Presentation on geospatial in the cloud given to the Boulder Denver Geospatial Technologists.

1. Geo in the
Cloud
Peter Batty @pmbatty
Chris Helm @cwhelm
Brian Timoney @briantimoney
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2. Peter Why the cloud?
Brian Google Fusion Tables
Chris OpenGeo on Amazon
Peter myWorld and Arc2Earth
Chris GeoCommons
Peter OpenStreetMap
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3. Complexity kills.
Complexity sucks the life out of users,
developers and IT. Complexity makes
products difficult to plan, build, test and use.
Complexity introduces security challenges.
Complexity causes administrator frustration.
Ray Ozzie
Ex Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
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4. We’re moving toward a world of:
cloud-based continuous services
that connect us all and do our bidding, and
appliance-like connected devices
enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services.
See http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/
or google “ray ozzie new day”
Ray Ozzie
Ex Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
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5. Living in the cloud
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7. • MacBook Pro 13", 8GB RAM, 600GB old fashioned spinning disk, WiFi, wired ethernet
port, 1 camera
• Google Chrome Notebook Cr-48, 2GB RAM, 16GB SSD, WiFi, 3G (Verizon), 1 camera
• MacBook Air 11", 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD, WiFi, 1 camera
• iPad, 256MB RAM, 64GB SSD, WiFi, 3G (ATT), GPS
• iPhone 4, 512MB RAM, 32GB SSD, WiFi, 3G (ATT), GPS, 2 cameras
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9. “It’s like, how much more black could
this be? And the answer is ... none”
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11. iWork.com
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13. This is an old Google
data center (2005)
Each container holds
servers
1,160
This facility holds an estimated
150,000 servers
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14. Google has an estimated 40 data centers…
…holding an estimated
1 million
servers
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15. 3 billion
searches per day
35,000
searches per second
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16. 2 billion videos per day
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17. 100 million
monthly users
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18. one zillion times more computer science
PhDs than your company or mine has
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19. HUGE
economies of scale
Google
Amazon
Your IT
department
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20. Save
BIG!!
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21. EC2 Pricing
September 5, 2010
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22. My daily quotas (max $5 per day)
46.5 CPU hours 43.2m web requests!
6.5 CPU hours free
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23. My total server costs for development of
myWorld to initial launch (Sept 2010)
13c
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24. flic.kr/p/4iCux7
but is it SECURE???
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25. There is a strong case that
your data
is
more secure
in the cloud
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26. Agility
Google Maps had 400
releases in its first 4 years
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27. Cloud benefits
Server side
Ultra scalable
Secure
Major cost savings
Hardware, admin, upgrades
Much faster enhancements & fixes
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