Talk at the Richmond Group on May 11th 2013. High level intro.

1. Heading for the Cloud
Richmond Group
11th
May 2012
@paul_tanner
virtual-techno.com

2. Let's Talk About ..
● Ascent of Computing to the
Cloud
● The Software Landscape
● Cloud Platforms
● Issues and Concerns

3. Insane Proliferation

4. Mainframe

5. Mini

6. Desktop & Client/ Server

7. World Wide Web (1.0,2.0)

8. Pervasive Computing & BYOD

9. Including the “Internet of Things”

10. Who Benefits and Why?
● Corporates
● SMEs
● Micro-businesses
● End-consumers
BYOD: Same device; multiple roles

11. Corporate Drivers

12. Micro-business Drivers

13. OK, So What is CC?

14. Software as a Service
Examples:
● Salesforce.com
● LinkedIn, Facebook etc
● YouTube
● Google Apps, Dropbox
● Wordpress (hosted)
● Cast of thousands (c.f. Sinead's talk)
New book: Working the Cloud

15. Platform as a Service
● Google App Engine
● Windows Azure
● IBM Smartcloud
● Apple iCloud
● Redhat Openshift
● dotCloud
● Heroku
● ActiveState Stackato

16. Infrastructure as a Service
Crucial features:
● Scalability
● Provisioning
Notable providers:
● Amazon EC2 & S3
● Rackspace Cloud
● HP Cloud Services

17. Issues and Concerns

18. HR & “Politics”
TBD:
● How will IT departments view further
outsourcing?
● How will management react to a shift in power
to lines of business?

19. Privacy/ Ownership
● Is my critical data secure?
● Who really owns my data?
http://tosdr.org/

20. Portability vs. Lock-in
● Can we switch applications, preserving data?
● Can we move custom apps to other platforms?

21. Integration challenge
Bad practice Good practice
Inspired by W3C semantic web paper
Which apps can share data with others?

22. Availability
To what extent can we rely on Cloud services?
● In theory
● In practice

23. Conclusions
● The Evolution of Computing
Make way, Pervasive IT is here
● The Software Landscape
The old models are fading. More
and more great stuff appearing.
Don't get left behind.
● Issues and Concerns
No insurmountable problems but,
as with any new paradigm, be
careful out there

24. Questions
.. and thanks for listening
www.slideshare.net/paultanner
@paul_tanner