Cloud Computing Backgrounder

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "Cloud Computing Backgrounder"

Transcription

1 Cloud Computing Backgrounder No surprise: information technology (IT) is huge. Huge costs, huge number of buzz words, huge amount of jargon, and a huge competitive advantage for those who can effectively apply the technologies which best support their business objectives. This is one of a series of background papers prepared by ROI Training to explain cutting edge concepts within IT. It is our hope that this paper will give you information about the technology being presented to help you decide if you should look into implementing the technology as part of your business strategy. Definition of cloud computing 1 A style of computing in which scalable, reliable, and secure IT capabilities are delivered as a service to customers using Internet technologies 2 Scalable means the cloud system can easily increase or decrease resources provided for a given executing by orders of magnitude if needed with little to no downtime. This means if you were expecting, for example, 50 sales per hour, and suddenly you receive 50,000 per hour, the cloud system would automatically adjust the resources so that each of the 50,000 transactions would have the same response that was planned for only 50 sales per hour; later, if the demand drops off, resources would be released. It means that you can provision computing services for 1 or 100 or 1000 in minutes, not weeks. 3 No hardware system is 100% reliable; systems go down. But such failures should never impact IT processing. Loss of a processing node means only that the process is moved automatically transparently, as far as the user is concerned to another node; with software designed to run in the cloud, there is minimal to no loss in response time. Loss of a data node means swapping to a hot backup and continued processing while a backup is being made from another hot backup. Network down means only re- routing. You decide on the reliability you need and the cloud system can be configured to produce that level of reliability. Reliability of can be realistically achieved. 1 The National Institute for Standard and Technology (NIST) defined cloud computing for the Federal Government in SP The definition and following explanation is fully consistent with the definition given in SP Modified from SP and Gartner Report. 3 Sounds like hype. It is not. I watched as the stats at a friend s web site went from 5 hits a day to over 5000 an hour after someone mentioned his site had a great article. This ability to rapidly expand is not cheap. One system could easily process the 5 hits a day. To process the sudden surge, there were 4 idle systems on- line and waiting for work. These idle system were able to handle the increasing work load and provided the time necessary to spin up the additional 5 system needed to process the work load. I have a customer whom I teach Python; he regularly provisions my 20 classroom machines in less than 10 minutes; I paid for dinner when he set up 500 virtual machines in 25 minutes. Page 1

2 High levels of security and privacy are harder to achieve. Generally, you (the user) do not have control over the hardware. You specify capabilities; the cloud system owner configures the platform to provide them. This means that your sensitive data will have to be encrypted, and your software will have to be certified to do only what it is required to do and nothing else. The computing capability is delivered as a service from an internal department or an external vendor, such as Google, Amazon, IBM, Rackspace, or EMC. Additional Characteristics Ease of use. There is usually a simple, web- based fill- in- the- blanks interface to the cloud which enables you to specify configuration, automated expansion, setup, and teardown. Remote access. You probably will not know where your data is or where the processing is done. So long as your requirements for security, response time, and throughput are met, do you care? Not normally. Multiple tenancy. Depending upon how the cloud was designed you may be sharing hardware with other business entities. You may only have a virtual machine running on some larger physical machine. Network centric. To do work in the cloud you must have a reliable network and depending upon the kind of interaction and data movement between the user and the cloud you may need a high speed network. Moreover, the cloud requires its own internal, reliable, high- speed network, enabling data to be stored on one set of nodes while processing to be done on another set of nodes. Business Drivers Scalability. The chart to the left show what is probably the biggest business driver: 4 The capability to provision what is necessary. Agility. The capability to provide computing resource just for the length of time needed. When ROI needed six computers at $4,000 each for two months to develop a certain course, we could not 4 Deloitte, Cloud Computing: Forecasting Change, Global/ Local%20Assets/Documents/TMT/cloud_- _market_overview_and_perspective.pdf [not legible] Page 2

3 justify the expense. Using a cloud provider brought the cost down about $240 for time used. Reduction in Cost. Maybe. At the time the study was done for this paper, at Costco a single 1- TB hard disk cost about $50. The cost of storing 1 TB with a cloud vendor was $50 per TB per month far more expensive. ROI acted as a consultant to a major vendor 5, who explained that to meet published reliability and access times, data had to be replicated in multiple data centers around the world, and multiple copies had to be maintained at each data center. There was then the cost of keeping the data in sync and the cost of maintaining the data centers. When we understood what was being provided and what had to be done and maintained to provide it, the costs did not look out of line. Now, the rest of the story of the six computers for two months. ROI paid only for time used and storage of the images around $4.00 for each computer- hour of use (We used 60 hours, and paid $240.). That is, if I had needed the computing system for a full year the cost would have been about $8000 per computer less than $1.00 per hour for a long- term contract. Again, looking at the costs for what was being provided, the cost was not out of line. The course developed ran monthly for six months for the customer; it still runs two or three times a year. They liked our work enough so that now we do two or three courses every month for them. For my short term needs the cloud service was great, but for long term usage it may not have been cost effective. Determining the real cost of using or not using the cloud is tricky at best. The tangible costs can be determined. The opportunity and other non- tangible costs are hard to determine. Business Concerns Moving your processing or data to the cloud changes some of the normal business assumptions. The intent of this section is to highlight the impacted areas, so that you can determine if you need to make process adjustments to reduce the risk. Data Concerns. What happens to data that is no longer needed? How do you get all of the data moved to another vendor or back in- house? Can the cloud manager see your sensitive data? How fast is synchronization among multiple live copies? Ultimately, who owns the data? Read the service level agreement contract carefully; you may be surprised. Visibility. What logging of actions is provided? This is needed if there is a problem with the data or the program. Is forensic security logging available? Performance. What is the variability in the length of time to run the program? Are latency (length of time to get the data) and jitter (variation in data arrival rate) important? 5 The vendor has asked not to be identified. And, again, I thank them for showing ROI the cost figures. Page 3

4 Disaster Recovery. What is the order of recovery? Are you first or last among the vendor s customers? How easy will it be to move data? Regulatory Oversight. Each country has a unique set of rules. Some countries will not allow data about citizens to be stored outside of the country. You need to know that the data is being stored where your company has the legal rights to the data you need to continue your business. Software Development Changes. For optimum return on investment, software needs to be developed to take advantage of the parallelism, scalability, and agility that the cloud provides. Service Models Cloud computing uses three service models (reference models), to help understand the different levels of cloud service. No real- world system fully matches any of the models, but most offerings are fairly close to one of the models. IaaS (Infrastruture as a Service) 6 Service provider owns and hosts compute resources, storage, and networking and offers the resources to the customer on- demand. The offering typically includes an operating system and networking software if needed. If done this way, the supplier provides very little or no customization of the software provided. The customer is responsible for all software and data management. A good example is OpenStack. PaaS (Platform as a Service) 7 Provider delivers execution services, such as runtime, storage, and integration, for s written for a pre- specified development framework. The customer is only responsible for the work done on the system. A good example is a Hadoop cluster. SaaS (Software as a Service) 8 Provider delivers business processes and s, such as collaboration or e- mail, standardized capabilities for a usage- based cost at an agreed, business- relevant service level. Good examples are Facebook and Google Docs. The table below summarizes the data in the definition. 6 glossary/infrastructure- as- a- service- iaas/ 7 Based upon readings at is- infrastructure- as- a- service- iaas.aspx 8 Based upon readings at is- infrastructure- as- a- service- iaas.aspx Page 4

5 Type Consumer Service Provided Service Level Customization SaaS End user Finished Application uptime Application performance Minimal to no customization except as allowed by PaaS Application owner Runtime environment Cloud storage Environment availability Environment performance NO vendor coverage High degree of customization within constraints of services offered Most s rewritten to run on PaaS IaaS Application owner Virtual server Cloud storage Vendor may supply OS No vendor support Virtual server availability Time to provision NO vendor coverage Minimal constraints on Deployment Models NIST defines several deployment models, but in reality there are only two. If your company owns and controls the hardware infrastructure it is a private cloud. If your company does not own the hardware infrastructure and negotiates a level of service with the owner it is a public cloud. If another division of your company has total control of the hardware it is still a private cloud, but your division should regard it as a public cloud. The Bottom Line Cloud computing provides services that are easily scalable and available on demand (agile). If your business model needs these IT capabilities, then it may be worth your time to see if cloud computing can be made into a good fit for your business. Page 5

The Private Cloud Your Controlled Access Infrastructure

The Private Cloud Your Controlled Access Infrastructure White Paper: Private Clouds The ongoing debate on the differences between a Public and Private Cloud are broad and often loud. The bottom line is that it s really about how the resource, or computing power,

More information

CLOUD COMPUTING An Overview

CLOUD COMPUTING An Overview CLOUD COMPUTING An Overview Abstract Resource sharing in a pure plug and play model that dramatically simplifies infrastructure planning is the promise of cloud computing. The two key advantages of this

More information

IJRSET 2015 SPL Volume 2, Issue 11 Pages: 29-33

IJRSET 2015 SPL Volume 2, Issue 11 Pages: 29-33 CLOUD COMPUTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES 1 Gokul krishnan. 2 M, Pravin raj.k, 3 Ms. K.M. Poornima 1, 2 III MSC (software system), 3 Assistant professor M.C.A.,M.Phil. 1, 2, 3 Department of BCA&SS, 1, 2, 3 Sri

More information

How To Understand Cloud Computing

How To Understand Cloud Computing Dr Markus Hagenbuchner markus@uow.edu.au CSCI319 Introduction to Cloud Computing CSCI319 Chapter 1 Page: 1 of 10 Content and Objectives 1. Introduce to cloud computing 2. Develop and understanding to how

More information

What is Cloud Computing? Tackling the Challenges of Big Data. Tackling The Challenges of Big Data. Matei Zaharia. Matei Zaharia. Big Data Collection

What is Cloud Computing? Tackling the Challenges of Big Data. Tackling The Challenges of Big Data. Matei Zaharia. Matei Zaharia. Big Data Collection Introduction What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing means computing resources available on demand Resources can include storage, compute cycles, or software built on top (e.g. database as a service)

More information

Assignment # 1 (Cloud Computing Security)

Assignment # 1 (Cloud Computing Security) Assignment # 1 (Cloud Computing Security) Group Members: Abdullah Abid Zeeshan Qaiser M. Umar Hayat Table of Contents Windows Azure Introduction... 4 Windows Azure Services... 4 1. Compute... 4 a) Virtual

More information

Why Private Cloud? Nenad BUNCIC VPSI 29-JUNE-2015 EPFL, SI-EXHEB

Why Private Cloud? Nenad BUNCIC VPSI 29-JUNE-2015 EPFL, SI-EXHEB Why Private Cloud? O P E R A T I O N S V I E W Nenad BUNCIC EPFL, SI-EXHEB 1 What Exactly Is Cloud? Cloud technology definition, as per National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST SP 800-145),

More information

Cloud Computing: Making the right choices

Cloud Computing: Making the right choices Cloud Computing: Making the right choices Kalpak Shah Clogeny Technologies Pvt Ltd 1 About Me Kalpak Shah Founder & CEO, Clogeny Technologies Passionate about economics and technology evolving through

More information

21/09/11. Introduction to Cloud Computing. First: do not be scared! Request for contributors. ToDO list. Revision history

21/09/11. Introduction to Cloud Computing. First: do not be scared! Request for contributors. ToDO list. Revision history Request for contributors Introduction to Cloud Computing https://portal.futuregrid.org/contrib/cloud-computing-class by various contributors (see last slide) Hi and thanks for your contribution! If you

More information

Introduction What is the cloud

Introduction What is the cloud Overview/Description: Discussion on the benefits of hosting the campus card system in the cloud. Topic will cover a general overview of what the cloud is; how the cloud hosted solution can benefit the

More information

A.Prof. Dr. Markus Hagenbuchner markus@uow.edu.au. CSCI319 A Brief Introduction to Cloud Computing. CSCI319 Page: 1

A.Prof. Dr. Markus Hagenbuchner markus@uow.edu.au. CSCI319 A Brief Introduction to Cloud Computing. CSCI319 Page: 1 A.Prof. Dr. Markus Hagenbuchner markus@uow.edu.au CSCI319 A Brief Introduction to Cloud Computing CSCI319 Page: 1 Content and Objectives 1. Introduce to cloud computing 2. Develop and understanding to

More information

On- Prem MongoDB- as- a- Service Powered by the CumuLogic DBaaS Platform

On- Prem MongoDB- as- a- Service Powered by the CumuLogic DBaaS Platform On- Prem MongoDB- as- a- Service Powered by the CumuLogic DBaaS Platform Page 1 of 16 Table of Contents Table of Contents... 2 Introduction... 3 NoSQL Databases... 3 CumuLogic NoSQL Database Service...

More information

NCTA Cloud Architecture

NCTA Cloud Architecture NCTA Cloud Architecture Course Specifications Course Number: 093019 Course Length: 5 days Course Description Target Student: This course is designed for system administrators who wish to plan, design,

More information

Developing SAP Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy

Developing SAP Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy White Paper WFT Cloud Technology SAP Cloud Integration Service Provider Developing SAP Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy SAP Cloud Computing is a significant IT paradigm change with the potential to

More information

Pharma CloudAdoption. and Qualification Trends

Pharma CloudAdoption. and Qualification Trends Pharma CloudAdoption and Qualification Trends OurCloudExperience Numerous implementations of EDMS systems with external hosting for smaller life science clients Development of qualification strategy for

More information

Cloud Computing. Chapter 4 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Cloud Computing. Chapter 4 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Computing Chapter 4 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Learning Objectives Define and describe IaaS and identify IaaS solution providers. Define and describe colocation. Define and describe system

More information

IT Risk and Security Cloud Computing Mike Thomas Erie Insurance May 2011

IT Risk and Security Cloud Computing Mike Thomas Erie Insurance May 2011 IT Risk and Security Cloud Computing Mike Thomas Erie Insurance May 2011 Cloud Basics Cloud Basics The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything

More information

WhitePaper. Private Cloud Computing Essentials

WhitePaper. Private Cloud Computing Essentials Private Cloud Computing Essentials The 2X Private Cloud Computing Essentials This white paper contains a brief guide to Private Cloud Computing. Contents Introduction.... 3 About Private Cloud Computing....

More information

Cloud Computing Paradigm

Cloud Computing Paradigm Cloud Computing Paradigm Julio Guijarro Automated Infrastructure Lab HP Labs Bristol, UK 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

More information

Migration and Disaster Recovery Underground in the NEC / Iron Mountain National Data Center with the RackWare Management Module

Migration and Disaster Recovery Underground in the NEC / Iron Mountain National Data Center with the RackWare Management Module Migration and Disaster Recovery Underground in the NEC / Iron Mountain National Data Center with the RackWare Management Module WHITE PAPER May 2015 Contents Advantages of NEC / Iron Mountain National

More information

Cloud Computing in the Enterprise An Overview. For INF 5890 IT & Management Ben Eaton 24/04/2013

Cloud Computing in the Enterprise An Overview. For INF 5890 IT & Management Ben Eaton 24/04/2013 Cloud Computing in the Enterprise An Overview For INF 5890 IT & Management Ben Eaton 24/04/2013 Cloud Computing in the Enterprise Background Defining the Cloud Issues of Cloud Governance Issue of Cloud

More information

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND CLOUD COMPUTING. A Comparative Study

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND CLOUD COMPUTING. A Comparative Study DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND CLOUD COMPUTING A Comparative Study Geographically distributed resources, such as storage devices, data sources, and computing power, are interconnected as a single, unified resource

More information

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. Journey to Cloud 9. Navigating a path to secure cloud computing. Alastair Broom Solutions Director, Integralis

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. Journey to Cloud 9. Navigating a path to secure cloud computing. Alastair Broom Solutions Director, Integralis Journey to Cloud 9 Navigating a path to secure cloud computing Alastair Broom Solutions Director, Integralis March 2012 Navigating a path to secure cloud computing 2 Living on Cloud 9 Cloud computing represents

More information

How cloud computing can transform your business landscape

How cloud computing can transform your business landscape How cloud computing can transform your business landscape Introduction It seems like everyone is talking about the cloud. Cloud computing and cloud services are the new buzz words for what s really a not

More information

Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data Analytics Using MapReduce Component of Hadoop

Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data Analytics Using MapReduce Component of Hadoop Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data Analytics Using MapReduce Component of Hadoop Kanchan A. Khedikar Department of Computer Science & Engineering Walchand Institute of Technoloy, Solapur, Maharashtra,

More information

CLOUD COMPUTING: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

CLOUD COMPUTING: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW CLOUD COMPUTING: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW There is hardly a topic creating more of a buzz in software industry, than the Cloud. Cloud computing is a dramatic shift in the way we think about providing computing

More information

Realizing the Value Proposition of Cloud Computing

Realizing the Value Proposition of Cloud Computing Realizing the Value Proposition of Cloud Computing CIO s Enterprise IT Strategy for Cloud Jitendra Pal Thethi Abstract Cloud Computing is a model for provisioning and consuming IT capabilities on a need

More information

Mirror File System for Cloud Computing

Mirror File System for Cloud Computing Mirror File System for Cloud Computing Twin Peaks Software Abstract The idea of the Mirror File System (MFS) is simple. When a user creates or updates a file, MFS creates or updates it in real time on

More information

How To Understand Cloud Computing

How To Understand Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Today David Hirsch April 2013 Outline What is the Cloud? Types of Cloud Computing Why the interest in Cloud computing today? Business Uses for the Cloud Consumer Uses for the Cloud PCs

More information

Cloud Platforms, Challenges & Hadoop. Aditee Rele Karpagam Venkataraman Janani Ravi

Cloud Platforms, Challenges & Hadoop. Aditee Rele Karpagam Venkataraman Janani Ravi Cloud Platforms, Challenges & Hadoop Aditee Rele Karpagam Venkataraman Janani Ravi Cloud Platform Models Aditee Rele Microsoft Corporation Dec 8, 2010 IT CAPACITY Provisioning IT Capacity Under-supply

More information

VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD FOR ENTERPRISES

VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD FOR ENTERPRISES VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD FOR ENTERPRISES DEFINITION Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is an on demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within a public cloud environment, providing a certain

More information

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS AND DEFINITIONS

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS AND DEFINITIONS CLOUD ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS AND DEFINITIONS April 2014 Cloud Conceptual Reference Model The ease of use a Cloud Consumer experiences results from a complex, behind-the-scenes, orchestration of interchangeable,

More information

Business Analysis In Times Of Cloud

Business Analysis In Times Of Cloud 2014 BA Convention Business Analysis In Times Of Cloud Ambarish Purohit 2014 BA Convention 2 Agenda Click to edit Master text styles Why is the CIO Smiling? Case Studies Opportunities and challenges cloud

More information

Enterprise Cloud Solutions

Enterprise Cloud Solutions IT(O) IT Outsourcing Options Enterprise Cloud Solutions CloudAgile Select Partner PDF v2.2 9/11/12 Cloud Computing with Latisys With the Latisys Cloud, your Enterprise can: Achieve unprecedented control,

More information

Building your Big Data Architecture on Amazon Web Services

Building your Big Data Architecture on Amazon Web Services Building your Big Data Architecture on Amazon Web Services Abhishek Sinha @abysinha sinhaar@amazon.com AWS Services Deployment & Administration Application Services Compute Storage Database Networking

More information

August 2009. Transforming your Information Infrastructure with IBM s Storage Cloud Solution

August 2009. Transforming your Information Infrastructure with IBM s Storage Cloud Solution August 2009 Transforming your Information Infrastructure with IBM s Storage Cloud Solution Page 2 Table of Contents Executive summary... 3 Introduction... 4 A Story or three for inspiration... 6 Oops,

More information

Topics. Images courtesy of Majd F. Sakr or from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.

Topics. Images courtesy of Majd F. Sakr or from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. Cloud Computing Topics 1. What is the Cloud? 2. What is Cloud Computing? 3. Cloud Service Architectures 4. History of Cloud Computing 5. Advantages of Cloud Computing 6. Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

More information

Bringing the Cloud into Focus. A Whitepaper by CMIT Solutions and Cadence Management Advisors

Bringing the Cloud into Focus. A Whitepaper by CMIT Solutions and Cadence Management Advisors Bringing the Cloud into Focus A Whitepaper by CMIT Solutions and Cadence Management Advisors Table Of Contents Introduction: What is The Cloud?.............................. 1 The Cloud Benefits.......................................

More information

Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Computing

Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Computing Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Computing What Every Business Owner Should Consider When Choosing Cloud Hosted Versus Internally Hosted Software 1 INTRODUCTION Cloud computing is the current information

More information

OTM in the Cloud. Ryan Haney

OTM in the Cloud. Ryan Haney OTM in the Cloud Ryan Haney The Cloud The Cloud is a set of services and technologies that delivers real-time and ondemand computing resources Software as a Service (SaaS) delivers preconfigured applications,

More information

CLOUD IN HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1/21/15

CLOUD IN HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1/21/15 CLOUD IN HEALTHCARE CURRENT STATE AND STRATEGIES THAT IMPACT THE BOTTOM LINE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As healthcare organizations struggle with competing priorities such as HITECH/ARRA, Meaningful Use, ICD-10,

More information

The Cloud, Virtualization, and Security

The Cloud, Virtualization, and Security A Cloud: Large groups of remote servers that are networked to allow centralized, shared data storage and online access to computer services or resources A Cloud: Large groups of remote servers that are

More information

Blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/applisec/

Blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/applisec/ Blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/applisec/ Copyright SELA software & Education Labs Ltd. 14-18 Baruch Hirsch St.Bnei Brak 51202 Israel www.sela.co.il The idea behind the cloud Basic Concepts Type

More information

LOW RISK ADOPTION OF CLOUD INFRA- STRUCTURE FOR ENTERPRISES

LOW RISK ADOPTION OF CLOUD INFRA- STRUCTURE FOR ENTERPRISES LOW RISK ADOPTION OF CLOUD INFRA- STRUCTURE FOR ENTERPRISES Business leaders are recognising that with the emergence of enterprise grade cloud computing, there is no good reason to continue to invest in

More information

Cloud computing: the state of the art and challenges. Jānis Kampars Riga Technical University

Cloud computing: the state of the art and challenges. Jānis Kampars Riga Technical University Cloud computing: the state of the art and challenges Jānis Kampars Riga Technical University Presentation structure Enabling technologies Cloud computing defined Dealing with load in cloud computing Service

More information

END TO END DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS COMPANY PROFILE

END TO END DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS COMPANY PROFILE END TO END DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS COMPANY PROFILE About M 2 TD M2 TD is a wholly black Owned IT Consulting Business. M 2 TD is a provider of data center consulting and managed services. In a rapidly changing

More information

How To Choose A Cloud Computing Solution

How To Choose A Cloud Computing Solution WHITE PAPER How to choose and implement your cloud strategy INTRODUCTION Cloud computing has the potential to tip strategic advantage away from large established enterprises toward SMBs or startup companies.

More information

CLOUD MIGRATION. Celina Alexandre M6807

CLOUD MIGRATION. Celina Alexandre M6807 CLOUD MIGRATION M6807 S Content 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Requirements Definition Phase 3.1. Strategy 3.2. Knowledge 06/05/15 2 Content 4. Analysis Phase 4.1. Aplications and Systems 4.2. Development

More information

Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Human Capital In The Cloud

Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Human Capital In The Cloud Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Human Capital In The Cloud By Orblogic, March 12, 2014 KEY POINTS TO CONSIDER C LOUD S OLUTIONS A RE P RACTICAL AND E ASY TO I MPLEMENT Time to market and rapid

More information

Turnkey Deduplication Solution for the Enterprise

Turnkey Deduplication Solution for the Enterprise Symantec NetBackup 5000 Appliance Turnkey Deduplication Solution for the Enterprise Mayur Dewaikar Sr. Product Manager, Information Management Group White Paper: A Deduplication Appliance Solution for

More information

Overview. The Cloud. Characteristics and usage of the cloud Realities and risks of the cloud

Overview. The Cloud. Characteristics and usage of the cloud Realities and risks of the cloud Overview The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the basics of cloud computing or the cloud with the aim of introducing the following aspects: Characteristics and usage of the cloud Realities

More information

Cloud for Credit Unions Leveraging New Solutions to Increase Efficiency & Reduce Costs Presented by: Hugh Smallwood, Chief Technology Officer

Cloud for Credit Unions Leveraging New Solutions to Increase Efficiency & Reduce Costs Presented by: Hugh Smallwood, Chief Technology Officer Cloud for Credit Unions Leveraging New Solutions to Increase Efficiency & Reduce Costs Presented by: Hugh Smallwood, Chief Technology Officer Plan. Prepare. Protect. About Us Formed by a Group of DC Metro

More information

Copyright Sapphire Systems plc Not to be reproduced without the express consent of Sapphire Systems plc

Copyright Sapphire Systems plc Not to be reproduced without the express consent of Sapphire Systems plc 1 Given the level of hype around cloud you d be forgiven for thinking it s a new phenomenon. In fact cloud solutions have been around since the 1990s in various forms, whether through a managed service

More information

SCADA Cloud Computing

SCADA Cloud Computing SCADA Cloud Computing Information on Cloud Computing with SCADA systems Version: 1.0 Erik Daalder, Business Development Manager Yokogawa Electric Corporation Global SCADA Center T: +31 88 4641 360 E: erik.daalder@nl.yokogawa.com

More information

Who moved my cloud? Part I: Introduction to Private, Public and Hybrid clouds and smooth migration

Who moved my cloud? Part I: Introduction to Private, Public and Hybrid clouds and smooth migration Who moved my cloud? Part I: Introduction to Private, Public and Hybrid clouds and smooth migration Part I of an ebook series of cloud infrastructure and platform fundamentals not to be avoided when preparing

More information

Case Studies: Protecting Sensitive Data in

Case Studies: Protecting Sensitive Data in Case Studies: Protecting Sensitive Data in C.J. Radford Vice President, Cloud September 18, 2014 Contact: @cjrad; cradford@vormetric.com Agenda Data Security Challenges Top Considerations for Data Centric

More information

Which is Better: Virtualization or Cloud IaaS?

Which is Better: Virtualization or Cloud IaaS? A White Paper Which is Better: Virtualization or Cloud IaaS? Which is Better: Virtualization or Cloud IaaS? Why should I consider Virtualization or Cloud IaaS at all? Simply put, they can save you money.

More information

Cloud Computing. What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is where the organization outsources data processing to computers owned by the vendor. Primarily the vendor hosts the equipment while the audited

More information

Emerging Technology for the Next Decade

Emerging Technology for the Next Decade Emerging Technology for the Next Decade Cloud Computing Keynote Presented by Charles Liang, President & CEO Super Micro Computer, Inc. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is Internet-based computing,

More information

Building Out Your Cloud-Ready Solutions. Clark D. Richey, Jr., Principal Technologist, DoD

Building Out Your Cloud-Ready Solutions. Clark D. Richey, Jr., Principal Technologist, DoD Building Out Your Cloud-Ready Solutions Clark D. Richey, Jr., Principal Technologist, DoD Slide 1 Agenda Define the problem Explore important aspects of Cloud deployments Wrap up and questions Slide 2

More information

The Cloud at Crawford. Evaluating the pros and cons of cloud computing and its use in claims management

The Cloud at Crawford. Evaluating the pros and cons of cloud computing and its use in claims management The Cloud at Crawford Evaluating the pros and cons of cloud computing and its use in claims management The Cloud at Crawford Wikipedia defines cloud computing as Internet-based computing, whereby shared

More information

All Clouds Are Not Created Equal THE NEED FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY AND UPTIME

All Clouds Are Not Created Equal THE NEED FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY AND UPTIME THE NEED FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY AND UPTIME 1 THE NEED FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY AND UPTIME All Clouds Are Not Created Equal INTRODUCTION Companies increasingly are looking to the cloud to help deliver IT services.

More information

Whitepaper : Cloud Based Backup for Mobile Users and Remote Sites

Whitepaper : Cloud Based Backup for Mobile Users and Remote Sites Whitepaper : Cloud Based Backup for Mobile Users and Remote Sites The Organisational Challenges We propose three key organizational principles for assessing backup Security Control Performance Functional

More information

BT Ireland and the Cloud

BT Ireland and the Cloud BT Ireland and the Cloud Beyond the Cloud v1 5.9.11 v1 5.9.11 The Promise Ease of Use New Features Agility Reduced Cost v1 5.9.11 It is everything you expect or More expensive than you think Contracts

More information

CLOUD COMPUTING. A Primer

CLOUD COMPUTING. A Primer CLOUD COMPUTING A Primer A Mix of Voices The incredible shrinking CIO CIO Magazine, 2004 IT Doesn t Matter, The cloud will ship service outside the institution and ship power from central IT groups to

More information

Using Cloud Services for Test Environments A case study of the use of Amazon EC2

Using Cloud Services for Test Environments A case study of the use of Amazon EC2 Using Cloud Services for Test Environments A case study of the use of Amazon EC2 Lee Hawkins (Quality Architect) Quest Software, Melbourne Copyright 2010 Quest Software We are gathered here today to talk

More information

A SURVEY OF POPULAR CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGIES

A SURVEY OF POPULAR CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGIES A SURVEY OF POPULAR CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGIES By: Edward Whalen Performance Tuning Corporation INTRODUCTION There are a number of clustering products available on the market today, and clustering has become

More information

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-issn: 2395-0056. Volume: 02 Issue: 05 Aug-2015 www.irjet.net p-issn: 2395-0072

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-issn: 2395-0056. Volume: 02 Issue: 05 Aug-2015 www.irjet.net p-issn: 2395-0072 Fear of Cloud Vinnakota Saran Chaitanya 1, G. Harshavardhan Reddy 2 1 UG Final year student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh, India 2

More information

A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS of HADOOP CLUSTERS in OPENSTACK CLOUD and in REAL SYSTEM

A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS of HADOOP CLUSTERS in OPENSTACK CLOUD and in REAL SYSTEM A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS of HADOOP CLUSTERS in OPENSTACK CLOUD and in REAL SYSTEM Ramesh Maharjan and Manoj Shakya Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal lazymesh@gmail.com,

More information

EXIN Cloud Computing Foundation

EXIN Cloud Computing Foundation Sample Questions EXIN Cloud Computing Foundation Edition April 2013 Copyright 2013 EXIN All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be published, reproduced, copied or stored in a data processing

More information

Cloud Computing; the GOOD, the BAD and the BEAUTIFUL

Cloud Computing; the GOOD, the BAD and the BEAUTIFUL Cloud Computing; the GOOD, the BAD and the BEAUTIFUL The quest for increased cost savings and reduced capital expenditures with comprehensive cloud solutions Executive summary Asking the hard dollar questions.

More information

Deploying Your Application On Public Cloud

Deploying Your Application On Public Cloud #GHC14 Deploying Your Application On Public Cloud Egle Sigler @eglute Iccha Sethi @IcchaSethi October 9, Egle Sigler Principal Architect at Rackspace Works with OpenStack POWER: Professional Organization

More information

SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY

SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY Real Systems must be Scalable fast enough to handle the expected load and grow easily when the load grows Available available enough of the time Scalable Scale-up increase

More information

Migration and Building of Data Centers in IBM SoftLayer with the RackWare Management Module

Migration and Building of Data Centers in IBM SoftLayer with the RackWare Management Module Migration and Building of Data Centers in IBM SoftLayer with the RackWare Management Module June, 2015 WHITE PAPER Contents Advantages of IBM SoftLayer and RackWare Together... 4 Relationship between

More information

Market Maturity. Cloud Definitions

Market Maturity. Cloud Definitions HRG Assessment: Cloud Computing Provider Perspective In the fall of 2009 Harvard Research Group (HRG) interviewed selected Cloud Computing companies including SaaS (software as a service), PaaS (platform

More information

Cloud Computing demystified! ISACA-IIA Joint Meeting Dec 9, 2014 By: Juman Doleh-Alomary Office of Internal Audit jdoleh@wayne.edu

Cloud Computing demystified! ISACA-IIA Joint Meeting Dec 9, 2014 By: Juman Doleh-Alomary Office of Internal Audit jdoleh@wayne.edu Cloud Computing demystified! ISACA-IIA Joint Meeting Dec 9, 2014 By: Juman Doleh-Alomary Office of Internal Audit jdoleh@wayne.edu 2 If cloud computing is so simple, then what s the big deal? What is the

More information

Highly available, scalable and secure data with Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. GOTO Berlin 27 th February 2014

Highly available, scalable and secure data with Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. GOTO Berlin 27 th February 2014 Highly available, scalable and secure data with Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise GOTO Berlin 27 th February 2014 About Us Steve van den Berg Johnny Miller Solutions Architect Regional Director Western

More information

Electronic Records Storage Options and Overview

Electronic Records Storage Options and Overview Electronic Records Storage Options and Overview www.archives.nysed.gov Objectives Understand the options for electronic records storage, including cloud-based storage Evaluate the options best suited for

More information

Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Written by Zakir Hossain, CS Graduate (OSU) CEO, Data Group Fed Certifications: PFA (Programming Foreign Assistance), COR (Contracting Officer), AOR (Assistance Officer) Oracle Certifications: OCP (Oracle

More information

How To Make Money From Cloud Computing

How To Make Money From Cloud Computing JDA Cloud Services We Keep Our Head In The Clouds John Frazier January, 2012 1 Gartner CIO IT Strategies 2011 IT strategies for 2011 strongly focus on creating infrastructure while streamlining costs and

More information

Cloud computing - Architecting in the cloud

Cloud computing - Architecting in the cloud Cloud computing - Architecting in the cloud anna.ruokonen@tut.fi 1 Outline Cloud computing What is? Levels of cloud computing: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Moving to the cloud? Architecting in the cloud Best practices

More information

Current Reality: A Look at Cloud Opportunities Beyond the Hype

Current Reality: A Look at Cloud Opportunities Beyond the Hype Outsmart Your Competitors Current Reality: A Look at Cloud Opportunities Beyond the Hype May 17 and 18, 2011 Presented by: Jeremiah Caron, Vice President - Analysis Amy DeCarlo, Principal Analyst Security

More information

NETWORK SERVICES WITH SOME CREDIT UNIONS PROCESSING 800,000 TRANSACTIONS ANNUALLY AND MOVING OVER 500 MILLION, SYSTEM UPTIME IS CRITICAL.

NETWORK SERVICES WITH SOME CREDIT UNIONS PROCESSING 800,000 TRANSACTIONS ANNUALLY AND MOVING OVER 500 MILLION, SYSTEM UPTIME IS CRITICAL. NETWORK SERVICES WITH SOME CREDIT UNIONS PROCESSING 800,000 TRANSACTIONS ANNUALLY AND MOVING OVER 500 MILLION, SYSTEM UPTIME IS CRITICAL. Your Credit Union information is irreplaceable. Data loss can result

More information

Cloud Computing 101 Dissipating the Fog 2012/Dec/xx Grid-Interop 2012

Cloud Computing 101 Dissipating the Fog 2012/Dec/xx Grid-Interop 2012 Cloud Computing 101 Dissipating the Fog 2012/Dec/xx Why the interest in Clouds? A method to avoid/defer CAPEX/OPEX and possibly accelerating implementation 2 It all started here - Timeshare Computers and

More information

Managing Public Cloud Workloads

Managing Public Cloud Workloads Managing Public Cloud Workloads CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES Page 1 of 10 Large companies are shifting more aggressively to the public cloud today for running a variety of production applications at scale.

More information

Session 11 : (additional) Cloud Computing Advantages and Disadvantages

Session 11 : (additional) Cloud Computing Advantages and Disadvantages INFORMATION STRATEGY Session 11 : (additional) Cloud Computing Advantages and Disadvantages Tharaka Tennekoon B.Sc (Hons) Computing, MBA (PIM - USJ) POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS AND FINANCE 2014 Cloud

More information

Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services

Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services Gary A. McGilvary edinburgh data.intensive research 1 OUTLINE 1. An Overview of Cloud Computing 2. Amazon Web Services 3. Amazon EC2 Tutorial 4. Conclusions 2 CLOUD

More information

Software as a Service (SaaS) Testing Challenges- An Indepth

Software as a Service (SaaS) Testing Challenges- An Indepth www.ijcsi.org 506 Software as a Service (SaaS) Testing Challenges- An Indepth Analysis Prakash.V Ravikumar Ramadoss Gopalakrishnan.S Assistant Professor Department of Computer Applications, SASTRA University,

More information

What Cloud computing means in real life

What Cloud computing means in real life ITU TRCSL Symposium on Cloud Computing Session 2: Cloud Computing Foundation and Requirements What Cloud computing means in real life Saman Perera Senior General Manager Information Systems Mobitel (Pvt)

More information

white paper Cloud computing: resilience is the key to success

white paper Cloud computing: resilience is the key to success Our 21st century society has become so used to change and new developments that genuinely progressive concepts are initially not recognised by many people. There is then a rush to implementation once the

More information

In a dynamic economic environment, your company s survival

In a dynamic economic environment, your company s survival Chapter 1 Cloud Computing Defined In This Chapter Examining the reasons for cloud Understanding cloud types Defining the elements of cloud computing Comparing private and public clouds In a dynamic economic

More information

Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Dr. Christian Baun Fundamentals of Cloud Computing 1/10 Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Dr. Christian Baun christian.baun@h-da.de 31.5.2012 Dr. Christian Baun Fundamentals of Cloud Computing 2/10 Agenda

More information

Cloud Courses Description

Cloud Courses Description Courses Description 101: Fundamental Computing and Architecture Computing Concepts and Models. Data center architecture. Fundamental Architecture. Virtualization Basics. platforms: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. deployment

More information

Private & Hybrid Cloud: Risk, Security and Audit. Scott Lowry, Hassan Javed VMware, Inc. March 2012

Private & Hybrid Cloud: Risk, Security and Audit. Scott Lowry, Hassan Javed VMware, Inc. March 2012 Private & Hybrid Cloud: Risk, Security and Audit Scott Lowry, Hassan Javed VMware, Inc. March 2012 Private and Hybrid Cloud - Risk, Security and Audit Objectives: Explain the technology and benefits behind

More information

Mark Bennett. Search and the Virtual Machine

Mark Bennett. Search and the Virtual Machine Mark Bennett Search and the Virtual Machine Agenda Intro / Business Drivers What to do with Search + Virtual What Makes Search Fast (or Slow!) Virtual Platforms Test Results Trends / Wrap Up / Q & A Business

More information

Future Proofing your Cloud Infrastructure. Greg Kleiman Director of Cloud Solutions, NetApp Co-Chair SNIA CSI Education Committee

Future Proofing your Cloud Infrastructure. Greg Kleiman Director of Cloud Solutions, NetApp Co-Chair SNIA CSI Education Committee Future Proofing your Cloud Infrastructure Greg Kleiman Director of Cloud Solutions, NetApp Co-Chair SNIA CSI Education Committee Agenda Who is NetApp? Why build a cloud infrastructure? How do I future

More information

GETTING THE MOST FROM THE CLOUD. A White Paper presented by

GETTING THE MOST FROM THE CLOUD. A White Paper presented by GETTING THE MOST FROM THE CLOUD A White Paper presented by Why Move to the Cloud? CLOUD COMPUTING the latest evolution of IT services delivery is a scenario under which common business applications are

More information