Cloud Deployment Models

Dr. Amit Praseed

Dr. Amit Praseed

 How to host the Cloud?
• Remember Bob from
ABC Corporation?
• He has decided to
outsource their business to
the cloud!!
• But he faces some
difficult decisions!
– Should he approach a third
party?
– Should he ask his IT team
to build a cloud
infrastructure on their
company premises?

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• At its core, the cloud is
simply a datacentre, with
software capable of
managing virtualized
resources according to
user demand
• While choosing a cloud
solution, consider
– Where will the datacentre
reside?
– Who owns the datacentre?
– Who can use resources
within the datacentre?
– Who operates and manages
the datacentre?

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 Public vs Private Cloud
Public Cloud Private Cloud
• Provisioned for open use by • Exclusively used by an
general public organization
• Owned, managed and • Usually managed, operated
operated by business, and owned by the
academic or government organization
organizations • Usually resides on the
• Exists on the premises of the organization premises
cloud provider • Open source tools like
• Eg: Gmail, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack and Eucalyptus
Dropbox etc. can be used to build private
clouds
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 Here are the facts!
• ABC Corp. website has a significant user base
right now, and is expected to grow over time
• The data maintained by the company is related
to product details, and no financial details are
maintained (assume)
• Which cloud model – private or public –
would you recommend?

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 Here are the facts!
• What would be the case where there is also
sensitive data that has to be maintained?
– Credit card details
– Company expansion plans
– Other customer and employee data

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 Public Cloud Features
• Scalable
• Affordable
• Always available
• Stringent SLAs
• Less secure

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 When should one opt for Public
Clouds?
• Larger user base
• Varying resource usage
• Lack of infrastructure
• Financial constraints

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 Private Cloud Features
• Secure
• More control available
• Weak SLAs

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 When should one opt for Private
Clouds?
• Sufficient Funds
• Security and autonomy is paramount
• Few users
• Sufficient resources are available

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 Hybrid Cloud
• Organization manages both private and public
clouds
• Services can be used from either cloud,
depending on organizational policies
• Sometimes, a private cloud could be used be
used till its capacity is met, after which the
workload spills over to the public cloud –
Cloud Bursting

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 Community Cloud
• Infrastructure is shared between several
organizations from a specific community with
common concerns (security, compliance,
jurisdiction, etc.)
• Managed internally or by a third-party and
hosted internally or externally
• Eg: IBM SoftLayer cloud for federal agencies

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 Features of Community Cloud
• Collaborative effort
• No party has full control
• Partially secure
• Cost effective

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 When should one opt for Community
Clouds?
• Need for collaboration
• Financial constraints
• Less maintenance costs

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Cloud Deployment Models - Summary
• Depending on who owns and operates the
cloud, and who can access the cloud, there are
4 deployment models
– Public Cloud
– Private Cloud
– Community Cloud
– Hybrid Cloud

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Can a cloud run out of resources?

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Can we connect the Clouds?

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 Intercloud
• Intercloud – “Cloud of Clouds”
• Mesh of clouds unified based on open standard
protocols to provide interoperability
• Interconnects multiple cloud providers’
infrastructures.
– Focus is on direct interoperability between public
cloud service providers

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 Need for Intercloud
• Scalability + wider resource availability
• Interoperability + avoiding vendor lock-in
• Availability and disaster recovery
• Geographic distribution and low latency access
• Legal and regulatory issues

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 Types of Interclouds
• Federation Clouds: A set of cloud providers willingly interconnect
their cloud infrastructures in order to share resources
– Voluntary contribution
– Suitable for collaboration of governmental clouds or private cloud
portfolios
– Types of federation clouds are Peer to Peer and Centralized clouds.
• Multi-Cloud: A client or service uses multiple independent clouds
– No voluntary interconnection and sharing
– Managing resource provisioning and scheduling is the responsibility of
client or their representatives.
– Used to utilize resources from both governmental clouds and private
cloud portfolios.

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 Types of Federated Clouds
• Peer to peer Inter-Cloud federation
– Clouds collaborate directly with each other but may use
distributed entities for directories or brokering.
– Eg: RESERVOIR (Resources and Services Virtualization
without Barriers Project), Open Cirrus etc
• Centralized Inter-Cloud federation
– Clouds use a central entity to perform or facilitate resource
sharing.
– The central entity acts as a storehouse where the available
cloud resources are registered.
– Eg: Contrail, Dynamic Cloud Collaboration (DCC) and
Federated Cloud Management.

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 Types of Multi Clouds
• Multicloud Service
– Clients access multiple clouds through a service.
– A service is hosted by the cloud client either externally or
in-house.
– Eg: OPTIMIS, mOSAIC, STRATOS and Commercial
Cloud Management Systems
• Multicloud Libraries
– Clients develop their own brokers by using a unified cloud
API as a library
– Facilitate the usage of clouds in a uniform
– Eg: Java library JClouds, Python library Apache
LibClouds, Ruby library, Apache DeltaCloud, PHP library
SimpleCloud, Apache Nuvem

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