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Cloud 101Casey J. Watson

CTO, Excolo Group, LLC


Products• Physical.

• Large up-front investment.

• Scalability can be difficult.

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


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.


Physical Hardware

The Internet

Physical Data Centers

Reusable Software Components (COM, etc.)

Virtualization

Service Oriented Architecture

The Cloud

How did we get here?


Cloud Providers

Private Public


IaaS

PaaS

SaaS

• Infrastructure

• Most Control

• Least Automation

• Platform

• Some Control

• Some Automation

• Software

• Least Control

• Most Automation

Execution Models


Mix It Up!

Run exclusively on-premises, …

Run exclusively in the cloud or…

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


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


Let’s take a look.


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


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


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