Cloud Computing catching the wave

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Cloud Computingcatching the wave
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What is Cloud computing?
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Cloud computing has two distinct meanings

• The use of any commercial computing services
  delivered in real time over the internet from
  storage to web applications
• The architectures and technology to deliver cloud
  services

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Cloud computing services fall into three basic
types

• Infrastructure services
• bare metal servers on demand
• Software as a service
• Applications APIs
• Platform-as-a-service
• internet-based development services

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Infrastructure services provide

• Storage and computing resources on demand
• Amazon upload images of software and data the
  runs in its elastic cloud to run virtual
  servers
• IBM HP and Rackspace are following suite

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Software-as-a-service provides a single software
instance

• CRM Salesforce.com
• HR Payroll Workday.com
• Google apps
• Mail, talk,calendar, docs, websites
• NetSuite
• Accounting ERP CRM
• Microsoft Office Web

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Internet based development platforms

• Build and deploy software applications without
  having to provision any new hardware or software
• Microsoft Azure
• Salesforce.com Force.com
• Google apps
• Yaho Pipes mashups and aggregated data feeds

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Cloud Computing categories

• Storage-as-a-service
• Database-as-a-service
• Information-as-a-service
• Process-as-a-service
• Application-as-a-service

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Cloud Computing categories

• Platform-as-a-service
• Integration-as-a-service
• EAI
• Security-as-a-service
• sign on, identity management
• Management/Governance-as-a-service
• Testing-as-a-service

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Cloud myths

• Theres one single cloud
• All you need is a credit card
• The cloud reduces your workload
• You can combine with clouds seamlessly
• You will never be able to combine with clouds
  seamlessly

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Cloud myths

• The cloud always saves you money
• Cloud providers can guarantee security
• Running VMs is cloud computing
• Its all about technology

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Moving to the Clouds EAI ESB SOA
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Where the Cloud wont work

• Real Time/Fast time
• Clustered servers
• 5-9 availability

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Where the Cloud works now

• Useful tools
• Spam and virus blocking
• Remote back-up
• Application monitoring
• Public APIs e.g. Google maps

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Where the Cloud works now

• Application Development
• Testing
• Deployment environment
• Disaster Recovery

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Cloud and the Council of the Future

• Scale economies
• Commodity market
• Utility computing
• Green
• The role of the LA CIO
• G-Cloud

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Chris Morton m 07769 88 22 84 e
chris.morton_at_socitmconsulting.co.uk Socitm
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