John Engates
CTO, Rackspace Hosting
Email: jengates@rackspace.com
Twitter: @jengates

3 Take Aways
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Cloud is a movement AND a technology
Cloud is for everyone not everything
Cloud is part of a computing strategy

IT’S A
MOVEMENT
DECISION #1: ARE YOU IN OR OUT??

“The bulk of business
computing will shift out
of private data centers
to the ‘cloud’.”
- Nicholas Carr

Not a cloud believer?
$1200/square foot + servers
Experts on huge sets of
disciplines
IT underperformance

Simple Advances, Big Impact
 Pooled Computing
 Powered by Software

Radical Cost Savings
Pooled Computing Software Powered
Opex
Capex
 Utilization  Automated
 Asset life Pay for what you use

Dedicated Cloud SaaS
Hosting Hosting
Compromise
 Custom code
 Productized and bundled
 Smooth Scaling
OR
Cloud For Custom Code
OR
Computing As A Service

One Twist
Dedicated Cloud SaaS
Hosting Hosting
IaaS PaaS

Dedicated
IaaS PaaS SaaS
Hosting
Service Provider
Prescribed and Delivered
On Demand

Everyone NOT everything
Cloud gives IT new tools
Old tools will remain
Right tool for the right workload

Hybrid Hosting
Dedicated Cloud SaaS
ERP Blogs Email
OSS Wikis Workspaces
Workflow Subversion Chat
Website Test/Dev IM
Department sites

Hybrid Hosting
Dedicated Cloud SaaS
Email
Scalable web heads
Workspaces
Database and
Chat
Application Servers
IM

THANK YOU
John Engates, CTO
Jengates (at) rackspace.com
Twitter: @jengates
210-312-4197