Cloud%20Computing%20Collaboration

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Cloud Computing Collaboration

• Reuben Jackson
• Mike Nawrocki

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Agenda

• Introduction - Reuben
• Product List - Mike
• Use Case Reuben
• Use Case - Mike
• Issues - Mike

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Introduction - Definition

• Cloud Computing can be defined as a computing
  paradigm shift where computing is moved away from
  personal computers or an individual application
  server to a cloud of computers.

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Introduction - History

• The term cloud has a long history in telephony,
  and was usually associated with large ATM
  networks.
• The concept of the cloud dates back to 1960 when
  John McCarthy opined that computation may
  someday be offered as a public utility.
• In the late 90s and the turn of the 21st century,
  Software as a service (SaaS) emerged that
  overshadowed the cloud.
• Amazon.com, played an important role in the
  development of cloud computing and in 2002
  provided the Amazon Web Services on a pay-per-use
  basis.

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Introduction - History

• Popularity soared to an all-time high in 2007
  with the interest shown by Google and IBM.
• In 2008, Gartner Research observed an increase in
  the per-use service-based models or utility
  computing and in the growth of cloud computing.
• Cloud computing is often confused with utility
  computing.
• Many providers and vendors have come into the
  market in the last 5 years namely 3Tera, EMC,
  Microsoft and Mosso.

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Product List

• Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
• Network access permissions
• Increase/Decrease capacity within minutes
• Ability to configure firewall
• Red Hat, Windows Server 2003, Oracle Enterprise
  Linux, Open Solaris
• Oracle 11g, MS Sql Server Standard 2005, MS Sql
  Server Express, MySql Enterprise
• Pricing per hour and per GB

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Product List

• Google Apps
• Google Docs, Google Video, Google Sites
• 99.9 Uptime
• 25GB for email storage
• Full administrative and data control
• 24/7 support
• 50 per user account per year

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Product List

• Microsoft Azure
• Service Oriented Architecture (XML)
• MS Visual Studio 2008 plug-in
• ASP.NET, IIS
• Eclipse, Ruby, Php, Python
• MS SQL Services
• Web Portal (helps deploy, scale, and upgrade
  services)
• Capacity planning (adding computing and services)
• Infrastructure management
• Free trial

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Product List

• 3Tera
• Coming soon in stages over next 12-24 months
• Open Framework any web/enterprise application
• Linux, Solaris, Windows
• MySql Clusters
• Resource Pools pc power, storage, net
  connectivity
• Global catalog worldwide distributed catalog
  service
• Scalable applications can be added at will
• Control interface portals, dashboard, monitor
  screens
• Infrastructure Delivery Network
  authentication/access

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Product List

• IBM Blue Cloud
• Virtualized Linux
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Web 2.0 Applications
• IBM Tivoli manages server for optimal
  performance
• LotusLive cloud based portfolio of social
  networking and collaboration services
• Hadoop programming tool
• DB2, Informix Dynamic Server Databases
• Webshpere portal

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Use Case - Reuben

• John Noble is the CIO of a Mid-size software
  company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
• The company has offices in Skokie (IL), Columbus
  (IN) and Cincinnati (OH).
• The CIO is planning for a complete overhaul of
  the companys systems as they are old and have
  outdated features.
• He is looking for a solution to replace the
  companys intranet (which is used for all the
  collaboration activities between the developers),

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Use Case - Reuben

• Has a average budget to accomplish this and also
  intends to rent the solution from a provider
  rather than buy and maintain it.
• Needs access control, 24/7 support, training,
  data security/privacy, data/file protection, user
  interface as components of the providers
  package.
• Chose Google Apps as the solution for his
  company.

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Use Case - Mike

• Pump Quotation and Selection software that is
  used by 32 rep offices around the USA. Each rep
  has multiple locations. It is a desktop
  application that requires a lot of support on
  different systems (XP and Vista) and different
  environments. Employees within the rep
  organization use Access 2003 database and they
  all work on the projects and quotes (multiple
  users might collaborate on the same project).
• Major Goals
• Same environment for all representatives.
• No major code changes to current application.
• Access Control.
• Unlimited number of users at the same time.
• 24/7 Support.
• Train the Trainer program.

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Issues

• Security
• System vulnerable when vendors infrastructure
  compromised.
• Multiple identity and management systems.
• Data Loss and Backups
• Where the data is stored?
• Who has access?
• Is it safe?
• Custom or third party backup systems.
• How and when backups will be performed.
• Can backups be tested/accessed when service is
  down.

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Issues

• Management and Monitoring
• Monitor who has access to data.
• Monitor vulnerability lists.
• Patch management
• Fix flaws.
• Network, storage, infrastructure, security.
• Bandwidth
• Big enough pipe.

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Issues

• Service Level Agreements
• Planned vs Unplanned downtime Refund?
• Complex uptime, anti-spam, anti-virus,
  performance
• Make sure service provider meets compliance and
  protects intellectual data.
• Negotiate stronger SLA Expensive!