Enterprise Cloud Computing Sessionat the

World Summit of Cloud ComputingKEVIN JACKSON

DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

~100 registered

~50 attendees

• Merrill Lynch, Ebay, Forrester, 451 Group, IBM, Amazon, Gigaspaces, BMC, Open Group Forum

Initial Topics

• Cloud Interoperability

• Cloud Standards

• Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (i.e. SOA-R)

• Forrester “Ultra Modular Computing”

• Cloud Computing Service Layers

• 2009 Events

NCOIC-IGT "Enterprise Cloud Computing“ Session

www.Grid.org.il

Cloud Computing: Pay-per-Use for On-Demand Scalability

Cloud PC

(DaaS)

IaaS

PaaS

SaaS

Enterprise

IntraClouds

External

InterClouds

Load Balancing of Cost/Performance

The Clouds Space

www.Grid.org.il

Cloud Computing: Pay-per-Use for On-Demand Scalability

Enterprise

IntraClouds

External

InterClouds

Load Balancing of Cost/Performance

The Clouds Space

Ad-hoc Projects

R&D

General Peak Time

Low Risk data

High Risk Data

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Ultra Modular Computing

• Like Cloud Computing, but deployed within the

Enterprise – and with some key differences

Applications

Commodit y hardware infrastructure

'Enterprise Enabling Software Layer(s)'

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UMC has potential to be hugely disruptive

• Possible combination of both Grid and Cloud Computing

technologies – but deployed within the Enterprise

• Exploits ultra low cost of commodity hardware

• Reduces cost to manage by 10x-100x

• Provides many of the business advantages of Cloud

Computing, but without several of the concerns

• Introduces an enterprise-specific asynchronous,

transaction-based, dynamic and scalable computing

environment

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How UMC will arrive …

• All Enterprises encounter ‘core decision events’ -when

an opportunity appears which provides the chance to

introduce major change

• UMC will exploit ‘thin end of the wedge’ adoption; can be

introduced gradually

• Main downside: most costs are up front in the initial

enterprise-specific software environment – but, once

done, scalability is there for the taking

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Key UMC decisions

• Should the UMC software environment:

» only look to the future (new application and

development models)

» enable existing application and development models,

and, possibly, operating systems

» both*

* This is the most expensive route

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum

“Unified Cloud Interface” (aka broker)

Implement as XMPP Extension Protocol (XEP)

Address PaaS and IaaS

Collaboration with OASIS, OMG, W3C, and OGF on Cloud Reference Architecture

“Global Socialization” through 2009 events

- NCOIC Enterprise Cloud Computing Working Groups

- Open Group 2009 Global Enterprise Cloud Computing Conferences

- CloudCamp

- ASD NII Cloud Computing Conference

- World Summit of Cloud Computing

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approval

IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Computing

“Standards Body” Approach

General Disagreement with “Standards Body” approach

External vs. Internal Cloud Competition

• Legacy applications to the cloud

o High value for Enterprise CIO

o Worst scenario for External cloud providers

• External cloud best practices (like EC2) result in Enterprise cloud implementation and management applications and tools

• Internal metering vs. External implementation

o Lack of metering tools

o Lack of consistent metrics

o Inability to build Internal vs. External ROI

Cloud Application definition

• Entire application in cloud,

• Single service in cloud

• Mashed-up services in cloud

• 3Tera Applogic “Automation Bundle”

Adopt existing Cloud-VM standard

• Distributed Management Task Force - Open Virtualization Format (DMTF-OVF)

• Reservoir Project

“Adopt Proven Technology” Approach

Technology doesn’t set standards. Industry use cases set the standards

Main Cloud Value = Reduced Cost

• Solid Cloud ROI model required

Define Interoperability Requirements from Customer Viewpoint

• Disaster Recovery

o Between Enterprise and External Cloud

o Between External Clouds

Customer Driven Standards & Interoperability

• Identify industry cloud needs via Web/Email Survey, Interviews, etc.

• Build Internal/External Cloud ROI models

• Large Industry Customers cooperatively drive cloud vendor standards and interoperability through ability to deliver on Industry organization cloud ROI models

“Customer Driven” Approach

Three distinct and valuable approaches

• Standards Body

• Adopt Proven Technology

• Customer Driven

Issues

• Global agreement on standards could be a long process

• “Proven Technology” may mean “Proprietary Technology”

• Multiple industry customers could result in industry linked standards for cloud

Hybrid needed (Examples)

• Release “Proven Technology” to industry and adopt as basis for open standard

• Multiple standards optimized for industry ROI models

• “Interoperability Rating “ issued after standards body technical review

NCOIC engagement needed for any approach

Personal Observation