Set up in March 2008, the Dublin Cloud Center was created by IBM Software Group to provide a real-life laboratory for IBM Cloud Computing. Since then the Dublin Center has engaged around the world in delivery, development and research on the Cloud. A broad range of IBM, Client & Research projects provide a real-life insight into IBM 'Smart Infrastructure' in action. Pol will provide a range of experiences and insights into Cloud Computing – from a practitioner's perspective. In this respect, Pol brings a unique, 'hands-on' perspective to IBM Cloud Computing capability and how it is being used in 'the wild'. This workshop is an opportunity for discussion and debate at a deep, paractical & technical level that will compliment the other workshops. The intention of the workshop is to illustrate IBM Cloud Computing in action! In addition, Pol will also discuss emerging technologies using the Cloud platform and architecture in research and development projects in the Dublin Center. An interesting range of projects from High-performance, Pervasive & Mobile Computing coupled with research into topics such as active energy & green computing in the Cloud will provide insights into some of the next generation of solutions to use Cloud Computing.

1. IBM Cloud Computing An overview Pol Mac Aonghusa Dublin Cloud Lab April 2009 [email_address]

3. 06/09/09 What is Cloud Computing? “ The key characteristics of the cloud are the ability to scale and provision computing power dynamically in a cost efficient way and the ability of the consumer (end user, organization or IT staff) to make the most of that power without having to manage the underlying complexity of the technology . The cloud architecture itself can be private (hosted within an organization’s firewall) or public (hosted on the Internet).” Source: www.opencloudmanifesto.org Monitor & Manage Services & Resources Cloud Administrator Datacenter Infrastructure Service Catalog, Component Library Service Consumers Component Vendors/ Software Publishers Publish & Update Components, Service Templates IT Cloud Access Services

4. Cloud Computing ..... key common characteristics IT Analysts Financial Analysts IT Providers End Users Enhanced user experience Elastic scaling Automated provisioning Highly virtualized Standardized Workloads Source: IBM Corporate Strategy analysis of MI, PR, AR and VCG compilations Anywhere access to applications through a simplified user interface Rapid time to market for new services. Anywhere access to applications through a simplified user interface Ability to elastically scale resources and maintain high quality of service Ability to elastically scale resources at significantly lower incremental management cost

5. A Simple Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Platform as a Service Platform as a Service High Volume Transactions Software as a Service Servers Networking Storage Metering Monitoring Billing Multi-Tenancy Security Middleware Collaboration Business Services CRM/ERP/HR Subscription Services Data Center Fabric Shared virtualized, dynamic provisioning Services Management J2EE On-ramps Application Encapsulation Ajax Deployment On-ramps On-ramps Development Tooling Interoperability with other clouds Application as a Service Infrastructure as a Service Services Cloud Development Cloud Enterprise Cloud

10. Implementing a Cloud Strategy requires decisions ... Costs Economies of scale only go so far, unless customer is willing to trade (data, advertising views, ...) for services Culture Trust, chargeback, sharing Security & Privacy Weak or non-existent perimeter, Data provenance, Service/Data Location Scalability Parallel processing, no problem; sequential processing, different story Connection Only as good as the Internet, unless you pay to "harden" your connection Service Management Technologies & best practices immature High Availability For workloads that are stateless, no problem; for stateful workloads, same issue as enterprises

11. Getting started with Cloud Computing… Develop a strategy Virtualize Manage Consolidate Best practices … think holistically Assess and deploy … start now Gain and maintain control … modularity and standards are key Reduce from many to few … start with an inventory

16. Prepared by IBM Dublin Cloud Lab 2000: IBM BCRS 2000: UDDI 1.0; “SaaS” coined 2001: Dot com bubble bursts 2005: IBM AoD 2006: Amazon EC2 2007: Google Health; force.com launch 2008: IBM ww Cloud Computing centers Cloud computing is an evolution – rather than a revolution – the culmination of a long series of approaches to simplified IT service delivery 1990: Berners-Lee invents the World-Wide Web 1994: CommerceNet 1998: RosettaNet 1999: i-Mode mobile internet 1961: John McCarthy proposes computing as a utility 1961: IBM Services Bureau 1975: First inter-industry EDI standards 2010 1980 1990 2000 1981: SMTP defines the standard electronic mail service 1985: United Nations sponsors EDIFACT IBM Service Bureau (1961) 1960- 1970

17. 06/09/09 IBM Cloud Computing Leadership Establishing cloud computing centres around the world Providing consulting and implementation services for Cloud computing Helping clients speed time to market and reduce costs For more information, please visit: ibm.com/cloud 1 2 3