CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE ENTERPRISE: A perspective DAVID RAMIREZ Prairie View A&M University of Texas COMP-5003 Graduate Project and Project Research Instructor: Dr. A. Lodgher March, 2009

Enterprise IT : Current options

A DEFINITION… A pool of highly scalable, abstracted infrastructure, capable of hosting end-customer applications, that is billed by consumption.

CLOUD COMPUTING BASIC PARADIGM

The Layers of Cloud Computing Source: Cloud computing with Linux (web resource) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cloud-computing/

Source: Cloud computing with Linux (web resource)

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cloud-computing/

Application Browser / Client Application Extra Functions Application Application User User Developer On Premises Platform Cloud Three kinds of cloud services Source: A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms - David Chapell

CC characteristics

CC a big advantage if…

Starters… Many more Joining in…

CASE STUDY : BECHTEL PROJECT SERVICES NETWORK AD-HOC CLOUD

CASE STUDY : BECHTEL PROJECT SERVICES NETWORK AD-HOC CLOUD (continued)

CASE STUDY : BECHTEL PROJECT SERVICES NETWORK AD-HOC CLOUD (continued)

CONCLUSION CC still has many disadvantages for Enterprise To play safe: reinvent it locally (enjoy all advantages, especially costs reductions). A possible future enterprise IT architecture: Classic architecture only for Legacy, or niche applications Extensive use of virtualization Cloud Computing

CC still has many disadvantages for Enterprise

To play safe: reinvent it locally (enjoy all advantages, especially costs reductions).

A possible future enterprise IT architecture:

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