End to End Implications of a Cloud Computing Environment

Frank J. De Gilio degilio@us.ibm.com

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What is Cloud Computing?

It is a user experience
Cloud computing is an emerging style of computing in which applications, data, and IT resources are provided as services to users over the web.

Cloud principles will bring a level of standardization to infrastructure management methodology

Cloud computing drives cost reduction and simplification, by consolidation and more efficient utilization of existing resources

It is a business model
How often can you say no? How effectively do you charge the lines of business you support?
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What is Cloud Computing? U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology:

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Characteristics
Resource pooling Broad network access Rapid elasticity Measured service On-demand self service

Service Models
Software as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service

Deployment Models
Private cloud Public cloud Hybrid cloud Community cloud

Read more at: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html

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IBM Premise: Cloud Computing Must Have

Common Attribute Flexible pricing Details Utility pricing, variable payments, pay-by-consumption and subscription models make pricing of IT services more flexible Resources scale up and down by large factors as the demand changes IT and network capacity and capabilities are ideally automatically rapidly provisioned using Internet standards without transferring ownership of resources IT resources from servers to storage, network and applications are pooled and virtualized to provide an implementation independent, efficient infrastructure Uniform offerings readily available from a services catalog on a metered basis

Elastic scaling

Rapid provisioning

Advanced virtualization

Standardized offerings

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Why is Cloud Computing Important?

Your User Community is doing it Submarine Projects are currently underway in your business Youve Been here before Remember when those pesky Windows based Web Servers did this? Your User Community views you a a commodity. The CSI effect. Your User Community thinks Cloud can do Everything. Who needs traditional IT? Your User Community may be nave. Eroding good name of the company.

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Lets Look At Cloud Computing!

Client says, Cloud will solve my IT problems!  What are the pros and cons of cloud?  What are the things we need to keep in mind?

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The Cloud Important Questions / Points

 What do you mean by Cloud?  What problems are you having?  An elastic expense:
Lower cost up front; more expensive in the long run

 Clients think, If I go Cloud, then I dont need processors.  Cloud will solve infrastructure problems.

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Public Cloud Positives

            Easy to Access Easy to use there is Internet everywhere Can be accessed from almost any platform Any Device Dynamic Projects short term use Low Cost Opex verses Capex Resources are always available More complete use of the resources Follow on products Ability to track trends and pattern usage Quick startup

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Public Cloud Negatives

              Security End user can bypass IT governance No guarantee of performance Need to trust provider Lack integration with existing system No guaranteed backup Dependency on this party Vendor lock in Compliance local regional national laws Lack of customization Data source integration Multiple providing the same or similar services Too many cloud providers cause integration issues Hacking and Cracking
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Private Cloud Positives

 Dynamic peak loading support for applications  Provisioning and de provisioning Time to value  Flexibility  Better resource allocation  Remove server huggers  Easy growth  Have new programming paradigms  Check pointing  Remove single instance team management  Cost is shared  Security is easier public  Improved CapEx and Opex bottom line  Quicker response to respond quicker to market changes  More and easy tests available  Easier platform support

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Private Cloud Negatives

 GETTING PEOPLE TO SHARE  Cost money to start
Quarterly/ yearly cost cuts affect deployment

 Organization design
Who is responsible for configurations in fuzzy spaces

       

Standardize System management model Disparate infrastructure supporting different lines of business Capacity planning Stuck with vendor API Enterprise Architecture is a real need Governance is key Problem determination

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End to End Cloud Computing Issues

Consider Disaster Recovery Replication between machines in a room is not DR Compliance How will Cloud providers put you at risk Security Secure the data. Multi Tenancy issues Selecting appropriate workloads Cloud technical models do not solve all problems. Translating what you know into corporate value Legal definitions of technical issues
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