Back that *aa s up – bridging multiple clouds for bursting and redundancyRightScale
Back that *aaS up – Bridging Multiple Clouds for Bursting and Redundancy
Peder Ulander, VP of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix Systems
Bridging multiple cloud computing environments allows enterprises to plan for peak usage even while only building capacity for today’s needs. Using CloudStack, CloudBridge and RightScale can enable Enterprise IT to extend resource pools beyond physical datacenter boundaries and leverage additional private clouds or public clouds to meet peak usage requirements and smoothly manage planned or unplanned capacity spikes.
Back that *aa s up – bridging multiple clouds for bursting and redundancyRightScale
Back that *aaS up – Bridging Multiple Clouds for Bursting and Redundancy
Peder Ulander, VP of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix Systems
Bridging multiple cloud computing environments allows enterprises to plan for peak usage even while only building capacity for today’s needs. Using CloudStack, CloudBridge and RightScale can enable Enterprise IT to extend resource pools beyond physical datacenter boundaries and leverage additional private clouds or public clouds to meet peak usage requirements and smoothly manage planned or unplanned capacity spikes.
[OSDC.tw 2011] The Path to Pass into PaaS -- How We Build the SolutionJeff Hung
Elaster CAP is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that enable any developer or service provider to host their own PaaS cloud. So they can focus on application logic and Elaster CAP will help to reduce operation cost. Elaster CAP supports Java Web Applications and Hadoop Map/Reduce Applications. It also provides many cloud-based infrastructures to support your Software-as-a-Service applications, such as Relational Database, Index/Search service, and Big-data Storage with S3 compatible adapter. Elaster CAP is designed to be elastic that, depends on the use cases, the cloud can be as small as one node, or as big as more than hundreds of nodes. The nodes in Elaster CAP can run on physical machines in your data center, or virtual machines hosted by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as EC2 and TCloud Elaster.
In this talk, We'd like to describe the technology and strategy we took when building Elaster CAP. And share the pitfalls and gotchas that we experienced during the journey.
In this paper, Cartesian gives an overview of the ongoing barriers to cloud computing adoption and ways in which vendors are trying to addressing them.
We divide the paper into 5 sections:
• Baby Steps: The Use Case for Hybrid Cloud
• Private Cloud: Allowing IT to Sleep at Night
• Standardizing the Cloud: The Battle over APIs
• Thinking Outside the Box: Network Virtualization
• The Biggest Fear of All: Security
Blockchain & Smart Contracts For Government Entitlements & PaymentsMichael Novak
Overview of Blockchain and Smart Contract strengths and challenges in US federal, state, and local government entitlements, digital identity, and payment processing.
[OSDC.tw 2011] The Path to Pass into PaaS -- How We Build the SolutionJeff Hung
Elaster CAP is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that enable any developer or service provider to host their own PaaS cloud. So they can focus on application logic and Elaster CAP will help to reduce operation cost. Elaster CAP supports Java Web Applications and Hadoop Map/Reduce Applications. It also provides many cloud-based infrastructures to support your Software-as-a-Service applications, such as Relational Database, Index/Search service, and Big-data Storage with S3 compatible adapter. Elaster CAP is designed to be elastic that, depends on the use cases, the cloud can be as small as one node, or as big as more than hundreds of nodes. The nodes in Elaster CAP can run on physical machines in your data center, or virtual machines hosted by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as EC2 and TCloud Elaster.
In this talk, We'd like to describe the technology and strategy we took when building Elaster CAP. And share the pitfalls and gotchas that we experienced during the journey.
In this paper, Cartesian gives an overview of the ongoing barriers to cloud computing adoption and ways in which vendors are trying to addressing them.
We divide the paper into 5 sections:
• Baby Steps: The Use Case for Hybrid Cloud
• Private Cloud: Allowing IT to Sleep at Night
• Standardizing the Cloud: The Battle over APIs
• Thinking Outside the Box: Network Virtualization
• The Biggest Fear of All: Security
Blockchain & Smart Contracts For Government Entitlements & PaymentsMichael Novak
Overview of Blockchain and Smart Contract strengths and challenges in US federal, state, and local government entitlements, digital identity, and payment processing.
Smart cities, sustainable cities, city branding and lean start up methodology...SmartCitiesTeam
A theoretical approach on some basic concepts concerning smart cities, sustainable cities, lean start up methodology and city branding.
AthensCoCreation BrandingProject
Panteion University Of Social And Political Sciences
Department of Communication, Media and Culture
MA in Cultural Management
Course: Cultural Marketing and Communication
Course Instructor: Betty Tsakarestou, Assistant Professor and Head of Advertising and Public Relations Lab
Discussion materials for the Internet of Things and BlockchainSensorUp
This is the discussion materials prepared for the Internet of Things and Blockchain session led by Dr. Steve Liang. The IoT and blockchain session is part of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Workshop - PST 2017, Calgary, Canada. In this session Dr. Steve Liang discussed several IoT projects and the possible blockchain-based approaches to deal with the authenticity of sensor data and smart contracts.
Smart Cities – The Journey Toward Greater Economic, Social & Environmental Ac...Amazon Web Services
<Management Track>
Sumner Lemon, Director, Public Sector Industry Solutions Group, Intel Asia-Pacific
Driving innovation in cities is critical to the future of economic growth and citizen engagement. Defining and executing a smart-city strategy is neither straightforward nor without risks – but the benefits can be significant. To start, a successful city transformation requires the right level of stakeholder engagement, clear priorities, and careful technology infrastructure planning. This session features Intel’s experience working with innovative partners to revamp cities around the world, and how digital technology helps bring vision to life.
Federated Cloud Computing - The OpenNebula Experience v1.0sIgnacio M. Llorente
The talk mostly focuses on private cloud computing to support Science and High Performance Computing environments, the different architectures to federate cloud infrastructures, the existing challenges for cloud interoperability, and the OpenNebula's vision for the future of existing Grid infrastructures.
The road to Cloud Computing is not without a few bumps. This session will help to smooth out your journey by tackling some of the potential complications. We’ll examine whether standardization is a prerequisite for the Cloud. We’ll look at why refactoring isn’t just for application code. We’ll check out deployable entities and their simplification via higher levels of abstraction. And we’ll close out the session with a look at engineered systems and modular clouds.
(As presented by Dr. James Baty at Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Chicago, October 24, 2011.)
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Scienceinventy
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
Because we can. No seriously, because we want to! Innovation is our passion and since we dwell in a sea of data and information we cannot dwindle on the side and feel dwarfed. We like action, we want to surf the data waves! But before you can surf, you need to know how high are the waves, what is the wind speed, water temperature, are there sharks? We can take this metaphor a long way of course but data is all around us. Be careful, data is not information. You need to surf it before it becomes information. When your genes are coded it is data. But for your insurance company it can be interesting information. You get the picture.
In 2018 higher education institutions offer adequate services and have the right expertise to enable personalised and flexible education that corresponds to the learning needs of the individual student in the best possible way.
From Cubes to Spheres — The transition of higher education towards the cloud.Harold Teunissen
We would like to present the experience of setting up a cloud offering for the R&E community in the Netherlands. Within SURF we have developed a hybrid cloud solution; combining in-house developed services and services commercially available. The services range from personal storage services to full data center replacements and Infrastructure as a Service.
In close collaboration with 6 institutes (i.e. the six sides of a Cube), we have developed a hybrid cloud proposition that allows for optimal flexibility of (virtual) data center capacity under the highest level of trust. This SURFcloud service consist of SURF owned data center facilities and a selection of commercial cloud providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon, etc.. Using the Cloud Manager Broker the institution is to select a service based on predetermined criteria and functionality: cost, data center location, level of data trust, backup and disaster recover. SURF is adapting its organization and processes to accommodate the transition of the institutions towards the cloud. The resulting cloud sphere and ecosystem is the ultimate stepping stone for the institutes towards the cloud.
The last several years have seen a dramatic surge in the effective use of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) as a weapon of cyber attack. These attacks have grown from humble beginnings as an occasional nuisance to one of the biggest threats to network stability and security. No longer only the domain of elite attackers, today’s DDoS attacks can be easily launched by those with limited technical skills, and the results can seriously impair the operations of the victim.
The Cyber Infrastructure (CI) vision has been around for a couple of years. The development of such infrastructure requires a radical design philosophy and a foundation to build upon. It needs the development of an architecture that defines the components, their organizations and their interactions. Since the CI has an international scope and connections, this specification will as much as possible be done in international cooperation and leads to international standards and agreements.
The main challenge of a CI is to provide an unified and standardized way for the composition of trustworthy, multi-domain and on-demand services for an international research group (or virtual organization). These services can be network resources, storage and HPC, but also collaboration tools for writing papers and exchanging research data. The CI demands a form of service orchestration where virtualization and management of services and resources in a distributed, heterogeneous environment is essential.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
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.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
2. Cloud Computing?
• Cloud computing is a model for enabling
ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network
access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers,
storage, applications, and services) that can
be rapidly provisioned and released with
minimal management effort or
service provider interaction*
• Cloud Computing ≠ Web 2.0
* Source: NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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3. Changing Behaviors
Hierarchical Self Organizing
Secrecy Transparency
Loose Alliance Collaboration
Sluggish Urgency
Novelty Innovation
Tunnel Vision Didactic
Source: Sir Ken Robison
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4. Motive
• Cloud cloud cloud — data explosion
• Mobile mobile mobile — device explosion
• Go go go — study + work + play +
collaborate + organize + et cetera
• “Run you life on the cloud”
Source: AMD
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6. Evolution towards the Clouds
Applications run Applications run Applications run
Toepassingen
on-premises in the IaaS Cloud in the cloud
draaien in de
cloud
You own the You pay someone You pay for
hardware and to run your computing
perform applications on capacity that can
maintenance and hardware to your be used for your
operation of the specification applications
data center
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7. Advantages are clear?
On-Premises IaaS Cloud In The Cloud
Applications Applications Applications
Runtimes Runtimes Runtimes
SOA / Integration SOA / Integration SOA / Integration
Doing Self
Databases Databases Databases
Sourced
Server SW Server SW Server SW
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Server HW Server HW Server HW
Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking
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8. Cloud Pyramid
Application
SaaS
End
Users Platform
PaaS
App lication
Dev elopers Infrastructure
IaaS
App lication
A rchitects
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9. Services
Application
SaaS
End
Users Platform
PaaS
App lication
Dev elopers Infrastructure
IaaS
System
A rchitects
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10. pplication
SaaS
Focus for Today: Infrastructure
Platform
PaaS
Infrastructure
IaaS
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11. Basis of IaaS is Virtualization
• Increases efficiency (cost, consolidation,
abstraction, administration)
• Despite the shared hardware / point of
failure
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12. Availability
• (near) Real-time transfer at failure of
physical hardware, or when planned,
migration without downtime of running
virtual machine and its storage
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13. Business Continuity
• Disaster at University of Twente in 2002
increased focus for on-site redundancy
• However for continuity and disaster recovery
virtualization is a better solution
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14. Cost of Storage
Source: Sir Ken Robison
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15. Drivers Cont’d
• Cost reduction
- Budget cuts
- Rising power costs
• Service improvement
- Better service provisioning
- Best-of-breed services
- Increased agility in software deployment
• ‘Green Computing’ trend
- Reduce energy consumption
- Data centers can use >10% of power for an entire
campus
- IT produces 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions
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16. Cloud Models
Community
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17. IaaS Cloud Models (2)
• Private cloud
- enterprise owned or leased
• Public cloud
- sold to the public, mega-scale infrastructure
• Hybrid cloud
- composition of two or more clouds models
• Community cloud
- shared infrastructure for specific community
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18. Level of Adaptation
• Very gradual migration towards public cloud
- First start with a private cloud
• Hybrid operation for years to come (5-10
years)
• Local data center is becoming a private
cloud, driven by widespread usage of
virtualization
• More and more resources in own data center
ready for migration to the cloud
• Migration at different levels: currently mostly
at IaaS, moving to PaaS and SaaS later on
mostly for generic services (e.g. email, etc.)
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19. Community Cloud
• Functional features mostly in line with public
cloud
- Virtualization / image & instance management
- Storage / object & block level
- Self-service through management console
• Added value of community dimension
- Control — Legal and Innovation
- Saves money
- Sufficient flexibility to meet the community’s needs
- Standardization to prevent lock-in
- Network integration
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20. Full Control
• Full control over data location
• Mechanisms to enforce storage within a
single legal jurisdiction
- Only a single (Dutch) legislation is applicable
- Reduces the complexity and costs of compliance to
a very significant degree
- EU Data Protection Directive specifies that national
laws will generally apply when personal data
processing is carried out
• Community controls at which points to
innovate
- Stronger negotiation position
- Easier to swap suppliers
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21. Network integration
• Close integration with SURFnet backbone
• Close integration with own network
• Dedicated lightpaths possible
• Low latency
• No costs for data communication (depends
on billing model)
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22. Saves money
• Combined network and Community Cloud
subscription offers benefits (e.g. reduced
costs for bandwidth)
• Central support for operation and
maintenance
• Shared purchasing of IaaS
• Reduced power consumption
(at least locally)
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23. Community Cloud Models
Federated Brokered
Institution A Institution B Institution C
Institution A Institution B
IaaS IaaS
IaaS Broker
Institution C
IaaS
IaaS IaaS
Provider X Provider Y
Sharing of own institutional Sharing of third party resources via
resources broker
Broker procures third party
resources
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24. Federated model
• Sharing of over capacity
• Not supported by current products
• Difficult to tackle liability issues
- What is the legal impact of a service outage?
• Billing
- Who pays for support/maintenance and operational
costs?
=
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25. Brokered model
• Takes care of trust establishment and
contract settlement
- just one party to trust and one contract to sign
• Broker can handle disputes in the cloud
• More transparent in terms of
- Operation and Accountability
- Awareness raising
- Guidance on expectations regarding the use of the
Community Cloud
- Levels of security
- Meeting legal obligations (compliance)
• No need to tender
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26. Brokered model (2)
• Continuity
- Commercial providers may go out of business
• Institutions do not need to test themselves
whether a cloud provider is effectively
mitigating risks
- Broker can do that for the community
• Broker can provide value-adding services
- Federated identity management, lightpaths,
resource federation
• Supported by various vendors and products
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27. Self Service is Essential
• Virtualized environment, component
“shopping”
• Self-service! Public: pay-as-you-go
• Support for Private, Hybrid, Public
Hardware vendors
• Quickly up and running:
- Website down? Data available? Recipe!
- Extra load (e.g. spam filtering)?
- Datacenter loss?
- Elasticity also in a private cloud.
• Optional security: VPC, VPN, VLANs
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29. Done deal?
• Licensing?
• Security and privacy?
• Standardization?
- Data and customer application portability
- Common interfaces, semantics, programming
models
- Federated security services
- Provisioning
• Accounting & billing: pay for what you use
• Overall SLA of a multi-cloud environment
offering may be hard to predict
• Migration not straight forward
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30. Current Activities SURFnet
• SURFnet is using external private cloud
(SURFcloud) to run their services, but on
self-owned hardware
- Load balancing experiments with Amazon EC2
• Experimental setup of community cloud
- For the moment in-house at SURFnet
• Expected participants
- University of Groningen
- To make website redundant
- Open University
- For their OTAP environment
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31. We need you!
• You as a community determine if we go
ahead with this (and this is a good time to
provide feedback)…
• What features or conditions are most
important?
• What does it take to persuade you to use the
Community Cloud, if it were build?
• What do you see as potential obstacles in
the adaptation of a Community Cloud?
• Are you interested in participating in the
pilot?
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Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
Probably not necessary to give a more general introduction into cloud computing (general benefits).\n\nDraw up a few trends for cloud computing; should match with the interests of audience.\n\nCopy-paste cloud computing hype cycle?\n\nImage taken from: http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/12/01/demystifying-the-cloud-where-do-saas-paas-and-other-acronyms-fit-in/\n\nTrends:\n Numerous cloud initiatives in government, health and research / hot topic in Brussels witnessing recent calls\n Grid community moving to cloud\n \n\n[AP: label &#x2018;network architects&#x2019; seems a bit odd]\n
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Cost savings, green savings, power savings \n\nThe literature typically emphasises the economies of scale arising from commoditisation of IT services and the removal of complex on-site infrastructure deployment and management. Cloud\ncomputing, therefore, can reduce capital investments and limit the risks of overprovisioning, which is the usual response to the management of uncertain demand. The market research literature does not support these claims with detailed quantitative evidence. However, some data are available from cloud computing service providers and government organisations that are in the process of procuring such services (from http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/security/docs/the-cloud-understanding-security-privacy-trust-challenges-2010_en.pdf):\n Amazon Web Services has provisionally quantified these savings: an organisation operating over the web having low but steady usage with occasional peaks can reduce costs by 85 percent, rising to 95 percent for organisations needing high-performance computing.\n The City of Los Angeles decided to migrate towards a Google enhanced email service for its employees. The introduction of this cloud computing service is expected to save $6 million in terms of software license fees and $500,000 in hardware retirement costs. At the same time, the organisation expects to achieve additional efficiency savings of $6 million via the reallocation of staff to other tasks and $1 million by reallocating IT infrastructure to other activities.\n
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Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.\nCommunity cloud. The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.\nPublic cloud. The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.\nHybrid cloud. The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting).\n
Cloud computing has different types of customers:\n Those who bring their existing / legacy system step-by-step to the cloud (enterprise adaptation such as described above)\n Those who start from scratch, using cloud straight away: e.g. web apps such as Foursquare.\n\nTarget group for CC is mostly the first category. \n
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The network is a crucial part of cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Not only does a network connect customers to the cloud, but it connects the different components of the cloud environment. IT managers must understand their networking options when selecting an IaaS solution (Gartner). \n
&#x201C;If you move your data centre to a cloud provider, it will cost a tenth of the cost.&#x201D; &#x2013; Brian Gammage, Gartner Fellow\nUse of cloud applications can reduce costs from 50% to 90% - CTO of Washington D.C.\n
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Cloud IaaS SLAs are similar to SLAs for network services, hosting and data center outsourcing (Gartner). \n
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The objective of this slide is to solicit feedback from the audience.\n\nMust point out that the audience is the customer and determines how the CC will be build and managed.\n