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Cloud 101 - Workshop from Gov2.0 in DC, May 2010
The document provides an overview of cloud computing by discussing key topics across six parts: Part one discusses how cloud computing has disrupted IT by democratizing access. Part two covers the history of virtualization. Part three explains how cloud stacks separate concerns between physical infrastructure, virtual platforms, and applications. Part four frames clouds as an on-demand business model compared to traditional IT. Part five outlines the major types of cloud services including IaaS, PaaS and differences between them. Finally, part six notes that in reality, most cloud offerings blend aspects of infrastructure, platforms and software as a service.
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- 7. Part one: Disruption andthe democratization of IT
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- 30. For much ofits history, AT&T and its Bell System functioned as a legally sanctioned, regulated monopoly. The US accepted this principle, initially in a 1913 agreement known as the Kingsbury Commitment. Anti-trust suit filed in 1949 led in 1956 to a consent decree whereby AT&T agreed to restrict its activities to the regulated business of the national telephone system and government work. Changes in telecommunications led to a U.S. government antitrust suit in 1974. In 1982 when AT&T agreed to divest itself of the wholly owned Bell operating companies that provided local exchange service. In 1984 Bell was dead. In its place was a new AT&T and seven regional Bell operating companies (collectively, the RBOCs.) http://www.corp.att.com/history/history3.html
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- 54. Part two: A historyof virtualization.
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- 62. Virtualization divorces theapp from the machine.
- 63. Virtualization divorces theapp from the machine. One on many Virtual machine Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine
- 64. Virtualization divorces theapp from the machine. One on many (or) Virtual machine Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine
- 65. Virtualization divorces theapp from the machine. One on many (or) Many on one Physical machine Virtual machine Virtual Virtual Virtual Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine machine machine machine Virtual Virtual Virtual Physical Physical Physical machine machine machine machine machine machine
- 66. That’s the technicaldefinition Virtualization Automation Self-service Elasticity Usage tracking & billing Service-oriented article
- 67. Part three: Stacks andthe separation of concerns.
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- 76. Your virtual platform Theirphysical infrastructure
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- 78. Part four: Clouds asa business model.
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- 80. This has allbeen DIY.
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- 87. IT server costs
- 88. Idle capacity, lack of automation, etc. IT server costs
- 89. Idle capacity, lack of automation, etc. IT server costs Private cloud costs
- 90. Idle capacity, lack of automation, etc. IT server costs Ping, power, pipe, Private efficiencies cloud costs
- 91. Idle capacity, lack of automation, etc. IT server costs Ping, power, pipe, Private efficiencies cloud costs Public cloud costs
- 94. Dedicated On-premise Virtual Third-party hardware private clouds private clouds public clouds
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- 96. Part five: Kinds ofclouds.
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- 98. Infrastructure as aService Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Terremark, Gogrid, Joyent (and nearly every private cloud built on Zenserver or VMWare.)
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- 100. • 60 secondsper page Desktop EC2 • 200 machine Pages 17,481 17,481 instances Minutes/page 1 1 • 1,407 hours of virtual # of machines 1 200 machine time Total minutes 17,481 • Searchable database Total hours 291.4 26.0 available 26 hours Total days 12.1 1.1 later • $144.62 total cost
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- 102. Machine Web Image server Machine instance
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- 108. App Machine Server Image Machine instance Web Machine server Image Machine instance
- 109. Machine Image App Machine Server Image Machine instance Web Machine server Image Machine instance
- 110. DB Machine server Image Machine instance App Machine Server Image Machine instance Web Machine server Image Machine instance
- 111. DB Machine Storage server Image Machine instance App Machine Server Image Machine instance Web Machine server Image Machine instance
- 112. DB Storage server Machine instance App Server Machine instance Web server Machine instance
- 113. DB Storage server Bigger machine instance App Server Machine instance Web server Machine instance
- 114. DB Storage server Machine instance App Server Machine instance Web server Machine instance
- 115. DB DB Storage server server Machine instance Machine instance App App Server Server Machine instance Machine instance Web Web server server Machine instance Machine instance
- 116. DB DB Storage server server Machine instance Machine instance App App Server Server Machine instance Machine instance Web Web server server Machine instance Machine instance Load balancer Machine instance
- 117. Platform as aService Google App Engine, Salesforce Force.com, Rackspace Cloud Sites, Joyent Smart Platform, (and nearly every enterprise mainframe.)
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- 121. Processing platform Others’ Others’ code code Your Others’ code code Others’ Others’ code code
- 122. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code Your Others’ code code Others’ Others’ code code
- 123. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Others’ Others’ code code
- 124. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Image Image functions API Others’ Others’ code code ...
- 125. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Image Image functions API Others’ Others’ code code ... Big Blob objects API
- 126. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Image Image functions API Others’ Others’ code code ... Big Blob Governor objects API
- 127. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Image Image functions API Others’ Others’ code code ... Big Blob Governor Console objects API
- 128. Shared components Data Processing platform Storage API Others’ Others’ code code User Auth database API Your Others’ code code Image Image functions API Others’ Others’ code code ... Big Blob Governor Console Schedule objects API
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- 135. IaaS and PaaSdifferences IaaS PaaS Any operating system you Use only selected want languages and built-in APIs Limited by capacity of Limited by governors to virtual machine avoid overloading Scale by adding more Scaling is automatic machines Use built-in storage Many storage options (file (Bigtable, etc.) system, object, key-value)
- 136. Quota Limit Governor Apps per developer 10 (usage cap) Time per request 30s Blobstore (total file size) 1GB Maximum HTTP response size 10MB Datastore item size 1MB Application code size 150MB Daily cap Emails per day 1,500 (free quota) Bandwidth in per day 1 GB Bandwidth out per day 1GB CPU time per day 6.5h HTTP requests per day 1,300,000 Datastore API calls per day 10,000,000 URLFetch API calls per day 657,084 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine
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- 139. My mom’s definition Cloud
- 140. My mom’s definition Cloud = Web
- 141. My mom’s definition Cloud = Web = Internet
- 142. My mom’s definition Cloud = Web = Internet = Useless
- 146. Part six: It’s alla blend, really.
- 147. Service What it does Elastic Compute Cloud Virtual machines, by the hour Elastic Mapreduce Massively parallel data processing Virtual Private Cloud On demand machines within internal IT Elastic Load Balancing Traffic distribution Cloudfront Content delivery acceleration Flexible Payments Service Funds transfer & payments SimpleDB Realtime structured data queries Simple Storage Service Eleven nines redundant storage Relational Database Service On-demand RDBMS Elastic Block Store Block-level storage (file system) Fulfillment Web Service Merchant delivery system Simple Queue Service On-demand message bus Simple Notification Service System for sending mass notifications Cloudwatch Monitoring of cloud resources Mechanical turk Humans as an API
- 148. Service What it does App Engine Executing Python or Java code Bigtable datastore Store data for very fast retrieval Calendar Data API Create and modify events Inbox feed API Read a GMail inbox Contact data API Interact with someone’s GMail contacts Documents list API Manage a user’s Google Docs OpenID single signon Use Google authentication to sign in Secure data connector Link Google Apps to enterprise apps Memcache Fast front-end for data Image manipulation Resize, rotate, crop & flip images Task queue Queue and dispatch tasks to code Blobstore Serve large objects to visitors
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- 153. Computer hardware Storage media
- 154. Operating system Computer hardware Storage media
- 155. Software Operating system Computerhardware Storage media
- 156. Query language Software Operating system Computer hardware Storage media
- 157. Query language Let’s just call this a database, Software ‘mmkay? Operating system Computer hardware Storage media
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- 164. Private Public
- 165. Private Public Managed Virtualization hosting
- 166. Private Public IaaS IaaS Managed Virtualization hosting
- 167. Private Public PaaS PaaS IaaS IaaS Managed Virtualization hosting
- 168. Private Public SaaS PaaS PaaS IaaS IaaS Managed Virtualization hosting
- 169. Private Public nt t o SaaS a w d s, o u lo u y c If l k PaaS t a ne fi rs t. PaaS ck o IaaS pi IaaS Managed Virtualization hosting
- 170. Private Public SaaS PaaS IaaS
- 171. Private Public SaaS PaaS Security fears IaaS
- 172. Private Public SaaS Lock-in concerns PaaS IaaS
- 173. Private Public SaaS Long-term PaaS cost inefficiencies IaaS
- 174. Private Public SaaS PaaS High cost of maintaining & scaling machines IaaS
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- 188. Part eight: So whatdo I do now?
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- 191. '#!/)01#$!"2#34+,#$' <; @< @; !"##"$%&'()$*+'*&'((%&+ ?< ?; >< >; =< =; < ; >@ABA >DABA >CABA ?;ABA =ACA ?ACA <ACA DACA CACA ==ACA =?ACA =<ACA =DACA >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C >;;C Connect times to Amazon Cloudfront from NYC 5%''%,!6%%,($7!0$48#,!9%''%,!,#3'($7: Cloud Encounters, Peter van Eijk, digitalinfrastructures.nl
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- 193. Expense reports canno longer enforce IT policy. Wiley GAAP 2010: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (By Barry J. Epstein, Ralph Nach, Steven M. Bragg)
- 194. Airfare DNS Cloud Public transit Important research Hotel
- 195. We stop worryingabout ROI when I is zero.
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- 199. Single Storage sign on Image processing Mailing service Virtual machine Key/value Virtual store load balancer Parallel framework
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- 207. Bare Virtualization metal
- 208. Bare Virtualization Public/private metal hybrid models
- 209. Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS metal hybrid models
- 210. <script> Hello, world! </script> Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS PaaS metal hybrid models
- 211. <script> Hello, world! </script> Mashup, Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS PaaS RESTful metal hybrid models services
- 212. Data centers <script> Hello, world! </script> Mashup, Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS PaaS RESTful metal hybrid models services
- 213. Contracts <script> Hello, world! </script> Mashup, Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS PaaS RESTful metal hybrid models services
- 214. Developers <script> Hello, world! </script> Mashup, Bare Virtualization Public/private IaaS PaaS RESTful metal hybrid models services
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- 220. Some things aren’t worthmoving.
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- 223. Always on premise Private Compliance- enforced Need to track and audit Legislative Data near local computation
- 224. Always on Can be done premise anywhere Private Compliance- Testing enforced Training Need to track and Prototyping audit Batch processing Legislative Seasonal load Data near local computation
- 225. Always on Can be done Always in premise anywhere cloud Private Partner access Compliance- Testing enforced Proximity to cloud Training services (storage, Need to track and Prototyping CDN, etc.) audit Batch processing Massively grid/ Legislative Seasonal load parallel (genomic, Data near local modelling) computation
- 226. Always on Can be done Always in premise anywhere cloud Load/pricing engine Private Partner access Compliance- Testing enforced Proximity to cloud Training services (storage, Need to track and Prototyping CDN, etc.) audit Batch processing Massively grid/ Legislative Seasonal load parallel (genomic, Data near local modelling) computation
- 227. Always on Can be done Always in premise anywhere cloud Load/pricing engine Private Partner access Compliance- Testing enforced Proximity to cloud Training services (storage, Policy engine Need to track and Prototyping CDN, etc.) audit Batch processing Massively grid/ Legislative Seasonal load parallel (genomic, Data near local modelling) computation
- 228. Virtual machine (infrastructure cloud) Always on Can be done Always in premise anywhere cloud Load/pricing engine Private Partner access Compliance- Testing enforced Proximity to cloud Training services (storage, Policy engine Need to track and Prototyping CDN, etc.) audit Batch processing Massively grid/ Legislative Seasonal load parallel (genomic, Data near local modelling) computation
- 229. Compute task (service cloud) Always on Can be done Always in premise anywhere cloud Load/pricing engine Private Partner access Compliance- Testing enforced Proximity to cloud Training services (storage, Policy engine Need to track and Prototyping CDN, etc.) audit Batch processing Massively grid/ Legislative Seasonal load parallel (genomic, Data near local modelling) computation
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- 242. Massive disruption onthe horizon Clouds are extremely disruptive to the way IT works
- 243. Virtualization let thegenie out of the bottle Clouds arose from virtualization, which made application workloads portable
- 244. Clouds start withseparation Separation is key Determines economics, lock-in, responsibility, risk
- 245. Business vs. technology Knowthe difference Clouds-as-tech: Virtualized, automated Clouds-as-business: 3rd party, shared Force others to be clear
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- 247. One size doesnot fit all Ultimately, the blend of these different models will vary from organization to organization
- 248. Five steps tocloud migration Assess Balance Migrate Optimize Operate
- 249. Ecosystem is influx The ecosystem is competitive and confusing right now, with few standards and a lot of noise
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- 252. The big picture Representationis a hack
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Cloud computing is an approach to computing that&#x2019;s more flexible and lets organizations focus on their core business by insulating them from much of the underlying IT work.
- #4 At its most basic, it&#x2019;s computing as a utility &#x2013; pay for what you need, when you need it, rather than paying for it all up front.
- #5 This is what Nicolas Carr talked about in his book The Big Switch.
- #6 But clouds can be confusing. Part of the reason is that they&#x2019;re a big deal, which means everyone wants to be a part of them &#x2013; even companies who have nothing to do with clouds.
- #7 I&#x2019;m going to try and clear some of this up for you.
- #9 First, let&#x2019;s talk about disruption.
- #10 Once, IT was a monopoly.
- #11 Today, it&#x2019;s a free market. The line of business has tremendous choice in what it owns, runs, and uses.
- #12 The boardroom loves this: instead of managing machines, they manage services.
- #13 But enterprise IT doesn&#x2019;t like it much, because it forces them to compete, and puts them side-by-side with organizations that spend their entire day doing detailed usage and billing.
- #14 It&#x2019;s not all bad, though. There&#x2019;s a lot to be learned from a transition from monopoly to a free market.
- #15 There were a couple of reasons IT was a monopoly for so long.
- #16 First, the machines were expensive. That meant they were a scarce resource, and someone had to control what we could do with them.
- #17 Second, they were complicated. It took a very strange sect of experts to understand them. AVIDAC, Argonne's first digital computer, began operation in January 1953. It was built by the Physics Division for $250,000. Pictured is pioneer Argonne computer scientist Jean F. Hall. AVIDAC stands for "Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer" and was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann.
- #18 This was also a result of scarcity. When computers and humans interact, they need to meet each other halfway. But it takes a lot of computing power to make something that&#x2019;s easy to use;
- #19 in the early days of computing, humans were cheap and machines weren&#x2019;t
- #20 So we used punched cards,
- #21 and switches,
- #22 and esoteric programming languages like assembler.
- #23 Think about what a monopoly means.
- #24 A monopoly was once awarded for a big project beyond the scope of any one organization, but needed for the public good.
- #25 Sometimes, nobody wants the monopoly&#x2014;like building the roads.
- #26 For the most part, governments have a monopoly on roadwork, because it&#x2019;s something we need, but the benefits are hard to quantify or charge back for.
- #27 (IT&#x2019;s been handed many of these thankless tasks over the years, and the business has never complained.)
- #28 The only time we can charge back for roads are when the resource is specific and billable: a toll highway, a bridge.
- #29 Sometimes, we form a company with a monopoly, or allow one to operate, in order to build something or allow an inventor to recoup investment. This is how we got the telephone system, or railways.
- #30 When monopolies are created with a specific purpose, that&#x2019;s good. But when they start to stagnate and restrict competition, we break them apart.
- #31 In fact, there&#x2019;s a lot of antitrust regulation that prevents companies from controlling too much of something because they can stifle innovation and charge whatever they want. That&#x2019;s one of the things the DOJ does.
- #32 In other words, early on monopolies are good because they let us undertake hugely beneficial, but largely unbillable, tasks.
- #33 Later, however, they&#x2019;re bad because they reduce the level of creativity and experimentation.
- #34 Today, computing is cheap. We can buy many times the compute power of the Apollo missions with a swipe of a credit card.
- #35 It&#x2019;s also not complicated. Everyone can use a computer. Because today, the computer is cheap and the human&#x2019;s expensive we spend so much time on user interfaces, from GUIs to augmented reality to touchscreens to voice control to geopresence.
- #36 What used to take a long time to procure, configure, and deploy is now a mouseclick.
- #37 The way data centers are designed must reflect this shift from IT-as-a-monopoly to IT-as-an-enabler
- #38 That means building a set of platforms that can adapt and adjust:
- #39 From rack-and-stack servers to click-and-drag deployment
- #40 From underused bare metal to on-demand virtual machines
- #41 From procurement and process to self-service and quick decommissioning.
- #42 The lesson of monopolies is an important one. When a monopoly set out to build a railroad, it didn&#x2019;t spend a lot of time asking potential travelers what they wanted.
- #43 When you&#x2019;re building something huge and expensive, you build what you want, and expect people to be grateful for it.
- #44 But today&#x2019;s IT user is driving IT requirements.
- #45 They can shop around&#x2014;choosing SaaS, clouds, and internal IT according to their business requirements.
- #46 They&#x2019;re increasingly able to build the applications themselves, but expect IT to deliver smooth, fast platforms on which to experiment.
- #47 As the line of business looks more and more like a consumer in a competitive market&#x2014;and less and less like a grateful customer of a monopoly&#x2014;IT has to change its offerings.
- #48 It&#x2019;s an inversion of the traditional IT &#x201C;pyramid&#x201D;, where the hardware dictates the platforms, which in turn dictates, the apps, which dictates what users can do.
- #49 Today, what users want to do drives the apps they use, which drives the platforms and the hardware.
- #50 We&#x2019;ve had big changes since that time. The first was client-server computing: the idea that not everything lived in a mainframe, and some things worked well on the desktop. Software like Visicalc&#x2014;the first spreadsheet&#x2014;were useful for businesses, even those who couldn&#x2019;t afford a mainframe.
- #51 A second big change was the Web. This browser-based model made computing accessible to the masses. As a result, it became part of society, and everyone knew how to work it. These days, you don&#x2019;t have to teach a new hire how to use a web browser: they know what links do; what the back button is; and so on.
- #52 A third change is the move to mobility. This has been bigger overseas, where the mobile phone is the dominant way of accessing the Internet, but it&#x2019;s still a shift to the always-connected, always-on lifestyles we lead today.
- #53 And now there&#x2019;s cloud computing. Clouds are as big a shift as client-server, or the web browser, or mobility.
- #55 The step-function nature of dedicated machines doesn&#x2019;t distribute workload very efficiently.
- #56 Virtualization lets us put many workloads on a single machine
- #57 Once workloads are virtualized, several things happen. First, they&#x2019;re portable
- #58 Second, they&#x2019;re ephemeral. That is, they&#x2019;re short-lived: Once people realize that they don&#x2019;t have to hoard machines, they spin them up and down a lot more.
- #59 Which inevitably leads to automation and scripting: We need to spin up and down machines, and move them from place to place. This is hard, error-prone work for humans, but perfect for automation now that rack-and-stack has been replaced by point-and-click
- #60 Automation, once in place, can have a front end put on it. That leads to self service.
- #61 These are the foundations on which new IT is being built. Taken together, they&#x2019;re a big part of the movement towards cloud computing, whether that&#x2019;s in house or on-demand.
- #62 Okay, so these things mean we have applications that run &#x201C;virtually&#x201D; &#x2013; that is, they&#x2019;re divorced from the underlying hardware. One machine can do ten things; ten machines can do one thing.
- #63 Okay, so these things mean we have applications that run &#x201C;virtually&#x201D; &#x2013; that is, they&#x2019;re divorced from the underlying hardware. One machine can do ten things; ten machines can do one thing.
- #64 Okay, so these things mean we have applications that run &#x201C;virtually&#x201D; &#x2013; that is, they&#x2019;re divorced from the underlying hardware. One machine can do ten things; ten machines can do one thing.
- #65 This is the &#x201C;technical&#x201D; definition of cloud computing: virtualized, automated, self-service computing resources. Some people call this a &#x201C;private cloud&#x201D;; others think it&#x2019;s just IT-done-right. Whatever the case, data centers are furiously retooling themselves, much to the enjoyment of companies like VMWare and Citrix.
- #66 Part three: Stacks and the separation of concerns
- #67 At its most simple, this is all about a &#x201C;stack&#x201D; of services. Stacks are a common idea in computing and networking. Basically, they&#x2019;re a separation of different tasks.
- #68 We&#x2019;re familiar with the idea of a stack. There&#x2019;s a stack in the postal service.
- #69 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #70 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #71 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #72 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #73 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #74 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #75 You worry about the address, and the stamp. The postal service handles the rest&#x2014;it doesn&#x2019;t care what&#x2019;s inside your envelope; and you don&#x2019;t care what route your letter takes to its destination, as long as it gets there.
- #77 But wait -- there&#x2019;s more! There&#x2019;s another way to look at cloud computing.
- #78 Notice that so far, nothing I&#x2019;ve said about clouds implies you can&#x2019;t just run your own. Up until now, they&#x2019;ve been DIY.
- #79 This is the clouds-as-a-business-model definition. In this, cloud computing is a third-party service.
- #80 All of the things we&#x2019;ve seen about cloud technology make it possible to deliver computing as a utility -- computing on tap. The virtualization provides a blood/brain barrier between the application the user is running, and the machines on which it runs.
- #81 That means you can focus on the thing your business does that makes you special
- #82 And stop worrying about many of the tasks you really didn&#x2019;t want to do anyway.
- #83 Sharing and economies of scale keep costs down. Cloud providers are poised to make the most of these economies of scale. Consider that in July 2008, Microsoft revealed that it had 96,000 servers at the Quincy facility, consuming "about 11 megawatts" More than 80% dedicated to Microsoft's Live Search and the remaining for Hotmail In August, a really good discovery was posted to a blog called "istartedsomething.com":&#xA0; a screen shot of a software dashboard that illustrates power consumption and server count at each of Microsoft's fifteen data centers, caught in a Microsoft video posted to their web site.
- #84 The move towards the cloud business model has a lot to do with the economies of scale that exist when you can concentrate infrastructure, and put it near dams. (There&#x2019;s a good&#x2014;if hotly debated argument&#x2014;that clouds-as-a-business-model are inevitable, because of the economics.)
- #85 The move towards the cloud business model has a lot to do with the economies of scale that exist when you can concentrate infrastructure, and put it near dams. (There&#x2019;s a good&#x2014;if hotly debated argument&#x2014;that clouds-as-a-business-model are inevitable, because of the economics.)
- #86 The move towards the cloud business model has a lot to do with the economies of scale that exist when you can concentrate infrastructure, and put it near dams. (There&#x2019;s a good&#x2014;if hotly debated argument&#x2014;that clouds-as-a-business-model are inevitable, because of the economics.)
- #87 The move towards the cloud business model has a lot to do with the economies of scale that exist when you can concentrate infrastructure, and put it near dams. (There&#x2019;s a good&#x2014;if hotly debated argument&#x2014;that clouds-as-a-business-model are inevitable, because of the economics.)
- #88 Cloud providers are thinking at a scale that nearly every enterprise can&#x2019;t compete with. That&#x2019;s because operating efficiency, and accounting for everything, are core to their business; whereas making widgets is core to yours.
- #89 Self-service means customers can deploy and destroy their own machines.
- #90 So while you can build an automated, self-service, on-demand private cloud, there are also many public options (is that a bad word in DC? )
- #91 Most of the time, when you hear someone say they&#x2019;re concerned about the security of cloud computing, they&#x2019;re talking about public clouds, and the issues that come with putting your data somewhere virtually but not knowing where it is physically.
- #93 So far, while I&#x2019;ve told you a lot about clouds, I haven&#x2019;t really told you what they are. That&#x2019;s partly because there are many kinds of cloud computing.We can separate clouds into three distinct groups.
- #94 The first is called Infrastructure as a Service, because you&#x2019;re renting pieces of (virtual) infrastructure.
- #95 This is what IT people think of when you say &#x201C;clouds&#x201D; &#x2013; virtual machines I can use for just an hour. Here&#x2019;s Amazon&#x2019;s &#x201C;menu&#x201D; of machines.
- #96 A great example of these clouds in action is what the Washington Post did with Hillarly Clinton&#x2019;s diaries during her campaign. They needed to get all 17,481 pages of Hillary Clinton&#x2019;s White House schedule scanned and searchable quickly. Using 200 machines, the Post was able to get the data to reporters in only 26 hours. In fact, the experiment is even more compelling: Desktop OCR took about 30 minutes per page to properly scan, read, resize, and format each page &#x2013; which means that it would have taken nearly a year, and cost $123 in power, to do the work on a single machine.
- #97 In an IaaS model, you&#x2019;re getting computers as a utility. The unit of the transaction is a virtual machine. It&#x2019;s still up to you to install an operating system, and software, or at least to choose it from a list. You don&#x2019;t really have a machine -- you have an image of one, and when you stop the machine, it vanishes.
- #98 In an IaaS model, you&#x2019;re getting computers as a utility. The unit of the transaction is a virtual machine. It&#x2019;s still up to you to install an operating system, and software, or at least to choose it from a list. You don&#x2019;t really have a machine -- you have an image of one, and when you stop the machine, it vanishes.
- #99 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #100 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #101 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #102 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #103 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #104 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #105 Most applications consist of several machines -- web, app, and database, for example. Each is created from an image, and some, like databases, may use other services from the cloud to store and retrieve data from a disk
- #106 If you run out of capacity, you can upgrade to a bigger machine (which is called &#x201C;scaling vertically.&#x201D;)
- #107 If you run out of capacity, you can upgrade to a bigger machine (which is called &#x201C;scaling vertically.&#x201D;)
- #108 If you run out of capacity, you can upgrade to a bigger machine (which is called &#x201C;scaling vertically.&#x201D;)
- #109 Or you can create several machines at each tier, and use a load balancer to share traffic between them. These kinds of scalable, redundant architectures are common -- nay, recommended -- in a cloud computing world where everything is uncertain.
- #110 Or you can create several machines at each tier, and use a load balancer to share traffic between them. These kinds of scalable, redundant architectures are common -- nay, recommended -- in a cloud computing world where everything is uncertain.
- #111 Or you can create several machines at each tier, and use a load balancer to share traffic between them. These kinds of scalable, redundant architectures are common -- nay, recommended -- in a cloud computing world where everything is uncertain.
- #112 The second kind of cloud is called Platform as a Service. In this model, you don&#x2019;t think about the individual machines&#x2014;instead, you just copy your code to a cloud, and run it. You never see the machines. In a PaaS cloud, things are very different.
- #113 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #114 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #115 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #116 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #117 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #118 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #119 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #120 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #121 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #122 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #123 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #124 - You write your code; often it needs some customization. - That code runs on a share processing platform - Along with other people&#x2019;s code - The code calls certain functions to do things like authenticate a user, handle a payment, store an object, or move something to a CDN - To keep everything running smoothly (and bill you) the platform has a scheduler (figuring out what to do next) and a governor (ensuring one program doesn&#x2019;t use up all the resources) as well as a console.
- #125 Here&#x2019;s a shot of some code running in Google App Engine. I only know that I&#x2019;m paying by CPU-hour, or for units like bandwidth, email, or storage. This could be one machine whose CPU was used 8%, or a hundred, or a thousand. I don&#x2019;t know.
- #126 I can see the logs for my application. But these aren&#x2019;t for a single machine -- they&#x2019;re for the application itself, everywhere.
- #127 I can even find out what parts of my code are consuming the most CPU, across all machines.
- #128 And even their latency when served to people.
- #129 It&#x2019;s a true, pure utility because you pay for what you use.
- #130 This is a very different model from IaaS. On the one hand, it&#x2019;s more liberating, because you don&#x2019;t have to worry about managing the machines. On the other hand, it&#x2019;s more restrictive, because you can only do what the PaaS lets you.
- #131 In the case of Google&#x2019;s App Engine, you have to use their functions and store things in the way they want you to. You get great performance from doing so, but it probably means rewriting your code a bit.
- #132 PaaS platforms impose usage caps and billing tiers. Here&#x2019;s Google App Engine&#x2019;s set of quotas and free caps.
- #133 In the case of Salesforce&#x2019;s Force.com, you have to use an entirely new programming language, called Apex.
- #134 The third kind of cloud is called Software as a Service, or SaaS. Some people argue that this isn&#x2019;t a cloud at all, just a new way of delivering software. But it&#x2019;s also what the masses&#x2014;the non-technologists&#x2014;think cloud computing means.
- #135 (Personally, I think this makes the term &#x201C;cloud&#x201D; synonymous with &#x201C;web&#x201D; or &#x201C;Internet&#x201D;, and therefore a bit useless.)
- #136 (Personally, I think this makes the term &#x201C;cloud&#x201D; synonymous with &#x201C;web&#x201D; or &#x201C;Internet&#x201D;, and therefore a bit useless.)
- #137 (Personally, I think this makes the term &#x201C;cloud&#x201D; synonymous with &#x201C;web&#x201D; or &#x201C;Internet&#x201D;, and therefore a bit useless.)
- #138 SaaS and PaaS are blurring, too, with the advent of scripting languages. Nobody would argue that Google Apps is a SaaS offering; but now that you can write code for it -- as in this example of a script that sends custom driving directions to everyone in a spreadsheet -- the distinction is less and less clear.
- #139 But the business model of SaaS is the same as PaaS and IaaS: Sell IT on demand, rather than as software or machines.
- #140 It&#x2019;s the form of cloud computing that gets the most lip service in areas like government, particularly with Google Apps.
- #142 This division between PaaS and IaaS is a bit of a fiction. In fact, virtual machines are just one of around twenty &#x201C;cloud services&#x201D; Amazon offers &#x2013; called EC2.
- #143 The same is true of App Engine - though these are functions called from code, rather than services you pay for separately, they&#x2019;re still more than just the code.
- #144 This is a really important concept: Clouds aren&#x2019;t just virtual machines. Clouds are on-demand computing services.
- #145 To understand this, we need to talk for a minute about &#x201C;composed designs.&#x201D;
- #146 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #147 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #148 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #149 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #150 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #151 When IT architects want to build something, they have a set of proven designs for doing so. A database is an example of this&#x2014;it&#x2019;s a combination of storage (disk) and a particular way of arranging things (tables and indexes) and language (structured query language, or SQL). We&#x2019;ve learned that a database is a good prefab building block, so we use it. The alternative is to build it all, from scratch, writing to the disk itself.
- #152 There are other examples of &#x201C;composed designs&#x201D; in IT, many of them made from several components. For instance, consider the &#x201C;message bus.&#x201D; This is a thing you put messages into, and anyone who wants them can grab a copy of the message. Stock exchanges use publish-and-subscribe message busses to move data around.
- #153 A third example is called a key-value data store. In this case, I put in a key (say, &#x201D;username&#x201D;) and a value (say, &#x201C;Palin&#x201D;). Then it&#x2019;s stored for me. It&#x2019;s much less fancy than a database, but also much faster and more scalable, and can be backed up more easily so it&#x2019;s more reliable.
- #154 When architects want to build an application today, they don&#x2019;t do so by building everything from scratch. Today&#x2019;s applications are built on the shoulders of giants&#x2014;message busses, data stores, authentication systems, payment tools, content delivery networks, and so on.
- #155 As a result, cloud providers offer a variety of these services. Rackspace has a storage product called Jungledisk; Amazon has S3. The machines that Rackspace or Amazon offer &#x201C;chew&#x201D; on data from these storage services.
- #156 If you equate cloud computing with just virtual machines, you&#x2019;re missing the real point. Clouds applications are built from composed designs, and one of the components happens to be virtual machines.
- #157 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #158 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #159 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #160 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #161 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #162 So let&#x2019;s put this in perspective: There are public and private cloud models. Private ones are about the technology; public ones are about the business of outsourcing at scale.And there are Infrastructure, Platform, and Software offerings&#x2014;IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. If someone wants to have a conversation with me about clouds, they need to pick a tier, and a private or public model. Then we can compare facts.
- #163 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #164 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #165 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #166 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #167 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #168 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #169 Just knowing these two dimensions makes you smarter than nearly everyone in IT right now. And when you&#x2019;re discussing IT, insist that others are specific about what they mean. Discussions around privacy and security are vital to public clouds, but most people don&#x2019;t consider security different in private clouds. Similarly, lock-in is a real concern in PaaS but negligible in IaaS.
- #171 Lots of people want to move into this space. Some are e-commerce giants (like Amazon) who know how to run many machines well.
- #172 Some are software companies with legions of developers (like Microsoft) who want to move from software licenses to recurring revenues.
- #173 Some are managed hosting companies (like Rackspace, Terremark, and Gogrid) who want to sell computing by the hour instead of by the month, and want to have more standardized offerings.
- #174 Some are giant service companies (like Google) who want people to create millions of applications and keep people using the Web.
- #175 Some are big systems integrators (like IBM) who want to design and run IT for enterprises.
- #176 Some are hardware vendors (like Dell) who want to stay in the computing business as it shifts.
- #177 Some are telecom providers (like AT&T and Verizon) who want to do more than move packets around, and want to make the best use of their existing data centers.
- #178 Some are even government organizations aiming to build infrastructure for the use of the government itself
- #179 This isn&#x2019;t a comfy place to be right now. Cloud computing has what I call a &#x201C;roofrack&#x201D; problem.
- #183 Cloud computing isn&#x2019;t something you can easily ignore.
- #184 For some applications, particularly those that are bursty or seasonal, the economics are overwhelmingly in its favor.
- #185 Cloud providers keep making their stuff better. Amazon introduced roughly 40 new features last year; and in a single month they upgraded their network in New York twice.
- #186 And clouds make organizations more agile, because they take procurement from weeks to minutes.
- #187 They also remove the false sense of security that came from expense limits.
- #188 These days, supercomputing is easier (and cheaper) than booking a flight.
- #189 Because there&#x2019;s no investment, the concept of an ROI doesn&#x2019;t really make sense.
- #190 Even if you&#x2019;re only going to run a private cloud, you&#x2019;re dealing with expectations set by the public Internet. Consider an ATM &#x2013; once, we didn&#x2019;t mind taking all of lunch to get money out; today, we worry when the bank machine fails to give us our money back in 10 minutes. That&#x2019;s a bad thing for organizations that don&#x2019;t handle IT automatically; humans simply can&#x2019;t move that fast. Efficiency isn&#x2019;t about how fast you do things; it&#x2019;s about how many things you don&#x2019;t have to do because they&#x2019;re automated.
- #191 The Internet has a way of routing around obstacles, so if you try to block people from using them, you&#x2019;ll likely send your stakeholders underground.
- #192 The best thing to do is offer people an alternative. Set up self-service computing internally and see what happens.
- #193 It also means surrounding them with composed services like storage and message queues. Fortunately, there is a wide variety of offerings to help with this. Hadoop, Cassandra, CouchDB, Hypertable and others are all tools that handle storage, scaling, and parallel tasks, and that you can deploy internally for your users.
- #194 It also means setting up platforms (such as a web server that can handle PHP code, or a Drupal platform for creating social sites, or a Status.net instance for microblogging,
- #195 or a Wordpress instance for blogs.)
- #196 Finally, it means working with SaaS providers when appropriate, but integrating their applications with your internal data and processes
- #197 For IT, and governments, cloud computing is a trigger. It means it&#x2019;s time to rebalance your computing decisions.
- #198 With clouds, there&#x2019;s a spectrum of IT options. Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #199 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #200 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #201 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #202 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #203 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #204 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #205 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #206 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #207 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #208 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #209 Different applications live in different places in this new world.
- #210 Here&#x2019;s a five-step plan for embracing clouds.
- #211 First, you need to assess your existing applications. Make a list of everything you&#x2019;ve got, or plan to have. You should also baseline usage, performance, and other &#x201C;before&#x201D; metrics so you can compare them to the results of your efforts after you&#x2019;ve moved.
- #212 Then, you need to rebalance your applications. Evaluate each application along two dimensions: how suitable is the application for migration, and what&#x2019;s the payoff.
- #213 Some applications, like legacy ERPs or old mainframe tools, won&#x2019;t migrate easily. They&#x2019;re not well suited to a virtualized, on-demand model where users can spin up resources as needed.
- #214 Others, like web front-ends or parallel data processing tasks like analytics, that can be split up, work really well in clouds.
- #215 At the same time, some applications won&#x2019;t benefit much from a cloud model. Something that runs constantly may be more affordable to run in-house.
- #216 Other applications may have a massive budget savings when they move to the cloud. Something that happens once a year but needs tremendous computing for the three days it runs is a candidate for clouds. So, too, is something that users are constantly requesting, and that your IT team spends a lot of time managing. Automate it!
- #217 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #218 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #219 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #220 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #221 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #222 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #223 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #224 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #225 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #226 Going forward, we&#x2019;ll see hybrid on-premise/on demand hybrid clouds that can intelligently move processing tasks between private an public infrastructure according to performance requirements, pricing policies, and security restrictions.
- #227 Third step: You have to migrate things to the new environments. This means moving stuff around&#x2014;hopefully the high-payoff, easy-to-move stuff first. There&#x2019;s no magic here: you&#x2019;ll need to make your applications portable, which means virtualizing them; and you may need to modify some code.
- #228 Step four is to optimize things. In their new homes, some applications won&#x2019;t perform as well. You&#x2019;ll need to compare how they&#x2019;re doing now to how they were doing before, and tweak things to ensure equivalent performance, uptime, security, and scalability.
- #229 Finally, in step five you need to operate things differently. Cloud computing is as much about a cultural shift in IT: you&#x2019;re operating a self-service business.
- #230 You&#x2019;re not doing the IT work any more; you&#x2019;re managing the scripts and systems that let users do the IT work themselves. You have a very different relationship with your end users.
- #231 You&#x2019;re providing the environment for them to innovate, giving them turnkey sets of services with which to work. Where they come from is immaterial.
- #232 You&#x2019;re ensuring that the systems you&#x2019;ve built are functioning properly however end users want to use them, rather than running the applications or data within those systems.
- #233 Your end users aren&#x2019;t necessarily technical -- they&#x2019;re able to build applications easily, and want the tools to experiment.
- #234 At the same time, you&#x2019;re seeing what tools and processes are getting adopted -- what&#x2019;s working? what&#x2019;s popular? -- and doubling down on those things.
- #235 You&#x2019;re giving your users places to experiment.
- #236 To some extent, you&#x2019;re &#x201C;paving the cowpaths.&#x201D;
- #237 This is an old civil engineering trick: Watch where people walk, then put paths there.
- #241 One of the fundamentals of a cloud is the separation of the provider from the user at some layer in the stack Where that separation happens determines economics, responsibilities, risk, and lock-in
- #247 It will probably wind up looking like airlines.
- #248 It will probably wind up looking like airlines.
- #249 It will probably wind up looking like airlines.