Cloud Ecosystems A Perspective

Cloud Computing Building Blocks A Perspective: Cloud Computing Ecosystem Julie McDaniel Project Manager [email_address]

Cloud Computing
“ The risks are lower, there are no big mulitmillion-dollar up-front fees, and the IT team can focus on getting value out of the solution instead of managing infrastructure.”
Paul Turner, NetSuite
Governing the Cloud, PM Network Journal, November 2010

Cloud Computing
“ Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Cloud Computing
Often used phrases, terms when talking about Cloud Computing
on-demand
shared pool
rapidly provisioned; ease-of-access to remote computing sites
released with minimal effort or service provider interaction

Cloud Computing
Top 10 Public Cloud Computing Risks, CIO Magazin e
Security on the network
Identity management
Compliance
Data integration
Vendor lock-in
Vendor viability
Manageability
Availability
Shared resources
Legal ambiguity

Cloud Computing Players
Three (3) main players
Supplier - a Service Provider (SP)
Consumer - an organizational entity that has a business relationship with an SP. A consumer may be an enterprise, government, an agency, or an individual.
User - some who leverages the services of an SP

Cloud Computing Components
Five components that provide a framework for the cloud computing “ecosystems:”
Infrastructure
Platform
Application
Security
Management

Cloud Computing Segment Risk (CIO Magazine)
Infrastructure
Shared resources ; Vendor lock-in; Vendor viability; Manageability; Data integration
Platform
Availability ; Vendor lock-in; Vendor viability; Manageability
Application
Availability ; Vendor lock-in; Vendor viability; Manageability
Security
Security on the network; Identity management ; Compliance; Legal ambiguity
Management
Legal ambiguity; watchful eye of apps & data; reliability

Cloud Computing Ecosystems Application Platform Infrastructure

Cloud Computing Advantages
Reduce Costs
Achieved through no upfront costs for servers and software needed for business applications. Converts CAPEX to OPEX. Fixed costs become variable costs.
IT management costs are also reduced.
Pay only for the subscriptions and the services used.
Increase Efficiency
Achieved through agility, ease-of-access to computing sites; elasticity and on-demand availability.
Availability and reliability of cloud computing resources through redundancy and disaster recovery.
Enhanced Security
Shifting public data on the cloud reduces the exposure of the internal private data stored at in-house systems.
Data security and privacy is enforced at the information level ensuring compliance and regularatory requirements.
Higher Customer Satisfaction
Higher customer satisfaction is achieved through collaboration of stakeholders and cloud services.
Also through performing business functions using mobile devices.

Cloud Computing-Infrastructure Purpose & Description
Purpose:
Provides cloud infrastructure solutions, computing resources in a scalable, secure and cost effective way, also called IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
Description:
An integrated set of tools and services that provide agility and speed of provisioning, predictability in delivery, and ability to integrate cloud services with a diverse set of products or services from different vendors.
Technologies and tools that enable deployment and management of complex services across dissimilar administrative domains.

Cloud Computing-Infrastructure Features
Features:
Computing resources can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically - to quickly scale out and rapidly released to scale in.
Metering capability appropriate to the type of services e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, etc.
Monitoring capability of resource usage for control and reporting
Location Independence and cost effectiveness

Cloud Computing-Platform Purpose & Description
Purpose:
Provides application-centric development and deployment approach also called PaaS (Platform as a Service).
Description:
A platform that hides the concepts of servers, operating systems, database systems, programs, etc. where a user can create applications over the internet.
Covers on-demand environments in the cloud where an application can be rapidly developed and deployed.

Cloud Computing-Platform Features
Features:
Ease of using development tools and rapid deployment of applications
Support for multi-tenancy and on-demand
Tenant-specific application customization and data security

Cloud Computing-Application Purpose & Description

Cloud Computing-Application Features
Features:
Breadth and flexibility of solutions
Rapid and easy deployment
Elasticity and mobility of the user group
Performance and quantitative analysis

Cloud Computing-Security Purpose & Description
Purpose:
Provides “Trust Services” in the cloud
Description:
Creates a framework and set of guiding principles to organize and implement specific solutions in a borderless network.
Users and end-systems must securely interact with, or use services from, disparate systems that are outside any single locus of control or security domain.

Cloud Computing-Security Features
Features :
For optimal security a borderless network ensures every component be independently secure, requiring systems and data protection on multiple levels
Utilizes a mix of encryption, secure communication, and data level authentication
Ensures compliances and regulatory requirements

Cloud Computing-Management Context
Rolled into service from SP and built into Contract; SLAs
Your IT manages both IT services and business services
IT Services – infrastructure (e.g. servers, routers;) Platform (e.g. OS;) Applications/SW (e.g. MS Office Suite, ERP)
Business Services – users who use IT services to operate their business unit

Cloud Computing-Management Purpose & Description
Purpose
Provides an agile cloud management process for cloud operations, control, integrity and administration. (Cloud SP, Cloud User)
Description
Enterprise cloud management offerings are tools and services that work within all major platform and infrastructure options.

Cloud Computing-Management Features
Features:
IT Services Business Services Cloud architectural framework Cloud formation and deployment Economic analysis of cloud functions Interoperability with other solutions

Cloud Computing- Vendor Products SaaS PaaS IaaS Security Management
Google Apps
Salesforce.com
SAP/ Business Objects
Sun/Oracle Apps
Microsoft Live Services/BPOS
Google AppEngine
Salesforce Force.com
IBM Cloudburst
Microsoft Azure
Amazon AWS
Amazon EC2, S3 and EBS
Rackspace
Terramark
IBM Cloudburst
HP Cloud Assure
EMC/RSA (incl. Cyota)
Symantec
IBM
Sonoa Systems
Cisco
Amazon S3
IBM Cloudburst
RackSpace
RightScale

Appendix
Documents
“ Shapes In The Cloud, ” (eBook) by Chuck Nelson
Terms
SaaS: Software as a Service
PaaS: Platform as a Service
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service

Appendix 2
Organizations
National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST ( www.nist.gov )
Vendors
Amazon Web Services, AWS (aws.amazon.com) – EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud;) S3 (Simple Storage Service;) EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Microsoft Live Service/Business Productivity Online Suite, BPOS (www.microsoft.com/online/business-productivity.aspx)

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