The document summarizes the highlights of the CloudAsia 2012 conference. It includes presentations on cloud computing frameworks, case studies of airport and airline companies adopting cloud technologies, discussions of cloud security issues, the importance of network access, and statistics on cloud computing in Asia. Case studies showed that cost savings and increased agility were primary motivations for cloud adoption. Security best practices like considering the entire system and designing for failure were discussed. Network access remains critical for cloud services. The data highlighted a hybrid cloud approach and increasing role of APIs for infrastructure management.

1. CloudAsia 2012
Highlights
May 18th 2012
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2. Conference Highlights
• Observations on Cloud Computing, Tim Grance, NIST
• Case Studies
o Changi Airport Case Study, Steve Lee, CIO
o SITA Case Study, Greg Ouillon, VP Air Transportation Industry Transport (AITA) Cloud
o Enterprise Challenges in Cloud Adoption, Ezhil Arasan Babaraj, Director R&D Labs, CSS Corp
o MyTransport.SG: Co-Creating with the Community, Mrs Rosina Howe, Chief Innovation Officer &
Group Director, Innovation & InfoComm Technology, Land Transport Authority
• Security
o Outbound data leakage case studies, Wong Onn Chee, Managing Director, Infotect Security
o Cloud Security, Jim Reavis, CSA
• Network Access
o Metro Ethernet for Cloud Services, Firdaus Monir, Telekom Malaysia
• Other Useful Data
o Couple of good slides from IBM, Simon Choy, Chief Strategist and Executive Sponsor - Cloud, IBM
ASEAN
o Importance of hybrid architecture and APIs, Simon West, CMO, SoftLayer Technologies
o Asia Cloud Computing Stats, Per Dahlberg, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cloud Computing Association
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3. I recommend the use of the NIST Cloud framework as the most impartial
available. Though the Hybrid cloud definition could be improved the overall
framework provides a common language and framework. 3

4. Cloud Computing is simply a technology (virtualized and automated IT
infrastructure) and business model (pay per use). I think of it simply as “IT
infrastructure outsourcing”. On Trust, its like asking if a hosted server is secure –
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the whole system needs to be evaluated, not a piece of technology.

5. I liked Tim’s summary of Cloud Issues.
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6. A key point here is the browsers and client apps MUST be considered part of the
cloud deployment.
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7. Using Cloud Computing technology is a business decision. Legacy applications
requirement migration – which costs time and money and has risk.
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8. Access networks remains key. The presentation by Firdaus Monir, shown later in
these slides, provides a good review of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s work here.
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9. Cloud Computing is simply a technology, organization’s existing security systems
must be extended / complemented to adopt this technology.
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10. Great summary of the issues to consider in adopting Cloud Computing.
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11. Great summary of the steps. Business led, with a consideration of architecture, bi-
directional app / workload migration strategy. The final point is key and why
taking an incremental approach is critical, focus on the workloads that have fewer
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12. Case Studies
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13. Good case study on Cloud adoption.
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14. Changi airport is big! 28k workers, 200 businesses.
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15. Currently the 7th largest airport by traffic.
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16. Strong demand for shared services.
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17. More broadly, many airports are adopting cloud computing. Cost savings are
primary motivation, followed by agility (which means it costs less to do new
things, such as supporting multiple devices.) 17

18. SITA and Orange Business Services (OBS) also adopting cloud computing
(reviewed later in this pack).
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19. Good example of some of the apps that can be applied to the cloud (both public
and private). Here public is used for disaster recover / business continuity as well
as public-facing services – but encryption is important. 19

20. Changi has its own MPLS network between its multiple private data centers.
These support a range of shared services including information kiosks, customer
feedback terminals and displays, and check-in terminals. 20

21. Cost dominates, and the agility benefit is closely linked to being able to support
multiple devices – an increasing problem for CIOs. Changi’s energy bill is about
$100M per year, so energy savings do have a significant impact on cost savings. 21

22. SITA was mentioned in the Changi case study and presents another case study in
successful cloud adoption
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23. Broad range of shared services
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24. Good case study on the implementation of a community cloud.
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25. Cloud Computing enables resources to be shared across all customers.
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26. Note the 100ms latency requirement, hence importance of MPLS network as well
as global DC infrastructure. Global Telcos are winning Cloud deals in such big
deployments; but SMB, mid market and large national enterprises are much more
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competitive.

27. Services offered are available via a marketplace.
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28. Good example of cloud adoption. But note it’s a special situation, and not typical
of many businesses. Same is true with web-based start-ups. Hence the gap we
currently see in cloud computing adoption. 28

29. This presentation gave a good summary of the issues and initial approach.
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31. This key is identifying the initial workloads to migrate to the cloud, here TOGAF
provides a good decision tree as described in my pre-conference workshop.
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32. Good list of best practices – multi-cloud to avoid lock-in, understand what SLAs
mean, stateless / loose coupling / design for failure are true for any IT solution
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33. Case Study on use of co-creation community.
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38. Security
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39. Great review of the outbound data leakage from websites. Though not specifically
a cloud problem, as many cloud deployments include the companies website, it’s a
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56. Useful resource on Cloud Security best practices.
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60. Jim’s last point is key, Cloud is evolving, it isn’t a destination.
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61. Network Access
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62. Provides a good review of the relevance of Metro Ethernet Forum, as access
remains critical to cloud computing.
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68. Other Data
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69. Included as they had a couple of good diagrams on the changing role of CIOs and
the current status of cloud adoption.
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72. SoftLayer highlighted two key points: Reality of a hybrid architecture across
dedicated services, cloud instances and private clouds; and the increasing role of
APIs (Application Program Interfaces) to manage this infrastructure by the
enterprise.
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