Cloud Weekend '13 ITI Smart Village, Giza, Egypt 11 May 2013

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Cloud Computing 2013
Status and Trends
John Rhoton
Cloud Weekend, Giza, Egypt
11-12 May 2013

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Agenda
• Status
• Current adoption areas
• Deployment challenges
• Hybrid cloud evolution
• Trends

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Cloud Essence
• NIST Definition generally accepted
• Common theme: “resource pooling”
• Attributes
– Virtualization, Multi-tenancy, Automation, Self-service,
Internet Delivery, Elasticity, On-demand provisioning,
Utility Pricing, Service Orientation, Outsourcing…
• Benefits
– Cost Reduction
– Increased Revenue (Agility)
– Faster Growth (Focus)

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Adoption Highlights
• SaaS
– Collaboration (Google Apps, Office365)
– CRM (Salesforce)
– HCM (Workday)
• PaaS
– Custom Applications
• IaaS
– Web Sites
– Development & Test
– Disaster Recovery

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Niche Successes
• Security as a Service
– SPAM/Malware protection
– Policy Enforcement
• Availability
– Archiving and Backup
• Service Management
– Service Desk
• Development Support
– Testing
– Code Management

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Emerging Opportunities
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Vertical Applications
• Line-of-Business Applications
Require Flexibility, Control, Security

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Challenges
• Business/Financial
– Capex/Opex, Cash flow, ROI
• Risk & Security
– Compliance, Governance, Privacy
• Technical
– Technologies, Integration, Automation
• Process
– Culture, Procedure, Project Management

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Startups
• Ideal Candidates
– Small
• No internal economy of scale
– No legacy
• Less integration effort
– Unpredictable growth
• Flexibility required

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Enterprise
• More Challenging Business case
– Large
– Significant legacy
– More predictable future
• Opportunities
– Short term: Dev/test, Collaboration, Security,
New outbound services
– Long term: Private-> Hybrid -> Public

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Private Cloud Optimization
• Resource Efficiencies
– Virtualization
• Operational Efficiencies
– Automation, Chargeback
• Sourcing Efficiencies
– Service Orientation, Modularization, Granular
Security
Virtualization is only the beginning

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Private Cloud Flexibility
Customers
Business Units
Cloud
Provider
IT
Cloud
Provider
Customers
Look for revenue potential

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Hybrid Cloud Convergence
Silo Integrated Dynamic
Leverage the benefits of each cloud

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Business Continuity
• Cold Site
• Warm Site
• Hot Site
• Double-Active
Multi-dimensional redundancy is critical

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Cloudbursting
• Network Connectivity
• Compute Failover
– Replicated Infrastructure
• Storage Accessibility
– Latency
– Security
Data locality is pivotal

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Stack Convergence
Proprietary
Hardware
Proprietary
Software
Open
Source
Consortium
Driven
Balance ease with flexibility

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Cloud Trends
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Flexibility
Efficiency
Legacy Applications and Infrastructure
New Commodity Applications
New Custom and Internal Applications
Aim for the top of the stack

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Complementary Trends
Mobile
Social
Analytics
Cloud
Leverage cloud to enable other trends

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Summary
• Cloud adoption is replacing hype
• Private cloud is the starting point
• Public cloud is the final destination
• Multiple stages of hybrid cloud in between
• The cloud stacks are converging
• Services maximize efficiency up the stack
• Cloud is linked to mobility, social and big data

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