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WALKING IN THE CLOUDS? THUNDERBOLTS ARE OPPORTUNITIES!
Abhinav Jawadekar
What is cloud?
� Different people different answers
� Wikipedia definition (description?)� Cloud computing is a
paradigm of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the internet
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Advantages of cloud
� Pay-per-use model with very little or no upfront investment
� Increased time-to-market
� Reduced size of engineering and support teams
� Scalability
� Availability of building blocks reducing development complexity
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Thunderbolts
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� Significant email service outage from a leader in various cloud technologies despite of several server farms distributed across most of the continents
� Sudden changes in the behavior of user interface due to new release of AJAX API being accessed using the SaaS model
� A discovery that the cloud service hosting the website is migrating to a new interface that does not support many of the features being used by the website
� And some more….
Issues with cloud model
� Huge dependencies on cloud service provider or vendor lock-in
� Limited control over contract
� Ownership of data/ information/ operation
� Security of data/ information in flight and at rest
� Little or no control over vendor’s schedule
� Proprietary technologies specifically developed for particular cloud services
� Cloud service or vendor infrastructure as a single point of failure
� Changes in the cloud service or even a new release of SaaS might need updates to your technology
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� Strategy to move business operations to a different setup (another cloud service provider or own data center)
� Ensuring that you have the data/information with you in a form that can be transferred to alternate setup or restored in case of data loss by cloud provider
� Security and ownership of your data
� Strategy for porting the technology to a different setup (another cloud service provider or own data center)
Operations Data/Information Technology
Cloud Service: Analyzing the risks
Opportunities
� Escrow and insurance services
� Cloud Virtualizers
� Connectors between different cloud service providers as well as cloud and data center
� Caching devices or software
� Cloud Services with standards based APIs
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Cloud Virtualizer
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Vendor A
Vendor B
Virtualizer
Client
Cloud Connectors
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� Scripts/tools to upload/download data to/from cloud
� Custom tools or scripts to migrate between LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack or n-tier data-center to cloud service such as Google Application Engine
� Using cloud service for Disaster Recovery
� Data Recovery using cloud backup
� App Recovery (Simply Continuous AppAlive)
Cloud Caching Device or Software
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� Caches data locally for faster access or providing service despite of interrupted internet connectivity
� Google gears – offline gmail feature
� Nirvanix CloudNAS
Conclusion
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� Cloud Services are as real as the internet
� There are many challenges with the cloud model
� With appropriate risk analysis and mitigation, cloud could be the most pragmatic solution
Abhinav Jawadekar
+919890264391
www.soundparadigm.com
Thank you!Next steps…
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