02-06-2012, 02:27 PM
Cloud Computing A General State of the Union
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INTRODUCTION
Presenter: David F. Soll
– Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Omicron Consulting
• 21 Years with Omicron
– Chair, Princeton/Central NJ IEEE Computer Society
• Senior Member of the IEEE
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• Recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Award
– Past Chair, Princeton Chapter of the ACM
• Senior Member of the ACM
– Chair, TCF IT Professional Conference
– Over 30 years in computing
WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING
Well … It depends
– Each Cloud vendor seems to have their own definition
• In General:
– An Internet based computing environment where you
pay only for resources that you use
– A set of pooled computing resources delivered over
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the Internet
– Resource allocation can be adjusted
• Although: A Cloud could be built on-premise
• Cloud Computing is the next phase in the
evolution of computing
What is the difference between “hosted” and
“cloud”?
– Cloud solutions may be “hosted” or can be built
on-premises (depends upon your definition of
cloud)
– Not all “hosted” solutions are in a “cloud”
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– A “cloud” is dynamic
• Resources can be added or removed to fit the need
– In a traditional hosted environment, resources are
allocated based on peak load requirements
• In a cloud, they can be dynamically allocated
BENEFIT
Predictable any time, anywhere access to IT
resources
• Flexible scaling of resources (resource
optimization)
• Rapid, request-driven provisioning
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• Lower total cost of operations
– Only pay for what you use