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Cloud Computing for Hosting Providers Clinton Gatewood A-Server - 2008

A-Server

Cloud infrastructure builder for Hosting Providers

Belgian company

Offices in Belgium, Egypt, US & India

Team 15 years experience in datacenters & storage

Delivering to markets: US, APAC, Europe, ME

A-Server - 2008

What is Cloud Computing? A-Server - 2008 Wikipedia: Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

Agility: respond innovative and competitive

Scalability : grow infastructure with your customers

Optimise infrastructure use: today 15% average use!

Need for Cost Effective Monthly Billing

Save Energy thanks to use of virtualization and auto provisining

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Cloud Computing Pyramid A-Server - 2008

... what cloud should I look at as a Hosting Provider?

Software as a Service Clouds (SAAS): SalesForce, Google …

Platform as a Service Clouds (PAAS): Force.com, Azure …

Cloud Infrastructure software : Citrix, 3Tera …

Infrastructure Clouds (IAAS) : Amazon, A-Server, GoGrid, Flexiscale, Sun …

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Cloud Computing Today A-Server - 2008 Hosting Providers?

A-Server - 2008 Hosting Providers use cases for IAAS ... Use Cases Infrastructure Clouds Web 2.0 Demo & Test capacity Scalable Backup Storage Instant Disaster Recovery Cloud Hosting …

... big companies are moving into Hosting ...

Amazon Webservices: new web control interface …

Microsoft Azure: goes hosting, what will be next?

Hardware vendors go into services … they are building public clouds: IBM, SUN, …

Google Apps is hosting platform for applications ...

A Changing Marketplace ... A-Server - 2008 Hosting Providers’ business are threatened !

A-Server - 2008 Existing Infrastructure Clouds Service Level Agreement? Hardware used? Where is my data stored? Security? Control? Performance? Reliability?

A-Server - 2008 Cloud Requirements! Redundant Storage Architecture HPC Cloud Infrastructure Control Panels & API’s Self-Healing Datacenter Auto Provisioning Capacity Based Usage Model

A-Server - 2008 Can Hosting Providers compete? Control of pricing? My Target markets? Billing Models? Build on top of big clouds? Should I compete with the big cloud boys?

A-Server - 2008 Can Hosting Providers compete? What positioning to take in cloud offerings? Should I Compete with the big boys? Absolutely! Is it worth it?: Margins? How to meet the requirements?

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