Cloud Computing - a five minute summary
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The document discusses using cloud computing instead of traditional on-premise servers to launch a new product worldwide in one month. Cloud computing offers paying only for the resources needed, avoiding large upfront costs for hardware, software licenses, and support. It provides benefits like 30% reduction in IT capital spending, lower monthly server costs of $110-400 compared to $400-1100 for on-premise, and fast deployment without long lock-in contracts. However, there are also technical challenges to address like performance, security, support from independent software vendors, and ensuring standards.
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Cloud Computing - a five minute summary
- 1. Cloud Computing Paul Thompson [email_address]
- 3. Your company is launching a new product worldwide in one months time… You need your IT department to enable the marketing, distribution and support of the product.
- 4. Your CTO Here’s my shopping list; New server hardware, New software licences, Upgrades to power , cooling and DRM . We’ll need 24/7/365 99.999 support Will the network be able to support the volumes? I’ll need to do some testing I’ll need at least FOUR MONTHS…
- 5. Why not Use to the Cloud… Pay only for the server resources, applications and bandwidth that you need. When the rush is over turn it off and stop paying
- 6. What is Cloud Computing?
- 7. Traditional Enterprise = software component enterprise enterprise enterprise
- 8. Cloud Computing enterprise enterprise enterprise Storage, Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service
- 9. Characteristics Utility Billing No Lock-in Instant Provisioning Scalable Service Driven Internet Technology Multi Tenancy Application Agnostic Virtualised
- 10. Benefits
- 11. 30% Reduction IT Capital Spend (Forrester 2008)
- 12. $110 $400 Amazon EC2 Enterprise Average Monthly Server Costs (Forrester 2008)
- 13. Low Lock-in Fast Deployment Cheap Sand Pit Environment Outsource non-core skills
- 15. Performance Stability Security ISV Support Locality Enterprise Standards Network
- 16. Cloud Computing Big savings, but it’s early days… Strong benefits