

Validation
Tool
Discover Determine Replatform (PaaS) Transition Production
Determine Modify
Platform Infrastructure
Repurchase (SaaS)

Buy Install/Setup

Refactor (Build Cloud Native)

Redesign App/Code ALM/SDLC Integration

Development

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SRE Maturity Model

Self Service
06 • Environments on Demand
(Idempotent and Immutable)

Fault, Config, Accounting, Performance and Security

Stage 3

05 • Proactive Problem Management and Predictive Event Management

Self Healing • Automated Repairs

Automated Impact 04 • Provision for Newer Budgets (Error, Risk and Toll)
Assessment • Impact assessment for changes
Stage 2

03 • Experiments with Production

Chaos Engineering • Canary Deployments

Telemetry
02 • Measure and Model Golden Signals (Error, Traffic, latency and Saturation)
• Measure and Model Metrics like MTTR, MTBF
Stage 1

01 • Single Pane of Glass, Logging Revamped

Observability • 5 Dashboards (Performance, Reliability, DevOps, Compliance, Experience)

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Cloud Modernization = COE Leaders + DevOps +
SRE + DBAs+ Developers + Data Engineers +
Architects
Application Analytics Database Infrastructure Security
Modernization Modernization Modernization Modernization Modernization

• Development stack • New data lake • RDBMS → NoSQL • Virtualization (VM) • Implement
• CI / CD → Kubernetes DevSecOps
• New data • Licensed based → (Containers)
• Application logs / warehouse Open-Source • Cloud-native SIEM
tracing • Infrastructure-as- tool
• AI / ML • Purpose-built code
• Microservices databases • Cloud-native KMS
adoption • New ETL / • New cloud-native
• Serverless adoption Dashboards • Higher performance infrastructure tools • New cloud-native
firewall
• New innovative app • Cloud-native ways
• New competitive for HA / DR • New cloud-native
app WAF
• Implement auto
remediation • Drift detection &
auto remediation

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 Thank You
Michael Agarwal
Director & Global Practice Leader – Cloud Databases
[email protected]
405-410-3225

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