Slide deck from my introductory "Cloud 101" presentation.

1. Cloud 101
Casey J. Watson
CTO, Excolo Group, LLC
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2. Products
• Physical.
• Large up-front investment.
• Scalability can be difficult.
• Diminishing ROI through
administration, depreciation,
maintenance, etc.
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3. Services
• Virtual.
• Pay only for what you use.
• Extremely scalable.
• Ability to choose the right mix
between control and automation.
• Think of it as a utility – gas, electric,
water, compute capacity.
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4. How did we get here?
Physical Hardware
The Internet
Physical Data Centers
Reusable Software Components (COM, etc.)
Virtualization
Service Oriented Architecture
The Cloud
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5. Cloud Providers
Private Public
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6. Execution Models
• Infrastructure
IaaS • Most Control
• Least Automation
• Platform
PaaS • Some Control
• Some Automation
• Software
SaaS • Least Control
• Most Automation
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7. Mix It Up!
Run exclusively on-
premises, …
Run exclusively in the
cloud or…
Leverage the cloud to
extend your on-premises
compute capacity.
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8. Security
• Amazon and Microsoft have a much
larger investment in security.
• Amazon and Microsoft are much
larger targets for potential threats.
• Compliance, etc.
• Hybrid Solutions
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9. Let’s take a look.
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10. Test Drive the Cloud FREE
Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure
Completely Free Tier Free for 90 Days
http://aws.amazon.com/free http://aka.ms/thecloud
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11. This is YOUR group.
What would you like to hear more about at upcoming meetings?
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12. Thank you.
E-mail me at casey.watson@excologroup.com.
Follow me on Twitter @_caseywatson.
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