Technology Overview

Agenda

• Data Center layout• Scaling the Cloud• Data in the Cloud• Disaster Recovery

Hosted Services

• Access to your data• Building and Publishing Reports

Reporting Services

• Tablets, Kiosks, Smartscreens and SmartphonesClub of

the Future

First, What the heck isCloud Computing

First, what the heck is

Cloud Computing?…in simple, plain English please!

Describe The Cloud To Me

21 experts are defining cloud computing http://bit.ly/C6jIm

The Cloud

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What they say:

“Biggest Paradigm Shift in 20 years”

“Game Changer”

“Tremendous Cost Cutting”

“Just On”“Pay As You Go”

Who Cares?

What’s in it for me?

The Cloud… is the next evolution in hosting… is fully scalable… gives you full access to your data… is the future

Cloud Platform Partner

• In Production• Same technology platform

Cloud Spectator released “A Comparative Analysis of 5 Large Cloud IaaS Providers”

1. Amazon EC22. Rackspace OpenStack Cloud3. HP Cloud4. SoftLayer CloudLayer Compute5. Windows Azure

Results = Windows Azure, is the highest-performing provider, scoring 3 times better than Amazon EC2, the lowest-performing provider, on average.

“Microsoft claims Azure now used by half of the Fortune 500”

Cloud Server Performance

Cloud Platform Partner

Azure Data Center

1,800 to 2,500 servers per container

Individual cooling systems keep temperature and humidity at optimal levels

Containers are delivered via 18 wheelers and set up in a matter of hours.

Windows Azure Platform

Azure – NG Services

Azure Hosted Services

AppHost

AppBus

Batch Services API OLS

Microsoft SQL AzureSQL Azure Server

SQL Azure Firewall

Azure – Anatomy of a service

Load Balancing is Automatic

VMs provisioned from package

Scaling can be done manually or auto

Staging Environment

Diagnostics and Monitoring

Cloud Data – High Availability

Infrastructure Redundancy

• Three copies at all times. Clustered

• Physically located on different racks, networks

• Data must be committed to 2 copies before “ok”

• Automatic failover to optimize availability

• 14 Days of backups stored locally

Disaster Recovery – Data BackupsDisaster Recovery – Data Backups

A

BC

D

Disaster Recovery – Secondary Host Switch

South Central Data Center

North Central Data Center

Once you backup has been restored, the secondary URLs can be activated

Beware Of The False Cloud

Don’t Wash your IT with False Clouds… On-Demand with Resource Pooling… PaaS or IaaS… Private Cloud, Community Cloud, Public Cloud or Hybrid Cloud

Reporting Services

Experience

• Reports are deployed and hosted in SQL Azure• Access to reports via Web Portal

Development

• Development Experience similar to local SSRS reports • Deployment Credentials and Read only access granted to report developer

Recommendations

• Nightly copy of production DB to a secondary Azure SQL instance preferred to prevent rogue SQL statements written for reports.

The Future

Facility Access

Location Access for Members

Locker Integration

• Extends NG without needing a computer• Employee Optional• Centralized View of Access

“Gartner Research is reporting mobile CRM apps will grow 500 percent by 2014, another sign of a shifting market that has more to do with work getting done in the cloud more so than from a server behind the firewall.” - Techcrunch.com