This is a presentation I gave to an audience at St. Louis introducing them to cloud computing and any concerns associated with the move to cloud.

1. The Cloud Is Rockin’ & Rollin’ In Krishnan Subramanian Analyst & Editor, CloudAve

4. It is cloud computing to most of us

5. Cloud Computing – What, Why, How and Who? Potential Concerns & Best Practices Predictions & Conclusion Plan of my talk

6. Computing Evolution

7. Cloud Computing - Definition On-demand self-service internet infrastructure where you pay as you go and use only what you need, all managed by a browser, application or API Clouds will be the next transformation over the next several years, building off of the software models that virtualization enabled + 100s more from experts, vendors and kids

8. NIST Definition of Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a model for enabling 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.

9. Essential Characteristics On-Demand Self Service Location and Device independence Multi-tenancy Rapid Elasticity Pay as you go model

10. On Demand

11. Self Service

12. Location & Device Independence

13. Multi-tenant

14. Rapid Elasticity

15. Pay Per Use

16. Cloud Delivery Models Middleware* Applications Servers**

17. Cloud Deployment Models

18. NIST Cloud Model

19. Prominent Cloud Providers

20. Amazon Web Services Compute – EC2, MapReduce, Autoscaling Storage – S3, EBS Networking – Route 53, VPC, ELB Database – SimpleDB, RDS Deployment – Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudformation Messaging – SQS, SNS, SES Monitoring – Cloudwatch And more Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing with rapid innovation

21. Rackspace Cloud Cloud Servers Cloud Sites Cloud Files OpenStack Cloud Builders

22. GoGrid Cloud Servers Cloud Storage Load Balancing Hybrid Hosting and more

23. Azure & App Engine They are in the PaaS space Targeted at developers Azure supports .NET, Java, Ruby, etc GAE supports Python and Java

24. Business Advantages Cost Savings – No Capex and Lower Opex Agility – Faster Business Response To Changing Conditions Focus on Core Business

25. How Big Will Be The Cloud Market?

26. Analyst Predictions The industry is poised for strong growth through 2014, when worldwide cloud services revenue is projected to reach $148.8 billion – Gartner, June 2010 Public IT cloud will be over 25% of the net-new growth in traditional IT products between now and 2014 – IDC, June 2010 The global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015 –Analysys Mason, 2010 IaaS, PaaS and SaaS software and services sales globally accounted for $20.3 billion in 2009, predicting a market size of $100.4 billion by 2016 – Wintergreen Research

27. Is Cloud A Cure For IT Headaches? Yes But

28. Business Concerns Availability Concerns Security Concerns Privacy Concerns But?

29. I Told Ya. Cloud Is Not Secure

30. Security & Privacy Concerns Cloud Provider’s Security Practices Regulatory Needs Data Ownership Data Privacy

31. Mental Shift Losing Control Trust

32. In Reality Cloud is neither more nor less secure than the traditional IT With the loss of control, different kind of risks comes into focus Industry best practices can help mitigate these risks. Check out Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Bottom Line is balancing the risks to take advantage of the clouds

33. Vendor Responsibility

34. Future Of Cloud Computing Cloud adoption will be rapid. Security concerns will fade away with better education on the side of the users and more transparency on the side of the providers A federated cloud ecosystem will ensure competition empowering the users PaaS is the future of cloud services – empowering the developers

35. Conclusion Cloud is real and maturing fast. Businesses of all sizes and shapes are going to adopt it much sooner than many expect Using Cloud Computing becomes a competitive advantage A big part of the security concerns are due to FUD but it is also critical to understand the risks and take steps to mitigate them, to take the full advantage of clouds Leverage the cloud but control your destiny