Cloud Computing

Simple overview including Softlayer

Chris Sparshott

• Your laptop is a computer, CPU, RAM

• You can run more applications on a stack of laptops than you can a single laptop

• A Blade center is a stack of laptops managed as one single computer or “Server”

On the bare Metal – laptop

“Running on the tin”

Hardware

Operating System

Applications

• Microsoft

Excel

• Windows 7

• Laptop

On the Bare Metal – Blade Center

Hardware

Operating System

Applications

• Microsoft

Excel

• Windows 7

• Blade

Centre

Utilisation of hardware

• Imagine that each of these individual servers

is being used at 20% of its maximum capacity.

• Therefore,80% of the server is not being used

• E.g. CPU, memory, storage under utilised

Virtualised – spread the load

Hardware

Virtualisation

Operating

System

Application

Virtualisation

• With Virtualisation you can run more

applications on less hardware

• It also helps with fail-over should one of your

blade servers have a fault

Many types of software environments

Hardware

Virtualisation

Operating

System

Application

Imagine a room with

1000 blade centres = a Data centre

Hardware

Virtualisation

Operating

System

Application

Private Cloud e.g. Your employees only

Public Cloud e.g. anyone from any organisations

sharing the hardware to run their applications

Hybrid

client

a data centre

Cloud

deployment of

software on

infrastructure in

a data centre

Gateway between the clients

on premise software and the

Cloud based software

Imagine 10+ rooms containing 10,000

blade servers spread around the globe

You will know some of

these customers

IBM purchased

this company -

DBaaS

IBM Passport Advantage software and

Softlayer

Hardware

Virtualisation

Operating

System

Application

= PA software

• Passport Advantage software

Meets IBM software

• Software Master agreement

• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/licensing_for_SoftLayer.html

• Licensing requirements

• The bring your own software and license (BYOSL) option allows IBM customers, who have accepted the terms of the IBM SoftLayer Standard Master Service Agreement to bring and upload Eligible IBM software Programs to the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure, provided the customer complies with the Program use requirements and has sufficient quantities of PA software license entitlements (Entitlements).

• Only the IBM Software listed as "eligible" in the "Table of Eligible BYOSL Software Programs" section below may be uploaded to the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure.

• When a customer uses Entitlements for a Program under this BYOSL option in cloud-provisioned Instance, those Entitlements are dedicated to that Instance and Customer may not use such Entitlements outside the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure at the same time.

• Question – are we adding this agreement into our ELA contracts?

Thank you

Questions?