1. State of the Cloud With a focus on the Enterprise & Infrastructure Thursday, October 22, 2009

2. What is Cloud? *IT operational modelchange:Self-service ITSoftwaredelivered viaPlatform automationCloud computing is Infrastructure cloud applied to Cloud Pyramid, borrowed frominfrastructure and Michael Sheehan, GoGridplatforms* This is the Cloudscaling definition; many will disagree Thursday, October 22, 2009 3. The Cloud (IT) StackThe Developing IT (Cloud) Stack Service ConsumerBiz Process (SOA-enabled)Business Owner Cloud Services (Cloud computing-enabled web services) Apps / Software (SaaS)End-userPlatformDeveloper Cloud Computing InfrastructureIT & Operations Thursday, October 22, 2009 4. Cloud Maturity ModelMarketLevel of Self-Service (Automation) (Federation) Utility Abstraction & ConsolidationCommoditization (over time) * Inspired largely by James Urquhart's Wisdom of Clouds posting Thursday, October 22, 2009 5. Enterprise IT is Under FireIncreasing competition from on-demand services3-12 month procure/deploy times vs. minutes$28,000 for a 2 core, 2GB rackmountDelivery 10x cost of h/w