The document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and classifications of cloud computing concepts. It introduces the Kite Model as a way to conceptualize cloud computing. The Kite Model analogizes cloud computing architecture to a kite, with the user represented by the person flying the kite, the network and technology as the string, and applications and services as the kite itself. The document then uses the Kite Model to disambiguate concepts in cloud computing, explaining how applications can be accessed from any device (multiplatform), run in virtualized environments, be customized flexibly for users, and upgraded without affecting users (effective upgrades). It outlines the typical architecture of cloud computing with cloud servers managing applications and services, nodes for user/resource

1. CLOUD COMPUTING and
Disambiguation Using Kite Model
By: Tzar C. Umang
IT Director – HIVE Inc.
Strategic Program Adviser – DOST SPPMO

2. Flow of talk
 What is cloud computing?
 General classification
 Industry based definition
 What is the big idea?
 The kite model
 What is the Kite Model
 Disambiguation of the concept
 The architecture

3. What is cloud computing?
 Overlaps some of the concepts from
 Distributed System
 Grid and
 Utility computing
 And more…

4. What is cloud computing?
 At first, cloud is coined as Internet Icon
 Talks with;
 servers
 routers
 data transmission
 web applications
 Cloud computing is a broad concept

5. What is Cloud Computing
Segments of Cloud
 Composed of
Application
delivered as services
Platform
are any products that are used to deploy
service application
Infrastructure
the backbone of the entire concept

6. What is the big idea behind the concept?
 Network Technology is continuously evolving
 Lets face it, we are dependent with the Internet (MAXIMIZE
WEB TECHNOLOGY)
 Resources are running low…
 Let us reuse what is existing (VIRTUALIZATION)
 Business requirements are increasing
 We never get satisfied we need something more innovative
and future proof (FLEXIBILITY)
 Industries today are more Business and IT centric, they
want something fast, effective and cheap
 COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION

7. What is the big idea?
 Applications are served as services from application
centers, controlled by cloud servers and node clusters
 The need to upgrade hardware will only be on the
application servers and will not be passed on to the end
users
 Increasing business requirements will then be served as
new services without the need to alter the whole system,
ensuring flexibility
 Effective solution for every scale of industry without the
fear of overspending and not getting what is right for
their business

8. The Kite Model
The KITE
Model

9. What is the kite model?
 Kite model is based on conventional kite structure
representation.
 Composed of:
 The person - resembles the service application user or
subscriber
 The string - resembles our current network technology, or
mainly any technology that can be our link to the application
service provider – Platform and Infrastructure
 The kite - resembles the collection of service application in
store for probable services clients or subscribers . –
Application

10. Kite Model
User
Infrastructure
Platform
Application

11. Disambiguation of the Concept
 "A kite can be experienced by any user, regardless of string”
 In cloud computing concept, strains of having a particular
system to run an application is removed, a translator such as a
web browser is needed to run the application. Under this
concept are the following
 Multiplatform
 A design or engineering principle by which applications are designed
to run regardless of platform they will be loaded into.
 Virtualization
 Presence of any application or any services such as storage on an
emulated environment, which can be accessed remotely using web or
any other technology

12. Maximize Web Technology
 WEB 2.0
Services Not
Packaged software
Rich User Content
Integrative
Dynamic and smart, not just
plain static pages
Scalable
Multiplatform
Software above the level of a
single device

13. Virtualization
 “Having something with you yet it is physically absent”
 Emulated environment to suite the need of a particular
application
 Applications are accessed from a remote area, with no
degradation of quality and experience.
 Data are saved on a number of multiple network storage
device
 Masking of Servers to prevent end users to understand
complicated server and services management

14. Virtualization
The Benefits…
 Enables Economies of Scale
Decouples users from
Implementation
 Speed, Flexibility, Agility
 Breaks software Pricing and licensing
 Enables, motivates chargeback

15. Disambiguation of the concept
 "A kite can be customized to what the user want”
 Just like a typical kite we can custom made it with our
personal preferences. In cloud computing concept, application
solutions are flexible to be modified to what a company wants,
ensuring future proof operation
 Flexibility
 One of the deals in the industry today; it is coined as the ability of
any systems solution to evolve with the need of the user at any given
instance of time.

16. Disambiguation of the concept
 "A kite can be upgraded without changing the string“
 As coined earlier flexibility is one of the concepts behind
cloud. The other side of flexibility is effective upgrades…
 Effective upgrades
 Considered as modular approach in upgrades.
 Wherein, system upgrades are done per application, and upgrades doesn’t
mean a change to the whole system
 During upgrades hardware are changed, but in the concept of effective
upgrade, hardware upgrade is done only in the part of the service
provider, and doesn’t necessitate end users
 Even if system upgrades are done, the users could still connect and use
the system with their existing resources

17. Disambiguation of the concept
 “A kite can be reused…”
 Business models and existing applications can be reused, as
part of the concept under cloud computing, applications are
developed with the most generic business model and be ready
for customization if needed.

18.  “A string for a specific user”
 Security, specific cloud for a specific user.
 In cloud computing concept, Security is composed of two
modules
 Infrastructure based Security
 Composed of any implementation principles that embodies administration
and management standards with the use of technology
 Policy based Security
 Composed of any standards as mandated by state law on every region.
 Highly based on administration and management principles per industry

19. The Architecture
Internet
Nodes
Cloud Server
Local

20. The architecture
 Cloud Computing server is composed of two elements
 Cloud Server
 Handles all of the service applications
 Management of Cloud services
 Nodes
 Scheduling and Management
 Users
 Resources
 User Connection
 Security
 Access to different applications
 User Privileges

21. The architecture
 Access
 Network
 Conventional Internet Infrastructure
 Local – within the institution
 End User
 Translator: Web Browser with support to any Java Based Application

22. Thank you for listening