why the cloud is important for non-profit orgs
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From the Rackspace Non-Profit IT Summit on September 28th 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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April 12, 2023
Non-Profit IT SummitPresented by: Richie Valadez and Christopher Sziklas
Why Rackspace and the Open Cloud are Important to Non-Profit Organizations
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What’s in Store
•Challenges of DIY Hosting
•Demystify the Cloud
•Benefits of the Cloud
•Cloud Demo
DIY Hosting
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What Makes a Cloud a Cloud?
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Essential Characteristics1
• On-demand self-service. Provision computing capabilities automatically without requiring human.
• Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms
• Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers.
• Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released to scale rapidly with demand.
• Measured service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability.
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Service Models2
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Deployment Models3
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Takeaways
• DIY Hosting is Challenging
• The Cloud has many options to fit your business needs
• Rackspace offers Fanatical Support for the Open Cloud
Q&A
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References
• [1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
• [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wael/archive/2011/01/19/types-of-cloud-services.aspx
• [3] http://www.downetworks.com/blog/hybrid-cloud-solution/
• [4] http://www.rackspace.com/blog/the-greenest-computing-is-cloud-computing/
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