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Cloud 101Casey J. Watson

CTO, Excolo Group, LLC

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Products• Physical.

• Large up-front investment.

• Scalability can be difficult.

• Diminishing ROI through administration, depreciation, maintenance, etc.

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Services• Virtual.

• Pay only for what you use.

• Extremely scalable.

• Ability to choose the right mix between control and automation.

• Think of it as a utility – gas, electric, water, compute capacity.

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Physical Hardware

The Internet

Physical Data Centers

Reusable Software Components (COM, etc.)

Virtualization

Service Oriented Architecture

The Cloud

How did we get here?

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Cloud Providers

Private Public

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IaaS

PaaS

SaaS

• Infrastructure

• Most Control

• Least Automation

• Platform

• Some Control

• Some Automation

• Software

• Least Control

• Most Automation

Execution Models

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Mix It Up!

Run exclusively on-premises, …

Run exclusively in the cloud or…

Leverage the cloud to extend your on-premises compute capacity.

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Security• Amazon and Microsoft have a much

larger investment in security.

• Amazon and Microsoft are much larger targets for potential threats.

• Compliance, etc.

• Hybrid Solutions

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Let’s take a look.

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Test Drive the Cloud FREE

Amazon Web Services

Completely Free Tier

http://aws.amazon.com/free

Microsoft Azure

Free for 90 Days

http://aka.ms/thecloud

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This is YOUR group.What would you like to hear more about at upcoming meetings?

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