cloud computing services and the data center
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What do Cloud Computing Services mean to the corporate Data Center?TRANSCRIPT
Cloud Computing Services and the Data Center
Timothy M. Kunau, MSSenior Enterprise Architect
Reliable Resource, Inc.5510 Feltl Road
Minnetonka, MN 55343USA
+011 1 (612) 279-0415www.relres.com
Agenda
• Definitions
• Services
• Who should use Cloud Services
• Companies Involved
• How Cloud Services affect reliability
• What does it mean for the Data Center
• Questions
“The rise of the cloud is more than just another platform shift that gets geeks excited. It will undoubtedly transform the IT industry, but it will also profoundly change the way people work and companies operate.”
—The Economist, “Let it Rise,” 10/3/08
• Cluster
• Compute (HPC)
• High Availability
• Grid
• Smart Grid
• SOA (services)
• SaaS
• Cloud
• VDC
Definitions
A collection of services and supporting systems operating as a single resource.
• Cluster
• Compute (HPC)
• High Availability
• Grid
• Smart Grid
• SOA (services)
• SaaS
• Cloud
• VDC
Definitions
A geographically distributed collection of services and supporting systems dedicated to a community of users, designed and configured to operate as a single resource.
• Cluster
• Compute (HPC)
• High Availability
• Grid
• Smart Grid
• SOA (services)
• SaaS
• Cloud
• VDC
Definitions
Service Oriented Architecture: A set of Interfaces (APIs) built on a dynamic IT infrastructure which can automatically adapt to changing needs without disruptions to running applications.
• Cluster
• Compute (HPC)
• High Availability
• Grid
• Smart Grid
• SOA (services)
• SaaS
• Cloud
• VDC
Definitions
Applications, data, compute, and storage resources are managed as an abstraction. This collection of virtualized services is the cloud.
The Cloud
• Cluster
• Compute (HPC)
• High Availability
• Grid
• Smart Grid
• SOA (services)
• SaaS
• Cloud
• VDC
Definitions
Virtual Data Center, provides infrastructure on demand with little or no capital expense.
Virtual Data Center
Services
•Software As A Service (SaaS)
•Processing As A Service (PaaS)
•Storage As A Service (SaaS)
•Information Technology As A Service (ITaaS)
•Data Center As A Service (DCaaS)
Services
•Software As A Service (SaaS)
•Processing As A Service (PaaS)
•Storage As A Service (SaaS)
•Information Technology As A Service (ITaaS)
•Data Center As A Service (DCaaS)
“In this architecture, the data is mostly resident on servers ‘somewhere on the Internet’ and the application runs on both the ‘cloud servers’ and the user’s browser.”
—Eric Schmidt in ‘Information Factories’, by G. Gilder
Who should use Cloud Services?
Yes No
Is IT demand reasonably constant? Data Center Cloud
Are growth predictions accurate? Data Center Cloud
Is scaling predictable and planned? Data Center Cloud
Is your user-base local? Data Center Cloud
Is infrastructure agility a core strength? Data Center Cloud
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1994Location: Seattle, WA
Services: Amazon Web Services including Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) for on-demand storage capacity.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1983Location: Dallas, TX
Services: Synaptic Hosting, an application hosting service. Pay for use of virtual servers and storage. Purchased USinternetworking in 2006 with presence in 30 countries.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 2004Location: Toronto
Services: Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) integrates traditional data centers with cloud services. Manage internal and external resources from a single console.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1998Location: Mountain View, CA
Services: Google Apps, including Email, Calendar, and Word processing. Google App Engine provides dev groups with Platform as a Service.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 2008Location: San Francisco, CA
Services: GoGrid web-based storage and Windows and LINUX virtual servers with Open Source tools: Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1975Location: Redmond, WA
Services: Azure, Windows as a Service platform.
In beta until Q3 2009.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1998Location: San Mateo, CA
Services: Business software suite including e-commerce, ERP, CRM, and accounting.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1998Location: San Antonio, TX
Services: Rackspace Cloud, aka Mosso, consists of Cloud Sites, Cloud Files, and Cloud Servers.
Companies Involved
• Amazon
• AT&T
• Enomaly
• GoGrid
• Microsoft
• NetSuite
• Rackspace
• Sun
Founded: 1982Location: Santa Clara, CA
Services: Professional services designed to build global customers' clouds. "The Network is the Computer".
Recently purchased by Oracle.
How Cloud Services affect reliability
• Customization is limited, simplifying and reducing the number of interface dependencies. Dependencies become explicit.
• Applications must be designed to take advantage of cloud service fault tolerance. Current services may not support your application architecture.
• Support for regulatory DR and RTO requirements?
• Internal SLAs covered by external customer service?
• “Where is my data?”, logically and geographically?
• Connectivity becomes critical.
What does it mean for the Data Center?
• An open question.
• Data Center on demand.
• Little or no capital investment.
• Services will be additive.
• Privacy concerns, network bandwidth, and political hurdles will slow adoption as the segment matures.
• Ultimately, cloud services may drive a move to fewer, larger and hardened data centers.
Questions
