3. What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing consists of shared
computing resources that are virtualized
and accessed as a service, through an API.
Cloud computing resources are offered as a service
on an as-needed basis and delivered by IP-based
connectivity.
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4. Properties of a Cloud
Elasticity. Users can grow and shrink their
computing needs based on their business
needs
Service-driven. Clouds define their
capabilities as services typically delivered via
programming interfaces
Utility-based. Users only pay for the
services they use
SLA-driven. Clouds are managed
dynamically based policies like availability
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5. Dissecting the Cloud
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Development as a Service (DaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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6. Cloud Segments
Software as a Service
Software applications via the cloud
Salesforce.com, SugarCRM
Development as a Service
Development environment via the cloud
Zembly, Force
Platform as a Service
Software platform capabilities via the cloud
Appirio, SaaSGrid
Infrastructure as a Service
Data center infrastructure via the cloud
Amazon EC2 and S3
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7. Companies
Salesforce.com is the pioneer and doing well.
Started as SaaS and now moving down stack to
PaaS with Force
Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla in IaaS, but
don't forget about Google
Every major technology and
telecommunication company will have some
sort of cloud offering in 2009.
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8. Select Small Companies
Appirio
Extensions to leading PaaS and Social Network
Offerings
Cloudscale
Live data platform, analytic agents work across a
variety of data formats.
Elastra
Has a tool set that let's you design and deploy
you software infrastructure into their cloud
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9. Select Small Companies
3Tera
Has a provisioning platform and datacenter
partnerships.
Appistry
Software based scalability, reliability,
management for clouds
The Process Factory
User focused PaaS for creating mashups
Zoho
Complete personal/SMB productivity tools
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10. Open Source
Eucalyptus
UCSB project providing an open source
infrastructure for implementing cloud computing
on clusters
GoGrid
APIs are released under creative commons
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11. Opportunities
Many of the smaller players are thinking
about only serving a technical audience
(developers and system administrators)
This will be an uphill battle from IT
How can we sell the 'cloud' into marketing and
sales?
Identify applications for SMB or consumers
where cloud delivery differentiates.
What is the mobile play?
No standards
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12. Opportunities
Continuous deployment. Show business how
to recognize revenue more rapidly
Security and Privacy remains a concern.
However, the smaller the company the less
this is an issue
Management of Policy/SLA and management
in general
Consolidation will happen.
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13. Summary and Next Steps
It's the wild west
Consulting Opportunities?
Leverage security and management backgrounds
as an angle?
Do we want to be GE or Con-Edison?
Applications, Applications, Applications
On-line gaming
.mac for Windows users
Personal media integration
Identify channel partners
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