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Introduction to Cloud Computing - TieConMidwest 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Get Your Head in the Cloud
Steven Robert
Chief Information Officer
Billhighway.comTwitter.com/stevenRobert
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About Me
Steven Robert | CIO – Billhighway.com
• Billhighway is…
– “Quick Books for Communities”
• > 250,000 members in 50 States & Canada
• Process > $1M in dues, fees & donations per day
• > $2 billion in transactions processed to date
Husband, Dad, Entrepreneur, Optimist, Problem-Solver, Passionate Technologist, Information Junkie & Life Hacker.
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“Hell, there are no rules here,we’re trying to accomplish something”
~ Thomas Edison
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Define: Cloud Computing
• Platform or “service” accessed over a network to provide advanced, often transparent functionality for mass consumption and high-availability.
• Seasonal or as-needed utilizationis a classic use case.
• Evolutionary:ASP -> SaaS/PaaS -> Cloud
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Generally Accepted Characteristics
• Self-Service
• Delivered over the network
• Elastic scalability (grow as big as you need, pay as you go...)
* Think of it as renting IT resources vs. buying.
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Cloud -> Business Translation
• Consider the cloud a technical utility.
• Understand your risk tolerance and current business stage to establish a threshold for use.
• Stages of a business:• Stage 1: Incubator (Speed to Market)• Stage 2: Growth (Competitive Differentiation)• Stage 3: Expansion (Core Competency)• Stage 4: Maturity (R&D)• Stage 5: Declining Conditions (Defense)
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Technical Flavors
• Infrastructure Platforms
• Application Development Platforms
• Business App Platforms
• Special App Platforms:
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Who are the Providers?
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Early Adopters
1. Zillow – Amazon EC2
2. Intuit – Amazon S3
3. Animoto – Amazon EC2
– Released Facebook App: users were able to render photos into MTV like videos
• Ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in 3 days
• Signed up 20,000 new user per hour at peak
• Went from 50 to 3,500 servers in 5 days
• Two weeks later scaled back to 100 servers
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Sounds Great – Right?
• A few things to think about…
– Downtime: Gmail / Postini – “Going Google”
– Reliability: Twitter API
– Product Maturity
– Security
– Backups
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Do Your Homework!
• PRO’s– Reduced costs
– Resource sharing is more efficient
– Management moves to cloud provider
– Consumption based cost
– Speed to market
– Dynamic allocation
• CON’s– Compliance/Regulation
laws mandate on-site ownership of data
– Security & Privacy
– Latency & Bandwidth guarantees
– Absence of robust SLAs
– Portability & lock-in
– Availability & reliability
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Opportunities
• Mashups!
– Consume third party APIs
• Existing Market Places:
– Open Social / Google Wave
– iPhone / App Store
– Salesforce.com