Cloud tco numbers and lessons

Cloud TCO: Numbers and Lessons

Bernard GoldenCEO, HyperStratus

Who is Bernard Golden?

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CEO: HyperStratus, A Silicon Valley Cloud Consultancy

20+ years experience in large IT shops, enterprise software, global consultancy, venture capital

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Advisor, CIO Magazine

Author, “Virtualization for Dummies,” two forthcoming books on cloud computing

What’s my cloud TCO?

Silicon Valley Education Foundation

• Purpose: Better education in Silicon Valley• STEM focus

• Key issue: teacher collaboration

Infrastructure Options

External Hosting Provider Virtualization Amazon Cloud

Single machine, subject to outages

Adds redundant hardware, virtual machine migration

Removes hardware from equation

Growth requires additional equipment, still subject to outages

Growth requires additional equipment,

still has SPOF

Growth is accommodated by

additional EC2 instances

No additional skill development required

Significant skill development required

Modest skill development required

Lessonopoly Cloud TCO Savings

Single Server Multi-Tier HorizontallyScaled

55% 57% 55%

Common Challenges in TCO Analysis

• Understanding current IT cost structure

• Forecasting future application load/traffic/storage

• “One version of the truth”

Unexpected Lessons Learned

• “If it’s not one thing, it’s another” -- Emily

Litella

• “It is difficult to get a man to understand

something when his job depends on not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair

• Cloud scalability offers real-world benefits

Additional Resources

• Lessonopoly white paper: Card with “LWP”

• HyperStratus “Application Security Best Practices in AWS”: Card with “Security”

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