The Future of the Cloud
- 1. T he Futur e of the T Cloud York Technology Council New Charles Babcock Editor at Large, InformationWeek Author Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution
- 2. 2008-09: The Cloud under fire “It’s just water vapor…” “It’s just another name for the Internet…” “an obsession of Sand Hill Road nitwits”
- 3. Now what Ellison’s saying: “Get to the cloud with Oracle” “Power your cloud with Oracle” “Oracle Exalogic: world’s best… for cloud computing”
- 4. Three keys to the cloud 1) It amplifies an explosion of computing power 2) It distributes server compute power 3) It alters the client/server relationship in favor of the end user client
- 5. Legacy data centers One of everything massive complexity. One application per server. One system admin. per 25 servers.
- 6. What is a cloud data center? • A uniform, x86 environment • Managed by automated procedures • Allows end users to self provision servers, storage • Invokes new economies of scale
- 7. Massive data center build out • Data center spending: $450 billion a year • 8086 started with 29,000 transistors; today a 10-core Intel chip – 2.6 billion
- 8. Google, Amazon, Facebook, new data centers • One kind of server/software, repeated thousands of times • 100 applications per server • 1 system admin. - 3,000 servers
- 9. What is future cloud data center? • Is x86 all we get? • IBM Power? Sun UltraSparc? Nope. • How about low power, cell phone technology?
- 10. What about custom clouds? • Harris Cyber Integration Center • Terremark NAP of the Americas – DOD DIACAP certified • NYSE Mahwah, N.J., Capital Markets Cloud
- 11. NYSE’s cloud data center • One part, traditional data center for NYSE licensees • Another part, cloud infrastructure • New types of traders plug into latter?
- 12. Every exchange in the cloud • Everyone’s a trader • Sophisticated trading systems available for rent, by the trade or by the hour • Economies of scale, automated systems, low fees, thousands of users
- 13. A ‘Facebook’ of financial services • Groups will form social networks, seeking to combine what they know at the moment • ‘Friends’ with varied, established expertise will play for market advantage • Your rival overseas may seek to collaborate
- 14. Longer term implications • Think Occupy Wall Street looking over your shoulder • Amateurs employ trading analytical engines • Investments will change frequently
- 15. Future Specialized Clouds • Centers for Medicaid, Medicare could sponsor a centralized, health care cloud; eliminate health insurance companies • How about a central Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac mortgage cloud for regulatory purposes?
- 16. Data Center is the computer In Zynga’s Z Cloud, sets of servers become components with specific functions • Equinix serves as Zynga’s high speed, private connection to Amazon—Direct Connect • Amazon serves as bursting, spillover site
- 17. Confederated clouds • Daisy chains of linked cloud centers around the world • Specialized clouds linked to general purpose clouds • Zynga, Equinix and Amazon a prototype of what’s to come