Going to the Cloud: Ask the Expert Webcast
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WELCOME!
What You Need To Know About “The Cloud”
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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)
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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
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AGENDA
• What Is “The Cloud”?
• Where Is My Server?
• What Is Virtualization?
• What Is Metered Use?
• Why Should I Care?
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Everyone Is Talking About It
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What Is “The Cloud”?
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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
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Where is my server? “Trailer Park” Roofless Cloud Datacenter Concept
Image courtesy of tomshardware.com
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Container o’ servers!
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WHAT IS VIRTUALIZATION Cloud Primer
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Before Virtualization
• 1:1 relationship
between servers /
hardware
• Memory / disk space /
CPU tied to single
server
• Lots of servers….
• Lots of waste…
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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…..
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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”
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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 ->
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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.
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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
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The Cloud is Born
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PRIVATE CLOUD Different Types of Clouds
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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
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Private Cloud Providers
• Infrastructure as a
service (IaaS)
• Offer dedicated hardware
• Sage Nonprofit partners
with Rackspace on
Sage Nonprofit Online
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PUBLIC CLOUD Different Types of Clouds
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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”
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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
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HYBRID CLOUD Different Types of Clouds
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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”
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SAGE IN THE CLOUD
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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.