Cloud Computing Soup To Nuts Joe Drumgoole [email_address] http://twitter.com/jdrumgoole http://joedrumgoole.com/blog

Cloud Computing : Definition Virtualised Infrastructure Pay as You Use Billing Unbounded access to Resources Scale down as easily as you scale up

Virtualised Infrastructure

Pay as You Use Billing

Unbounded access to Resources

Scale down as easily as you scale up

Virtualised Infrastructure VCPU VCPU VCPU VCPU VCPU VCPU VCPU VCPU Real CPU Real CPU Shared Disk Shared Disk Shared Disk Shared Disk

Pay as You Use Billing

Unbounded Access To Resources

Scale Down as Easily as you Scale Up

Isn't it Just like... Mainframes Time Sharing Web Hosting Co-location 1m up front fee Your process can ruin my day Limited to websites Can't scale down

Mainframes

Time Sharing

Web Hosting

Co-location

1m up front fee

Your process can ruin my day

Limited to websites

Can't scale down

Software as a Service vs Cloud Computing SaaS End user service Branded Billing per user Often Free Cloud Needs programmers Unbranded Billing by resource usage Pay to Play

SaaS

End user service

Branded

Billing per user

Often Free

Cloud

Needs programmers

Unbranded

Billing by resource usage

Pay to Play

Why Now? Cost of Storage : 1TB, 88 Euros Multi-core Chipsets/Multi-chip motherboards Cheap virtualisation software (Xen) Intel/Linux hegemony Broadband everywhere 10 years knowledge of building scalable software Excellent Open Source Software (LAMP, Rails, Django, Danga)

Cost of Storage : 1TB, 88 Euros

Multi-core Chipsets/Multi-chip motherboards

Cheap virtualisation software (Xen)

Intel/Linux hegemony

Broadband everywhere

10 years knowledge of building scalable software

Excellent Open Source Software (LAMP, Rails, Django, Danga)

The Players Amazon Storage, Compute, Queuing, Entity Store, EBS, CDN Microsoft Storage, Compute, Queuing, Entity Store Google Storage, Compute (App Engine) GoGrid Storage, Compute Mosso Storage, Compute Nirvanix Storage

Amazon

Storage, Compute, Queuing, Entity Store, EBS, CDN

Microsoft

Storage, Compute, Queuing, Entity Store

Google

Storage, Compute (App Engine)

GoGrid

Storage, Compute

Mosso

Storage, Compute

Nirvanix

Storage

Example Costs Unlimited storage @ $0.15 per GB/month Linux/Windows Instance @ $0.10/$0.125 per hour 365 * 24 * 0.10 = $876 per year Watch the per transaction costs! SmugMug saved over 1m dollars in y1

Unlimited storage @ $0.15 per GB/month

Linux/Windows Instance @ $0.10/$0.125 per hour

365 * 24 * 0.10 = $876 per year

Watch the per transaction costs!

SmugMug saved over 1m dollars in y1

The Problem Areas The Data Problem The Britney Spears Problem The Programmer Problem The Doctor Problem The End User Problem The Failure Problem

The Data Problem

The Britney Spears Problem

The Programmer Problem

The Doctor Problem

The End User Problem

The Failure Problem

An Example Grid S3 1800 Euros a Month including 2TB of storage

Summary Its Cheap Its flexible Its not a silver bullet Its enabling a whole new class of business The game starts when Azure launches

Its Cheap

Its flexible

Its not a silver bullet

Its enabling a whole new class of business

The game starts when Azure launches

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