The Cloud makes your net work9 februari 2010

David GEENS

Managing Partner

david@nucleus.be

Hosting Solution Builder

About Nucleus

• 10 years experience

• Two shareholders: – Wouter Sergeyssels & David Geens

• Independent hosting company

• Turnover 2009: 1,75 million euro

• Employees: 8

• Headquarters at Antwerpen

• We manage around 1100 servers in 5 datacenters

Facts & figuresAbout Nucleus

How many of the companies who had an IT-disaster of more than 48h, are going bankruptwithin a year?

A. 1%

B. 15%

C. 29%

Question 1

How many of the companies who had an IT-disaster of more than 48h, are going bankruptwithin a year?

A. 1%

B. 15%

C. 29%

Question 1

Which sector has the most expenses in a onehour downtime?

A. Energy

B. IT

C. Telecom

Question 2

Which sector has the most expenses in a onehour downtime?

A. Energy

B. IT

C. Telecom

Question 2

How many of the companies will be using cloudcomputing in 2012 according to GartnerResearch?

A. 3%

B. 9%

C. 15%

Question 3

How many of the companies will be using cloudcomputing in 2012 according to GartnerResearch?

A. 3%

B. 9%

C. 15%

Question 3

How many broadband connections are there in Belgium

A. 1.8 million

B. 2.9 million

C. 3.6 million

Question 4

How many broadband connections are there in Belgium

A. 1.8 million

B. 2.9 million

C. 3.6 million

Question 4

Special thanks toSimon Wardley

Barcamp London

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Definition 1

On-demand self-service Internet infrastructure where you pay-as-you-go and use only what you need, all managed by a browser, application or API. Cloud computing is broken up into multiple segments including: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms and Cloud Applications. (see "Cloud Pyramid")

Definition 1

On-demand self-service Internet infrastructure where you pay-as-you-go and use only what you need, all managed by a browser, application or API. Cloud computing is broken up into multiple segments including: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms and Cloud Applications. (see "Cloud Pyramid")

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Definition 2

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them. servers.

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Definition 1

Broad socioeconomic and technological changes starting in the early 18th century.

Definition 2

Rapid development of industry in the early 19th century

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The Nucleus Cloud

• Cloud OS: VMWare vSphere 4

• Worker nodes: Dell rack servers

• Virtual Storage: Dell equallogic & NetApp

• Virtual firewalls

• Virtual routers & switches on Juniperhardware

Some facts

• Everything is virtual (more than virtualizedservers)

• Multidatacenter aware

• Dynamic AND Dedicated Cloud Servers

• Scalable & flexible

• OPEX instead of CAPEX

• Always available, without extra investments!