EDIFICE 109th Plenary:
The Impact of Cloud Computing on EC
Services
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John Radko
Chief Technology Strategist
GXS

The ultimate triumph of high end
over commodity…
…or not
or not.

“Over time, however, competitive
advantage within categories shifts
d i hi i hif
inexorably toward volume-
operations architecture.” (p.44)
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“If the electric dynamo was the machine that fashioned
twentieth century society ‐ that made us who we are ‐
the information dynamo is the machine that will fashion
the information dynamo is the machine that will fashion
the new society of the twenty‐first century.
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Speed and Power
S d dP

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Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Software as a Service
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Software as a Service

Event Subscriber Management

Platform as a Service
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Platform as a Service
Think “operating system” – b t
Thi k “ ti t ” but
running in the cloud…

Force.com

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Google App Engine
http://code.google.com/appengine/

GXS Trading Grid
TRADING GRID® ONLINE PULSE.GXS.COM* TEAMBOOK™
Multi-Lingual, Self-Service Portal Service Performance Dashboard Service Collaboration Utility
B2B Production Control Services
B2B Activity Monitoring Program Management (Platinum)
B2B Strategy and Design B2B GXS Community Link™
Implementation Implementation Services Centers of Maps and Forms Production
Services Change Management Excellence ERP Integration
Trading Grid® Services
ACTIVE APPS
Catalog Logistics Inventory Orders Invoicing Payments
TRANSLATION TRACEABILITY FORMS DATA QUALITY
Q DASHBOARDS
Translation and Document Lifecycle Intelligent Web Business Rules Scorecard and
Mapping Service Visibility Forms Service and Validation Service Reporting Service
ACCESS SERVICES
Shared Message Gateway GridStream*
MESSAGING SMB
GXS Trading Grid® Messaging Service GXS Trading Grid® Accelerators
Routing w/ Guaranteed Delivery Managed File Transfer Encryption Storage Desktop Accounting Office
Identity Introspection Security Event Management
GXS Trading Grid® Ultra™ Infrastructure
Blades Data Store Bus Library

Infrastructure as a Service
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Scale on Demand
Expertise on Demand
Shift from “own” to “rent”
own rent

Amazon is not alone…

GXS Managed Services IaaS
F5 BigIP F5 BigIP (hot spare)
Rapid failover
TGMS HTTPs/ FTP FTP/s TGMS HTTPs/ FTP FTP/s
MG AS2 MG AS2
Jb dge
Jbridge SFTP Proxy
o y Proxy
o y Jbridge SFTP Proxy Proxy
ZEUS (software load balancer)
ZEUS (software load balancer)
Managed Services Managed Services
Node HA
Enterprise AIBRIDGE
AI 5.2
Node HA
Enterprise AIBRIDGE
AI 5.2
System 1 System 1
AI 5.2 AI 5.2
Oracle 10g RAC (multi-node DB cluster)
E*S DB
DCTS DB AI DB
GXS Data Center – Virtualized Bladeframes

IaaS Layers of Scalability
F5 BigIP F5 BigIP (hot spare)
Rapid failover
TGMS HTTPs/ FTP FTP/s TGMS HTTPs/ FTP FTP/s
MG AS2 MG AS2
Jb dge
Jbridge SFTP Proxy
o y Proxy
o y Jbridge SFTP Proxy Proxy
ZEUS (software load balancer)
ZEUS (software load balancer)
Managed Services Managed Services
Node HA
Enterprise AIBRIDGE
AI 5.2
Node HA
Enterprise AIBRIDGE
AI 5.2
System 1 System 1
AI 5.2 AI 5.2
Oracle 10g RAC (multi-node DB cluster)
E*S DB DCTS DB AI DB
GXS Data Center – Virtualized Bladeframes

Things to think about
• Gartner forecast for “Cloud Services
Cloud Services”
– Current market (total): $46.4B
– Forecast for 2013: $150 1B
$150.1B
– CAGR: 26.5%
• Forecast for business services
– 2013 $42B
2013:
– CAGR: 31%

And it’s just getting started…
John Radko
Chief Technology Strategist, Product Engineering
GXS (301)340-4603 t
100 Edison Park Drive (301)775-9344
(301)775 9344 m
Gaithersburg, MD 20878 (301)340-4205 f
john.radko@gxs.com
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