IT Authorities is a cloud computing services provider headquartered in Tampa, Florida. They have built a highly advanced and sophisticated cloud computing platform using best-in-breed technologies from Cisco, VMware, and NetApp. Their infrastructure provides enterprise-grade performance, flexibility, security and redundancy through virtualized servers, Cisco Unified Computing fabric, VMware virtualization software, NetApp storage, and Cisco networking and security appliances. Their facilities have robust security, power, cooling and connectivity to enable flexible, scalable cloud services for customers.
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This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
This document discusses how cloud computing requires a cloud-intelligent network to address its needs. It begins by providing background on the shift to cloud computing and how the role of networks has evolved with each new era of computing. It then discusses how current network strategies are insufficient for cloud computing due to issues like inefficient bandwidth usage, lack of security and control, poor visibility, and inconsistent user experiences. The document proposes that a cloud-intelligent network is needed to deliver security, visibility, optimization and control for cloud services. It outlines the components and benefits of a cloud-intelligent network for enabling IT agility, time to market advantages, and assured user experiences.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
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The document discusses key trends in cloud computing and IT. It notes that cloud relies on virtualization, standardization, automation, and self-service. Together these enable flexibility, increased efficiency, rapid deployment, repeatable configurations, and improved user control over costs and services. The document also discusses how various analysts rank cloud computing, virtualization, mobile, analytics, and security as top trends.
The document discusses the rise of big data and why it is important for organizations now. It notes that the volume of data is growing exponentially and will soon reach zettabytes in size. However, most of this data is unstructured and many business leaders do not have access to all the information they need or do not fully trust the information they have. The traditional approach of having IT design structured solutions based on business requirements is no longer sufficient. Instead, the document advocates a big data approach where organizations explore and analyze all available data sources using a platform to discover new insights in an iterative manner and determine new questions to ask. IBM's big data platform is presented as a solution to address these needs by handling large volumes,
Demystifying cloud computing with IBM POWER Systems and IBM i COMMON Europe
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
This document discusses how cloud computing requires a cloud-intelligent network to address its needs. It begins by providing background on the shift to cloud computing and how the role of networks has evolved with each new era of computing. It then discusses how current network strategies are insufficient for cloud computing due to issues like inefficient bandwidth usage, lack of security and control, poor visibility, and inconsistent user experiences. The document proposes that a cloud-intelligent network is needed to deliver security, visibility, optimization and control for cloud services. It outlines the components and benefits of a cloud-intelligent network for enabling IT agility, time to market advantages, and assured user experiences.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
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The document discusses key trends in cloud computing and IT. It notes that cloud relies on virtualization, standardization, automation, and self-service. Together these enable flexibility, increased efficiency, rapid deployment, repeatable configurations, and improved user control over costs and services. The document also discusses how various analysts rank cloud computing, virtualization, mobile, analytics, and security as top trends.
The document discusses the rise of big data and why it is important for organizations now. It notes that the volume of data is growing exponentially and will soon reach zettabytes in size. However, most of this data is unstructured and many business leaders do not have access to all the information they need or do not fully trust the information they have. The traditional approach of having IT design structured solutions based on business requirements is no longer sufficient. Instead, the document advocates a big data approach where organizations explore and analyze all available data sources using a platform to discover new insights in an iterative manner and determine new questions to ask. IBM's big data platform is presented as a solution to address these needs by handling large volumes,
Data center 2.0: Cloud computing - opportunities or threats to HK IT by Mr. ...HKISPA
Cloud computing presents both opportunities and threats to the IT industry in Hong Kong. While cloud adoption may lead to loss of IT jobs and revenues as businesses shift to cloud providers, it also creates new opportunities for traditional IT companies to transform their business models and capture new markets. These include facilitating cloud adoption by providing cloud security and management solutions, transition services, and addressing skills gaps in cloud architecture and services. With its strategic location and competitive advantages, Hong Kong is well-positioned to establish itself as a cloud computing center to serve markets across Asia.
This document discusses business intelligence in the cloud. It begins by introducing constraints to traditional BI adoption like costly and inflexible integrated infrastructures. Cloud computing provides an environment for BI that is elastic, low-cost, and flexible. The document then discusses how cloud BI can accelerate adoption, enable easier evaluation and short-term analysis, and increase flexibility. Overall, cloud BI makes BI implementation cheaper and faster while increasing an organization's analytic capabilities.
1. The document discusses risks associated with cloud computing, including potential security breaches that could compromise sensitive customer data and lead to costly litigation and reputational damage.
2. It provides examples of large-scale breaches involving cloud services firms, where hackers accessed millions of customer account files and email addresses.
3. Businesses considering cloud computing need to carefully evaluate what types of sensitive data they will entrust to the cloud, and conduct thorough due diligence on cloud providers' security practices and controls. Developing a clear data-security strategy is important for protecting information.
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This document discusses trends in cloud computing and its benefits. It defines cloud as a new consumption and delivery model for IT services that relies on industrialization of delivery. Cloud computing enables benefits like self-service, flexibility, cost savings, and increased visibility through combining virtualization, standardization, automation, and self-service. It can be deployed privately within an enterprise, as a public cloud model over the internet, or as a hybrid model. Cloud provides a range of service models from infrastructure to applications.
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This document summarizes an IBM presentation about data storage solutions given by Marius Vasile, the STG Storage Sales Manager. The presentation introduced IBM backup and data protection solutions like Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack and ProtecTIER deduplication appliances. It discussed challenges with traditional backup methods and how IBM solutions address issues like recovery time objectives, data growth, and security. Use cases were provided for solutions like ProtecTIER native replication between primary and disaster recovery sites.
The document provides an overview of IBM's Big Data platform vision. The platform addresses big data use cases involving high volume, velocity and variety of data. It integrates with existing data warehouse and master data management systems. The platform handles different data types and formats, provides real-time and batch analytics, and has tools to make it easy for developers and users to work with. It is designed with enterprise-grade security, scalability and failure tolerance. The platform allows organizations to analyze big data from various sources to gain insights.
This document discusses Intel's adoption of cloud computing. It notes that Intel IT has realized $9 million in net savings up to 2011 from its internal cloud efforts. The document also states that cloud computing has become a reality, with the public cloud market expected to grow to $159 billion by 2020. It outlines Intel's definition of cloud computing and its objectives in adopting a hybrid cloud model to deliver applications and data on demand to users on any device.
This document discusses how IBM can help organizations strengthen business continuity and resiliency through cloud computing services. It begins by outlining the benefits of cloud computing, such as scalability, cost savings, and simplified IT management. It then describes IBM's information protection services which use a cloud-based model to provide on-demand data protection, email management, and data recovery capabilities. These services aim to help organizations reduce costs while improving availability, managing growing data volumes, and ensuring compliance. The document argues that a cloud-based strategy can help businesses weather disruptions and adapt quickly to changes through dynamic, globally accessible IT resources delivered as a service.
Cloud Computing: da curiosidade para casos reaissoudW
The document discusses how cloud computing is becoming an increasingly important technology trend. It summarizes how standardization, automation, and self-service have changed other industries by making them more efficient. Cloud computing relies on these same principles of industrialization to deliver IT services in a standardized, automated, and self-service manner. This enables benefits like lower costs, improved efficiency, and increased flexibility for both IT organizations and business users. The trends driving greater adoption of cloud include factors like virtualization, infrastructure utilization, and cost reduction. Both IT and business users are attracted to cloud computing but for different reasons - IT sees benefits around efficiency and control while business users value the simplified, self-service experience and new capabilities cloud enables.
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IBM has been talking about our vision for a smarter planet for close to a year now- and working with thousands of clients - with great success and traction taking hold. Every industry is experiencing the benefits, and feeling the challenges, being presented by a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
An example is cloud computing: The economics driving cloud computing is not new technologies. Rather it is the combination of existing technologies with a focus on the end user. Virtualization drives higher utilization which lowers capital and operating expenses. Standardization also reduces capital and labor costs, while automation drives enhance user experience and automates many manual tasks to reduce errors and reduce the costs associated with managing an environment.
Yahoo uses Apache Hadoop at a massive scale to power many of its products and services. Hadoop clusters at Yahoo contain tens of thousands of servers and store over 170 petabytes of data. Hadoop is used for data analytics, content optimization, machine learning, advertising products, and more. One example is Yahoo's homepage, where Hadoop enables the personalization of content for each user, increasing engagement on the site.
IBM's zEnterprise system provides a smarter computing infrastructure for a smarter planet. It enables large-scale consolidation through a private cloud with efficiency, security, and analytics capabilities. The zEnterprise can run hundreds or thousands of workloads on a single system with high utilization rates. It also delivers unmatched security and reliability for critical applications and data through its built-in redundancy and certifications. Further, with technologies like the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, the zEnterprise integrates operational and analytical workloads to deliver real-time insights for optimized decision making.
Cloud computing has arrived on the IT landscape with all the commotion of a Hollywood blockbuster in terms of its media coverage. The hype and chatter that this has caused has arguably not helped its initial growth and development as companies have been at the mercy of a mixed set of messages, some of which have almost approached the point of confusion in various cases.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
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This document discusses six key questions that business executives should ask about cloud computing. The questions are: 1) What is it, and how does it work? 2) What specific benefits can clouds bring to my organization? 3) Can I depend on clouds to save my organization money? 4) How will clouds affect the way my organization competes? 5) What risks must my organization manage? By focusing on these questions, executives can evaluate cloud computing's opportunities and risks for their own organization in a timely and productive way.
In a recent survey of 250 senior IT & business decision makers by Cloud Industry Forum, 61% expressed concerns over data security in the cloud, despite the fact only 2% have ever experienced a cloud-related security breach. Talk of the cloud and cloud technology has been rife for a long time now, yet there
are still many businesses that subscribe to out-dated
myths, such as data security.
The last few years have seen a marked increase in the
popularity of the cloud but for many it’s another tech
innovation that everyone tells them they need but that they
don’t fully understand. There’s a distinct hype surrounding
discussions on the cloud, but for the most part, they come
across as semi-intelligible fog, full of jargon fi lled techspeak,
with a lack of clarity about the business advantages.
In this whitepaper, we’ll lift the haze around the cloud and take
a straight-forward approach to explore the benefits, making it easy to determine if the cloud is right for you. We’ll clearly state the benefits of using the cloud as well as give an overview of the perceived risks and remove some of the common misconceptions.
Cloud Myths and Realities: The Truth About Moving to the CloudEmbotics Corp.
Businesses are moving workloads to the cloud to enable new processes and unlock new value, promoting process efficiency, collaboration, and insight.
In this article, we discuss some of the myths surrounding the various cloud platforms, helping you to avoid the major pitfalls and prepare your IT organization for migration to a cloud infrastructure.
Cloud computing offers organizations scalability, flexibility, and speed while reducing costs. However, issues around security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance need to be addressed. While some organizations are piloting cloud computing services, widespread adoption is still 1-2 years away as only 10-30% of IT budgets are expected to be used for cloud services in the near future. Overall cloud computing has the potential to significantly change how IT services are delivered and used by businesses.
Why cloud computing:
Cloud computing can be a cheaper, faster, and greener alternative to an On-premises solution. Without any infrastructure
investments, you can get Powerful software and massive computing resources quickly—with lower Up-front costs and fewer
management headaches down the road. Cloud-based solutions when evaluating options for new IT deployments Whenever a
secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists. Shifting your agency into the cloud can be a big decision, with many
Considerations. This guide is the first in a series designed to help you Get started. The most important is the right choice
software as a service as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service or hybrid cloud. While addressing
administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen Portals. The cloud can also help your agency increase collaboration across
Organizations, deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways, and reduce IT costs while helping your agency focus on
mission-critical tasks. Plus, the Cloud can help you maintain operational efficiency during times of crisis.
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Data center 2.0: Cloud computing - opportunities or threats to HK IT by Mr. ...HKISPA
Cloud computing presents both opportunities and threats to the IT industry in Hong Kong. While cloud adoption may lead to loss of IT jobs and revenues as businesses shift to cloud providers, it also creates new opportunities for traditional IT companies to transform their business models and capture new markets. These include facilitating cloud adoption by providing cloud security and management solutions, transition services, and addressing skills gaps in cloud architecture and services. With its strategic location and competitive advantages, Hong Kong is well-positioned to establish itself as a cloud computing center to serve markets across Asia.
This document discusses business intelligence in the cloud. It begins by introducing constraints to traditional BI adoption like costly and inflexible integrated infrastructures. Cloud computing provides an environment for BI that is elastic, low-cost, and flexible. The document then discusses how cloud BI can accelerate adoption, enable easier evaluation and short-term analysis, and increase flexibility. Overall, cloud BI makes BI implementation cheaper and faster while increasing an organization's analytic capabilities.
1. The document discusses risks associated with cloud computing, including potential security breaches that could compromise sensitive customer data and lead to costly litigation and reputational damage.
2. It provides examples of large-scale breaches involving cloud services firms, where hackers accessed millions of customer account files and email addresses.
3. Businesses considering cloud computing need to carefully evaluate what types of sensitive data they will entrust to the cloud, and conduct thorough due diligence on cloud providers' security practices and controls. Developing a clear data-security strategy is important for protecting information.
Cloud Computing: da curiosidade para casos reaissoudW
This document discusses trends in cloud computing and its benefits. It defines cloud as a new consumption and delivery model for IT services that relies on industrialization of delivery. Cloud computing enables benefits like self-service, flexibility, cost savings, and increased visibility through combining virtualization, standardization, automation, and self-service. It can be deployed privately within an enterprise, as a public cloud model over the internet, or as a hybrid model. Cloud provides a range of service models from infrastructure to applications.
How can maximize your storage capabilities by using IBM backup & restore solu...Agora Group
This document summarizes an IBM presentation about data storage solutions given by Marius Vasile, the STG Storage Sales Manager. The presentation introduced IBM backup and data protection solutions like Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack and ProtecTIER deduplication appliances. It discussed challenges with traditional backup methods and how IBM solutions address issues like recovery time objectives, data growth, and security. Use cases were provided for solutions like ProtecTIER native replication between primary and disaster recovery sites.
The document provides an overview of IBM's Big Data platform vision. The platform addresses big data use cases involving high volume, velocity and variety of data. It integrates with existing data warehouse and master data management systems. The platform handles different data types and formats, provides real-time and batch analytics, and has tools to make it easy for developers and users to work with. It is designed with enterprise-grade security, scalability and failure tolerance. The platform allows organizations to analyze big data from various sources to gain insights.
This document discusses Intel's adoption of cloud computing. It notes that Intel IT has realized $9 million in net savings up to 2011 from its internal cloud efforts. The document also states that cloud computing has become a reality, with the public cloud market expected to grow to $159 billion by 2020. It outlines Intel's definition of cloud computing and its objectives in adopting a hybrid cloud model to deliver applications and data on demand to users on any device.
This document discusses how IBM can help organizations strengthen business continuity and resiliency through cloud computing services. It begins by outlining the benefits of cloud computing, such as scalability, cost savings, and simplified IT management. It then describes IBM's information protection services which use a cloud-based model to provide on-demand data protection, email management, and data recovery capabilities. These services aim to help organizations reduce costs while improving availability, managing growing data volumes, and ensuring compliance. The document argues that a cloud-based strategy can help businesses weather disruptions and adapt quickly to changes through dynamic, globally accessible IT resources delivered as a service.
Cloud Computing: da curiosidade para casos reaissoudW
The document discusses how cloud computing is becoming an increasingly important technology trend. It summarizes how standardization, automation, and self-service have changed other industries by making them more efficient. Cloud computing relies on these same principles of industrialization to deliver IT services in a standardized, automated, and self-service manner. This enables benefits like lower costs, improved efficiency, and increased flexibility for both IT organizations and business users. The trends driving greater adoption of cloud include factors like virtualization, infrastructure utilization, and cost reduction. Both IT and business users are attracted to cloud computing but for different reasons - IT sees benefits around efficiency and control while business users value the simplified, self-service experience and new capabilities cloud enables.
Ibm Smart Business Overview Jimmy MillsJimmy Mills
IBM has been talking about our vision for a smarter planet for close to a year now- and working with thousands of clients - with great success and traction taking hold. Every industry is experiencing the benefits, and feeling the challenges, being presented by a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
An example is cloud computing: The economics driving cloud computing is not new technologies. Rather it is the combination of existing technologies with a focus on the end user. Virtualization drives higher utilization which lowers capital and operating expenses. Standardization also reduces capital and labor costs, while automation drives enhance user experience and automates many manual tasks to reduce errors and reduce the costs associated with managing an environment.
Yahoo uses Apache Hadoop at a massive scale to power many of its products and services. Hadoop clusters at Yahoo contain tens of thousands of servers and store over 170 petabytes of data. Hadoop is used for data analytics, content optimization, machine learning, advertising products, and more. One example is Yahoo's homepage, where Hadoop enables the personalization of content for each user, increasing engagement on the site.
IBM's zEnterprise system provides a smarter computing infrastructure for a smarter planet. It enables large-scale consolidation through a private cloud with efficiency, security, and analytics capabilities. The zEnterprise can run hundreds or thousands of workloads on a single system with high utilization rates. It also delivers unmatched security and reliability for critical applications and data through its built-in redundancy and certifications. Further, with technologies like the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, the zEnterprise integrates operational and analytical workloads to deliver real-time insights for optimized decision making.
Cloud computing has arrived on the IT landscape with all the commotion of a Hollywood blockbuster in terms of its media coverage. The hype and chatter that this has caused has arguably not helped its initial growth and development as companies have been at the mercy of a mixed set of messages, some of which have almost approached the point of confusion in various cases.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
Accenture 6 questions_executives_should_ask_about_cloud_computingNgy Ea
This document discusses six key questions that business executives should ask about cloud computing. The questions are: 1) What is it, and how does it work? 2) What specific benefits can clouds bring to my organization? 3) Can I depend on clouds to save my organization money? 4) How will clouds affect the way my organization competes? 5) What risks must my organization manage? By focusing on these questions, executives can evaluate cloud computing's opportunities and risks for their own organization in a timely and productive way.
In a recent survey of 250 senior IT & business decision makers by Cloud Industry Forum, 61% expressed concerns over data security in the cloud, despite the fact only 2% have ever experienced a cloud-related security breach. Talk of the cloud and cloud technology has been rife for a long time now, yet there
are still many businesses that subscribe to out-dated
myths, such as data security.
The last few years have seen a marked increase in the
popularity of the cloud but for many it’s another tech
innovation that everyone tells them they need but that they
don’t fully understand. There’s a distinct hype surrounding
discussions on the cloud, but for the most part, they come
across as semi-intelligible fog, full of jargon fi lled techspeak,
with a lack of clarity about the business advantages.
In this whitepaper, we’ll lift the haze around the cloud and take
a straight-forward approach to explore the benefits, making it easy to determine if the cloud is right for you. We’ll clearly state the benefits of using the cloud as well as give an overview of the perceived risks and remove some of the common misconceptions.
Cloud Myths and Realities: The Truth About Moving to the CloudEmbotics Corp.
Businesses are moving workloads to the cloud to enable new processes and unlock new value, promoting process efficiency, collaboration, and insight.
In this article, we discuss some of the myths surrounding the various cloud platforms, helping you to avoid the major pitfalls and prepare your IT organization for migration to a cloud infrastructure.
Cloud computing offers organizations scalability, flexibility, and speed while reducing costs. However, issues around security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance need to be addressed. While some organizations are piloting cloud computing services, widespread adoption is still 1-2 years away as only 10-30% of IT budgets are expected to be used for cloud services in the near future. Overall cloud computing has the potential to significantly change how IT services are delivered and used by businesses.
Why cloud computing:
Cloud computing can be a cheaper, faster, and greener alternative to an On-premises solution. Without any infrastructure
investments, you can get Powerful software and massive computing resources quickly—with lower Up-front costs and fewer
management headaches down the road. Cloud-based solutions when evaluating options for new IT deployments Whenever a
secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists. Shifting your agency into the cloud can be a big decision, with many
Considerations. This guide is the first in a series designed to help you Get started. The most important is the right choice
software as a service as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service or hybrid cloud. While addressing
administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen Portals. The cloud can also help your agency increase collaboration across
Organizations, deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways, and reduce IT costs while helping your agency focus on
mission-critical tasks. Plus, the Cloud can help you maintain operational efficiency during times of crisis.
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This document discusses how cloud computing can benefit eDiscovery processes. It begins by defining cloud computing and noting that it offers on-demand access to shared computing resources and bills users based on consumption. The document then examines ideal use cases for cloud computing in eDiscovery, including applications with unpredictable workloads and defined portions of complex business processes. It also provides a checklist for determining if aspects of an eDiscovery workflow are well-suited for the cloud. The rest of the document covers additional cloud computing topics as they relate to eDiscovery, such as public vs private clouds, security, compliance, disaster recovery and business continuity.
Cloud computing provides significant benefits for SMBs, allowing them to access enterprise-class technology at low costs with easy scalability. It eliminates the need for SMBs to purchase and maintain their own IT infrastructure and software. There are different types of cloud services available, including applications, platforms, infrastructure, and web services. Cloud computing offers SMBs savings on IT costs, easy scalability, the latest innovations, and enables them to focus on their core business rather than IT maintenance. Some concerns about cloud computing include security, availability, and control over data, but reliable cloud vendors address these issues.
"Experience the transformative power of cloud computing with seamless access to remote computer programs and data. This innovative technology empowers businesses and individuals to streamline operations, minimize costs, and enhance efficiency by storing information on secure remote servers, revolutionizing the way we work and collaborate."
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It delivers applications through web browsers and allows for dynamic scaling of resources. Some benefits include reduced costs, increased storage and flexibility compared to traditional computing methods. However, privacy, security, and compliance are concerns that need to be addressed for cloud computing.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It delivers applications through web browsers and allows for dynamic scaling of resources. Some benefits include reduced costs, increased storage and flexibility compared to traditional computing methods. However, security, privacy and compliance are important challenges to address with cloud computing.
This document discusses cloud computing, including its benefits and risks for businesses. Cloud computing provides shared IT resources over the internet on-demand, allowing businesses to avoid large upfront costs. It can increase efficiency and scalability while reducing costs. However, it also presents security risks to sensitive data if responsibilities between clients and providers are not clear or if standards lack. When selecting a cloud provider, businesses should carefully consider the provider's security controls, access management, legal policies for data storage, and ability to exit the agreement if needed. Overall, cloud computing offers a potentially cost-effective way to access computing resources but also requires managing risks to data security and privacy.
The document discusses how cloud computing provides companies flexibility and efficiency during tough economic times. It allows companies to rapidly scale computing resources up or down as needed without large capital investments. This enables companies to innovate faster, bring products to market quicker, and improve operational efficiency. Cloud computing provides automated provisioning of services, virtualized infrastructure, security, and standardized offerings to help companies work smarter and be more responsive to changing business needs.
The document discusses the findings of a survey conducted by IBM in 2009 regarding cloud computing adoption. Some key findings include:
- Over a third of organizations surveyed were considering cloud computing, but less than a quarter felt ready with necessary service management capabilities.
- Respondents preferred private clouds over public clouds for most workload types at the time, citing security and control concerns with public clouds.
- While many were familiar with private and public cloud models, there was lack of consistency in how cloud computing was defined and understood across organizations.
- Adoption drivers included speed of IT provisioning and increased efficiencies, while barriers were security, control and changing existing service management processes. Considerations included workload suitability and
The document discusses the findings of an IBM survey on cloud computing adoption. Some key points:
- The survey defined public, private, and hybrid cloud models and polled over 1,000 IT and business leaders globally.
- It found that while many organizations are considering cloud computing, most currently favor private clouds. Less than a quarter of respondents said they have the necessary service management capabilities for cloud.
- Preferences and readiness for public versus private clouds varied by workload type. While analytics workloads were seen as more suitable for public clouds, infrastructure services were viewed as better in private clouds.
- Key adoption factors included improving agility and reducing costs, while security and control concerns posed barriers. Organizations
In recent years, cloud computing environments have been gaining popularity. In the IBM Global CIO Study 2009, when asked about their most important visionary initiatives, cloud computing was cited by more than one-third of CIOs as being among the most important.
The document discusses the results of a survey on cloud computing adoption conducted by IBM in 2009. Some key findings:
- 64% of respondents found private cloud delivery appealing vs. 38% for hybrid and 30% for public cloud.
- The top drivers for public cloud adoption were cost savings and faster time to value. Data security concerns were the main barrier.
- Workload preferences varied between public and private clouds. Data/analytics workloads were most considered for private clouds while collaboration tools were favored for public clouds.
- Adoption rates were already high for some workloads in private clouds like service desks and email, though consideration rates were also very high across all workloads.
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This document provides an overview of cloud computing and discusses Salesforce.com. It defines cloud computing as using computing resources delivered over a network, and notes the cost savings and scalability benefits it provides compared to on-premise IT. Common cloud service models including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS are described. The document also summarizes how Salesforce.com alleviated concerns about security, integration and TCO that initially held some organizations back from adopting cloud computing. It identifies Salesforce.com as a major player in the cloud market with over 100,000 customers.
2. Cloud Computing
Who is IT IT Authorities is a cloud services provider headquartered in Tampa, Florida. We
Authorities? designed, invested in and built the world’s most advanced and sophisticated
cloud platform.
IT Authorities Voted #1 Best Company to work for in the state of Florida
- Florida Trend 100 Best Companies to Work For in Florida - 2010
Ranked 801st on Inc. Magazine's 5000 fastest Growing Private
Companies in America in 2010
Ranked Best Place to Work in Tampa in 2008, 2009 & 2010 by the
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Ranked 35th of the Top 100 Managed service providers in the World by
MSP Mentor
What is Cloud Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources,
Computing? software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on
demand, as with the electricity grid. Cloud computing is a natural evolution of
the widespread adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and
utility computing. Details are abstracted from consumers, who no longer have
need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure "in the cloud"
that supports them. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption,
and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves
over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized
resources. It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote
computing sites provided by the Internet.
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Top 15 Advantages 1. Low Monthly Payment as an Operating Expense versus a Capital
of the Cloud Expenditure.
Computing 2. No hardware replacement, system software upgrade costs, maintenance or
warranty renewals expenses.
3. 99.999% Uptime!
4. Reduced utility costs – Eliminate outrageous cooling & electric bills
5. Reduced floor space - No real estate needed for equipment
6. Tax Benefit - Operating Expense vs. Capital Expense. Realize tax
reduction the moment you use it!
7. Lower Total Cost of Ownership – Faster Return on Investment
8. No more license purchases or management!
9. Green approach to I.T.
10. FREE Microsoft Version Upgrades (Exchange, Windows OS, SharePoint,
SQL, etc.)
11. High availability plan as all systems are redundant
12. No need to worry about securing hardware during a disaster
13. Availability – Login from anywhere in the world
14. Predictable cost of growth
15. Scalable up or down
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The Case for Cloud Simplified Cost and Consumption Model - Cloud computing allows companies to
Computing better control the capital expenditure and operating expense associated with non-core
activities.
Enterprise Grade Services and Management - Typically, 70 to 80 percent of IT
budgets are devoted to maintenance of existing infrastructure – a massive overhead.
Cloud computing offloads this burden from the shoulders of companies, freeing core IT
resources to focus on initiatives that drive revenue growth.
Faster Provisioning of Systems and Applications - Traditional methods to buy and
configure hardware and software are time consuming. Cloud computing provides a rapid
deployment model that enables applications to grow quickly to match increasing usage
requirements. It can accommodate ―peak times‖ where a company needs to scale up
dramatically, such as a holiday season or special event.
Size Adjustments to Address Business Changes - Clouds are elastic. They can contract
if necessary to meet changing business needs. With an in-house data center, if a company
over-provisions, it can’t scale back. In a cloud, an organization can quickly and easily re-
size its environment if necessary.
Ease of Integration - An increasing number of enterprise applications require integration
with third-party applications that are often hosted outside the enterprise firewall. The
cloud, with its configuration flexibility, integrated security and choice of access
mechanisms, has a natural advantage for serving as a core platform and integration fabric
for these emerging applications.
Highly Secure Infrastructure - By taking a system-based – not point-based – approach,
cloud environments can perform security at all levels (applications, middleware,
operating system, computer/store/network). This will safely support highly mobile users
that need a variety of connection options – coming into the cloud from secure and non-
secure networks.
Compliant Facilities and Processes - Many companies don’t have the resources needed
to manage audit and certification processes for internal data centers. Compliance
standards cut horizontally – like Sarbanes-Oxley – and vertically, such as PCI DSS and
HIPAA. Cloud facilities and processes that address both areas can help companies
address regulatory and compliance processes.
Flexibility and Resilience with Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery - Managing
business continuity and recovery internally require a dedicated focus so companies
typically concentrate only on the most critical applications. Utilizing cloud environments
allows organizations to safeguard their full IT infrastructure because the cloud’s inherent
scalability integrates disaster recovery capabilities.
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5. Cloud Infrastructure & Technology
Servers Powered by fully redundant Cisco® Unified Computing Systems clusters.
We set out with the primary objective to build an enterprise class cloud
environment, so we leveraged the partnership between Cisco, VMware and
NetApp to develop a fabric integrated server and storage infrastructure. As a
result, we are able to offer unparalleled performance and flexibility in our cloud
service offerings. Our world class design provides sophisticated awareness:
The Cisco Nexus switches are aware of the storage traffic
The NetApp storage is aware of the dynamic nature of a hosted
environment
The Cisco UCS servers are aware of the available fabric and storage
resources
Together, this best in breed approach creates a highly secure, fully redundant and
self-healing cloud infrastructure. Ultimately, a single resource is never left to
handle a task on its own, as intended by Cisco’s brilliant vision.
The value and the benefit to our customer is a true enterprise class, fully
redundant and secure private cloud infrastructure at a fraction of the cost
compared to developing, implementing and maintaining an in-house solution.
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Server Software VMware vSphere Virtualized Infrastructure
95% of the Fortune Global 500 is using VMware including:
50 out of top 50 Banks: Commercial & Savings
10 out of the top 10 Aerospace and Defense Companies
5 out of the 5 Global Airlines
9 of the top 10 Chemical Companies
5 of the top 5 Diversified Financial Companies
5 of the top 5 Energy Companies
4 of the top 4 Entertainment Companies s
10 out of the 10 Pharmaceutical Companies
4 of the top 4 Securities Companies
VMware affords us the ability to provide a highly available, completely
redundant, high performing, and totally integrated cloud platform to our clients.
It is simply the best of the best when it comes to virtualization and cloud
platforms.
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Network Fueled by a fully redundant core of Cisco Nexus Fabric Switches.
Infrastructure
We chose the Cisco Nexus platform for the absolute, unparalleled performance.
The available backplane speeds of the nexus switching platform aren’t available
from any other core switches from any other manufacturer and it allows us to
create a more flexible, highly available solution.
This allows us to do things like not worrying about or having to put speed
limitations on access to storage resources and external traffic reaching resources
that are hosted inside the cloud. Typically you’d have to limit the amount of
storage traffic that is going to and from hosts in order to make available those
resources to other hosted clients. We have over powered our cloud infrastructure
to the point where we no longer have to worry about these limitations. Therefore
the demands for disk access and other resources inside of your cloud are able to
be dynamically allocated as needed. Our resources will always be greater than
the demand from our clients. Because of this design and the technology behind
it, we will never reach a resource limitation with regard to switching that will
demand us to start putting limitations on clients.
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Storage Fully Redundant and Infinitely Scalable NetApp SAN’s
The reason we went with the NetApp Storage is really similar to the reason that
we went with the Nexus switching platform. NetApp allows us flexibility in the
types of connectivity that our customers can have to the storage system. Our
clients are not limited to just have fiber channel for instance, or to just have fiber
channel over Ethernet, or to just have iSCSI targets on this device. NetApp
allows us to organize our cloud storage technology in such a way that we can
maintain our investments in such a way to make costs reasonable for our clients.
By doing that you can say it’s a connectivity agnostic storage system, in that we
can have a mix of fiber channel, fiber channel over Ethernet and iSCSI.
If our clients bring up a hosted server in our environment, the type of disk access
they need might work better over iSCSI or it might work better over fiber
channel over Ethernet than it would over fiber channel. Additionally, fast access
database applications may require the speed that comes from fiber channel and
the redundancy and multi-paths storage access that that allows. So as opposed to
paying for features that our clients may not need, we are able to cater it
specifically to their needs regardless of the requirements. We also able to custom
build a new solution to fit individual needs.
NetApp is also integrated into the VMware vSphere console making it possible to
do rapid restore features without impacting performance of the SAN and also
without having to pull tapes. Rapid restores allows us to provide unprecedented
speed in which a single file can be restored or a single email can be restored into
an inbox, or when a user accidently deletes a file. These files can be restored to a
file server and it is no longer an operation of pulling a tape from off site, or even
pulling a tape form a backup library. We can simply go into the snapshot of that
file system and we can drag and drop basically any file that we would like to
restore on a ―per file per hosted server‖ basis. Then again, that doesn’t impact the
performance of the SAN itself.
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Security Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
We invested in the Cisco® ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances to
deliver a robust suite of highly integrated, enterprise class, market-leading
security services for our mission-critical private cloud. This platform provides
unprecedented services flexibility, modular scalability, and feature extensibility.
We went with the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) line of security
appliances because it provides enterprise level redundancy and fault tolerance to
create a self-healing, self defending edge. It is also considered a Carrier Class
edge network technology. Having flexibility to create separate virtual
infrastructure environments that can be treated as true separate entities was a
major requirement for us so that we could differentiate from the commodity
players such as Rackspace and Amazon.
For example, when we bring a new server online for you, you are not just getting
a shared IP space on the interface of your server that you have control over. You
are actually getting your own subnet that lives behind our redundant Cisco
ASA’s firewall. What the ASA does that’s unique is it allow us to create virtual
interfaces behind our firewall for however many hosted servers that we have
behind it. This means your servers can talk to each other and being that we give
you a virtual interface on a ―real firewall‖ appliance instead of a virtual firewall
or software firewall, you actually get physical separation from the rest of the
clients we have in our cloud. This approach allows flexibility and creativity that
others simply do not provide such as being able to connect your virtual
infrastructure / your subnet in our cloud environment which can then be
connected via point-to-point VPN’s to your offices.
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Security, Continued You can have remote access VPN users get into your network and access your
resources and then of course you can do a site-to-multisite setup where you can
have your one cloud environment and say ten offices that all have individual
VPN’s back to our cloud.
In summary, IT Authorities creates the look and feel of having your own rack in
a data center, with your own switches, your own firewall, your own address
space and the availability to do with it what you like.
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IT Authorities
Cloud Facilities
Facility (Brandon, Florida):
96,000 square foot operation - 22,000 square foot raised floor space
Raised floor facilitates cable management and uniform cooling distribution
Category 5e cabling throughout the facility
OC-48 SONET ring for redundancy
Remedy®*—problem tracking, trouble ticketing and change management tool
Advanced pre-action fire suppression system
VESDA®* fire alarm system
14 megavolt amps power service
Server racks or cages available (full, half and quarter racks)
Security
Security:
24x7x365 onsite hosting system, network monitoring and facility customer support
24x7x365 security staff
Strictly enforced security procedures
Photo ID required for building access
Sophisticated, computerized access control system
Card key and biometrics scan required for collocation space access
Video surveillance at all entrances and every aisle (60 day, onsite tape retention)
Locked racks and cabinets with local key management
Power Conditioning:
Five 1,250 KVA Generator Systems; N+1 to assure uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
Fully redundant UPS Bank
HVAC Temperature Controlled Environment:
Temperature and humidity controlled environment
150 BTUs per square foot
Four 400 ton chillers
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Case Study Company
Lewis & Clark is a multi-year Frost and Sullivan "Best Practices" Award
recipient and was founded in 1986 with a clear mission to provide all electronic
companies with an alternative to the high cost of new capital equipment and
associated services. After more than 20 years, they have shipped thousands of
quality test and manufacturing systems worldwide; saving their clients many
millions of dollars. Additionally, their related services capabilities provide cost
effective solutions focused on properly maintaining the equipment and keeping it
operating at maximum productivity levels. They are headquartered in Nashua,
New Hampshire, USA., with additional US offices in the Southeast, Midwest and
West Coast. International offices are located in the United Kingdom and Latin
America with strategic relationships in Asia.
Their services include matching buyers and sellers of previously-owned
equipment, asset management of excess systems, reconditioning, field service
and training, repair/exchange and repair, as well as equipment consignment and
providing assistance with leasing and financing. They also have available an
extensive inventory of spare parts and retrofits. Their asset management services
have also been expanded to include intra-company asset visibility and auction
coordination.
Existing Infrastructure:
Their infrastructure consisted of ten physical servers, high speed switches, and
battery backups.
Challenges:
Server and networking equipment out of warranty and outdated
System software reaching end of life
Limited internet speed availability in facilities
No redundant systems for high availability
No internal data center
Extensive international mobile workforce
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Case Study, Solution 1 Overview –Co-location and New Equipment
Continued
The first investigated option was to build out their office to be a suitable data
center or move to a co-location facility and purchase required hardware,
software, systems and professional services to build and migrate. They elected
not to build their own data center and use a colocation instead. They also
selected VMware with shared storage as the solution for high availability.
One Time Costs:
Description Estimated Cost
Server / Storage Hardware (2 physical servers) $14,000
Software (Windows Servers, SQL & Exchange) $12,000
Storage Area Network (SAN) $20,000
Virtualization Software (VMware Enterprise) $15,000
Switch Upgrade $5,000
Implementation $24,800
Total One Time Costs $90,800
Annual Recurring Costs:
Description Estimated Cost
1 Rack in colocation with power & internet $16,800
VMware annual software support $3000
Switch Support $900
SAN Maintenance $4000
Maintenance and Support of Equipment $7,440
Total One Time Costs $32,140
Option 1 Summary:
Description Amount
One Time Costs $90,800
First Year Annual Costs $24,240
Remaining Years Annual Costs $64,280
Total of Three Year Costs $179,320
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Case Study, Solution 2 Overview – IT Authorities Cloud
Continued
The second investigated option was to move into the IT Authorities Cloud.
One Time Costs:
Description Estimated Cost
Migration and Implementation $9,300
Total One Time Costs $9,300
Annual Recurring Costs:
Description Estimated Cost
Cloud Services $29,220
Total Annual Costs $29,220
Option 2 Summary:
Description Amount
One Time Costs $9,300
First Year Annual Costs $29,220
Remaining Years Annual Costs $58,440
Total of Three Year Costs $96,960
Overall Summary and Conclusion:
Description Amount
Option 1 - Colocation & VMware $179,320
Option 2 - IT Authorities Cloud $96,960
Savings from using Option 2 $82,360
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