WELCOME!

What You Need To Know About “The Cloud”

2

About Sage

Over 32,000 Unique Not-For-Profit Customers in North America

6.2 Million Customers Worldwide

3rd largest ERP solution provider to businesses worldwide

The Sage Group, plc. (London: SGE.L)

3

Our Speaker

Grant Howe

Vice President of R&D

Sage Nonprofit Solutions

15+ years in Software Development

30 years experience with Nonprofits

Boy Scouts of America, Sig Tau Alumni Association

Board Member

Favorite food: Italian (anything with Alfredo sauce)

@geekbyte if you want to tweet nice things

@darthvader if you want to use the dark side

4

AGENDA

• What Is “The Cloud”?

• Where Is My Server?

• What Is Virtualization?

• What Is Metered Use?

• Why Should I Care?

5

Everyone Is Talking About It

6

What Is “The Cloud”?

7

Where Is My Server? • You just can’t hug a cloud server

Example of “blackbox” server

Image courtesy of tomshardware.com

“I am the cloud”

Inside a server container

8

Where is my server? “Trailer Park” Roofless Cloud Datacenter Concept

Image courtesy of tomshardware.com

9

Container o’ servers!

10

WHAT IS VIRTUALIZATION Cloud Primer

11

Before Virtualization

• 1:1 relationship

between servers /

hardware

• Memory / disk space /

CPU tied to single

server

• Lots of servers….

• Lots of waste…

12

After Virtualization

• Many:1 relationship between servers / hardware

• Memory / disk space / CPU shared across sets of servers

• Fewer and bigger servers to manage….

• Resource optimization…

• Dell PowerEdge Blade Enclosure

• 16 Hardware “blades”

• Up to 8 CPU “cores” each

• Its possible to run 128 servers

in several square feet of space…..

13

What Magic is this?

• How do we fool many servers in to using the same

hardware?

• How do we assure they play nice and the resources

are allocated appropriately?

• Introducing the magic of the

“Hyper-Visor”

14

What is a Hyper-Visor • A thin layer of magic software paint

• Fools the operating system (Windows, etc.)

• Manages allocation of resources

• Manages fault tolerance

• Provides a management interface to create and manage

virtual servers

Magic Paint ->

15

How did we get to Cloud from

Virtualization?

• Traditional virtualization still required in house servers

• People saw the value of having more small servers

• We all began buying bigger hardware

• But the number of virtual servers skyrocketed….

• So we bought more hardware....

• A vicious cycle!

• We have more hardware than ever before to manage

and its even more critical than it used to be.

16

The Cloud is Born

• Amazon had built their own Private massive

virtualized environment

• They figured out how to build a massive hypervisor

network that spanned all of their data centers

• It was a key business need for their growth to be able

to scale quickly and efficiently on a massive scale

• Whoa, we could “rent” our computing power to other

companies! $$$$$

• Amazon EC2 and S3 were born as metered use

offerings to the general Public

17

The Cloud is Born

18

PRIVATE CLOUD Different Types of Clouds

19

Private Clouds

• Pool of resources that are solely yours to allocate

• Most like the “Family Plan” we all know

– No one outside your family can share that pool of minutes,

but you don’t get to use more than your total pool of minutes.

• Best for: servers that have stable resource usage

• Can be expensive if not fully utilizing resources

20

Private Cloud Providers

• Infrastructure as a

service (IaaS)

• Offer dedicated hardware

• Sage Nonprofit partners

with Rackspace on

Sage Nonprofit Online

21

PUBLIC CLOUD Different Types of Clouds

22

Public Clouds

• Shared resources and/or bandwidth

• Like a phone plan where you share minutes with your

entire city, a “Neighborhood Plan”

• Best for: when you need to scale internet facing

servers, like web servers

• Pay premium for flexibility and

burst capacity

• Example: “The Oprah Effect”

23

Public Cloud Providers

• Infrastructure as a service

(IaaS)

• Platform as a Service

(PaaS)

• Shared hardware only

• Saleslogix and Sage

One hosted on Amazon

EC2

• Watch for new Sage

offerings on Windows

Azure

24

HYBRID CLOUD Different Types of Clouds

25

Hybrid Clouds

• Creating a link between both a Public and Private

Cloud so they can work together

• If you could have a “Family Plan” and “Neighborhood

Plan” on your phone and choose to which plan to

charge the minutes

– You could be more conservative with your dedicated minutes

and more generous with the shared ones.

• Best for: when you need to scale some services (web,

fundraising) but not others (reporting, backend

database)

• “Buy the base, rent the spike”

26

SAGE IN THE CLOUD

27

www.SageNonprofit.com/SageNonprofitOnline

28

Contact Information

• Listen to this webcast here.

• Connect with Grant via email at Grant (dot) Howe (at) Sage (dot)

com or Twitter @geekbyte

• Connect with Sage

– www.SageNonprofit.com

– Email nps <at> sage <dot> com

– Download the presentation and handouts from

www.slideshare.net/sagenonprofit

– Read a follow up blog, http://www.SageWords.net.