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Overview

What is a CloudDo you need a Cloud

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What is a Cloud?

Ask 10 people get 10 answers.No one correct answer.All answers are correct.

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Cloud TalkThe Myths

(The Big Switch)

Cloud computing will eliminate the need for IT personnel.There will only be one super computer in the future.Watch out for cloud pretenders.

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Cloud TalkThe Facts

Cloud technology is realThis technology should not be ignoredThis presentation will try to separate the hype

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What is a Cloud?

Cloud as in networkCloud as in metaphorCloud computing as in networkCloud computing as in metaphor

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What is a Cloud Computing?

Not with your computerWord Processor, Spreadsheet

Not with your laptopCRM, Customer Database

Not with your data centerNo physical servers

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If Not Yours, Then Who's?

Not with your computerGoogle Apps, Zoho, 37 Signals

Not with your laptopSalesforce.com, Netsuite

Not with your data centerAmazon, Google, Microsoft

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Big “3” of Cloud Computing?

CostClouds are renowned for being dirt cheap for storage and burst-y processing.

Flexibilitylet someone else manage it for you.

ElasticityGrowth and shrinkage

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More on why Clouds?

On Demand BusinessUnexpected loads, The <> effect

Meeting Batch Load DemandsBatch

ParallelismLarge clusters of parallel jobs

Season WorkloadsRetail, Travel, Financial

Backup Storage

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Success StoriesAnimoto

25k customers to 750k in one week40 servers to 500 servers in one weekNo system administrators

NY TimesConvert 11 million files in one night4 TB’s of dataTotal cost $240

Eli Lilly10 weeks to get a server now 5 minutesAmazon has redefined “Time” at Eli Lilly

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What drives the cloud?

Infinitely fast networks.Infinity scalable computers.Doing a lot more with a lot less?

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Base Definition of a Cloud

Abstraction of the hardware infrastructure from the service.

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What is my definition of a“Holy-Grail” Cloud

Abstraction of the hardware infrastructure from the service.Abstraction of the software

infrastructure from the service.

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Cloudy stuff

Pay as you go No lock inDynamic provisioning

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Cloud “Services” in Simple Terms

Applications Software provided as a service

Middle-wareSoftware stacks for developers LAMP, Java application servers, .Net

ServersHardware and an operating system, perhaps a hyper-visor

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Common Cloud Taxonomy (SPI)

SaaSSFC, LotusLive, NetSuite, Google Apps

PaaSGAE, Azure, Force, RightScale,EngineYard, Heruko

IaaSAmazon, Flexiscale, GoGrid, Joyent, Rackspace, EMC,Eucalyptus,3Tera,IBM, Vmware, ECP

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Cloud Taxonomy

Infrastructure BasedPrivate

3Tera, IBM, Vmware, EucalyptusPublic

Amazon, Rackspace, Gogrid, Joyent, Terramark

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Processing Large Datasets

Map ReduceJobs that run as hundreds or even thousands of separate parallel processes.Like counting the words in a book and break it up into multiple running parts (i.e., The Map)Then collect them all back into summary counts (i.e., The Reduce.)

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Processing Large Datasets

HadoopGoogle invented GFSYahooAOLIBMFacebookLast.fm

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Cloud Computing Challenges

Retraining developers and operations people to deal with cloud computing Orchestration of multiple clouds24 by 7 by 365 operations in the cloud is usually more expensiveLegacy applications might not port easily Virtualiztion project disruptionRecent McKinsey Report $366 vs $150

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More Challenges

Workload AffinitiesStandards (Lock-in)Weak SLA’s compared to CorpService ManagementSecurityComplianceImage SprawlTrojan Virtual ImagesGovernance

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Cloud Usage Models

Web AppsJob queue (transcoding)Testing and QA LabsMap Reduce ProcessingBackup

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New Cloud Terms

Cloud BurstingAnalytics, Coding

Hybrid CloudsVPN, Multiple Clouds

Cloud SpillageAn IBM Term

Cloud OrchestrationManaging multiple clouds

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The Public Cloud “Big Four”

AmazonGoogleMicrosoftSalesforce.com

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The Private Cloud “Big Four”

IBMVMwareSun/Oracle3Tera

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Amazon (Infrastructure Based)

No min – pay as you goEasy to get startedMarket leader All API basedPersistent storage and serversWindows instances

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Google App Engine(Platform Based)

Python and JavaTransaction basedNo OS level accessSecure Data Connector

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Azure (Platform Based)

Microsoft’s Entry.Net basedNo OS level accessStorage Queues

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Salesforce.com

SaaS CRMSales Force AutomationForce.com (AppExchange)Appex

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Other Cloud Providers

FlexiscaleRackspace

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Rackspace/Mosso(Infrastructure Based)

CloudSites(PaaS) CloudFiles (DaaS)CloudServers (IaaS)

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Open Source IaaS Clouds

Enomaly ECPEucalyptusNimbusOpenNebula

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Other Infrastructure Clouds

IBM Blue CloudHP (BTO Opsware)SUN (Qlayers)

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Other Platform Based

RightscaleElastraCloudSwitchHerokuEngine Yard

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Software for the Clouds

Configuration ManagementPuppet (Ruby) Chef by OpscodeLCFG (Perl) Bcfg2 (Python) Cfengine (“C”) Smartfrog (Java)

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Software for the Clouds

Configuration AutomationCapistrano (Ruby) Open-ControlTeir (Java) Nanite (ruby)

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Software for the Clouds

Auto ScalingPoolParty (Ruby) Scalr (PHP) Cloudscale (Ruby) Sprinkle (Ruby) Moonshine (Ruby) (UPDATED

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Storage Based Clouds

EMC (Mozy)NirvanixAmazon S3RackSpace Mosso Cloud Files

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Content Delivery Networks

AkamaiLimelight (partner w/Mosso)

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Cloud Factories

CohesiveFTrPath (JeOS)Bitnami

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The NY TimesAmazon EC2 NasdaqAmazon S3 Major League BaseballJoyentESPNRightscale using Amazon EC2 HasbroAmazon EC2

British Telecom3Tera

Taylor WoodrowGoogle Apps

CSSAmazon EC2

ActivisionAmazon EC2

Business Objects Rightscale using Amazon EC2

Eli LillyResearch Clouds

Department of Defense

Who’s using the cloud?

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Elasta (ECML and EDML)3Tera (Cloudware)Citrix (C3)VMWare (Vcloud)DMTF (OVF)

Citrix, VmwareCCIF/UCI

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Enterprise Vendors in the Cloud?

Red HatGigaSpacesOracleVerticaSun MySQLIBM (Middle-ware) and TSAM