"To The Cloud!"

HI.MY NAME IS KLAUS MUELLERPRINCIPAL CONSULTANTKCM@inxi.com505.938.4141

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“TO THE CLOUD!”“TO THE CLOUD!”

* with apologies to Microsoft

Understanding Cloud Computing

Use Cases

Benefits and Pitfalls

“TO THE CLOUD!”

What is cloud computing?

21 Experts Define Cloud Computing(Cloud Computing Journal)

“elasticity”

“Internet Centric Software”

“multi-tenant”

“Utility computing”

“Internet based technology enabled service”

“SaaS” “user friendly grid computing”

“multi-platform”

“global”

“multi-network”

……………………”outsourced”

“elastic, internet centric, utility compute platform with multi-tenant, multi-platform, and multi-network characteristics that facilitates an infrastructural paradigm shift that enables the ascension of SaaS.”

...as-a-Service

Abstraction

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“The key characteristics of the cloud are the ability to scale and provision

computing power dynamically in a cost efficient way and the ability of theconsumer to make the most of that

power without having to manage the underlying complexity of the

technology”from the Open Cloud Manifestowww.opencloudmanifesto.org

Three flavors......”as-a-Service”

Another way to think about it...

...what interfaces with the service?

End User Software-as-a-Service

API Platform-as-a-Service

Operating System Infrastructure-as-a-Service

How did we get here? Photo: www.stuckincustoms.com

Mainframe ISPs ASPs Cloud

The Evolution of Cloud

“Utility”Computing

“Grid”Computing

Applications As A

Service

Bandwidth

Virtualization NetworkServersStorage {

Pervasive Connectivity

Public Clouds

Private Clouds

Case Study: Start-up Scalability

“On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, Instagram launched its mobile photo sharing service for iPhone. In six hours, the back-end operation, which was running off a single machine in Los

Angeles, was completely overwhelmed.”

http://mashable.com/2011/03/30/scaling-instagram/

“Krieger called his dedicated server representative to inquire about getting a new machine —

he was quoted a two day turnaround. Instagram, alreadyfast-approaching 40,000 users,

would need something muchsooner to meet the weekend

demand”

“Instagram officially went from a local server-run operation to an EC2 hosted shop in the wee hours of Saturday morning October 9, 2010. Doing so was much like open heart surgery, according to

Krieger.”

http://mashable.com/2011/03/30/scaling-instagram/

“Today, just six months later, Instagram’s nearly three

million users are regularlysharing north of four to five

photos a second each weekend”

Case Study: Small Business

In the old days .... (~ 1998)Buy server

Buy Microsoft licenses

Configure Microsoft Exchange

Every 2 years .... Upgrade

Once a week (or month) ... Patch server

Keep anti-virus up-to-date

Spam!

Case Study: Operations Refresh

Scenario: Deploy new

Medical Records System within 6 months

Network

Compute

Storage

Virtualization

Simplified Management

Case Study: Personal Cloud

There can be some Dark Days...

39...but the potential rewards are many

50% reduction in Opex and 40% improvement in FTE workload

thankyou.KLAUS MUELLERPRINCIPAL CONSULTANTKCM@inxi.com505.938.4141