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Chris JT Auld Ryan CrawCour 1 March 2010 The Business Of The Cloud
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Chris JT AuldRyan CrawCour1 March 2010
The Business Of The Cloud
TIME
IT C
AP
AC
ITY
Actual Load
Allocated IT-capacities
Too Much Power
=Grumpy
CFO
Not Enough Power
= Grumpy
Customers& Grumpy CEO
Load Forecast
The Business Of The Cloud
A Big Yellow Knob!
Actual Load
Capacity on Demand
Lower Capex
No capital laying idle
=Happy CFO
No screaming customers
=Quiet CEO Golf Days
Knob goes up...
And...down
Time
IT C
AP
AC
ITY
Load Forecast
The Business Of The Cloud
vs
The Business Of The Cloud
CLOUD APPLICATIONS
Software as a Service
Someone else builds it You rock up with your credit card
Set the knob to how much you want
Use the service, paying for what you use
E.g. Email/BPOS, CRM Online, Online Payroll, What Xero sells you
Two Types of Cloud StuffCLOUD PLATFORMS
Platform as a Service
You build an app You stick it in someone’s giant data centre
They feed and water it Set the knob to how much power you need
E.g. Online ticketing, Technical computing/analysis, modellingWhat Xero would buy themselves
The Business Of The Cloud
Usage
Com
pu
te
Time
Average
Inactivity
Period
“On and Off “
On and off workloads (e.g. batch job)Over provisioned capacity is wasted Time to market can be cumbersomeE.g. Financial batch processing
Com
pu
te
Time
“Unpredictable Bursting“
Average Usage
Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand Sudden spike impacts performance Can’t over provision for extreme casesE.g. Sudden news events
Average UsageCom
pu
te
Time
“Growing Fast“
Successful services needs to grow/scale Keeping up w/growth is big IT challenge Complex lead time for deploymentE.g. Scale fast or Fail fast startups
Com
pu
te
Time
Average Usage
“Predictable Bursting“
Services with micro seasonality trends Peaks due to periodic increased demandIT complexity and wasted capacity E.g. Online ticketing
ENTERPRISE
DEDICATED CLOUD
PUBLIC CLOUD
PRIVATE CLOUD
Secure CloudFederation
INTERNAL IT
Dark Clouds
The Business Of The Cloud
The Business Of The Cloud
How Secure Is Your Data Centre?
+ +
The Business Of The Cloud
Data
Sovere
ign
ty
Dynamics In The Cloud
The Business Of The Cloud
2 column comparison listCRM Online
CRM “5” Online
SaaS Based Offering
Limited Availability Outside USA
Cannot run custom code
Big focus on the Cloud
Can’t say much more yet…..
Low Hanging Fruit
The Business Of The Cloud
Office Communica
tions Online
Email?Worried
about email. Use BPOS.
Dynamics CRM Online
Talk to us in 60 Days
Identify peaking workloads. Does
is justify migration cost?
Trial the Cloud during short run
campaigns
Questions
Thank you
