Leveraging The Cloud In 2009
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The presentation discusses the advantages of leveraging cloud services, notably comparing costs between in-house servers and Amazon's cloud computing services. It highlights the cost-effectiveness and performance benefits of using platforms like AWS and Google Apps, demonstrating significant savings for businesses. Additionally, it explores various cloud deployment options and emphasizes automation and scalability in cloud solutions.
Leveraging The Cloud In 2009
- 1. Leveraging the Cloud in 2009 A presentation for Enterprise technologists Presented by Ed Laczynski CTO LTech
- 2. The Cloud: Noise or Necessity?
- 3. It is Disruptive “ In a recent test, the Defense Information Systems Agency compared the cost of developing a simple application called the Tech Early Bird on $30,000 worth of in-house servers and software with the costs of developing the same application using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon.com’s Web Services. Amazon charged 10 cents an hour for the service, and DISA paid a total of $5 to develop an application that matched the performance of the in-house application.” Quoted from:
- 4. But what is it? Extreme programmability through open APIs Embrace open standards Disruptive and Flexible pricing
- 5. Where can we leverage the Cloud today? Web Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services and RightScale Messaging and Collaboration: Google Apps
- 6. Cloud Ecosystem Cloud Deployment Platform Infrastructure as a Service Amazon Cloud Cloud Cloud Decreasing Lock-in / Increasing Portability Increasing Automation SAAS PAAS IAAS Software as a Service Platform as a Service Programming Environment Data Model & Database Monitoring & Analytics Operating System Application Application Data
- 7. Web Infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service
- 8. Classic dilemmas Up-front costs Peak vs. average utilization time hardware load time peak load average load load mon tue wed thu fri sat sun Plus: Testing Development Batch Hiring Price …
- 11. Standard deployment 4-servers 2x load balancer / app servers 2x master/slave database EC2 “small” servers 1.75 GB memory “ 1.7 Ghz” CPU 160GB disk $0.10/hr MySQL master MySQL slave App Srvr App Srvr replication Amazon S3 daily backup backup every 10 min Apache Apache www.mysite.com HAproxy HAproxy
- 12. Scale the app MySQL master MySQL slave App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr 1/array replication Amazon S3 App Srvr N/array Apache Apache HAproxy HAproxy 2x front-ends w/Elastic IPs 2+N app servers
- 13. RightScale Architecture Web-based Cloud Management Environment * Management Dashboard * User Permissions * Life Cycle Support Cloud Aware ServerTemplate Libraries Automation Engine * Rules * Policies APIs * Functionality * Customization Customer Library RightScale Library Partner Library Community Multi-Cloud Engine * Monitoring * Alerts Customers Professional Services Partners Cloud Infrastructure
- 14. Running your web servers and databases on Amazon / RightScale Development QA Load and Performance Testing Public and Private Intranet or Extranet Multiple server sizes: ½ core to 8 cores Reassign IPs / VIPs Multiple failure zones Multiple geographies Disk volumes Automation tying it all together
- 15. Messaging and Collaboration Software as a Service
- 16. Messaging and Collaboration: Google Apps
- 17. Google Apps Robust API Flexible Uses Keeps getting better
- 19. Business Needs: More Money at the Bottom Line $50/user/year Google Apps costs 50% or less than competitive solutions - Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. Not including savings on Office licensing for casual users Not including Collaboration or Video offerings LTech saved a national ISP over $3,000,000 per year with Google Apps. Flexible licensing – Scale users up or down.
- 20. Platform as a Service
- 21. Worth a look: Google AppEngine Reduced complexity, extreme scalability Java and Python Support. Secure Data Connectors. Rich API.
- 22. Worth a look: Windows Axure
- 23. LTech is a leader in Google Apps and Cloud deployments
- 24. Thank you! http://www.ltech.com/google-apps http://rightscale.com http://aws.amazon.com http://appengine.google.com/