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Urban Cloudfitters Building Attend’s MediaCloud

Copyright 2012 M L Bittle, Attend LLC

Agenda

•  Point of Reference

•  Network Provisioning

•  Threat Assessment

•  Storage Provisioning

•  Developing in the Cloud


Network Provisioning

•  IP Transit

•  Hybrid Mix, Public/Private

•  How much is enough?


How Much Is Enough

•  Payload size

•  End to End transit time

•  User Threshold


Crude Last Mile Calculator

Capacity = Work Unit / User Threshold

Where

Work Unit = resolution X duration And

User Threshold = how long they’ll wait (patiently)


Crude Backbone Calculator

Capacity = ∑ Last Mile Bandwidth


Threat Assessment

•  More Than Viruses

•  Economic Threats

•  Ideological Threats

•  Threats of Opportunity


Storage Provisioning

•  In-House vs Outsource

•  Don’t Forget The File System

•  Cost/GB fallacy


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Cost /GB Fallacy part 1

•  Sheet Metal and Power Supplies

•  Consumer vs Enterprise Disks

•  Usage Impact On Reliability


Cost /GB Fallacy part 2

•  Total Cost of Operation

•  Utilization •  cost/GB used vs. cost/GB of capacity

•  Opportunity Cost


Developing In The Cloud

•  Benefits of HTML5

•  Update Cycles


Additional Reading


Contact

Mike Bittle - [email protected], [email protected]

COO Attend LLC; Principal M L Bittle – New York

Chuck Stormon – [email protected]

CEO Attend LLC

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