FOTE09 - Paul Miller: Cutting through the hype to see Clouds in context

Cutting Through the Hype: Clouds in Context Dr Paul Miller The Cloud of Data paul.miller@cloudofdata.com cloudofdata.com

Topics Some ‘truths’ about the Cloud cloudofdata.com

Topics Some ‘truths’ about the Cloud The Cloud Computing Stack The Cloud and Higher Education cloudofdata.com

Some more true than others! What do you think? cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nickwebb/3024917166/

Some more true than others! What do you think? Some ‘Truths’ about the Cloud cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nickwebb/3024917166/

Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin Cisco, VMware et al pushing on-premise Clouds cloudofdata.com www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-1000.jpg

Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin Cisco, VMware et al pushing on-premise Clouds It’s just Off-Premise cloudofdata.com www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-1000.jpg

Or music downloads, or mainframes, or... cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cpstorm/132212117/

Or music downloads, or mainframes, or... It’s like the Electrical Grid cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cpstorm/132212117/

Rode Cloud meme in 2008. Listen to our 2009 podcast. cloudofdata.com http://tr.im/dzxm

For elastic or periodic jobs. Less clear-cut for ‘normal’ load cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/esdrascalderan/357434020/

For elastic or periodic jobs. Less clear-cut for ‘normal’ load It’s Cheap cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/esdrascalderan/357434020/

Probably… but Simon Wardley cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/venteco/2851026377/

Probably… but Simon Wardley It’s Green http://tr.im/greenclouds cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/venteco/2851026377/

Do you view cloud computing as a greener alternative to traditional computing infrastructures? Not Convinced Too much hype Yes Green beneﬁts unrealised 19% 35% 21% 25% cloudofdata.com www.rackspace.com/downloads/surveys/GreenSurvey2009.pdf

Numbers don’t add up... cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/raver_mikey/2300514593/

Numbers don’t add up... It’s Unreliable cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/raver_mikey/2300514593/

And your data centre is ??? cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/8323834@N07/500995147/

And your data centre is ??? It’s Insecure cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/8323834@N07/500995147/

PATRIOT Act and data territoriality are real… but manageable cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484013571/

PATRIOT Act and data territoriality are real… but manageable USA will read my data cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484013571/

And Rackspace, and Microsoft, and Sun, and HP, and Google, and... cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lucasartoni/2967023166/

And Rackspace, and Microsoft, and Sun, and HP, It’s Amazon and Google, and... cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lucasartoni/2967023166/

Amazon Rackspace Joyent GoGrid 2,000 Guy Rosen has begun tracking trends, using 1,500 QuantCast’s top 500,000 sites 1,000 500 0 July August September cloudofdata.com www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/09/state-of-the-cloud-september-2009/

With thanks to Simon Wardley cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ﬁmbrethil/2642775023/

With thanks to Simon Wardley “It’s like computers on the Internet, innit?” cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ﬁmbrethil/2642775023/

‘The Cloud’ lumps different concepts/capabilities together cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3089163372/

‘The Cloud’ lumps different concepts/capabilities together The Cloud Stack cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3089163372/

“convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of conﬁgurable computing resources...” cloudofdata.com csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/

Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others! all ‘Cloud’… but DIFFERENT! Software/Application [as a Service] (SaaS) Platform [as a Service] (PaaS) Infrastructure [as a Service] (IaaS) cloudofdata.com

outsource raw infrastructure - avoid signiﬁcant CapEx scale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payroll SaaS - IBM Blue Cloud hybrid PaaS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...) storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...) Elasticity (Rightscale…) Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…) Electricity Cooling etc. cloudofdata.com

‘does heavy lifting’ concentrate on your app’s USP least developed but most potential? SaaS Platform as a Service (PaaS) Salesforce force.com Apprenda SaaSGrid Google App Engine Microsoft Azure Appistry Talis Platform IaaS cloudofdata.com

light weight applications, delivered over Web mostly low-end disruptors for now... Software as a Service (SaaS) Google Apps, Zoho Acrobat.com, iWork.com Kashﬂow, FreeAgent WordPress.com MobileMe Salesforce.com PaaS IaaS cloudofdata.com

data are at every level of the stack… becomes more important as the stack commoditises SaaS Data PaaS IaaS cloudofdata.com

cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/xavierla/3838988544/

The Cloud and HE cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/xavierla/3838988544/

cloudofdata.com www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.asp

Only UK award in latest round. KCL, Cambridge, Bristol previous recipients... cloudofdata.com aws.amazon.com/education/aws-in-education-research-grants/

Opportunities exist at each level of the stack cloudofdata.com

Opportunities exist at each level of the stack But none are necessarily right for everyone. cloudofdata.com

virtualise existing on-campus servers cloudofdata.com

virtualise existing on-campus servers JIT equipment for research groups, like Eli Lilly aggregate data centres locally, regionally, nationally ‘Cloudburst’ for exam results, clearing, registration… cloudofdata.com

build internal software on Platforms, instead of from the bottom up cloudofdata.com

build internal software on Platforms, instead of from the bottom up replace suitable desktop software with appropriate Cloud apps hand the pain of email and scheduling to YahoogleSoft, and go Web 2.0 for free cloudofdata.com

cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/king-edward/2152782252/

Closing Thoughts cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/king-edward/2152782252/

yforecast Technolog urnal A quarterly jo 2009 Spring 32 y for strateg A CIO’s g “messy BI” issue 20 rethink in In this tic Web Seman Making ons ti 04 connec Web g a data Spinnin recent, useful. cloudofdata.com www.pwc.com/techforecast ‘Evergreen IT’

‘The Cloud’ is not the answer cloudofdata.com

‘The Cloud’ is not the answer ‘The Cloud’ probably doesn’t exist! cloudofdata.com

Cloud solutions may well help ease your pain points… cloudofdata.com

Cloud solutions may well help ease your pain points… but only you know where those are for your institution cost? efﬁciency? scalability? green? self-service? cloudofdata.com

Start simple cloudofdata.com

Start simple why not give that demanding research group some EC2 credit instead of another server... ...and Simone’s email address instead of yours! cloudofdata.com

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