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Sun Microsystems: Solution Brie 
Highlights
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Leverage cloud computing to buildcomputing environments withimproved eiciency, security, andagility
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Provision resources on-demand,achieve operational eiciency, andoptimize your datacenter with cloudcomputing
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Sun’s comprehensive cloudvalue proposition, experience,and expertise makes it uniquelysuitable to advise you on your cloudcomputing eorts
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Successully plan and implementa cloud computing strategy withSun Services through a structuredmethodology with minimal risk
“Cloud computing is an operational model or enablingconvenient, on-demand network access to a shared poolo congurable computing resources that can be rapidlyprovisioned and released with minimal management eortor service provider interaction.”
National Institute o Standards and Technology, August, 2009
Eectively aligning IT resources to supportglobal business demands is critical tosurvival in a global economy. The prevailingcentralized, hierarchical business operationalmodel is being swept aside by a rapidresponse, distributed model. This modelempowers employees, partners, vendorsand customers to address changes in globalbusiness conditions around the clock,and it is highly dependent on technologyor communicating, collaborating, andtransacting business. Traditional methodsor planning, procuring, and deploying ITacilities and inrastructure are less eective,and the signicant increase in demand orIT resources is outstripping available power,space, cooling capabilities, and budgets o many organizations.A cloud computing strategy can provide amore fexible and responsive IT environmentto support the rapidly changing needs o adistributed enterprise model. Sun ProessionalServices
SM
can help you plan, architect,implement, and support a cloud computingenvironment that aligns with your enterpriserequirements.
Moving to the cloud — a strategiccommitment
When considering a move to the cloud, it isrecommended that you implement a strategicanalysis (Figure 1) to evaluate the readinesso the enterprise to migrate. As part o this analysis, you can identiy the relevantopportunities created by transitioning tothe cloud and dene the requirements andarchitecture o the target deployment. Inaddition, this analysis allows you to identiythe needed changes to IT operations, preparea risk assessment, and prepare a nancialimpact assessment. These elements canthen be combined to create a well-ounded,compelling business justication or therequired transormation.A cloud computing strategy is implementedby identiying and distributing specic,suitable business tasks onto the public andprivate Internet, using attached compute,storage, and network resources to acilitatemore cost eective and responsive services tousers. A cloud computing environment helpsenable a more open, fexible, and sharing ITenvironment that leverages technology toexact signicant business advantage.
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Kickstart Your Transition to the Cloud
With Cloud Computing Services rom Sun
 
2 Kickstart Your Transition to the Cloud
However, a cloud strategy can createsignicant stress on an enterprise shiting tosuch a dynamic, user driven IT environment.This stress can be identied and mitigatedprior to the move by conducting a cross-unctional evaluation o cloud opportunitiesand impact.Sun Microsystems has been implementingcloud computing concepts or several years.Sun Proessional Services can help you plan,architect, implement, and support a cloudcomputing model that aligns with yourenterprise requirements.
Challenges o enterprise IT
The evolution o the enterprise datacenterover the years has been driven by a widerange o oten inconsistent organizational,operational, technical, and businessconsiderations. Meanwhile, the dierenttechnologies that have come and gonehave oten let behind a residue o legacyinrastructure and applications. As a result,many enterprise datacenters maintaininrastructure and applications that arecumbersome, inecient, dicult to manage,and expensive to maintain. More signicantly,many o the enterprise datacenters evolvedwith little consideration or optimal useo power and cooling. As a result, today’schallenges in power availability and cost,added to the increasingly demandingrequirements to reduce carbon emissions, arecreating severe diculties or enterprise IT.
Characteristics o cloud computing
Cloud computing does not represent a single,well dened technological implementation.Rather, it is a collection o operationalmodels, architectures, and technologiesoptimized to enable you to ecientlyprovision and operate IT — networking,computing, storage, and sotware — asencapsulated services over the network.These encapsulated services are provided toapplications as elastic, virtualized resourcesthat can scale on-demand. Resource usagecan be measured and attributed to dierentapplications, while multiple applications cansecurely share the underlying hardware andincrease resource utilization.Virtual machines and virtual appliancesare the prevalent abstraction and unit o deployment on the cloud. Currently, newarchitectures are emerging that allow youto deploy virtual machines in a simple andelastic manner with virtually no scalabilitylimits, achieving high capacity and economyo scale.
Clouds types
Clouds can be categorized according to theservice layer that they provide (Figure 2).These include:
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Inrastructure as a service
— providesstorage, networking, and computingresources on-demand
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Platorm as a service
— provides ullycongured, virtualized servers on-demand
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Sotware as a service
— provides ullyunctional applications or sotwareinrastructure services on-demand
Cloud traits
All cloud types share the ollowing key traits:
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Services are available to all consumers
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Physical resources are abstracted andpooled regardless o their location
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Users can sel-provision virtual resources
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High-resolution usage-tracking and servicemeasurement are available
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Resources are elastic and rapidlyprovisioned
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The cloud is accessible and controlled bysotware
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Network access to the cloud is ubiquitous
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Multiple logically isolated users, or
tenants,
can be accommodated
Cloud StrategicPlanning and Analysis
• Industry best practices• Application profile analysis• IT infrastructure analysis• Datacenter design and analysis• IT operations analysis• IT strategy and governance policies• Security policies• Audit requirements• Service Level Agrements (
SLAs)
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Metering and billing model
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Policies
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Risks
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Architecture patterns
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Deployment patterns
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Operational changes
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Financial justification
 
Figure 1. The process o cloud strategic planning and analysis encompasses the ull range o organizational considerations and results in technical and non-technical requirements andinsights.
 
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Cloud categories
Clouds can be categorized as
public
,
private,
 or
hybrid
:
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A
public cloud
provides a fexible,pay-per-use IT environment that helpsthe business to better match actual ITdemand to expenditure, to decreasecapital outlay or IT inrastructure, andto shit IT investment and risk to a thirdparty. In addition, users typically realizeaccess to greater IT unctionality alongwith automatic, aster control over thedeployment o IT resources to support theirwork.
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A
private cloud
 
operates within anenterprise datacenter or in an externallyhosted datacenter or the sole benet o asingle enterprise. A private cloud is easierto align with security, compliance, andregulatory requirements, and providesmore enterprise control over deploymentand use.
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A
hybrid cloud
delivers IT through a mix o both public and private clouds.
The primary benefts o cloud computing
Cloud computing changes how applicationsare dened, developed, deployed, scaled,updated, maintained, and paid or, as wellas the inrastructure on which they run.By decoupling application deployment romthe physical inrastructure, applications canbe rapidly deployed and scaled. As a result,once a business need is identied, the time-to-value o an application that is denedto support this need can be signicantlyreduced.
Challenges o transitioning enterprisecomputing to the cloud
While the benets o cloud computing arecompelling, the path to the cloud is notimmediate, nor is it risk-ree. To computeon the cloud you need to transition yourorganization and IT — applications, users,sta, and operations — to the cloud.To minimize the exposure o the enterprise tothe risks o cloud computing in general, andinormation mismanagement in particular,you need to implement an ongoing eort toeducate users and track activities.A ew examples o the challenges acingthe enterprise when implementing a cloudcomputing strategy are:
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Distributing data and sharing physicalresources in multiple locations creates ITgovernance issues relating to regulatorycompliance, security, and privacy.
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Many sotware vendors have not adaptedtheir licensing models to cloud computing,making it dicult or the enterprise toensure licensing compliance in a cloudenvironment.
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Because enterprise data can be distributedin many locations, it is dicult to achievethe inter-operability, scalability, andsucient network bandwidth to supportadequate service levels or computing onthe cloud.
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Implementing high-resolution monitoringand metering o IT inrastructure and usingthe resulting data presents challengesat the technical, operational, andorganizational levels.
Challenges unique to the public cloud
While public clouds are similar to privateclouds rom a technological perspective,they create unique challenges due to theirnature as remote, shared entities. Theseinclude dependency on external suppliersor business-critical inrastructure — with anassociated loss o control — and the use o a
Software/ServiceLayerPlatform Layer
Cloud End Users
Network LayerInfrastructure Layer
Software asa Service
SaaSIaaS
Infrastructure as aServicePlatform asa Service
PaaSOperations
Time
Figure 2. Dierent cloud types abstract dierent resources. Over time, organizations typically tend to adopt IaaS, ollowed by PaaS, and fnally SaaS.
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