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Understanding Cloud Computing

Cloud computing involves storing and accessing data and applications over the Internet instead of local hardware. It provides scalable IT resources and services to customers remotely. There are different layers of cloud computing including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Major advantages are lower costs, flexibility, and minimal maintenance requirements compared to traditional IT. However, security, intellectual property issues, and reliability depend on the cloud provider.

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Understanding Cloud Computing

Cloud computing involves storing and accessing data and applications over the Internet instead of local hardware. It provides scalable IT resources and services to customers remotely. There are different layers of cloud computing including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Major advantages are lower costs, flexibility, and minimal maintenance requirements compared to traditional IT. However, security, intellectual property issues, and reliability depend on the cloud provider.

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UNIT I - UNDERSTANDING CLOUD

COMPUTING

Cloud Computing
History of Cloud Computing
Cloud Architecture
Cloud Storage
Why Cloud Computing
Advantages of Cloud Computing
Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
Companies in the Cloud Today
Cloud Services

What is ?
Cloud computingis a technology that
uses the internet and central remote
servers to maintain data and applications.

A simple example of cloud computing is Yahoo email or Gmail etc

A style of computing where massively


scalable (and elastic) IT-related capabilities
are provided as a service to external
customers using Internet technologies

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Cloud Architecture
Architecture
Cloud

Different Cloud Computing Layers


MS Live/ExchangeLabs, IBM,
Application Service
Google Apps; Salesforce.com
(SaaS)
Quicken Online, Zoho, Cisco

Google App Engine, Mosso,


Application Platform(PaaS)
Force.com, Engine Yard,
Facebook, Heroku, AWS
3Tera, EC2, SliceHost,
Server Platform(IaaS)

GoGrid, RightScale, Linode

Storage Platform(IaaS)
Amazon S3, Dell, Apple, ...
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Cloud Storage
Several large Web companies (such as Amazon
and Google) are now exploiting the fact that
they have data storage capacity that can be
hired out to others.
This approach, known as cloud storage allows
data stored remotely to be temporarily cached
on desktop computers, mobile phones or other
Internet-linked devices.
Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and
Simple Storage Solution (S3) are well known
examples.
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Merits of Cloud Computing


Cost:
Well with all the required software and even hard drives accessible from the cloud,
the budget of the business is greatly reduced. There are no infrastructure costs
or other Capex (capital expenses). End to expensive servers, routers, etc. When
the business is having less or very optimum investment then cloud is the right
option. However the expense in cloud scenario is all or nothing policy.
Easy to learn and use:
If you have used Gmail, Google Docs, then cloud is nothing new to you. Since the
staff would be a well expertise in Gmail and other basic cloud concepts, no
special training is required; thereby satisfying the time and the cost constraint.
Obviously, now there would no need to hire experienced expensive IT
professionals, since this application is a trouble-free one.
Flexibility:
Documents, software, hard drive, storage equipment, etc anything can be
accessed from anywhere through cloud; hence no need for the staffs to be office
to do the work. Moreover this allows staff to work at anytime thus increasing
staff morale.
Maintenance:
No more software updates, reinstalling of applications or even sorting out of
software problems since these problems would be sorted out remotely, thus the
employee can concentrate more on his/her own work.
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Demerits of Cloud
computing

Security:
Security is the X-Factor for any business. Just imagine your data being visible to all, or
maybe your business strategies visible to all? Negative point, right? Thats what the
scenario in cloud computing is; your data will be shared with other companies on the
same platform. Of course your cloud vendor will have a higher level of security than the
one you have in-house. Still regarding security cloud cant be rated excellent.
Intellectual property (IP) issues:
There can be a bit chaos as most cloud providers will have different requisites and
conditions regarding tenure of the data. To overcome this demerit, you must have read
the fine print and understand things like when can you access your data, what happens
to your data is your vendor ebbs, distribution rights, etc initially. Also keep an eye on the
rules to know whether breach of any kind may occur for your IP.
Wireless connections:
Connecting to wireless devices is not the easiest task to do. This problem is for small scale
industries rather than larger business since larger companies have well structured
network thus making wireless connections easy. Sometimes certain softwares are
designed to relate to certain PCs alone in that case even usage of software maybe a
problem.
Performance and Reliability:
Since everything you access is online, there might be a risk in CIA parameters
(Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability). Moreover the speed of your process depends
on the speed of the network (when there is network traffic, the speed of our process may
collapse). Additionally there can be noise in the media if any major application is down.
In order to overcome this you must review the SLA (Service Level Agreement).
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Who Benefits from Cloud


Computing
Collaborators
Road Warriors
Cost-Conscious Users
Cost-Conscious IT Departments
Users with Increasing Needs

Top Cloud Service Providers


With that M&A activity as background, here are my rankings for the Top 30
Cloud Service Providers Gaining Mind Share in 3Q 2010.

Amazon Web Services(AWS),Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2),


Simple Storage Service(S3), andVirtual Private Cloud(VPC)
Salesforce.com/Sales Cloud 2(CRM),Service Cloud 2(Support),
Force.com(Development Platform),Chatter(Collaboration)
Google Apps(AppEngine)
Citrix XenServer(Virtualization)
VMWare vSphere(Virtualization)
Rackspace Mosso
3PAR
Cisco
IBM Smart Business, Cloudburst
AT&T Synaptic
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Verizon
rPath
Appistry Rightscale(#7 management)
Joyent GoGrid
3Tera AppLogic Microsoft Azure, Hyper-V
NetSuite Zuora
Eucalyptus CohesiveFT
Boomi Red Hat

Appirio Cloud Connectors


Relational Networks LongJumpAppZero
Enomaly Elastic Compute Platform(ECP)
Intacct Elastra
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Some Commercial Cloud


Offerings

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Cloud Computing Service Layers

Applicati
on
Focused

nfrastructur
e
Focused

Services

Description

Services

Services Complete business services such


as PayPal, OpenID, OAuth, Google Maps,
Alexa

Application

Application Cloud based software that


eliminates the need for local installation
such as Google Apps, Microsoft Online
Development Software development
platforms used to build custom cloud based
applications (PAAS & SAAS) such as
SalesForce
Platform Cloud based platforms, typically
provided using virtualization, such as
Amazon ECC, Sun Grid

Development
Platform
Storage
Hosting

Storage Data storage or cloud based NAS


such as CTERA, iDisk, CloudNAS
Hosting Physical data centers such as those
run by IBM, HP, NaviSite, etc.

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