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Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
Cutting Through the Hype: Clouds in Context
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Some ‘truths’ about the Cloud
The Cloud Computing Stack
The Cloud and Higher Education
Topics
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Some ‘Truths’ about the Cloud
Some more true than others!What do you think?
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It’s just Off-Premise
Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin Cisco, VMware et al pushing on-premise Clouds
www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-1000.jpg
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It’s like the Electrical Grid
www.flickr.com/photos/cpstorm/132212117/
Or music downloads, or mainframes, or...
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Rode Cloud meme in 2008. Listen to our 2009 podcast.
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It’s Cheap
www.flickr.com/photos/esdrascalderan/357434020/
For elastic or periodic jobs.Less clear-cut for ‘normal’ load
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It’s Green
www.flickr.com/photos/venteco/2851026377/
Probably… but Simon Wardley
http://tr.im/greenclouds
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19%
21%
25%
35%
Not Convinced Too much hype Yes Green benefits unrealised
www.rackspace.com/downloads/surveys/GreenSurvey2009.pdf
Do you view cloud computing as a greener alternative to traditional computing infrastructures?
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It’s Unreliable
www.flickr.com/photos/raver_mikey/2300514593/
Numbers don’t add up...
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It’s Insecure
www.flickr.com/photos/8323834@N07/500995147/
And your data centre is ???
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USA will read my data
www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484013571/
PATRIOT Act and data territoriality are real… but manageable
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It’s Amazon
www.flickr.com/photos/lucasartoni/2967023166/
And Rackspace, and Microsoft, and Sun, and HP, and Google, and...
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0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
July August September
Amazon Rackspace Joyent GoGrid
www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/09/state-of-the-cloud-september-2009/
Guy Rosen has begun tracking trends, using QuantCast’s top 500,000 sites
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“It’s like computers on the Internet, innit?”
With thanks to Simon Wardley
www.flickr.com/photos/fimbrethil/2642775023/
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The Cloud Stack‘The Cloud’ lumps different concepts/capabilities together
www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3089163372/
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“convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources...”
csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/
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Software/Application [as a Service](SaaS)
Platform [as a Service](PaaS)
Infrastructure [as a Service](IaaS)
Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others!all ‘Cloud’… but DIFFERENT!
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SaaS
PaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...)storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...)
Elasticity (Rightscale…)Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…)
ElectricityCooling
etc.
outsource raw infrastructure - avoid significant CapExscale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payrollhybrid - IBM Blue Cloud
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SaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Salesforce force.comApprenda SaaSGridGoogle App Engine
Microsoft AzureAppistry
Talis Platform
IaaS
‘does heavy lifting’concentrate on your app’s USP
least developed but most potential?
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Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps, ZohoAcrobat.com, iWork.com
Kashflow, FreeAgentWordPress.com
MobileMeSalesforce.com
PaaS
IaaS
lightweight applications, delivered over Webmostly low-end disruptors for now...
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Data
SaaS
DataPaaS
Data
IaaS
Data
data are at every level of the stack… becomes more important as the stack commoditises
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The Cloud and HEwww.flickr.com/photos/xavierla/3838988544/
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Only UK award in latest round.KCL, Cambridge, Bristol previous recipients...
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Opportunities exist at each level of the stack
But none are necessarily right for everyone.
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virtualise existing on-campus servers
JIT equipment for research groups, like Eli Lilly
aggregate data centres locally, regionally, nationally
‘Cloudburst’ for exam results, clearing, registration…
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build internal software on Platforms, instead of from the bottom up
replace suitable desktop software with appropriate Cloud apps
hand the pain of email and scheduling to YahoogleSoft, and go Web 2.0 for free
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Closing Thoughts
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In this issue
04
20
32
Spinning a data Web
Making Semantic Web
connections
A CIO’s strategy for
rethinking “messy BI”
A quarterly journal
Spring 2009
Technologyforecast
www.pwc.com/techforecastrecent, useful.‘Evergreen IT’
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‘The Cloud’ is not the answer‘The Cloud’ probably doesn’t exist!
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Cloud solutions may well help ease your pain points…
but only you know where those are for your institution
cost? efficiency? scalability? green? self-service?
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Start simplewhy not give that demanding research group some EC2 credit instead of another server...
...and Simone’s email address instead of yours!
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The Cloud of Data
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