The document discusses smart IT choices for small businesses using cloud computing. It introduces Everett Toews and his background in operations and as a developer advocate. It then covers the key characteristics of cloud computing like on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, and rapid elasticity. The document also discusses different cloud models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS both public and private. It demonstrates WordPress and Magento deployments on Rackspace and discusses tradeoffs of ease of use, cost, scale, complexity and control for different business needs.

1. Smart IT
Choices for
Small Businesses
Cybera Summit
Nov. 28, 2013 @ 9:15 pm
Everett Toews
Developer Advocate
@everett_toews

2. Intro
Developer

3. PMC and Committer on Apache jclouds

4. Intro
Advocate

5. Me

6. Intro
Operations

7. Co-author of the OpenStack Operations Guide
docs.openstack.org/ops

8. Cloud

10. Cloud
On-Demand
Self-Service

11. Cloud
Broad
Network Access

12. Cloud
Resource Pooling

13. Cloud
Rapid Elasticity

14. Cloud
Measured Service

15. Cloud
SaaS

16. Cloud

17. Cloud
PaaS

18. Cloud

19. Cloud
IaaS

20. Cloud

21. Cloud
Private

22. Cloud

23. Cloud

24. Cloud
Private
IaaS
PaaS
Ease of Use
Cost
Scale
Complexity
Control
SaaS

25. Cloud
IaaS

26. Cloud
Infrastructure
with an Interface

27. Business

29. Business
What business
are you in?

30. Business
What tradeoffs do
you want to make?

31. Business
Accounting?

32. Business
Expense
Management?

33. Business
Widgets

34. Business
Mobile Apps

35. Business
Web Apps

36. Demo

37. Demo
Blog/News

38. Demo
WordPress

39. Demo
developer.rackspace.com

40. Demo
Rackspace
Deployments

41. Demo
(Early Access)

42. Demo
Reader
LB
D
B
Public
Private

43. Demo
Load Balancer:
Rackspace (Zeus)

44. Demo
Web Server:
Apache

45. Demo
WordPress:
PHP

46. Demo
Cache:
Varnish

47. Demo
Sync Static Content:
lsyncd

48. Demo
FTP:
vsftpd

49. Demo
Database:
Rackspace (MySQL)

50. Demo
Local Backups:
Holland

51. Demo
Reader
Admin
LB
D
B
Public
Private

52. Demo
Easy to Deploy

53. Demo
Scalable

54. Demo
Some Complexity

55. Demo
Lots of Control

56. Demo
eCommerce

57. Demo
Magento

58. Demo
Buyer
DB

59. Demo
Web Server:
Apache

60. Demo
Magento:
PHP

61. Demo
Database:
MySQL

62. Demo
Easy to Deploy

63. Demo
Not So Scalable App

64. Demo
Some Complexity

65. Demo
Lots of Control

66. Now What?

67. Now What?
Choose Your
Tradeoffs

68. Now What?
Choose the
Business You Are In

69. Thank You
developer.rackspace.com
Everett Toews
Developer Advocate
@everett_toews