The document discusses using cloud computing instead of traditional on-premise servers to launch a new product worldwide in one month. Cloud computing offers paying only for the resources needed, avoiding large upfront costs for hardware, software licenses, and support. It provides benefits like 30% reduction in IT capital spending, lower monthly server costs of $110-400 compared to $400-1100 for on-premise, and fast deployment without long lock-in contracts. However, there are also technical challenges to address like performance, security, support from independent software vendors, and ensuring standards.

1. Cloud Computing Paul Thompson [email_address]

2. The Challenge

3. Your company is launching a new product worldwide in one months time… You need your IT department to enable the marketing, distribution and support of the product.

4. Your CTO Here’s my shopping list; New server hardware, New software licences, Upgrades to power , cooling and DRM . We’ll need 24/7/365 99.999 support Will the network be able to support the volumes? I’ll need to do some testing I’ll need at least FOUR MONTHS…

5. Why not Use to the Cloud… Pay only for the server resources, applications and bandwidth that you need. When the rush is over turn it off and stop paying

6. What is Cloud Computing?

7. Traditional Enterprise = software component enterprise enterprise enterprise

8. Cloud Computing enterprise enterprise enterprise Storage, Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service

9. Characteristics Utility Billing No Lock-in Instant Provisioning Scalable Service Driven Internet Technology Multi Tenancy Application Agnostic Virtualised

10. Benefits

11. 30% Reduction IT Capital Spend (Forrester 2008)

12. $110 $400 Amazon EC2 Enterprise Average Monthly Server Costs (Forrester 2008)

13. Low Lock-in Fast Deployment Cheap Sand Pit Environment Outsource non-core skills

14. Technical Challenges

15. Performance Stability Security ISV Support Locality Enterprise Standards Network

16. Cloud Computing Big savings, but it’s early days… Strong benefits