Cloud Computing Essentials

Cloud Computing Essentials

Presented by: Ward Quarles, Velocity Technology Solutions

Part of 2012 Cloud Computing Online Learning Series

Velocity Technology

Solutions Velocity – the ERP in the cloud company – hosts and manages ERP, related applications, and disaster recovery services within its virtual private cloud environment. Aim is to lower operational costs, increasing service levels and improving software performance while reducing the burden on IT staff and enabling deployment flexibility. Our team has exceptional expertise managing enterprise software 24/7. Combined with our proprietary technology and superfast infrastructure, we increase application availability, security, and control. As a result, our customers are better positioned to accelerate enterprise growth and agility, attract and retain customers, and reduce cost, turning their ERP platforms into a strategic asset. Velocity is headquartered in New York City. www.velocity.cc

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THE CLOUD COMPUTING

LANDSCAPE


Types of clouds


Objectives of today’s session

Today’s session is not: 1. A study of meteorology (clouds is nephology) 2. A services or product presentation 3. A sales pitch

Today’s session is: 1. An education session on cloud computing

terminology 2. A review of current industry trends 3. An encouragement for your organization to consider

cloud computing strategies


Definition of cloud computing

From National Institute of Standards and Technology

“A computing model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources, including networks, servers, storage, applications and services, that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” (www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/)


Cloud computing means more

flexibility for you


The next stage in the Internet's evolution

Computing infrastructure, applications, business processes, and personal collaboration delivered to you as a service

Wherever and whenever access

More flexibility = more control to

manage your business


More time to focus on innovation

Addresses shortage of IT expertise and

resources

Provides a model for more

controllable, predictable costs of

ownership

Helps maximize the strategic value of

ERP CONTROL

Benefits: availability, speed, and

innovation 1. Easy to deploy

2. Faster to deploy

3. Pay only for what you use

4. Less in-house IT staff/costs

5. Monthly payments

6. Offers the latest functionality

7. Encourages more standardization of IT

8. Sharing systems and information simpler

9. It’s the way of the future


Source: IDC

Potential challenges: security,

quality of service, and fit


1. Security

2. Performance

3. Availability

4. Hard to integrate with in-house IT

5. Not enough ability to customize

6. Cost more than on-premise

7. Bringing back in-house may be difficult

8. Regulatory requirements prohibit cloud

9. Not enough suppliers yet Source: IDC

Participants


Essential elements lead to

flexibility

Elasticity Faster and/or self-provisioning and de-provisioning

Application Programming Interfaces

Pay-as-you-go billing model


Essential element:

Elasticity

• Creating, launching, and terminating computing resources, as needed

• The more resources active and available, the more elastic

Often enabled by virtualization technology


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Essential element:

Provisioning

• Companies or their service providers control the deployment of cloud services through a defined service catalog


Memory

Databases

IP Addresses

Networking

Data Storage

CPU

Applications

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Essential element:

Application Program

Interfaces

• Control APIs: allow cloud infrastructure to be added, reconfigured, or removed in real time

• Data APIs: are the conduits through which data flows in and out of the cloud

• Application functionality APIs: enable the functionality with which end users interact with infrastructure and data

APIs will evolve as cloud offerings become more complex.


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Essential element:

Billing

• Cloud computing employs a usage billing model

• Billing models include:

- per user

- per gigabyte (GB)

- per server

- pay per-use

Billing types will evolve based on the imagination of the service provider and the user.


Oracle cloud computing:

5 essentials

1. Rapid Elasticity

2. On-Demand self-service provisioning

3. Broad network access

4. Measure service (Billing and metering of service usage)

5. Resource pooling


Source: Oracle’s Achieving the Cloud Computing Vision

THE ABC OF CLOUDS AND ITS

SERVICE MODELS


Types of clouds Public cloud: service provider

Private cloud: internal or service provider

Hybrid cloud: combine public and private

Community cloud


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Types of cloud

Resources are dynamically provisioned on a self-service basis over the Internet, via web applications and web services, from an off-site third party provider who bills on a utility computing basis.

• Oracle

• Amazon

• Apple

• VMware


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Types of cloud

Offered on private networks from a provider has insight into workload and impacts to the infrastructure. Offers flexibility to customize solutions to meet security and performance requirements.

• Velocity virtual private cloud

• Oracle

• Your company?


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Types of cloud

• Some IT departments must still deliver services via traditional, in-house methods.

• Companies will utilize a mix of public and private cloud approaches, depending upon the business requirements of their technology environment


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Types of cloud

• Organizations with similar requirements that seek to share infrastructure to realize the benefits of cloud computing

• Costs are spread over fewer users than a public cloud, but more than a single tenant

• May offer a higher level of privacy, security, and/or policy compliance and can be economically attractive as the resources are utilized and shared in the community


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Cloud Deployment Preference Change (Buyer’s Open to Broader Scope)

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Control | SLA | Specialization | Security | Agility | Price Advantage | Access | Elasticity

Public

• Designed for a market, not a single enterprise

• Open to a largely unrestricted universe of potential users

• Customers buy at specific level of abstraction (server, application, platform)

• Single-vendor or multi-vendor

Multiple unrelated

enterprises (shared)

Hybrid

• Enterprise’s cloud services portfolio includes both private and public cloud services

• Some specific services are delivered in a combination of public and private models (e.g., private cloud “bursting to” a public cloud service)

Virtual and physical (non-

cloud) resources and

applications

D.I.Y.

Private

• Designed for, and access restricted to, a single enterprise (or extended enterprise)

• An internal shared resource, not a commercial offering

• IT Org is the “vendor” of the shared/std service to its users

Resource

Isolation

Single enterprise/

extended enterprise

(dedicated)

Cloud service models


Dynamic Application Services: applications, including customizations, are fully managed by a service provider in a virtual private cloud

Software as a Service: standard, non-customized applications delivered as a shared service to end users over the Internet

Platform as a Service: application development and deployment platform delivered as a service

Infrastructure as a Service: server, storage, and network hardware and associated software delivered as a service


• Day-to-day application management and technical support, including CNC expertise, for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World

• Virtual private cloud application infrastructure

• Data backup and disaster recovery

• Service level agreement


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• CRM applications available on Oracle hardware from Oracle data center

• Siebel CRM applications in a multi-tenant architecture

• Oracle charges for number of users and number of months used


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• Google’s App Engine enables developers to build and host web apps on the same systems that power Google applications

• App Engine provides platform for fast development and deployment

• Google promotes simple administration, patches and backups


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• Virtual computers available for running customer applications

• Amazon charges for quantity of data processed or hourly usage

• Servers available in pre-defined sizes, processing power, and geographic location


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• Designed for storing music, photos, and application data

• Apple provides applications to push data to all your devices

• Apple charges for iTunes Match application

• Downloaded to iPhone with latest Apple update


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Standalone application

No interoperability (standalone) among applications and no integration with the

other application suite

Loose integration

Adopt Talent Management to

coexist with Oracle’s PeopleSoft human

resources functionality. In this

case, the loose interoperability

comes from integrating people,

employees, hierarchies, or management

hierarchies of the PeopleSoft system.

Tight integration

Real-time integration of manufacturing

with order capture, order fulfillment,

and CRM. This may be Web service-based, real-time

integration among multiple

applications.

Complete adoption

A complete set of financials,

procurement, and project modules—replacing existing

products as an upgrade to complete

back-office ERP systems.

Cloud computing options: Oracle

software suite scenarios


“We see Cloud-based infrastructures as among the most capable, reliable, and secure IT infrastructures available.”

Analysts: “Cloud computing is

moving mainstream”


“All cloud markets will continue to grow, and the total cloud market (including private, virtual private, and public cloud markets) will reach about $61 billion by the end of 2012.”

A recap: Benefits of cloud

computing


Business agility flexibility in compute resources cloud computing can deliver

Greater cost control resource elasticity, usage billing model, leveraging scale offered by a technology service

Faster time to market ease/speed of Implementation

Increased workforce productivity

systems can be accessed from wherever you are

Reduced business risk experienced service providers who know how to optimize cloud infrastructures

Higher technology service levels

cloud is designed to provide better response time than internal server hardware

How do I pick a Cloud Provider?

• If Applications and Security are most important – Private Cloud better than Public Cloud

• If Economics is more important than Applications –Public Cloud better than Private Cloud

• If Cost is important – Private Cloud with an OpEx model is better than on-premise CapEx

• If Resource constraints is a concern – Dynamic Application Service Provider model is best for specialized application skills

• If Experience of the Provider is key – Ask for number of cloud customers, number of years serving from cloud, applications supported, and references


Thank you for attending

For more information or additional questions for any of the speakers please email Ward Quarles,

director of strategic alliances at Velocity Technology Solutions at [email protected], or call

866.638.2779.

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