The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including:
- Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are commonly used cloud models.
- Hybrid cloud, using both public and private clouds together, is a popular approach.
- Cloud services can be used for both testing/development and production workloads.
Communication Patterns Using Data-Centric Publish/SubscribeSumant Tambe
Fundamental to any distributed system are communication patterns: point-to-point, request-reply, transactional queues, and publish-subscribe. Large distributed systems often employ two or more communication patterns. Using a single middleware that supports multiple communication patterns is a very cost-effective way of developing and maintaining large distributed systems. This talk will begin with an introduction of Data Distribution Service (DDS) – an OMG standard – that supports data-centric publish-subscribe communication for real-time distributed systems. DDS separates state management and distribution from application logic and supports discoverable data models. The talk will then describe how RTI Connext Messaging goes beyond vanilla DDS and implements various communication patterns including request-reply, command-response, and guaranteed delivery. You will also learn how these patterns can be combined to create interesting variations when the underlying substrate is as powerful as DDS. We’ll also discuss APIs for creating high-performance applications using the request-reply communication pattern.
Join the discussion with Andrew Hay, Chief Evangelist of CloudPassage and Dave Shackleford, Senior Vice President, Research and Chief Technology Officer of IANS.
In this presentation, we will discuss:
- How compliance is affected by using private, hybrid, and public cloud environments
- What to consider when researching providers who offer "PCI-compliant" clouds
- Recommendations for improving compliance and security posture in the cloud
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
How to Implement Cloud Security: The Nuts and Bolts of Novell Cloud Security ...Novell
This session will help you understand what cloud security is and how to implement it in your enterprise. It will discuss the technical aspects of cloud security and how we can help you secure the cloud while ensuring sensitive information always remains behind the firewall.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The California Highway Patrol, Hudiksvall Municipality, Liconsa, Kent Police Authority, The Louisiana Department of Social Services, Texas General Land Office, DRV BW, and the Ministry of Social Development in Bahrain all use Novell Collaboration tools for their IT success.
Communication Patterns Using Data-Centric Publish/SubscribeSumant Tambe
Fundamental to any distributed system are communication patterns: point-to-point, request-reply, transactional queues, and publish-subscribe. Large distributed systems often employ two or more communication patterns. Using a single middleware that supports multiple communication patterns is a very cost-effective way of developing and maintaining large distributed systems. This talk will begin with an introduction of Data Distribution Service (DDS) – an OMG standard – that supports data-centric publish-subscribe communication for real-time distributed systems. DDS separates state management and distribution from application logic and supports discoverable data models. The talk will then describe how RTI Connext Messaging goes beyond vanilla DDS and implements various communication patterns including request-reply, command-response, and guaranteed delivery. You will also learn how these patterns can be combined to create interesting variations when the underlying substrate is as powerful as DDS. We’ll also discuss APIs for creating high-performance applications using the request-reply communication pattern.
Join the discussion with Andrew Hay, Chief Evangelist of CloudPassage and Dave Shackleford, Senior Vice President, Research and Chief Technology Officer of IANS.
In this presentation, we will discuss:
- How compliance is affected by using private, hybrid, and public cloud environments
- What to consider when researching providers who offer "PCI-compliant" clouds
- Recommendations for improving compliance and security posture in the cloud
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
How to Implement Cloud Security: The Nuts and Bolts of Novell Cloud Security ...Novell
This session will help you understand what cloud security is and how to implement it in your enterprise. It will discuss the technical aspects of cloud security and how we can help you secure the cloud while ensuring sensitive information always remains behind the firewall.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The California Highway Patrol, Hudiksvall Municipality, Liconsa, Kent Police Authority, The Louisiana Department of Social Services, Texas General Land Office, DRV BW, and the Ministry of Social Development in Bahrain all use Novell Collaboration tools for their IT success.
Implementing Process Controls and Risk Management with Novell Compliance Mana...Novell
Managing processes, automatically testing controls within processes, and proactively managing risk through key performance/risk indicators are significant challenges to establishing GRC/IT-GRC practices and an effective compliance framework. This session will focus on the current and future capabilities of Novell Compliance Management Platform that can assist organizations with implementating process controls and risk management throughout the enterprise. We will provide specific examples with SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management.
These are slides from a talk I gave on 19 April, 2012, at the Object Management Group's (OMG's) Real-Time Workshop in Paris, France. The purpose of the talk was to describe the ways in which building applications is different from building platforms and systems, especially with respect to patterns of communication. Specifically, the recognized messaging patterns make sense at an application layer but are often too limiting and brittle within the software infrastructure itself.
“Nevales UTM provides speedy performance. The most
important quality of Nevales UTM is its remarkable 'Pay As
You Use' service. The Nevales solution is running very well
and has changed our perception about UTM solutions”.
Mr. Amrut Barde - Vice President MIS
Messaging becomes Data Distributions gets embedded event processing (not complex, made simple) - bending all the rules one benchmark at a time - Push Technology, Waratek and other things
Do you feel confident you can deliver a smooth, trouble-free switchover to a cloud environment?
The complexity of the migration process is a big part of why enterprises are hesitant about cloud adoption, despite being sold on the benefits of cloud delivery.
Recent presentation to Infosys on HP's cloud capabilities, opportunities to partner, case studies and what HP is doing in Private Cloud to enable partner and business success in the ANZ market.
Investments in information technology have a direct and fundamental impact on the success of an organization's revenue-generating activities. As a consequence, the business' financial leadership has a crucial stake in understanding and influencing IT decisions.
The presentation content focuses on a three-stage approach geared toward building profit models around well-planned cloud implementations. Discover how CFOs are in a unique position to lead this effort and make the IT organization aware of its impact on revenue and profitability
Many people think Private Cloud is all about technology. At Harbour MSP, we have been delivering Private Cloud solutions in our Data Centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Shanghai for years - and we beg to differ. Its about people, process, systems and security [amongst other things!].
For more go to http://www.redzonetech.net/cioes
December 5th – CIO Virtual Roundtable REGISTER
A CIO is supposed to be able to place their infrastructure in the Cloud and gain
innumerable benefits of which one of them is supposed to be financial. This is what we are
being sold by Cloud Vendors.
Quote from Garry Marsoubian, Director of Data Center Services for MRIS -
“Bill I have a Comprehensive Review that includes: support, security, access, current
costs in licensing, managed services, floor space at current data centers and stretched
the comparison out to 3 years. We also had to consider what components could be
virtualized and if the app vendor like Oracle recognized virtualization
boundaries. And on and on. I am looking forward to this very much. Lots of lessons
learned on what is a fit for Cloud and what is not. “
CIO WIFM
Spreadsheet Analysis of: What was analyzed – Detailed costs, Cloud Service
Providor comparisons, Delta
Balance: Change and shift in paradigm of support.
What does it mean to people’s jobs? Shifting skillsets…
Learn how to look at this opportunity clearly.
Understand pros and cons.
Form your own opinions
Implementing Process Controls and Risk Management with Novell Compliance Mana...Novell
Managing processes, automatically testing controls within processes, and proactively managing risk through key performance/risk indicators are significant challenges to establishing GRC/IT-GRC practices and an effective compliance framework. This session will focus on the current and future capabilities of Novell Compliance Management Platform that can assist organizations with implementating process controls and risk management throughout the enterprise. We will provide specific examples with SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management.
These are slides from a talk I gave on 19 April, 2012, at the Object Management Group's (OMG's) Real-Time Workshop in Paris, France. The purpose of the talk was to describe the ways in which building applications is different from building platforms and systems, especially with respect to patterns of communication. Specifically, the recognized messaging patterns make sense at an application layer but are often too limiting and brittle within the software infrastructure itself.
“Nevales UTM provides speedy performance. The most
important quality of Nevales UTM is its remarkable 'Pay As
You Use' service. The Nevales solution is running very well
and has changed our perception about UTM solutions”.
Mr. Amrut Barde - Vice President MIS
Messaging becomes Data Distributions gets embedded event processing (not complex, made simple) - bending all the rules one benchmark at a time - Push Technology, Waratek and other things
Do you feel confident you can deliver a smooth, trouble-free switchover to a cloud environment?
The complexity of the migration process is a big part of why enterprises are hesitant about cloud adoption, despite being sold on the benefits of cloud delivery.
Recent presentation to Infosys on HP's cloud capabilities, opportunities to partner, case studies and what HP is doing in Private Cloud to enable partner and business success in the ANZ market.
Investments in information technology have a direct and fundamental impact on the success of an organization's revenue-generating activities. As a consequence, the business' financial leadership has a crucial stake in understanding and influencing IT decisions.
The presentation content focuses on a three-stage approach geared toward building profit models around well-planned cloud implementations. Discover how CFOs are in a unique position to lead this effort and make the IT organization aware of its impact on revenue and profitability
Many people think Private Cloud is all about technology. At Harbour MSP, we have been delivering Private Cloud solutions in our Data Centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Shanghai for years - and we beg to differ. Its about people, process, systems and security [amongst other things!].
For more go to http://www.redzonetech.net/cioes
December 5th – CIO Virtual Roundtable REGISTER
A CIO is supposed to be able to place their infrastructure in the Cloud and gain
innumerable benefits of which one of them is supposed to be financial. This is what we are
being sold by Cloud Vendors.
Quote from Garry Marsoubian, Director of Data Center Services for MRIS -
“Bill I have a Comprehensive Review that includes: support, security, access, current
costs in licensing, managed services, floor space at current data centers and stretched
the comparison out to 3 years. We also had to consider what components could be
virtualized and if the app vendor like Oracle recognized virtualization
boundaries. And on and on. I am looking forward to this very much. Lots of lessons
learned on what is a fit for Cloud and what is not. “
CIO WIFM
Spreadsheet Analysis of: What was analyzed – Detailed costs, Cloud Service
Providor comparisons, Delta
Balance: Change and shift in paradigm of support.
What does it mean to people’s jobs? Shifting skillsets…
Learn how to look at this opportunity clearly.
Understand pros and cons.
Form your own opinions
Anything as a Service - Factors to Considersnewell4
Overview of some factors to consider for cloud computing broken down by NIST deployment and service models.
Use for Illinois Digital Government Summit on 9 October 2014 as part of a panel on XaaS. This is a designed as 20 minute presentation on the topic.
Starts with a few slides on changes in last five years since I first spoke on cloud at this conference in 2009.
This presentation will discuss concerns and opportunities, business drivers, cisco solutions for enterprise cloud, the compute platform, cisco automation solutions and cloud enablement workshop.
To Cloud or Not to Cloud - If you're in a transaction production environment, should you move to the Cloud? What does the Cloud mean for transaction document operations? For transaction archives? For customer support and end user access to transaction documents?
What do you need to know about The Cloud to make the decisions whether To Cloud or Not To Cloud?
Implementing cloud based devops for distributed agile projectsTom Stiehm
Cloud-based development, delivery and deployment environments are the future of IT operations, learn how to best leverage the Cloud to enable your teams to use it effectively and to give them an advantage. Learn why Cloud software delivery is different from traditional software delivery environments and how to optimize your platform and team to get the most out of the Cloud. Geographically distributed software delivery teams are now the norm for large projects and the Cloud is a perfect enabler to level the playing field for your distributed teams and give them all the same ability to achieve high productivity.
Considering The Cloud? Thinking Beyond The Readme FileBill Malchisky Jr.
As the Cloud computing's popularity continues to climb, should your firm become an adopter? If so, what architecture model is best for your firm? Do you know the queries to pose that can aide your business in making an informed decision? This session's focus is to reduce the set of unknowns that can create buyer's remorse. Learn to ask the direct revealing questions that normally do not get raised unless you have a skilled advisor at your side.
Support de présentation exploité dans l'atelier "Cloud Hybride, pourquoi, comment" animé par Patrice Lagorsse dans le cadre du salon Cloud Computing World Expo - 10 avril 2014, 9h45 à 10h30
A perspective on cloud computing and enterprise saa s applicationsGeorge Milliken
A perspective on Cloud computing and SaaS for Enterprise applications by a SaaS industry veteran.
Please make sure you read the speakers notes, there's a significant amount of content there.
Accelerate Design and Development of Data Projects Using AWSDelphix
What if you could stand up your AWS EC2 development and test environments near instantly with fresh, secure, and masked data―and at the same time slash your EBS storage usage?
It’s what Dentegra, one of the largest US health benefits providers, achieved by adding Delphix to their DevOps/AWS stack—enabling them to release new features to the market faster and more efficiently across their hybrid cloud environment.
Cloud Computing: Making the right choiceIndicThreads
Session Presented @IndicThreads Cloud Computing Conference, Pune, India ( http://u10.indicthreads.com )
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The concept of cloud computing is quickly scaling the chasm between hype and reality. Cloud Computing is rapidly becoming popular amongst enterprises that realize the benefits of shared infrastructure, lowered costs and minimal management overheads. But not all organizations and applications may benefit from a cloud computing platform. A legacy application ported in a native fashion to a cloud computing platform may not utilize any of the platform’s USPs at all. More importantly, wrong choice of platform can be disastrous. Deciding the optimal cloud vendor or platform for your requirements is a complex task.
Consider the plethora of choices available in the world of cloud computing:
* Public Cloud or Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
* Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, Terremark,
* Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, Heroku
* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Salesforce, Netsuite, Google Apps, saas.com
* Should you use IaaS, PaaS or SaaS for your application?
* Which cloud database fits your application? SimpleDB, SQL, RDS, Hadoop?
We will discuss the various business and technology factors to consider, while choosing a cloud vendor. We will explore the pros and cons of various cloud vendors and their offerings. Lastly, we will also discuss some real-life use-cases of applications and servers being migrated to cloud computing and what factors led to selection of a particular cloud vendor.
Takeaways from the session
This talk would serve as an introduction to a wide variety of cloud computing platforms. The audience would be able to answer questions like: “What options are available for cloud computing?”, “What are their pros and cons?”, “Should I consider migrating my application or server to the cloud?”, “Should I use IaaS, PaaS or SaaS?”, “Which is the best cloud vendor for my use-case?”
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
7. What defines a Cloud
On demand self-service that allows consumers to unilaterally
provision computing capabilities without human interaction with the
service provider.
Broad network access, meaning that capabilities are available over a
network and can be accessed by heterogeneous platforms, i.e., not
just a dedicated thin client.
Resource pooling such that different physical and virtual resources
get dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer
demand in a multi-tenant model.
Rapid elasticity so that to the consumer, available capabilities often
appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any
time.
Measured service allowing usage it be monitored, controlled and
reported and automatically controlled and optimized.
* National Institute of Standards of Technology definition of Cloud Computing
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8. Types of Clouds
A private cloud in which the cloud infrastructure is utilized by just
one organization, though not necessarily operated by that one
organization.
A community cloud whereby several organizations with common
concerns share a cloud.
The public cloud provided by the private sector for all comers.
A hybrid cloud in which two or more cloud types are discrete but
networked together such that a burst of activity beyond the
capabilities of one cloud is shifted for processing to another.
* National Institute of Standards of Technology definition of Cloud Computing
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9. Types of Cloud Offerings
Software as a Service (SaaS) - In which applications run on a cloud
but the user doesn't provision or modify the cloud service, or even
application capabilities, apart from limited user-specific configuration
settings.
Platform as a service (PaaS) - In which users can utilize cloud-
provided programming tools to deploy applications without controlling
most of the underlying infrastructure, with the possible exception of
the application hosting environment configuration.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) - Consumer has control over the
operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly
limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls)
of the cloud environment available to the user via the network.
* National Institute of Standards of Technology definition of Cloud Computing
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10. IT Outsourcing Use Cases
Colocation - Enterprise with custom application base and large scale hardware
investments. Supporting legacy investments, proprietary hardware and/or do-it yourself
customers with CapEx budget focus.
Dedicated Hosting - SaaS/Software company with limited infrastructure requiring high
availability and high audit/security standards. Supporting dedicated outsourced solutions
that require one or more of the following; highly proprietary design and/or applications,
high availability, high security, high audit and/or compliance requirements with OpEx
budget focus.
Cloud “Reserved” - Enterprise with traditional application base looking for cost
competitive service delivery with high service delivery continuity. Supporting
standardized (OS, DB and applications) dedicated workload needs with less stringent
availability and security requirements than Dedicated Hosting and an OpEx budget focus.
Cloud “Allocated” - Enterprise with traditional application base looking for cost
competitive service delivery for less critical applications. Supporting standardized
workload needs that have lower business impact and less stringent availability and
security requirements including test and development projects with OpEx budget focus.
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11. IT Outsourcing Use Cases
Cloud “Best Efforts” - Enterprise looking for test and sandbox
environments for development organization allowing them to operate
via the same platform as their production applications. Supporting
low priority test, development and sandbox efforts.
Hybrid Solutions - Enterprise with custom application base and large
scale hardware investments but that requires individual application to
be highly available and meet high audit/security standards.
Supporting customers ability to purchase the best infrastructure for
each use/application and integrate them into a cohesive and
interconnected architecture.
Public Cloud - Enterprise looking for test and sandbox environments
for development
Purposes - Supporting low cost workload needs where best efforts
delivery and cost are the primary drivers.
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12. IT Outsourcing Value Arena
Service
Level OS / DB
High High Audit / Agreeme Monitoring / Proprietary Legacy Flexibili Application Dedicated Services Sand Do It
Availability Security Compliance nt Reporting HW HW ty Flexibility Computing Elasticity Test Dev box CAPEX OPEX Cost Yourself
Colocation Available High High High Low Yes Yes High High Yes Low Yes Yes Yes Yes No Mid Yes
Dedicated
Hosting Available High High High High Available No Mid Mid Yes Mid Yes Yes Yes No Yes High No
Cloud - Reserved Available Mid Low Mid Mid No No Low Low Yes High Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mid No
Cloud - Allocated No Mid Low Low Low No No Low Low No High Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mid No
Cloud - Best
Efforts No Mid Low None None No No Low Low No High Yes Yes Yes No Yes Low No
Mid
Mid to Mid to Partia to
Hybrid Solutions Available High Mid to High High Low Available Yes Mid Mid Partial Low Yes Yes Yes Partial l High Partial
Low to Low to Low to
Public Cloud No Low None None None No No Low Low No High Yes Yes Yes No Yes Low No
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13. Some of the Pitfalls
Developing – Meeting a providers proprietary standards, solutions or API’s. May make
it difficult to grow, migrate and/or move components to another service provider or to
other types of outsourcing in the future.
Portability - The more data you have uploaded the longer it will take to retrieve and/or
move it which is an issue for DR planning and migration to an alternate vendor. Think
about how long it takes to transfer a TB across an internal network connection and start
multiplying.
Interoperability - What do you do when you have 10’s or 100’s of applications in the
cloud with disparate service providers and you do not have access to a management
interface to support them all. Looks interestingly enough like most of the current IT
issues we all struggled with before Cloud.
Security - Real or perceived there are many issues surrounding this and these items will
be an issue to watch for the foreseeable future.
Regulatory/Compliance - Personally Identifiable Information, Payment Card Industry
(cardholder data), Border issues (Patriot Act, European Union's Data Protection
Directive), etc.
Transparency and Troubleshooting - If you do not have visibility into the
configuration and design it may increase troubleshooting requirements and time well
beyond what is acceptable.
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14. More Pitfalls
Physical Location - (legal jurisdiction, physical/network access and audit issues).
MSA & SLA - Master Service Agreement and Service Level Agreement issues (jurisdiction,
transparency, availability, etc).
Underestimating Cloud sprawl - You probably have a Cloud user in your ranks today
that you are not aware of and who is expensing the service via a personal/corporate
credit card for corporate use.
Managing services in the Cloud is different than traditional IT - Make sure you
think it through and are prepared for access, monitoring and reporting changes.
Provisions - Concerning ownership, use, or transfer of customer-owned data upon
termination of the agreement.
Underestimating resource – Don’t underestimate your requirements and growth
(specifically in storage). As your needs grow Cloud services may not continue to offer the
expense reduction you expect.
Production - Make sure you know what Production means to each user. Developers see
their platform as production as it is their job and most IT organizations view development
as a best efforts delivery.
Self Service - What does “Self Service” mean to you? Do you really want to fly
14 without a net?
15. Even More Pitfalls
Vendor/technology lock in - Highly integrated platforms cab be very compelling. But
what happens if/when the vendor changes something that affects you or does not stay
current?
The Hype - Beside the hype is Cloud really where each application should run? Pick the
appropriate technology, capabilities and costs for each application based on its specific
needs and business impact.
Pay to Play - If you are using a pay to play service and you stop playing make sure to
terminate the instance as if it continues to run you likely continue to pay.
The Wild West - Cloud is the wild west today and providers are in a land grab.
Standards will continue to come quickly but it is important to make sure that you do not
lock yourself into a box canyon until they do.
The Data Center and the Network matter - If the Data Center or the Network go
down the Cloud goes with it.
Collect all your costs - Elasticity of the cloud often times comes at a premium. Be
sure to calculate all of the costs of services and capacity you anticipate utilizing.
Research SLA's - One large provider has the ability to terminate services in the event
their core business requires additional resources. Others offer 95% SLA as a maximum.
15 Technical Support - Chat, FAQ’s, Email, Blogs or Telephone. What works best for
16. Industry Drivers
Growing regulatory, compliance & security requirement
Increasing power and cooling requirements & green
initiatives
Increased outsourcing of IT infrastructure & technological
developments
Growth in Internet traffic & network-centric application
requirements
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18. Super-Regional Coverage
21 Data Centers in 6 Major Markets
Portland
Salt Lake City
Denver
Las Vegas
Dallas
Austin
Usable Raised Floor (Sq Ft)
CO - 140K
TX - 120K
UT - 120K
NV - 13K
OR - 37K
Total = 420K
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19. May 12 Grand Opening – Your invited
IT’S AN OPEN HOUSE.
(If by “house” you mean a 34,500 square foot, SAS-70 type II-compliant data center.)
Please join us as we unveil our
Newest state-of-the-art data center facility.
Thursday, May 12th
Voodoo Doughnut Tour 8am – 10am
House Spirits Gin Tour 2pm – 6pm
3935 Northwest Aloclek Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124
RSVP to viawest.com/hillsboro
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20. For more information, contact us at:
Thank You ViaWest Business Development
Innotech Oregon (Toll Free) 877-448-9378
businessdevelopment@viawest.com
www.viawest.com
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