This document discusses nephophobia, which is the fear of clouds. It describes common symptoms such as breathlessness, sweating, and anxiety attacks. It also notes that nephophobia is a surprisingly common phobia, though often unspoken, and that sufferers are relieved to find out they are not alone in experiencing this fear.
[Srijan Wednesday Webinars] 11 Things You Don't Know About CloudSrijan Technologies
Here's what most people already know about cloud: It's cheaper than owning tons of servers. You can scale up or down as per your business needs. And you don't have to worry about upgrades, patches and so on. As for security – the world's divided on that!
But is that all you should know?
In this webinar, our speaker walks you through some of the things you must know about cloud. As your business grows, what are the things you must keep in mind? Are the costs linear? How secure is it? Can you ensure business continuity, cost effectively? Can you migrate to a different service provider easily? Learn insightful facts about cloud for business through this webinar video: http://goo.gl/JmM2G5
[Srijan Wednesday Webinars] 11 Things You Don't Know About CloudSrijan Technologies
Here's what most people already know about cloud: It's cheaper than owning tons of servers. You can scale up or down as per your business needs. And you don't have to worry about upgrades, patches and so on. As for security – the world's divided on that!
But is that all you should know?
In this webinar, our speaker walks you through some of the things you must know about cloud. As your business grows, what are the things you must keep in mind? Are the costs linear? How secure is it? Can you ensure business continuity, cost effectively? Can you migrate to a different service provider easily? Learn insightful facts about cloud for business through this webinar video: http://goo.gl/JmM2G5
Building and Pricing the Data MarketplacePete Forde
Pete Forde (BuzzData) and Pete Soderling (Stratus Security) presented this talk at the O'Reilly Strata conference on February 2nd, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA.
Apologies for any issues with fonts. That's SlideShare, not us!
Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of tools and features to help you to meet your security objectives. These tools mirror the familiar controls you deploy within your on-premises environments. Amazon Web Services provides security-specific tools and features across network security, configuration management, access control and data security. In addition, Amazon Web Services provides monitoring and logging tools to provide full visibility into what is happening in your environment. In this session, you will get introduced to the range of security tools and features that Amazon Web Services offers, and the latest security innovations coming from Amazon Web Services.
Andrew Watts-Curnow, Cloud Architect - Professional Services, ASEAN
LinuxCon North America 2013: Why Lease When You Can Buy Your CloudMark Hinkle
Perhaps one of the perplexing things about cloud computing is the choice around renting time in someone else’s cloud (Amazon, Google, Rackspace or a myriad of others) or building your own. It’s not unlike the age-old car buyer’s dilemma, take the lower payments and lower total miles lease or buy the car and drive it for the long haul. Cloud computing users are often faced with the same conundrum. This presentation will focus on how to buy and build a cloud that can be fulfill the needs of most users including strategies for making use of the open source private cloud or managing workloads in both the private and public cloud using open source software.
Cloud Lock-in vs. Cloud Interoperability - Indicthreads cloud computing conf...IndicThreads
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract:As the cloud adoption increases, there is a growing concern about the lock-in of customers into the various cloud platforms. This session will discuss various major cloud platforms, the type of lock-in the customer will face in each of these platforms and what each customer can do to minimize their lock-in.
Key takeaways for audience are:
Understand what is cloud lock-in
Types of cloud vendor lock-ins
What is cloud interoperability
Major initiatives around cloud interoperability standards
Goals, differences and players/proponents of these major standards
Steps to minimize cloud lock-in for your customers
Speaker: Ashwin Waknis is a Sr. IT professional with 15 years in the industry. Ashwin is currently head of the Cloud Professional Services Business at Persistent Systems. Before that Ashwin was a Sr. Product Manager at Cisco Systems where he lead major initiatives around Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portal, Web 2.0/Social softwares and Enterprise Search. For the last 2 years, Ashwin has been involved in Cloud Computing initiatives first at Cisco and then at Persistent Systems.Ashwin has spoken at many customer workshops and events organized for educational institutes.
Hybrid Cloud: OpenStack and Other ApproachesMirantis
On April 4, 2014, OpenStack:Now editor Nick Chase presented this talk at Great Wide Open in Atlanta, GA. It discusses the ideas behind Hybrid Cloud and some possible ways to implement it.
This is a high-level presentation I will be presenting to employees at Medavie. I thought it might be useful for other people as well. Its vendor agnostic.
Building and Pricing the Data MarketplacePete Forde
Pete Forde (BuzzData) and Pete Soderling (Stratus Security) presented this talk at the O'Reilly Strata conference on February 2nd, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA.
Apologies for any issues with fonts. That's SlideShare, not us!
Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of tools and features to help you to meet your security objectives. These tools mirror the familiar controls you deploy within your on-premises environments. Amazon Web Services provides security-specific tools and features across network security, configuration management, access control and data security. In addition, Amazon Web Services provides monitoring and logging tools to provide full visibility into what is happening in your environment. In this session, you will get introduced to the range of security tools and features that Amazon Web Services offers, and the latest security innovations coming from Amazon Web Services.
Andrew Watts-Curnow, Cloud Architect - Professional Services, ASEAN
LinuxCon North America 2013: Why Lease When You Can Buy Your CloudMark Hinkle
Perhaps one of the perplexing things about cloud computing is the choice around renting time in someone else’s cloud (Amazon, Google, Rackspace or a myriad of others) or building your own. It’s not unlike the age-old car buyer’s dilemma, take the lower payments and lower total miles lease or buy the car and drive it for the long haul. Cloud computing users are often faced with the same conundrum. This presentation will focus on how to buy and build a cloud that can be fulfill the needs of most users including strategies for making use of the open source private cloud or managing workloads in both the private and public cloud using open source software.
Cloud Lock-in vs. Cloud Interoperability - Indicthreads cloud computing conf...IndicThreads
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract:As the cloud adoption increases, there is a growing concern about the lock-in of customers into the various cloud platforms. This session will discuss various major cloud platforms, the type of lock-in the customer will face in each of these platforms and what each customer can do to minimize their lock-in.
Key takeaways for audience are:
Understand what is cloud lock-in
Types of cloud vendor lock-ins
What is cloud interoperability
Major initiatives around cloud interoperability standards
Goals, differences and players/proponents of these major standards
Steps to minimize cloud lock-in for your customers
Speaker: Ashwin Waknis is a Sr. IT professional with 15 years in the industry. Ashwin is currently head of the Cloud Professional Services Business at Persistent Systems. Before that Ashwin was a Sr. Product Manager at Cisco Systems where he lead major initiatives around Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portal, Web 2.0/Social softwares and Enterprise Search. For the last 2 years, Ashwin has been involved in Cloud Computing initiatives first at Cisco and then at Persistent Systems.Ashwin has spoken at many customer workshops and events organized for educational institutes.
Hybrid Cloud: OpenStack and Other ApproachesMirantis
On April 4, 2014, OpenStack:Now editor Nick Chase presented this talk at Great Wide Open in Atlanta, GA. It discusses the ideas behind Hybrid Cloud and some possible ways to implement it.
This is a high-level presentation I will be presenting to employees at Medavie. I thought it might be useful for other people as well. Its vendor agnostic.
RightScale User Conference NYC 2011 -
Uri Budnik, Director ISV Partner Program - RightScale
Cloud is the most nebulous and abused term in information technology today. It describes multiple, disparate service models and has been retroactively applied to countless legacy technologies in attempts to keep them current. In this session, we'll discuss the cloud technology landscape and where RightScale fits in to drive agility, cost, and time savings above cloud infrastructure. RightScale has been investing heavily for the past four years to make cloud infrastructure easy to leverage. This session will clarify elements that are straightforward, what continues to be difficult, and the impact on your schedule and budget.
RightScale Webinar: February 15, 2011 – For hybrid clouds to be useful, IT pros need to be able to easily manage and automate their capacity across multiple resource pools, private and public. In order to achieve this, companies are turning to Cloud.com and Rightscale to automate infrastructure orchestration and application management in the cloud.
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In this presentation, we:
1. Look at the challenges and opportunities of the data era
2. Look at key challenges of the legacy data warehouses such as data diversity, complexity, cost, scalabilily, performance, management, ...
3. Look at how modern data warehouses in the cloud not only overcome most of these challenges but also how some of them bring additional technical innovations and capabilities such as pay as you go cloud-based services, decoupling of storage and compute, scaling up or down, effortless management, native support of semi-structured data ...
4. Show how capabilities brought by modern data warehouses in the cloud, help businesses, either new or existing ones, during the phases of their lifecycle such as launch, growth, maturity and renewal/decline.
5. Share a Near-Real-Time Data Warehousing use case built on Snowflake and give a live demo to showcase ease of use, fast provisioning, continuous data ingestion, support of JSON data ...
1. Nephophobia
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Manon Buettner
Principal, Nuvalo
August 18, 2011
2. Nephophobia: n. a fear of clouds
Symptoms may include:
breathlessness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth,
feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or
think clearly, a fear of dying or losing control, a sensation of
detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack.
You are not the only one to suffer from this phobia.
Most sufferers are surprised to learn that they are far from
alone in this surprisingly common, although often unspoken,
phobia.
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3. Agenda
Fear of the Cloud – What’s holding you back?
Cloud is not magic
“Do SLAs really matter?”
Charting your course – Where do you begin?
Five levels of redundancy
Conclusion
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5. It’s not magic – it’s just outsourced
Cloud Computing = centralizing compute resources and taking
advantage of multi-tenancy… NOT a new technology
– Squeezing compute resources to reduce CapEx via
virtualization
– Providers allowing an OpEx model to offer scalability and
shared cost model
YOU own architecture
YOU identify criticality and consequences
YOU now procure these infrastructure resources differently
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7. Cloud Outages in the Media
Amazon cloud glitch knocks out popular websites
Server outage hits sites Reddit, Quora and Foursquare hard
By Sharon Gaudi
April 21, 2011
Computerworld - Popular websites, including like Quora and Reddit, have
been hampered or totally knocked out today because of server problems in
Amazon.com's data center that handles the company's Web hosting services.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216036/Amazon_cloud_glitch_knocks_out_pop
ular_websites?taxonomyId=71
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8. “Do SLA’s Really Matter?”
A 1 year case study of 38 cloud services - January 15, 2011 post
Is there a correlation between SLA and actual availability?
39% met or exceeded SLA
61% did NOT meet SLA
6 lowest performing vendors all provided 100% SLAs
3 of the top 7 performers provided the lowest SLAs
You cannot rely on an SLA for a mission-critical application!
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2011/01/do-slas-really-matter-1-year-case-study.html
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9. Charting your Course – Where do you begin?
1. Create a framework for internal discussion
- Education
- Speak the same language “What type of Cloud?”
2. Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
- Baseline financial analysis
- Asset inventories
- Diagrams/Flowcharts interdependencies
- Systems Management
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10. Charting your Course – Continued
3. Outline your objectives
- What are your strategic and tactical initiatives
- What are you trying to solve? Why?
4. Form consensus on most compelling applications
- Prioritize based on EOL, customer-driven (SLAs,
redundancies), revenue or market share?
5. Define your requirements
- Business: Application availability, who/where are users?
- Technical: HW/SW specs, projected growth, etc.
- Cultural: How will you interact with Provider?
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11. Charting your Course – Continued
6. How much of OSI stack do you need to own/control?
Facility?
Network?
Storage?
Security?
HW/OS? Database? Application?
Security & Compliance – SOX, HIPAA, PCI, SSAE 16
Where is the hand-off?
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12. The Five Levels of Redundancy
1. Physical – Most end here!
Traditional N+1
HW, Data Center, vMotion, able to replicate NW topology
2. Virtual Resource
Allocate redundant VMs – not relying on 1 infrastructure
3. Availability zone (all we needed until April!)
Spread VMs across multiple geographic areas
4. Region
Spread VMs outage
5. Cloud
Multiple providers
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13. Conclusion
We acknowledge giving up control of the infrastructure level
when moving to cloud…
Don’t:
hang your hat on an SLA
assume the cloud will be more robust than your own DC
Do:
Architect for your business objectives
Research proposed providers history, culture, processes
Negotiate contracts to future-proof the business
The cloud is compelling and ready now, but YOU own your brand
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My name is Manon Buettner and I am the Founder and Principal of Nuvalo, a DC and MgdSvcs Consulting Firm specializing in Cloud Services. I work closely with Executive IT teams to help them understand how to get from where they are today, to where they’d like to be over the next several years. As I was searching for a topic for today’s presentation I felt strongly that the message speak to the relationship between ITO’s and the Cloud Provider. I am in a unique and amazing position to not only learn the challenges and initiatives each ITO face, but also get to know in great detail how the Providers are supporting their clients from every department. Today’s theme of “DFF” specifically addresses
Most fear stems from perception of adopting a new technology, but centralizing resources and the use of mainframes dates back 20 years. The only difference is that now we have virtualization software which allows us to squeeze every bit of compute resources and utilization possible to decrease CapEx. Simultaneously, Providers are allowing an OpEx model to offer scalability and a shared cost model at a time when our economy is struggling.
This is the Cloud Services Stack as defined by Cloudbook.net. I’m a big fan of laying a framework for discussion, andyou’ll see I’ve circled the DC and C/S tiers because this is where IaaS sits. Everyone has their own definition of Cloud, but one thing we can all agree on is that it implies a new purchasing paradigm where traditionally capital intensive acquisitions like HW, SW, and Support contracts are now amortized and bundled with staffing, security, facility and network costs. Where the hand-off is between you and the Provider will differ depending on your business and technical requirements. For example, compliance may dictate that you have a “Managed-Dedicated” environment vs. “Managed-Multi-Tenant.” Or perhaps you ask the Provider to sign your BAA documenting the degree to which they are responsible for your data. The bottom line is that Providers all offer varying degrees of managed services and you must first and foremost decide how much you want OR NEED to own and control. Many Providers aren’t willing to assume as much as you may like!
Thursday's crash happened at Amazon's northern Virginia data center, one of five global sites that underpin EC2. In its status log, Amazon said that the networking glitch caused many of its storage volumes to create new backups of themselves. That filled up Amazon's available storage capacity and kicked off a series of connectivity problems.By late Thursday, Amazon had most of its system running normally, but lingering connectivity problems remained.
Don't let SLAs lull you into a false sense of security. SLAs are most likely influenced more by marketing and legal wrangling than having any basis in technical merits or precedence. SLAs should not be relied upon as a factor in estimating the stability and reliability of a cloud service or for any form of financial recourse in the event of an outage. Most likely any service credits provided will be a drop in the bucket relative to the reduced customer confidence and lost revenue the outage will cause your business. The only reasonable way to determine the actual reliability of a vendor is to use their service or obtain feedback from existing clients or services such as ours. For example, AWS EC2 maintains the lowest SLA of any IaaS vendor we know of, and yet they provide some of the best actual availability (100% for 2 regions, 99.996% and 99.993%). Beware of the fine print. Many cloud vendors utilize minimum continuous outage thresholds such as 30 minutes or 2 hours (e.g. SoftLayer) before they will issue any service credit regardless of whether or not they have met their SLA. In short, we are of the opinion that SLAs really don't matter much at all.An April 2011 survey by CloudHarmony.com compared 38 provider SLAs to their uptimes and found that there was no correlation between the SLA offered and the amount of uptime their clients received. It is my contention that while it is important to contract with providers willing and able to offer aggressive SLAs, I caution you to not rely on this ‘marketing’ tactic alone. You need to be assured the architecture in place substantiates their claims and meets your business needs.
We are going to take a look at five areas under the hood to ensure your cloud architecture is truly capable of the uptime your business applications require to ensure your revenue stream, brand, and competitive advantage.
In a CC environment, there are 5 possible levels of redundancy, meaning the ability to survive failures with zero downtime. You wouldn’t put one server with one application into a location prone to earthquakes – at least you shouldn’t if that application is revenue generating or tied to your brand.
When you are ready to evaluate a migration to cloud, or build the elements we discussed into your hosted infrastructure, I encourage you to save valuable time and resources by seeking help from a firm specializing in IaaS deployments. No company today has the cycles necessary to understand the players, the costs, and the terms.