STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT UTICA/ROME Cloud Computing for Small Businesses Christopher Urban SUNYIT Department of Computer.

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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Cloud Computingfor Small Businesses

Christopher UrbanSUNYIT

Department of Computer and Information Sciences


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Agenda

• A little history– PCs, cell phones, e-commerce, cloud computing

• Cloud computing– Driving forces– 5 myths– Some definitions and concepts– Providers of cloud services


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A Little History

• John Atanasoff (born in Hamilton, NY) inventedthe first digital computer (late ’30s)

• Thomas Watson, President, IBM, 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

• In the mid-1950s, businesses began to see computing technology as a means to increase efficiency


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A Little History

• In the 1970s business began to see computing technology as a means to increase effectiveness

• Personal computer sales began in 1970s• Just over 1M sold by 1981• IBM: Releases the PC in August, 1981• Over 5M personal computers sold 1981-84


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A Little History

• By 1990 over 20M personal computers sold• Windows 3.0 released in 1990• WWW publicly available in August 1991• Mosaic introduced in in 1993• By 2000 over 140M personal computers sold• By 2008 over 1B personal computers sold• By 2014 over 2B personal computers sold


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A Little History

• Today there are over 6B cell phone subscribers • 75% of the world’s population has access to a

cell phone• Metcalfe’s Law: the value of a tele-communications

network is proportional to the square of the connected users of the system.

• Tom Freidman: the world is flat


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E-Commerce

• 1994– Yahoo– Amazon

• 1995– E-Bay– Google


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E-Commerce

• 1997– Virtually every major company,

organization, government, and media outlet had a Web presence


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Cloud Computing

• 1997– Ramnath Chellapa: “computing paradigm where the boundaries

of computing will be determined by economic rationale rather than technical limits alone.”

• 1999– Salesforce.com


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Cloud Computing

• 2002– Amazon develops a business model to allow

other organizations to make use of Amazon's necessary excess capacity

• 2002 to today– Explosive growth in Cloud Computing– Services provided to anyone, anytime,

anywhere


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Driving Forces of Cloud Computing

• Pervasive and mobile computing• Squanderably abundant bandwidth• Proliferation of Internet services

– Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc…


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Cloud Computing Myths & Truths

• 5 Cloud Computing Myths and Truths forSmall Businesses


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The Cloud: A Layered Approach

• Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications• Development / Testing / Quality Assurance• Operating Systems / Virtualization• Servers / Storage / Cabling / Power / Cooling


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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) :

– Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine

•Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications

•Development / Testing / Quality Assurance

•Operating Systems / Virtualization

•Servers / Storage / Networking / Power / Cooling


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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

– Windows Azure, Google App Engine






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Software as a Service (SaaS)

– Dropbox, Salesforce, Quickbooks, OfficeTime






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A Natural Starting Point For Small Businesses

• Software as a Service (SaaS)– Why build something that you can buy if

• The cost is at or below the price of building it• The quality meets your expectations• The delivery time is certain to be well ahead of

your build delivery time


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The Cloud: Enabling Software

This software allows:•On-demand access and service•Self-provisioning•Metering•Elasticity•Multi-Tenancy


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The Cloud: Public, Private, Hybrid

• Public: outside an organization’s firewall• Private: inside an organization’s firewall• Hybrid: part public and part private


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Providers of Cloud Servicesfor Small Businesses

• Office Time– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405820,00.asp

• Sage One– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405001,00.asp

• Adobe FormsCentral– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405001,00.asp


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• DocuSign Pro– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393565,00.asp

• Office 365– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383731,00.asp

• Adobe Connect– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387818,00.asp


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• Gliffy– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403220,00.asp

• Mindomo– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381226,00.asp

• Salesforce– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364726,00.asp


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• Quickbase– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338771,00.asp

• Box– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410914,00.asp

• Freshbooks– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411886,00.asp


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• Intuit Online Payroll Plus– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406340,00.asp

• Abukai Expenses– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395848,00.asp

• Microsoft Skydrive– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409569,00.asp


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• Google Drive– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403546,00.asp

• Rebit Pro– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411940,00.asp

• PureCloud– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412584,00.asp


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• Lynda– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385781,00.asp


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Who Should Be Driving the Cloud Train?

• The IT folks?• The CEO?• Both because cloud computing is not just about

technology, it is also about business models


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Cloud Computing is Not a Panacea

• As with any major move, you need to do your "due diligence"

• Basic Checklist for Cloud Computing Customers


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Questions?

• Ask anything…

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT UTICA/ROME Cloud Computing for Small Businesses Christopher Urban SUNYIT Department of Computer.

Documents

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