Topic 14 - Cloud Computing Collaboration

Cloud Computing Collaboration

Reuben JacksonMike Nawrocki

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Agenda

Introduction - Reuben Product List - Mike Use Case – Reuben Use Case - Mike Issues - Mike

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Introduction - Definition

Cloud Computing can be defined as a computing paradigm shift where computing is moved away from personal computers or an individual application server to a “cloud” of computers.

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Introduction - History The term “cloud” has a long history in telephony, and

was usually associated with large ATM networks. The concept of the cloud dates back to 1960 when

John McCarthy opined that “computation may someday be offered as a public utility”.

In the late 90s and the turn of the 21st century, “Software as a service (SaaS)” emerged that overshadowed the cloud.

Amazon.com, played an important role in the development of cloud computing and in 2002 provided the Amazon Web Services on a pay-per-use basis.

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Introduction - History Popularity soared to an all-time high in 2007 with

the interest shown by Google and IBM. In 2008, Gartner Research observed an increase

in the per-use service-based models or utility computing and in the growth of cloud computing.

Cloud computing is often confused with utility computing.

Many providers and vendors have come into the market in the last 5 years namely “3Tera, EMC, Microsoft and Mosso”.

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Product List

Amazon EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud- Network access permissions- Increase/Decrease capacity within minutes- Ability to configure firewall- Red Hat, Windows Server 2003, Oracle Enterprise Linux,

Open Solaris- Oracle 11g, MS Sql Server Standard 2005, MS Sql Server

Express, MySql Enterprise- Pricing per hour and per GB

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Product List

Google Apps- Google Docs, Google Video, Google Sites- 99.9% Uptime- 25GB for email storage- Full administrative and data control- 24/7 support- $50 per user account per year

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Product List

Microsoft Azure- Service Oriented Architecture (XML)- MS Visual Studio 2008 plug-in- ASP.NET, IIS- Eclipse, Ruby, Php, Python- MS SQL Services- Web Portal (helps deploy, scale, and upgrade services)- Capacity planning (adding computing and services)- Infrastructure management- Free trial

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Product List

3Tera- Coming soon in stages over next 12-24 months- Open Framework – any web/enterprise application- Linux, Solaris, Windows- MySql Clusters- Resource Pools – pc power, storage, net connectivity- Global catalog – worldwide distributed catalog service- Scalable – applications can be added at will- Control interface – portals, dashboard, monitor screens- Infrastructure Delivery Network – authentication/access

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Product List

IBM Blue Cloud- Virtualized Linux- Service Oriented Architecture- Web 2.0 Applications- IBM Tivoli – manages server for optimal performance- LotusLive – cloud based portfolio of social networking

and collaboration services- Hadoop – programming tool- DB2, Informix Dynamic Server Databases- Webshpere portal

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Use Case - Reuben John Noble is the CIO of a Mid-size software

company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company has offices in Skokie (IL), Columbus

(IN) and Cincinnati (OH). The CIO is planning for a complete overhaul of

the company’s systems as they are old and have outdated features.

He is looking for a solution to replace the company’s intranet (which is used for all the collaboration activities between the developers),

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Use Case - Reuben Has a average budget to accomplish this and also

intends to rent the solution from a provider rather than buy and maintain it.

Needs access control, 24/7 support, training, data security/privacy, data/file protection, user interface as components of the provider’s package.

Chose Google Apps as the solution for his company.

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Use Case - MikePump Quotation and Selection software that is used by 32 rep offices around the USA. Each rep has multiple locations. It is a desktop application that requires a lot of support on different systems (XP and Vista) and different environments. Employees within the rep organization use Access 2003 database and they all work on the projects and quotes (multiple users might collaborate on the same project).

Major Goals: Same environment for all representatives. No major code changes to current application. Access Control. Unlimited number of users at the same time. 24/7 Support. “Train the Trainer” program.

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Issues

Security- System vulnerable when vendors infrastructure

compromised.- Multiple identity and management systems.

Data Loss and Backups- Where the data is stored?- Who has access?- Is it safe?- Custom or third party backup systems.- How and when backups will be performed.- Can backups be tested/accessed when service is down.

Issues

Management and Monitoring- Monitor who has access to data.- Monitor vulnerability lists.- Patch management- Fix flaws.- Network, storage, infrastructure, security.

Bandwidth- Big enough pipe.

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Issues

Service Level Agreements- Planned vs Unplanned downtime – Refund?- Complex – uptime, anti-spam, anti-virus, performance …- Make sure service provider meets compliance and

protects intellectual data.- Negotiate stronger SLA – Expensive!

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