Palash Bharadwaj
Headin
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Cloud computing is becoming an increasingly popular choice for many
H
ave you ever thought of
hiring servers? In this
complex world of inter-
net, you can now make
an easy getaway and
make sure you get what-
ever you like. Adoption of the Cloud is
increasing and accelerating. In today’s
world the challenge for business is add-
ing new services for your users quickly
and with complete cost effective, and
rather than buying and maintaining
your own machines, why not exploit the
acres of Internet-accessible servers on
offer today? For some applications, their
code and data might both live in the
Cloud, where somebody else manages
and maintains the systems they use. Al-
ternatively, applications that run inside
an organization—on-premises applica-
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tions—might store data in the Cloud or
rely on other Cloud infrastructure ser-
vices. Applications that run on desktops
and mobile devices can use services to
synchronize information across many
systems or in other ways. However it’s
done, exploiting the Cloud’s capabilities
can improve our world.
Why Select the Cloud?
Automation/On-Demand = Better,
Faster & Cheaper
• Moving from ‘hand crafted’ soft-
ware to repeatable assembly
• Reuse of interchangeable compo-
nents
• Repeatable processes with in-
creased automation & collabora-
tion
• Division of labor – let developers
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focus on new software
• Ease of use – abstract complexity
out of developers’ lives
• Avoid over & under provisioning –
CAPEX outlays
Data Intensive Computing
• Ability to index and make sense of
large data sets – Parallization
• Pre-format data in large reposito-
ries for low BW transmissions
• Better access to data with large
multi-tenant distributed cloud da-
tabases
• Default backup and most cost effec-
tive archival of large data sets.
Accessibility = any time, any
place, any device
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• Cloud-serviced clients consumer controls the applications

• Leverage low cost compute cycles that run in the environment (and
Models of Cloud Computing
and assured data storage in the possibly has some control over the • Public cloud – In Simple terms
cloud hosting environment), but does not public cloud services are charac-
• Communications is pacing factor control the operating system, hard- terized as being available to clients
ware or network infrastructure on by third party service provider via
What Are the Delivery which they are running. The plat- the internet. Public cloud vendors
typically provide an access control
Models? form is typically the application
mechanism for their users.
framework.
• Software as a service (SAAS) – The • Infrastructure as a service (IAAS) • Private cloud – It is very similar
consumer uses the application – The consumer uses “fundamental to Public cloud, but the difference
but does not control the operating computing resources“such as pro- is that in a private cloud-based
system, hardware or network cessing power, storage, networking, service data and processes are
infrastructure that it is running. components or middleware. The managed within the organization
• Platform as a service (PAAS) – The consumer can control the operating without the restriction of network
consumer uses a hosting environ- system, storage, deployed applica- bandwidth, security exposures
ment for their applications. The tions and possibly networking. and legal requirements that using
public cloud services might entail.
Access for infrastructure, security
Make a lot of Huge datacenters cost 5-7x less for computation, storage, and net- and resilience in this model are re-
Money working. Fixed software & deployment amortized over many users. stricted and designated.
Large company can leverage economies of scale and make money.
• Community cloud – A community
cloud is controlled and used by a
Leverage Web companies had to build software and datacenters anyway. specific group of organization that
Existing invest- Adding a new revenue stream at (hopefully) incremental cost.
has shared interests, such as spe-
ments
cific security requirements or a
Defend a What happens as conventional server and enterprise apps embrace common mission.
franchise cloud computing? Application vendors will want a cloud offering. • Hybrid cloud – Hybrid model is a
For example, MSFT Azure should make cloud migration easy. combination of public cloud and
private cloud that interoperates. In
Attack an A large company (with software & datacenter) will want a beach- this model business critical infor-
incumbent head before someone else dominates in the cloud provider space. mation is in private cloud and non-
business critical (outsource model)
Leverage For example, IBM Global Services may offer a branded cloud com- processes in the public cloud.
Customer puting offering. IBM and their Global Services customers would The best thing about the Cloud lies with
Relationship preserve their existing relationship and trust. the fact that it is intensely versatile. Not
only is it unique, it is also universal.
Become a
Facebook offers plug-in apps. Google App-Engine...
This is the reason why this is being ad-
Platform opted over large scale and has become
such a huge name by itself.

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