Realizing the Promise of the Cloud

Realizing the Promise of the CloudIWM202

Steve Carter, Novell Fellow

Carolyn McClain, Distinguished Engineer

Dale Olds, Distinguished Engineer

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How can you use the cloud today,

or get ready to use ittomorrow?


What is Cloud Computing?

Some have called cloud computing, “stupid”, “marketing hype”, a new term for “everything that we already do”

While the cloud is a natural outgrowth of “what we already do,” e.g., the Internet – there are new ideas and capabilities to cloud computing and storage that will provide new business models for the future

Not much difference to the consumer

A lot of difference and opportunity to service providers


Despite the Hype – 2010 Promises:

Only 2 percent of workloads will be moved to the cloud

Whereas 30 percent of workloads will be virtualized


To Use the Cloud, Virtualization is Not Enough• Heavy use of virtualization, but being virtualized is

not enough– IP address usage

– Auto discovery

– Securing the process

• Moving enterprise workloads to the cloud is more than just virtualization – need storage and content

– Where is your storage and content?

– Content security at rest and in use


Characteristic Differentiation

Physical environment

Net environment

Security environment

Compliance environment

Unknown physical

Contrived network

3rd party security

3rd party compliance

Virtualization Cloud


Service, Not Server

Think Service

Scale

Secure

Manage

Connect

Monitor


Tenancy

Multi-tenancy is a must for the cloud provider

Multi-tenancy is a concern for the cloud consumer


Step 1


Step 2


Step 3


Step 4


Step 5 - Annexation


How We Used the Model


The Cloud is Usable Today

• Just don't expect it to work like your data center

– Think, “provision service not virtual image”

– Think, “disparate clouds”

** Don't make physical assumptions **

• Run experiments first to get it right

• Evaluate your preparedness to accept the risk

Questions and Answers

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How the Cloud is being advanced

• Cloud started out as a way to make revenue on unused capacity

• Now a business in its own right– Still monetizing unused capacity– Clouds being built specific to market cloud capabilities– MSP and hosting providers moving to cloud technology to

provide easier use of resources and incremental revenue– Enterprise using cloud technology to implement departmental

“charge-back”• Opex vs. Capex

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