Keeping the Cloud in check KATHO

Friday  November  18th  2011KATHO,  Kortrijk,  BelgiumThijs  FerynEvangelist+32  (0)9  218  79  [email protected]

Keeping  The  Cloud  In  Check

About  me

I’m  an  evangelist  at  Combell

About  me

I’m  a  board  member  at  PHPBenelux

About  me

I’m  a  trusted  advisor  at  Belgium  Cloud

About  me

I  represent  Ghent  Web  Valley

Follow  me  on  TwiUer:  @ThijsFeryn

Military

ScienYfic

Public  (hobbyism)

Corporate  sites

E-­‐commerce  &  web  applicaYons

Web  2.0

So^ware  As  A  Service

Social  media

Cloud

Mobile

What  is  Cloud?

BoUom  line

Cloud  =  The  Internet

DefiniYon

DefiniYon

A  model  for  consumpYon  &  delivery  on  the  internet  where  flexibility  is  essenYal  &  can  be  guaranteed  through  abstracYon

Internet  as  a  uYlity

Important  features

AbstracYon

Flexibility

Storage

CompuYng

Service  layers

Service  layers

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

So^ware  As  A  Service  (SaaS)

Infrastructure  As  A  Service  (IaaS)

Pladorm  As  A  Service  (PaaS)

Delivery  models

Public  cloud

Private  cloud

Hybrid  cloud

What  people  forget  ...  &  marketeers  abuse

The  Cloud  is  not  “one  size  fits  all”

Doesn’t  just  “magically”  work

No  autopilot  ...  or  webscale

Pay  as  you  go/grow

Cloud  washing

Management  models  (o1en  forgo5en)

Management  models  (o1en  forgo5en)

Managed  Cloud  is  the  new  dedicated  server

Unmanaged  Cloud  is  virtual  colocaYon

Stakeholders  &  levels  of  contemplaYon

Stakeholders  &  levels  of  contemplaYon

User

Biz

Tech

Dev

Tech

VMWare  is  cool  !

OperaYonele  advantages

Biz

Capex,  opex,  outsourcing,pay  as  you  go/grow,

bla  bla  bla...

Cost  culng  &  economic  flexibility

UserGMail,  

Facebook,Skydrive,Dropbox,Salesforce,Hotmail

Ease  of  use

Dev

Memcached,  Gearman,  Hadoop,  MongoDB,  CouchDB,  

Solr,  RabbitMQ

Scalability  &  high  availability

Keeping  it  in  check

Keeping  it  in  check

✓IdenYfy  risk✓Save  money  &  cut  costs✓DevOps✓AbstracYon✓Flexibility✓Hybrid  Cloud✓Compliance

IdenYfy  risk

DownYme

Data  loss

Performance  drop

Abuse

Unexpected  expenditure

OperaYonal  complexity

Save  money  &  cut  costs

Pay  as  you  go/grow

Go  green

Discover  your  baseline

Focus  on  core  business

Outsourcing

Automate

DevOps

Again  ...  automate  &  bridge  the  gap

Faster  deployment

VirtualizaYon

Educate !!!Your developersyour sysadmins

AbstracYon

Learn  to  let  go

Bits  over  atoms

No  more  metal  !

Service  over  infrastructure

The  higher  up  the  stack,  the  more  efficient

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

Flexibility

The  actual  goal

Flexibility

OperaYonal

Financial

Commercial

Scalability  &  growth

Up  &  down  vs  out  &  in

Coping  with  spikes

High  availability

Hybrid  cloud

Hybrid  cloud

Base  model  vs  spikes

Prepare  for  change

Compliance

Where’s  your  data?

CDN

Patriot  Act

Who  are  you  dealing  with?

Service  Level  Agreement

Reaching  out