Cloudy Days Ahead

10.20.2005

Cloudy Days Ahead

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http://redmonk.com/public/techmaine.pdf

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So everyone's on board, right?

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Not exactly...

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“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements...Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”

- Larry EllisonSource: News.com, 9.26.2008

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“[Cloud computing is] stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”

- Richard Stallman

Source: The Guardian, 9.29.2008

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If you're going to make that argument, you'll need to explain this...

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What is “cloud computing?”

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Leveraging infrastructure from here

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ElasticPay As You Go Multi-tenancy

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Cloud Traditional

Accessibility Minutes Days

Capex Pay As You Go Fixed, Upfront Cost

Economies of Scale Yes No

Geography Distributed Local/Offsite

Multi-tenant Yes No

Scalability Elastic Manual

Virtualized Yes Both

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Now More Than Ever

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Economies of ScalePay As You Go Time to Market

Tools, Languages and Runtimes

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So how do I make sense of...

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By applying context

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EFFORT TO SCALE

Google AppEngine

Salesforce.com Force.com

Amazon EC2/S3

JoyentAccelerator

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Storage

Identity/Persistence/Payment

Application Layer (Instance)

Management Backup Persistence

Application Layer(Fabric)

ContentNetwork Grid Media

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What should I be asking about?

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Application LatencyCompliance and Security

Data LoadFreedom to Leave

Service Levels/Availability

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Questions?