1. What is Cloud Computing and How Can it Help me? Vijay Subramanian November 2010 www.laurustech.com

3. Cloud Computing 3

4. Consumer State What really is cloud? How is my business Impacted? 4

5. What is Cloud? Use of a Web services such as Flickr, Google Docs, Email…… On-demand self-service Internet infrastructure Accessing computing resources owned and operated by a Third party provider On-demand self-service Internet infrastructure where you pay-as-you-go Computing in which services and storage are provided over the Internet Computing in “the cloud” may refer to a company's own network … cont’d next 15 slides 5

7. “Does this help achieve our Business goals?”

8. Debate over definition VS business value

9. Too much debate over the definition

10. Conflict between IT and rest of the world

11. Internal arguments on decision making with no referee6

13. Define cloud computing?7

14. IT Computing 8

15. Internet 9

16. Amalgamation 10

17. Cloud Computing– Definition National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction” 11

18. Cloud – Service Models 12

19. Cloud – Deployments 13

20. IT– Current State Managing and Monitoring 14

21. IT– Cloud State Managing and Monitoring from the Cloud 15

23. is a model that focus on a technical solution

24. Managed services

25. Is a contractual relationship with the service provider that defines and delivers on a recurring cost basis

26. Can deliver cloud solution on a contractual basis16

28. Speed of deployment

29. CapEx VS OpEx

30. Extremely less administration overhead

31. Lower cost (depending on …..)17

33. "The cloud market is evolving rapidly, with 39 percent of survey respondents worldwide indicating they allocated IT budget to cloud computing as a key initiative for their organization,“ – Bob Igou, research director at Gartner18

34. Forrester Says ….. 19

35. Gartner Says ….. 20

36. Simple right? We have identified “at least” 24 discrete decision points 21

37. Cloud Services 22

38. Any more concerns? Will my data be secure? Will I have control? Is the provider reliable? Is the service resilient? Can I switch back easily? What about performance? ………… 23

39. Cloud Awareness? Ask the Consumer 24

40. Cloud Computing 25

41. Cloud Awareness? Ask the Provider 26