Portability In The Cloud

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Our Distinguished Speakers

John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek's PlugIntoTheCloud.com

Michael Biddick , President & CTO, Fusion PPT

David M. Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli

Lilly and Company

Portability In The Cloud

John Foley, Editor

InformationWeek

PlugIntoTheCloud.com

Portability/Interoperability

• Ability to move data, applications, and virtual servers from one cloud computing environment to another

• Ability to mix & match cloud services, depending on business need

• Ability to blend public and private cloud environments into hybrids

• Ability to develop to and manage cloud services via (industry standard?) APIs

A busy year. Progress?

• Feb.: Coghead closes• March: Open Cloud Manifesto vs. Microsoft• April: Open Cloud Standards Incubator (DMTF)• April: Java runtime for Google App Engine• July: Public API for Cloud Servers (Rackspace)• Sept.: Simple API for Cloud App Services (Zend, IBM,

Microsoft, others)• Nov.: Virtual Computing Environment (Cisco, EMC,

VMware)• Jan. 2010: Windows Azure

Some companies are now storing hundreds of terabytes, even petabytes, of data in the cloud.

“You are no longer portable, and you’re not going to be portable, so

get over it.”

Jason Offman, founder, CTO, Joyent

POLL 1

What’s the status of cloud portability at your company?

(Select one)

We have the technologies/processes we need

No hope--we’re locked in

Developing a plan now

Portability In The Cloud

Michael Biddick ,

President & CTO

Fusion PPT

• Marketing cloud computing has reached fever pitch in 2009, and there are no signs of slow-down in 2010

• More and more organizations are attracted to the notion of outsourcing their storage, processing and applications for a fraction of the cost of upgrading an entire data center

• Some analysts say that more than half of all large enterprises have cloud computing in their plans, but only 2% are actually implementing.

• There is a lot of trepidation especially on the part of government and larger organizations.

The Cloud Computing Craze

• Public clouds

• Private clouds

• Hybrid clouds

• Community Co-op clouds

Cloud Computing Options

Security

Privacy

Portability, Interoperability

Barriers to Cloud Adoption

• How do I integrate computer, network, and storage services from one or more cloud service providers into my business and IT processes?

• How do I manage security and business continuity risk across several cloud providers?

• How do I manage the lifecycle of a service in a distributed multiple-provider environment in order to satisfy service-level agreements (SLAs) with my customers?

• How do I maintain effective governance and audit processes across integrated datacenters and cloud providers?

• How do I adopt or switch to a new cloud provider?

Portability & Interoperability Questions

• Dissatisfaction with a cloud service provider,

• New and better alternatives,

• Change in strategy

• Failure of a provider: The issue hit home earlier this year when cloud startup Coghead shut down and SAP took over only its assets and engineering team, forcing customers to find a new home for the applications that had been hosted there.

Why We Need Portability

Bankruptcy, a buy-out, a dissolution, the network service dissolving, the network service terminated, the network service terminating, the network service dissolving, filing bankruptcy, a closing, a shutdown, a strike, a buyout, the network service ceases to exist, a planned dissolution, a termination of services based on geography, a re-structuring, a user wanting a cheaper rate, a user desiring a better service, a machine deterioration, a virus infections, and a replacement of at least one of a machine and a service…

Reasons to Change Cloud Providers

• Getting started in the cloud may

be fast, cheap, and easy, but the

longer you're there, the harder it is

to move.

• As data accumulates, IT needs to

monitor not just what it's spending

on cloud storage, but also how big

the tab to get out is.

• Price out an exit plan.

Data Migration

• It can take weeks or months to move a petabyte of data from one cloud to another, depending on data transfer speeds

• Amazon charges 10 cents per gigabyte to transfer data out of S3, which comes to $100,000 per petabyte. (That's after you've already spent $100,000 or more in transfer fees moving the data into S3.)

• Amazon estimates it would take one to two days to import or export 5 TB of data over a 100-Mbps connection.

Data Migration

APIs

Cloud Brokers

Emerging Standards

Strategies Around Portability & Interop.

• Many different APIs exist for public clouds including

• APIs are critical

• APIs serve as the foundation for clouds, however, are still mostly unique to the specific cloud provider

APIs

• A cloud broker is a cloud that provides services to cloud consumers but might not host any of its own resources.

• Brokers federate resources from different clouds making them available transparently to cloud consumers.

• Cloud consumers interact only with the broker cloud when requesting services, even though the delivered services come from other clouds.

Cloud Brokers

• Cloud Security Alliance http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/

• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) http://www.dmtf.org/

• The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) http://www.etsi.org/

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html

• Open Grid Forum (OGF) http://www.ogf.org/

• Object Management Group (OMG) http://www.ogf.org/

• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) http://www.snia.org/home

• Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/

• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) http://www.oasis-open.org/

• The Open Group: http://www.opengroup.org/cloudcomputing/

Emerging Standards

POLL 2

What approaches are most likely for cloud integration?

(Check all that apply)

Industry standard APIs/specifications

Vendor-specific APIs/specifications

Cloud broker

Other methods

David M. Powers, Associate Information Consultant

Eli Lilly and Company

Interacting with the Cloud

(2008-2009)

Lilly

Cloud-A

Cloud-F

Cloud-C

Cloud-B

Cloud-E

Cloud-D

“The Cloud”

Interacting with the cloudThe Orchestration Layer (2010)

Lilly

Cloud-A

Cloud-F

Cloud-C

Cloud-B

Cloud-E

Cloud-D

“The Cloud”

Orchestration

Layer

broker

Interacting with the cloudThe brokering Layer ? (2011)

Lilly

Cloud-A

Cloud-F

Cloud-C

Cloud-B Cloud-E

Cloud-D

“The Cloud”

Orchestration

Layer

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