The document discusses moving corporate computing to the cloud to reduce costs and inefficiencies. While security and integration concerns prevent fully moving to public clouds, companies can learn from cloud providers like Amazon and Google. The document proposes a solution using a cloud of commodity infrastructure to automatically provision and optimize applications on demand according to performance, costs and changing requirements. It argues this could reduce costs, improve utilization and agility compared to traditional datacenter models.

1. Cloud Computing For the Corporate Data Center

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4. But what if ….. All running on a cloud of commodity infrastructure, automated to respond to changing requirements and optimized for performance and costs. … . You could operate like Google ? Services in the cloud that could be activated on demand … for an unlimited set of users With great user experience

6. Analyst View “ As grid deployments have matured and become more integrated with other activities, drivers for adoption have evolved ….. cost control, revenue generation, better utilization, support for additional workloads and the ability to more quickly respond to changing needs are all benefits that can now be realized. This is no longer a one-dimensional world of performance improvement.”

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10. Middleware As A Service Network Compute and Storage VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Dynamic Application Service Management Packaging Provisioning Activation Management Developers Tools Tools Tools C L O U D Customers L O C A L On-Demand

13. Given current design and architecture: Questions for the Data Center …. To monitor infrastructure costs To minimize growth rates To maximize response time To speed deployment To control utilization How do you meter and chargeback shared application services based on SLA? How do you optimize application performance based on changing demand in real time? How do you provision applications on demand? How do you standardize and automate application packaging and configuration? How do you define and enforce business service levels for critical applications?