Welcome
Demystifying The Cloud
Leonard Rogan
MCSE +I, MCNPS, CCA, CCSP, CSSA AAA IT Pty Ltd
House Keeping Restrooms
Tea, Coffee and Beverages Exits
Duration Approximately 45 – 60 minutes depending on questions
Agenda Some Personal History
What we are and are not covering today
What is cloud computing and it’s evolution? Benefits / Issues
Terminal Services Vs Cloud Based Virtual Desktop Demonstration
Target Market Summation Questions References
Some Personal History Started in computing in 1996
Attended Monash University doing BA Comp Certified MCSE +I, MCNPS, CCA, CCSP, CSSA Worked closely with Express Apps in 2001 CoLocated RealEstate Web Portals 2003 MCI Moved to Coffs end of 2006
What are we covering today?
A full feature set of "moving" your infrastructure and the right tools to do it.
What is not being covered today?
Technical Requirements, Pricing, Alternate Cloud Solutions - Tsuite from Telstra, Amazon, Google Apps and home
based scenarios (Icloud, Soonr, DropBox, Sugarsync, SkyDrive)
- I can answer questions about these in the Q&A at the end of the session
What is cloud computing and it’s evolution?
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the
electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet). Cloud computing can be public or private or a hybrid.
Microsoft’s first foray into cloud computing was Windows Updates with the release of Windows 95 and IE4. More profound in 98.
Almost everyone that has a device connected to the Internet is using some form of Cloud Computing.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Benefits
Physical and Logical Risk
From Capex to Opex. Minimising Accounting complexities. Ease of deployment
Flexes when you flex Automatic Backups
Licensing and Software Updates / Compliance 99.99% Guaranteed Uptime
Issues
Common Scenarios dictate your data is publically available with a known username / password
Most vendors have data stored overseas. What are your obligations?
What happens if the vendor goes belly up? What happens to your business? On Site Backups?
Terminal Services (RDS) Vs Cloud Virtual Desktop (VD) Understanding the differences
Single point of failure in RDS
VD allows user full control of their experience Benefits of one over the other
Target Market
Any business at the end of it’s server lifecycle New Businesses
Mobile Workers
Summation
Cloud computing is any service that is delivered typically via the Internet.
It can be provided by a public vendor or privately. We’ve been using it for years.
There are many vendors out there, make sure you
understand the differences and impacts to your business. Get a professional to help.
Handy References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing http://www.aaait.com.au http://www.facebook.com/aaait https://twitter.com/#!/aaaitcoffs/ https://store.aaait.com.au/
