Cloud Computing - a five minute summary
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What is cloud computing, and why it's a good thing all in 5 mins
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Cloud ComputingPaul [email protected]
The Challenge
Your company is launching a new product
worldwide in one months time…
You need your IT department to enable the
marketing, distribution and
support of the product.
Your CTO
Here’s my shopping list;
New server hardware,
New software licences,
Upgrades to power, cooling and DRM.
We’ll need 24/7/365 99.999 support
Will the network be able to support the volumes? I’ll need to do some testing
I’ll need at leastFOUR MONTHS…
Why not Use to the Cloud…
Pay only for the server resources,
applications and bandwidth that you need.
When the rush is over turn it off and
stop paying
What is Cloud Computing?
Traditional Enterprise
= software component
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
Cloud Computing
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
Storage, Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a
Service
Characteristics
UtilityBilling
NoLock-in
InstantProvisioning
Scalable
ServiceDriven
InternetTechnology
MultiTenancy
ApplicationAgnostic
Virtualised
Benefits
30%
Reduction IT Capital Spend (Forrester 2008)
$110
$400
Amazon EC2
Enterprise
Average Monthly ServerCosts(Forrester 2008)
Low
Lock-in
Fast
Deployment
Cheap
Sand Pit Environment
Outsource
non-core skills
Technical Challenges
PerformanceStability
Security
ISV Support
Locality
Enterprise Standards Network
CloudComputing
Big savings,
but it’s early days…
Strong benefits
