Interesting Webinar on Portability in the Cloud that could be a decisive topic in 2010

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Portability In The Cloud
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3. Our Distinguished Speakers
John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek's PlugIntoTheCloud.com
Michael Biddick , President & CTO, Fusion PPT
David M. Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli
Lilly and Company

4. Portability In The Cloud
John Foley, Editor
InformationWeek
PlugIntoTheCloud.com

5. Portability/Interoperability
• Ability to move data, applications, and virtual
servers from one cloud computing
environment to another
• Ability to mix & match cloud services,
depending on business need
• Ability to blend public and private cloud
environments into hybrids
• Ability to develop to and manage cloud
services via (industry standard?) APIs

6. A busy year. Progress?
• Feb.: Coghead closes
• March: Open Cloud Manifesto vs. Microsoft
• April: Open Cloud Standards Incubator (DMTF)
• April: Java runtime for Google App Engine
• July: Public API for Cloud Servers (Rackspace)
• Sept.: Simple API for Cloud App Services (Zend, IBM,
Microsoft, others)
• Nov.: Virtual Computing Environment (Cisco, EMC,
VMware)
• Jan. 2010: Windows Azure

7. Some companies are now storing hundreds of terabytes,
even petabytes, of data in the cloud.
“You are no longer portable, and
you’re not going to be portable, so
get over it.”
Jason Offman, founder, CTO, Joyent

8. POLL 1
What’s the status of cloud portability at your company?
(Select one)
We have the technologies/processes we need
No hope--we’re locked in
Developing a plan now

9. Portability In The Cloud
Michael Biddick ,
President & CTO
Fusion PPT

10. The Cloud Computing Craze
• Marketing cloud computing has reached fever
pitch in 2009, and there are no signs of slow-
down in 2010
• More and more organizations are attracted to
the notion of outsourcing their storage,
processing and applications for a fraction of
the cost of upgrading an entire data center
• Some analysts say that more than half of all
large enterprises have cloud computing in
their plans, but only 2% are actually
implementing.
• There is a lot of trepidation especially on the
part of government and larger organizations.

11. Cloud Computing Options
• Public clouds
• Private clouds
• Hybrid clouds
• Community Co-op clouds

12. Barriers to Cloud Adoption
Security
Privacy
Portability, Interoperability

13. Portability & Interoperability Questions
• How do I integrate computer, network, and storage
services from one or more cloud service providers
into my business and IT processes?
• How do I manage security and business continuity
risk across several cloud providers?
• How do I manage the lifecycle of a service in a
distributed multiple-provider environment in order
to satisfy service-level agreements (SLAs) with my
customers?
• How do I maintain effective governance and audit
processes across integrated datacenters and cloud
providers?
• How do I adopt or switch to a new cloud provider?

14. Why We Need Portability
• Dissatisfaction with a cloud service provider,
• New and better alternatives,
• Change in strategy
• Failure of a provider: The issue hit home earlier this year
when cloud startup Coghead shut down and SAP took over
only its assets and engineering team, forcing customers to
find a new home for the applications that had been hosted
there.

15. Reasons to Change Cloud Providers
Bankruptcy, a buy-out, a dissolution, the network service dissolving, the
network service terminated, the network service terminating, the network
service dissolving, filing bankruptcy, a closing, a shutdown, a strike, a buyout,
the network service ceases to exist, a planned dissolution, a termination of
services based on geography, a re-structuring, a user wanting a cheaper rate,
a user desiring a better service, a machine deterioration, a virus infections,
and a replacement of at least one of a machine and a service…

16. Data Migration
• Getting started in the cloud may
be fast, cheap, and easy, but the
longer you're there, the harder it is
to move.
• As data accumulates, IT needs to
monitor not just what it's spending
on cloud storage, but also how big
the tab to get out is.
• Price out an exit plan.

17. Data Migration
• It can take weeks or months to move a
petabyte of data from one cloud to
another, depending on data transfer
speeds
• Amazon charges 10 cents per gigabyte
to transfer data out of S3, which
comes to $100,000 per petabyte.
(That's after you've already spent
$100,000 or more in transfer fees
moving the data into S3.)
• Amazon estimates it would take one
to two days to import or export 5 TB
of data over a 100-Mbps connection.

18. Strategies Around Portability & Interop.
APIs
Cloud Brokers
Emerging Standards

19. APIs
• Many different APIs exist for
public clouds including
• APIs are critical
• APIs serve as the
foundation for clouds,
however, are still mostly
unique to the specific cloud
provider

20. Cloud Brokers
• A cloud broker is a cloud that provides services to cloud
consumers but might not host any of its own resources.
• Brokers federate resources from different clouds making
them available transparently to cloud consumers.
• Cloud consumers interact only with the broker cloud when
requesting services, even though the delivered services
come from other clouds.

21. Emerging Standards
• Cloud Security Alliance http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) http://www.dmtf.org/
• The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
http://www.etsi.org/
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html
• Open Grid Forum (OGF) http://www.ogf.org/
• Object Management Group (OMG) http://www.ogf.org/
• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) http://www.snia.org/home
• Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS) http://www.oasis-open.org/
• The Open Group: http://www.opengroup.org/cloudcomputing/

22. POLL 2
What approaches are most likely for cloud integration?
(Check all that apply)
Industry standard APIs/specifications
Vendor-specific APIs/specifications
Cloud broker
Other methods

23. David M. Powers, Associate Information Consultant
Eli Lilly and Company

24. Interacting with the Cloud
(2008-2009)
Lilly
“The Cloud”
Cloud-A
Cloud-F
Cloud-D
Cloud-B
Cloud-E
Cloud-C

25. Interacting with the cloud
The Orchestration Layer (2010)
Lilly
Orchestration
Layer
“The Cloud”
Cloud-A
Cloud-F
Cloud-D
Cloud-B
Cloud-E
Cloud-C

26. Interacting with the cloud
The brokering Layer ? (2011)
Lilly
Orchestration
Layer
broker
“The Cloud”
Cloud-A
Cloud-F
Cloud-D
Cloud-B Cloud-E
Cloud-C

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