Presented on April 3, 2012 by Charlie Babcock, Editor-at-Large, InformationWeek at "Management Strategies for Cloud Computing." Event was held at the New York Institute of Technology and organized by the New York Technology Council (NYTECH). www.nytech.org

1. T he Futur e of the
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Charles Babcock
Editor at Large, InformationWeek
Author
Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution

2. 2008-09: The Cloud under fire
“It’s just water vapor…”
“It’s just another name for the
Internet…”
“an obsession of Sand Hill Road nitwits”

3. Now what Ellison’s saying:
“Get to the cloud with Oracle”
“Power your cloud with Oracle”
“Oracle Exalogic: world’s best… for
cloud computing”

4. Three keys to the cloud
1) It amplifies an explosion of computing
power
2) It distributes server compute power
3) It alters the client/server relationship in
favor of the end user client

5. Legacy data centers
One of everything
massive complexity.
One application per
server.
One system admin. per
25 servers.

6. What is a cloud data center?
• A uniform, x86 environment
• Managed by automated procedures
• Allows end users to self provision servers,
storage
• Invokes new economies of scale

7. Massive data center build out
• Data center spending:
$450 billion a year
• 8086 started with 29,000 transistors;
today a 10-core Intel chip – 2.6 billion

8. Google, Amazon, Facebook,
new data centers
• One kind of server/software,
repeated thousands of times
• 100 applications per server
• 1 system admin. - 3,000 servers

9. What is future cloud data center?
• Is x86 all we get?
• IBM Power? Sun UltraSparc? Nope.
• How about low power, cell phone
technology?

10. What about custom clouds?
• Harris Cyber Integration Center
• Terremark NAP of the Americas – DOD
DIACAP certified
• NYSE Mahwah, N.J., Capital Markets
Cloud

11. NYSE’s cloud data center
• One part, traditional data center
for NYSE licensees
• Another part, cloud
infrastructure
• New types of traders plug into
latter?

12. Every exchange in the cloud
• Everyone’s a trader
• Sophisticated trading systems available for rent,
by the trade or by the hour
• Economies of scale, automated systems, low
fees, thousands of users

13. A ‘Facebook’ of financial services
• Groups will form social networks, seeking to
combine what they know at the moment
• ‘Friends’ with varied, established expertise will
play for market advantage
• Your rival overseas may seek to collaborate

14. Longer term implications
• Think Occupy Wall Street looking over your
shoulder
• Amateurs employ trading analytical engines
• Investments will change frequently

15. Future Specialized Clouds
• Centers for Medicaid, Medicare could sponsor
a centralized, health care cloud; eliminate
health insurance companies
• How about a central Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
mortgage cloud for regulatory purposes?

16. Data Center is the computer
In Zynga’s Z Cloud, sets of servers
become components with specific
functions
• Equinix serves as Zynga’s high speed,
private connection to Amazon—Direct
Connect
• Amazon serves as bursting, spillover site

17. Confederated clouds
• Daisy chains of linked cloud centers
around the world
• Specialized clouds linked to general
purpose clouds
• Zynga, Equinix and Amazon a prototype
of what’s to come