4. 1981 Founded by EPFL & Stanford Alumni
1982 First mouse came from EPFL lab
1986 Logitech came to Hsinchu, Taiwan
1991 First radio-based cordless mouse
2002 First wireless mouse with bluetooth
2008 Acquired Ultimate Ears
2016 Acquired Jaybird & Saitek
8. MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
• 28 Datacenter Across Globe
(exclude server rooms)
• Each DC has 50-300 racks
(high density- 28kw)
• Highly fractured
infrastructure resulting from
many strategic acquisitions
• Large amount of contracts,
facility, hardware and
support
• Limited Staff (2010 IDC=13,
Corporate=14)
Each adds significant $$$ to TCO
12. CHOOSING CLOUD VENDOR
Selection Criteria
• Datacenter in US, AP, EU
• Single Contract and Billing Globally
• Pay Monthly, Contract Term < 1 year
Selected
• IDC -- AWS 2010~2012 (all in on AWS)
• CORP
• vCloud, Nirvanix (Bankrupted)
Wasted 18+ months
• AWS VPC 2010~Now (Majority on
AWS)
True Cloud Spirit
Service on Demand
Economy of Scale
VS
Most Cloud Vendors
Enterprise Contract
Outsource DC with
Hardware = N+1
14. Infra TCO Cost Effort
Services 10% 90%
OS/Platform20% 10%
Hardware 0% 0%
Facility 0% 0%
BENEFITS
• 28 DC = 2 DC (US, China)
• Use AWS as Primary DC
• Cost from 70% to 7~15%
• Effort reduced from 70% to 0%
• Team Change to Innovative
Service
• Providing more services with
less staff
• Assist Product Development
• Machine Learning, Big Data, IoT
16. LESSONS LEARNED
• Define Clear Cloud Strategy (Executive to Engineer)
• See Cloud as Service or Platform, EC2 ≠ DC ≠ Colo DC
• Define your TCO
Service ≠ Server Cost ≠ Instance Cost
Service = Server + Storage + Network + Facility +
License +....
Save $ = AWS as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or DR
Save $ ≠ EC2 + DC + Hardware
• Migrate easy services first to free up time/cost from
ops (30-70%)
• Address challenge services when you have more time and $