Cloud Computing is one of transformational technology shifts that is the most misunderstood. Many businesses, individuals fear how cloud would affect their daily lifes, from security, privacy and changes in their daily life. Fortunately, this is a technology that can be embraced in phases. Your business can seize this opportunity and make it as one of your competitive strategy.

1. I’m CloudConfused Demystifying Cloud Computing

2. What the say: “Biggest Paradigm Shift in 20 years” “Game Changers” “Just On” “Pay As You Go” “Tremendous Cost Cutting”

3. Describe The Cloud To Me The Cloud 21 experts are defining cloud computing http://bit.ly/C6jIm *Picture taken under Creative Common license

4. Who Cares? What is it for me?

5. First, What the heck is Cloud Computing First, what the heck is Cloud Computing? …in simple, plain English please!

6. Let’s use a simple analogy Say you just moved to a city, and you’re looking for a place to live

7. You can either Builda house or Rentan apartment

8. If you builda house, there are a few important decisions you have to make…

9. Howbigis the house? are you planning to grow a large family? Remodel, addition typically cost a lot more once the house is built

10. But, you get a chance to customizeit flooring tile windows floor plan Roof lighting landscaping

11. Once the house is built, you’re responsible for maintenance Pay property tax Hire Landscaper Water Electrician Electricity Plumber Heating and Cooling Gutter Cleaning House Keeping

12. How about renting?

13. Consider a builder in your city builds a massivenumber of apartment units

14. A unit can easilybe converted into a 2,3,4 or more units

15. You make a fewer, simpler decisions You can start with one unit and grow later, or downsize

16. But… You do nothave a lot of options to customize your unit

17. triple pane windows green materials high capacity electricity high speed Internet However, builders provide you with very high quality infrastructure

18. No need to worryabout maintenance cost No need to Hirelandscapers, electricians, plumbers

19. Pay as You Go Just pay your rent and utilities

20. Let’s translate to Cloud Computing?

21. As an end-consumer, believe it or not you’ve been using Cloudfor long times

22. Yes, most of them are Free

23. In return, you’re willing to give away your informationfor ads and other purposes

24. But you’ve been enjoying High Reliability Service (ok, ok, most of them are) Unlimited Storage Connecting, Sharing

25. OK, Now tell that to the business owner Give up your data, then you can use this infrastructure for free

26. This is how their CEO would feel

27. My Business Needs… Security Privacy Reliability High Availability

28. Building Enterprise Software is like…. Building Medieval Castle Stone Wall Fire-proof Moat Army Death Hole

29. Let’s Hire an Army of IT Engineers Support Software Upgrade Backup/Restore Service Pack Development Network issues

30. Let’s Build Huge Data Center Capacity Planning Cooling Management Disaster Plan Server Crashes

31. In the mean time,… Many things have changed

32. The enterprise world we live in 2010and beyond Global Direct, Open CustomersCommunication (Customers, Resources, IPs are acquired everywhere) (e.g. Social Media) Digital Life Convergence (Work and Personal lines are blurring) Work Remotely (Mobility Trend) Transparency Brief Collaboration (Blogs, Social Computing) (Assemble the best, Disassemble upon completion)

33. 2008-09 Economy is upside down Layoffs Bankruptcy Excess Capacity

34. Can we bridge the gap?

35. Requires aNew Way ofThinking

36. Cloud Computing is not answer the for all

37. But it could simplifyour lives….

38. Leave it the experts who have a lot of money to spend to build giantdatacenters across the globe

39. Your data is replicated 3 or 4 times in their data center High Availability

40. High Traffic? Adding “servers” is a click away. Running in just minutes, not days

41. It can even load balance your server traffic

42. Expect your Cloud Network is always up

43. Yes, you can even pick whereyour data and “servers” reside

44. Business Contraction? Just reduce your computing power,storage

45. Wait, What is the catch?

46. Cloud Computing is relatively newtechnology

47. Growing Pains We all learn from it

48. Only a handful of major players can build this massive infrastructure

49. Not many software written yet to takeadvantage of cloudinfrastructure

50. Sensitive Data in the Cloud? are there yet? Encryption Data at Rest Data in Motion

51. Yes, you’re loosing some controls some configurations physical security only subset of APIs

52. Let’s clear common confusions about Cloud Computing

53. Who is paying whom?

54. Typical Scenarios Software/Service Providers Cloud/Infrastructure Provider You (Business, Individual) You may also build software directly on the provider’s platform and pay them directly

55. Do I have to start over?

56. In some cases, you could redirectyour data to the cloud Before Migrate Data to the Cloud

57. In some cases, you could redirectyour data to the cloud After

58. However, to take advantage fully, migrate all or create new apps on the cloud Employees Suppliers Customers

59. Is this just Hosting 2.0?

60. No, they have different architecturesand business model Cloud Players Hosting Players Hundreds of them around the world Only few can afford billions dollar investment on data centers

61. Your contracts Cloud Players Hosting Players Pay As You Go Often yearly Pay only what you use

62. Reliability, High Availability, Capacity Elasticity Cloud Players Hosting Players Bring your own or rent servers to increase capacity Virtually unlimited storage, computing power You have to manage reliability, fail over yourself Built-in Redundancy

63. The end of PC ?

64. NO Most cloud applications that will be built are accessible from PC. Applications can be a browser base, applicationrunning on PC accessing data and services on the cloud So will the mobile applications

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