elemental cloud computing
intentional cloud watching - by brenda michelson
Freedom OSS is a consulting group with a framework on moving to the cloud, particularly focused on Amazon (AWS) implementation. Goal is to lower barrier of entry to cloud adoption (for enterprises).
Framework Steps:
1. Business case – ROI, TCO
- application portfolio analysis, assessments for cloud readiness, ROI, TCO, proof of concept, educate/win over CFO, Capex vs. Opex, pre-build collateral to shorten the cycle
2. Large Data Set transfer – large as in terabytes
Freedom OSS is a consulting group with a framework on moving to the cloud, particularly focused on Amazon (AWS) implementation. Goal is to lower barrier of entry to cloud adoption (for enterprises).
Framework Steps:
1. Business case – ROI, TCO
- application portfolio analysis, assessments for cloud readiness, ROI, TCO, proof of concept, educate/win over CFO, Capex vs. Opex, pre-build collateral to shorten the cycle
2. Large Data Set transfer – large as in terabytes
Jeff Bauer from Forbes.com starts by describing his business challenge: Make real-time quotes available the website, do it fast & cheap and the history of real-time quote availability and how the owners, availability and price of real-time data has changed overtime.
Decided to use BATS exchange for real-time data, gave them access to streaming data, but the data was in a raw format. Forbes didn’t have the infrastructure to transform the raw data into response to real-time stock quote requests. Forbes is a publishing company, not a technology provider.
First up, is a keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon on The Power of Infrastructure as a Service. Here’s the abstract:
“Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment’s notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it’s essential in today’s business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.
There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today’s internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world’s largest distributed systems – Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.”
Goals of presentation:
1. How infrastructure as a service is a reality through Amazon Web Services
2. Explain how Amazon needed these services themselves
As promised, here are some links that should be of interest to enterprise architects who are (or need to be) cloud watching. And yes, I realize I’ve mixed in a leadership interview with Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy, but once you read the others, you’ll be appreciative of a leader who gets that dealing with ambiguity is a sought after, and well compensated, skill.
What SOA Can Learn from Cloud Computing and Vice Versa | David Linthicum
SOA can learn from cloud computing Service Design & Expandability. Cloud from SOA: Governance & Architecture driven. Service Design: "Those who deploy services in the cloud, such as Amazon, TheWebService, Force.com, have done a pretty good job with service design. You really have to do a good job in order to rent the darn things out. Many SOA projects have a tendency to build services that are too course-grained, too fine-grained, or just not at all well designed. The reality is that services that are not well defined and designed won’t sell well when delivered on-demand, and thus those who provide services out of the cloud – which are most major cloud computing providers – have to spend a lot of time on the design of the services, including usability and durability. I urge those who build services within their SOA, no matter the enabling technology and standards involved, look at what’s out there for rent as good examples of how services should be designed, developed, and deployed."
IBM, Sun and cloud computing | Gathering clouds | The Economist
"The economic crisis has pummelled Sun, which never really recovered from the dotcom bust. As its share price plumbed new lows, IBM’s remained relatively unscathed—a reflection of its business, which has been protected by the computer giant’s global scope and the fact that it makes most of its money from software and services. more >>
The strong cloud computing summit line-up continues after lunch with Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.
What do large enterprises like about Cloud Computing?
Bit of a Nick Carr segue, businesses used to produce own electricity but didn’t add value to end product. Same can be said of computing power. Don’t need to generate computing power, and can get better economics and scale with external provider.
exploring the opportunities, issues, technologies, offerings and implications of cloud computing from a practitioner perspective
- by brenda michelson
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