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From the Rackspace Non-Profit IT Summit on September 28th 2012.

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April 12, 2023

Non-Profit IT SummitPresented by: Richie Valadez and Christopher Sziklas

Why Rackspace and the Open Cloud are Important to Non-Profit Organizations

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What’s in Store

•Challenges of DIY Hosting

•Demystify the Cloud

•Benefits of the Cloud

•Cloud Demo

DIY Hosting

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What Makes a Cloud a Cloud?

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Essential Characteristics1

• On-demand self-service. Provision computing capabilities automatically without requiring human.

• Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms

• Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers.

• Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released to scale rapidly with demand.

• Measured service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability.

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Service Models2

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Deployment Models3

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Takeaways

• DIY Hosting is Challenging

• The Cloud has many options to fit your business needs

• Rackspace offers Fanatical Support for the Open Cloud

Q&A

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References

• [1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf

• [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wael/archive/2011/01/19/types-of-cloud-services.aspx

• [3] http://www.downetworks.com/blog/hybrid-cloud-solution/

• [4] http://www.rackspace.com/blog/the-greenest-computing-is-cloud-computing/

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