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Saas and Cloud Computing
Saas and Cloud Computing
Ross Cooney
The challenge
Add new services for your users quickly and cost effectively
Expand your Infrastructure! Buy new servers, increase your software costs, provision more datacenter capacity!!
Look to the cloud! Pay for the bandwidth and server resources that you need. When your push is done then turn the whole thing off!
Best described in terms of what happened to mechanical power over 100 yrs ago
Now computers are simple devices connected to the larger cloud Data processing, storage and software applications that used to run locally are now being supplied by big central computing stations. They're becoming, in essence, computing utilities.
The hype
SaaS
SaaS
Advantages
Pay per use Instant Scalability Security Reliability APIs
SaaS
Examples
CRM Financial Planning Human Resources Word processing
Commercial Services:
Salesforce.com emailcloud
Platforms are built upon Infrastructure, which is expensive Estimating demand is not a science! Platform management is not fun!
Popular services
PaaS
Advantages
PaaS
Examples
PaaS
IaaS
Advantages
Pay per use Instant Scalability Security Reliability APIs
IaaS
Examples
Flexiscale AWS: EC2
IaaS
SaaS
Common Factors
Pay per use Instant Scalability Security Reliability APIs
PaaS
IaaS
SaaS
Advantages
Lower cost of ownership Reduce infrastructure management responsibility Allow for unexpected resource loads Faster application rollout
PaaS
IaaS
SaaS
Cloud Economics
Multi-tenented Virtualisation lowers costs by increasing utilisation Economies of scale afforded by technology Automated update policy
PaaS
IaaS
Examples of usage
SaaS
Your current CRM package is not managing the load or you simply dont want to host it in-house.use a SaaS provider such as Salesforce.com
Your email is hosted on an exchange server in your office and it is very slowoutsource this using Hosted Exchange.
You need to host a large file (5Mb) on your website and make it available for 35,000 users for only two months duration. Use Cloud Front from Amazon.
PaaS
You want to start storage services on your network for a large number of files and you do not have the storage capacityuse Amazon S3.
You want to run a batch job but you dont have the infrastructure necessary to run it in a timely manner. Use Amazon EC2. You want to host a website, but only for a few days. Use Flexiscale.
IaaS
Network Design
Management Node
Various scan arrays Cloud burst
Administration (ARACNE)
Hosted in the Databanx facility in Newcastle Over 250,000 invested Redundant hardware
Cloudburst
New scan array in 5 minutes
Cost of $0.90 per hour Use only when your network needs a burst of capacity.