28-02-2013, 02:02 PM
What is Cloud Computing?
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How big is Cloud Computing?
Estimated size of the cloud computing
Infrastructure market in 2012, up from
$16B in 2008, IDC October 2008
What is Driving Cloud Computing?
• In one word: economics
• Faster, simpler, cheaper to use cloud apps
• No upfront capital required for servers and storage
• No ongoing operational expenses for running datacenter
• Applications can be accessed from anywhere, anytime
• Easier for application vendors to reach new customers
• Lowest cost way of delivering and supporting applications
• Ability to use commodity server and storage hardware
• Ability to drive down data center operational cots
• In one word: economics
The Private Enterprise Cloud
• Harness the advantages of clouds for the enterprise
• Cost-effective datacenter infrastructure
• Server and storage resource pools
• High Availability and Reliability in Software
• Virtual application environment
• Separation of processing and storage
• On-demand Application Deployment
• Greatly increases server utilization
• Prioritization based on business requirements
Private Cloud Architecture Elements
• Server Virtualization
• Enable any app to run on any server anytime
• Highly Available Storage
• Network block and file servers
• Low latency, high-bandwidth network
• Enable application mobility in the cloud
• Pre-emptive application scheduler
• Implements business rules and priorities
• Low-cost industry standard servers
• Transcend hardware failures with software
Cloud Computing Summary
• Move the application to “the cloud”
• Decouple the user and datacenter location
• Software as a service business models
• Google/Yahoo/Amazon/Facebook/etc
• Similar benefits with enterprise applications
• Salesforce, Netsuite, SugarCRM
• Similar benefits for internally developed applications
• Makes software easy to deploy across multiple sites