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Curtin Growth and Enterprise Connect ‘Innovation Bus’ 27.10.10

Intro to Cloud Computing

Kim Wisniewski @kimono Technology Evangelist – Curtin IT Services (CITS) - Future Technologies Group

“By 2012, 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud computing services, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets.”

“The bottom line: Early adopters are finding serious benefits, meaning that cloud computing is real and warrants your scrutiny as a new set of platforms for business applications.”

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Consumer Cloud Services

Over 600 million unique users

Over 6 million songs in the catalog

23 million subscribers14 billion ads per

month

10 billion messages

processed daily

500 million active Windows Live IDs

Over 3 billion WW queries each month

370 million active accounts

2 billion unique calls per year

Petabytes of data every month to millions of PCs

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“Computation may someday be organized as a public utility” – John McCarthy 1960

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The cloud symbol used as Telco Standard in network diagrams, and still is …

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HOTMAIL was LaunchedJuly 1996

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- Microsoft buys Hotmail $400m

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- Salesforce.com launches (March ’99)

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Words “cloud of computers” used in NY Times article on Microsoft

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Amazon stops just selling books,Starts selling excess computing capacity on a utility basis

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Google’s Eric Schmidt describes SaaS

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Many large scale cloud research & commercial development projects begin

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2008The Cloud Explosion

Drivers

“Key driver: shift from CAPEX to OPEX”

Drivers

“Key driver: shift from CAPEX to OPEX”

UTILITY MODEL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloud_computing_economics.svg

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Getting Back to Business

Decision Process

Q.

“How can I be sure a cloud service proves effective, reliable, secure, and trustworthy?”

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Curtin & Cloud

Microsoft LIVE@EDU

IPORTFOLIO (Microsoft AZURE)

Optus/Alphawest Virtual Data-Center Pilot

“DIALS” Business Dashboard

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http://razorfish5.razorfish.com

CONFIDENTIAL – DRAFT – NOT FOR RELEASE

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