Cloud computing allows organizations to access computing resources on an elastic, pay-per-use basis rather than investing in their own IT infrastructure. Adopting cloud computing can improve efficiency by providing the exact capacity needed, reducing unused capacity from 85% to as low as 15%, and lowering costs such as support costs by 60% and IT labor costs by 50%. IBM can help organizations implement private or community clouds to realize these benefits through optimized infrastructure and pay-for-use pricing models.
Introductory session on Cloud Computing Technology and Current market offerings from various vendors.
Evolving of Cloud base platform, Need of Cloud and Benefits with its some limitations and current challenges.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
Sample of workshop given at CloudAsia 2012. Workshop is 700 slides, so this is just a small sample to give a feel for the content, depth and independent approach.
IDC Tech Spotlight: From Silicon To CloudJames Price
The topic of cloud computing has received a tremendous amount of attention in the last year. This whitepaper discusses some of the aspects of the delivery of IT Infrastructure as a service.
Introductory session on Cloud Computing Technology and Current market offerings from various vendors.
Evolving of Cloud base platform, Need of Cloud and Benefits with its some limitations and current challenges.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
Sample of workshop given at CloudAsia 2012. Workshop is 700 slides, so this is just a small sample to give a feel for the content, depth and independent approach.
IDC Tech Spotlight: From Silicon To CloudJames Price
The topic of cloud computing has received a tremendous amount of attention in the last year. This whitepaper discusses some of the aspects of the delivery of IT Infrastructure as a service.
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.
The enterprise landscape is rapidly changing. Data is ubiquitous. Information is flowing into an organization’s applications from more sources than ever before. Business expec-tations are also changing. Corporations today demand speed and flexibility from their applications. Enterprise want services that allow them to make better business decisions, create more satisfied customers, and react ever more quickly to evolving market condi-tions. Current economic circumstances and increased competition are also driving the demand for a more effective model to deliver applications and services.
This relentless push for a faster, better and more cost-effective technology delivery model has set the stage for new approaches to application development, deployment and management. Several technologies such as grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have offered partial solutions for enterprises that require applications with greater scalability, agility and easier management capabilities. However, these alone have not been enough.
Enter cloud computing, an innovative model for delivering IT infrastructure, applications and data that shifts the emphasis from static, stand-alone application silos to dynamic, shared environments, dynamically allocated among various tasks and accessed via a network.
Today, many forward-thinking enterprises are using cloud environments to take advan-tage of the increased scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency that this technology can deliver. Yet, because cloud computing has evolved so quickly, there are still many questions surrounding it. To understand the promise of cloud computing, decision makers and IT professionals must examine its development and benefits from an enterprise perspective.
Beginning with the origins of cloud computing, this paper will help define exactly what cloud computing is and how the enterprise can benefit from it. In doing so, the paper outlines a number of “cloud characteristics” which together illustrate the true potential of cloud computing and provide a framework for assessing current and future cloud offerings. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between infrastructure-oriented clouds and platform-oriented clouds and explains how cloud platforms allow end-user applica-tions to unlock the true promise of cloud computing.
Cloud 9: Nine Reasons to Take the Cloud Seriously_White PaperNewton Day Uploads
Private sector businesses and Government departments around the world are under pressure to achieve the improbable - deliver improvements in the quality of services to citizens while finding sizeable cashable efficiency savings. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the way information management systems are architected and is heralded as the saviour of IT budgets. So what are the practical operational advantages of Cloud technology?
This paper examines nine very good reasons why it makes sense to take cloud computing seriously.
The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
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.
The enterprise landscape is rapidly changing. Data is ubiquitous. Information is flowing into an organization’s applications from more sources than ever before. Business expec-tations are also changing. Corporations today demand speed and flexibility from their applications. Enterprise want services that allow them to make better business decisions, create more satisfied customers, and react ever more quickly to evolving market condi-tions. Current economic circumstances and increased competition are also driving the demand for a more effective model to deliver applications and services.
This relentless push for a faster, better and more cost-effective technology delivery model has set the stage for new approaches to application development, deployment and management. Several technologies such as grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have offered partial solutions for enterprises that require applications with greater scalability, agility and easier management capabilities. However, these alone have not been enough.
Enter cloud computing, an innovative model for delivering IT infrastructure, applications and data that shifts the emphasis from static, stand-alone application silos to dynamic, shared environments, dynamically allocated among various tasks and accessed via a network.
Today, many forward-thinking enterprises are using cloud environments to take advan-tage of the increased scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency that this technology can deliver. Yet, because cloud computing has evolved so quickly, there are still many questions surrounding it. To understand the promise of cloud computing, decision makers and IT professionals must examine its development and benefits from an enterprise perspective.
Beginning with the origins of cloud computing, this paper will help define exactly what cloud computing is and how the enterprise can benefit from it. In doing so, the paper outlines a number of “cloud characteristics” which together illustrate the true potential of cloud computing and provide a framework for assessing current and future cloud offerings. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between infrastructure-oriented clouds and platform-oriented clouds and explains how cloud platforms allow end-user applica-tions to unlock the true promise of cloud computing.
Cloud 9: Nine Reasons to Take the Cloud Seriously_White PaperNewton Day Uploads
Private sector businesses and Government departments around the world are under pressure to achieve the improbable - deliver improvements in the quality of services to citizens while finding sizeable cashable efficiency savings. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the way information management systems are architected and is heralded as the saviour of IT budgets. So what are the practical operational advantages of Cloud technology?
This paper examines nine very good reasons why it makes sense to take cloud computing seriously.
The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
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.
Presentation on Cloud Computing by Vivek Atalkar.pptxVivek Atalkar
Cloud computing refers to the delivery of on-demand computing services over the internet. It allows users to access computing resources such as servers, storage, databases, and software applications on a pay-as-you-go basis, without having to own and maintain their own infrastructure.
The key benefit of cloud computing is flexibility. By leveraging cloud services, businesses can quickly scale up or down their computing resources to meet changing demands. This allows them to avoid the high upfront costs and ongoing maintenance expenses associated with owning and operating their own infrastructure.
Another significant benefit of cloud computing is reliability. Cloud providers typically offer high levels of availability and uptime, with service level agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing a certain level of performance. This can help businesses to avoid costly downtime and data loss.
Cloud computing also offers improved security. Cloud providers invest heavily in security measures and technologies to protect their infrastructure and data. This can provide businesses with a level of security that may be difficult or expensive to achieve on their own.
There are several types of cloud computing services, including:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): This involves the provision of virtualized computing resources such as servers, storage, and networking over the internet.
Platform as a Service (PaaS): This provides a platform for building and deploying applications without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Software as a Service (SaaS): This provides software applications over the internet, without the need for users to install and maintain their own software.
There are also several deployment models for cloud computing, including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. Public cloud involves using computing resources provided by third-party cloud providers, while private cloud involves using dedicated infrastructure that is managed by the organization. Hybrid cloud involves using a combination of both public and private cloud services.
While cloud computing offers many benefits, there are also potential drawbacks to consider. One concern is the risk of vendor lock-in, where businesses become dependent on a single cloud provider and may have difficulty switching to another provider or bringing their services in-house. Additionally, there are concerns about data privacy and security, particularly when sensitive or regulated data is stored in the cloud.
In conclusion, cloud computing offers businesses significant benefits in terms of flexibility, reliability, and security. By leveraging cloud services, businesses can avoid the high upfront costs and ongoing maintenance expenses associated with owning and operating their own infrastructure. However, it is important to carefully consider the potential drawbacks and risks associated with cloud computing, and to choose a cloud provider and deployment model that best meets the organization
Cloud computing has been a buzzword in the IT industry for quite some time now. Though it has been around for quite a while, its popularity has increased manifold in the last few years. The reason for this is simple – the benefits of cloud computing are simply too hard to ignore.
In a nutshell, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
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Through these and other internal cloud implementations,
IBM is seeing first and the impact that cloud can have on the
business. There is little question about cloud computing’s potential
to drive efficiency and lower costs. But the workloads a company
selects for migration to the cloud and their affinity for the
attributes inherent in the cloud model have a lot to do with
cloud’s success as a transformative tool for the business.
Business disadvantages using cloud computing exist. This report summary outlines the most important need to know disadvantages related to using cloud computing.
Clloud computing provisioing and benifits altanai bisht 2nd year , part iiALTANAI BISHT
What is a cloud?
Definition , Benefits
Usage scenarios , Architecture
Cloud provisioning and management
Automated provisioning
Reservation & Scheduling
Open source
Virtualization
Storage architecture in the cloud
Piloting innovations on a cloud
Whitepaper: Choose the cloud platform that beats the competition - Citrix Clo...Citrix
Server virtualization introduced the concepts of automation and agility to servers and applications. Now, as enterprises seek to achieve ever-higher levels of business agility, IT efficiency and cost control, they are exploring private clouds as a way to extend those benefits to the entire datacenter. There are many private cloud platforms in the market today, yet most fail to address key cloud design requirements that are critical to success, notably compatibility, scalability and flexibility. When choosing a private cloud platform, enterprises should carefully consider these and other private cloud attributes.
A cloud revolution is brewing, and it promises to radically transform the way we compete, collaborate, and consume business services. Indeed, in an economy as volatile and hypercompetitive as today’s, the cloud’s potent mix of simplicity, security, faster innovation, and lower operating costs is proving increasingly attractive. For many businesses—small, medium, and large—the time to adopt this game-changing approach is now.
Looking to take the Cloud journey for your organisation? This comprehensive presentation covers everything that you need to know about building your Cloud. The presentation was part of IBM Cloud Innovation Forum India and was presented by Subram Natarajan, Technical Sales Executive, Systems & Technology Group and Dr. Rajendra Gupta, Executive Architect, IBM Software Group.
How the Cloud is Revolutionizing the Retail IndustryRaymark
In this exclusive guide, you will learn about:
The top 5 advantages of cloud for retailers
The economics of cloud computing
Frequently asked questions about the cloud
1. Cloud computing
Why buy a plane when
you can just reserve a
seat on a flight?
Would you buy a plane to fly to a few places in the
coming year? In the same way, why would you invest
in a traditional IT model when you could be running
a flexible, fully-integrated cloud infrastructure ?
Your company’s computing capacity is only as
valuable as it is efficient and cost effective. Its
ultimate value is whether or not it enables your
business to do more with less.
Part of a series of papers on doing More with Less
2. Cloud computing
A cloud computing infrastructure
could transform your business
by improving speed, efficiency
and commercial flexibility in
your IT systems. It could provide
your organisation with exactly
the IT capacity it needs while
allowing you to modify that
capacity at short notice and
achieve time to value in a
matter of hours and minutes
rather than weeks or months.
60%
could be cut from
50% 1.3m
50% can be knocked
end-user support off IT labour costs Cloud servers will be
costs using a Cloud with the Cloud2 running worldwide
infrastructure by 2043
References
1. “Smarter Clouds on the Horizon”, IBM, 2010. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/uk/en/cloud_computing/ideas/index.html?re=spf
2. “Smart Business Development and Test Cloud”, IBM, 2010. http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/midware/a1030965
3. “Worldwide Enterprise Server Cloud Computing 2010–2014 Forecast”, IDC, April 2010.
http://www.idc.com/research/viewdocsynopsis.jsp?containerId=223118sectionId=nullelementId=nullpageType=SYNOPSIS
3. For years, businesses built up their computing infrastructure
based on a traditional model, one of constant demand and
constant use. They were buying for a peak level of demand and
maximum capacity that is not always required. Cloud computing
could allow your organisation to respond dynamically while
delivering substantial savings.
The reality is that capital-intensive computing capacity often business determine where to use cloud computing to realise the
goes largely unused as business needs evolve and greatest value and to ensure you only pay for what you use.
workforces demand change. In fact, up to 85 per cent of IBM can build security-rich, stable clouds designed
IT capability could be idle at any time,4 which is for specific needs based on your business rules, as
inefficient and represents tremendous waste over well as providing data centre best practice and
time. This can be transformed with a more elastic delivering optimised dynamic It infrastructure and
proposition for IT resources – the essence of a cloud capacity. These IT capabilities can be charged on a
computing infrastructure. consumption basis, delivering more of a financial
Cloud computing can offer flexibility in many ways. elasticity model to your business.
Whereas “cloud” originally encompassed open and With one of the largest portfolios of cloud hardware,
public IT infrastructure, shared by many unrelated users, software and services available, IBM can help cut through
today’s cloud is different. Both private and “community” clouds the hype surrounding cloud computing and clarify the benefits
– ones that are shared by a limited number of “birds of a feather” for your organisation. Reduced costs can be achieved by decreasing
users or organisations – are now possible, offering greater security, flexibility time to deployment and shortening time to value, providing a variable cost
and control, as well as offering economic benefits. base and setting up SLAs for performance, availability and risks. And once the
By taking advantage of this new cloud landscape, organisations can begin cost savings and return on investment are clear, two potential routes can be
to use their IT to achieve more with less. taken: design and implementation of your own custom private or community
cloud solution, or application of IBM’s unique appliance-based Cloudburst
Feet on the ground – head For the Cloud products in order to generate faster and more predictable savings.
When it comes to IT, no business can afford to stand still. Operations grow, The Cloudburst solution allows your organisation to only pay for what you
employees come and go and IT remains a perennial cost. Businesses need to use, making it perfectly suited to unpredictable workloads that produce peaks
be able to source, scale and switch capacity quickly and easily to meet these ever- and troughs of activity over the business cycle. A community of over 100,000
changing requirements. professionals5 are already using IBM’s cloud computing to bring the immediate
Cloud computing offers dynamic resourcing driven by direct and immediate benefits of a cloud infrastructure while significantly advancing their business
requests from business users, meaning that IT capacity can be turned on and off, systems and lowering cost. your cloud computing platform could be
or re-assigned instantly. Workloads vary in complexity, with some requiring fast ready to use in six weeks rather than six months, with integration fully
transactions of high volume data while others need only process and transmit certified to minimise risk.6
general data across networks. Via the cloud, workloads can be automated, IBM provides service management, not server management – combining
consolidated and optimised, enhancing the performance of specific business server, storage, networking and software technologies and uniquely
processes. In the past, most organisations would have built up their configuring necessary infrastructure components to create customised clouds
capacity to handle these workloads one server at a time, producing the and scalable cloud services.
under-used and oversized systems we see today. Workload optimisation
and automation can match the capacity to the task at hand. let your BusIness take oFF
Cloud computing can transform an increasingly cumbersome and physical IBM also offers three ways to help your business get started with cloud:
IT infrastructure into a flexible pool of resources. As a consequence, cloud • “CloudStart” infrastructure workshop: designed to help organisations
computing can reduce downtime, administrative and maintenance create a step-by-step plan that defines how and where to start and the ultimate
requirements, cutting up to 60 per cent from end-user support costs and up to destination. This interactive two-day workshop culminates in a concise report
50 per cent from IT labour costs. and recommended roadmap for cloud success.
• A half-day cloud briefing and demonstration: a technology overview and
understand your optIons demonstration that will allow you to see IBM’s cloud proposition in action and
IBM understands the benefits and potential of cloud computing, having already find out how it could work for your business.
implemented its own cloud environment – a consolidation of 155 worldwide • An online cloud ROI assessment tool: a study of your existing IT
datacenters down to 26 using cloud computing structures. This resulted in 80 infrastructure, together with your future likely demand model, will clearly
per cent less energy use and significant reductions in both software and system demonstrate the excellent return on investment you could soon realise and
support costs, demonstrating how cloud computing can deliver more with less. provide a business case for potential cloud savings in your organisation.
IBM’s research has resulted in a number of industry-focused cloud By working within the cloud – automating and optimising the appropriate
blueprints, mapping technology solutions to typical industry requirements. Most workloads, reducing wasted infrastructure and integrating your systems –
enterprises will transition to cloud workload-by-workload and IBM can help your you may find that you could be doing a lot more with much less in future.