Cloud ComputingShannon McManus

Michael Weihert

What is Cloud Computing?

“Cloud” is another word for the internet.

A new form of technology that allows business and private users to store their information online.

No hardware necessary!

Pros: Computers are lighter and service is cost effective

Cons: Big transition and too much dependency on the internet

Software as a service – SAASEx. Microsoft Office 365, and Gmail

End users.

Platform as a service – PAASCustom applications and running Linux/Windows/etc.

Application developers.

Infrastructure as a service – IAASVirtual platform utilized and online storage as a service.

Network architects.

How the cloud is used

Video - GWS Cloud Services

Collection of remote services that make up the cloud computing platform

Offered by Amazon.com

Provides large computing capacity which is much faster and cheaper than building a physical location.

Located in 8 regionsEach region has data centers that provide AWS services.Prevents outages from spreading between zones.

Amazon Web Services

Allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.

Allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service. A user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine.

A user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed. By paying by the hour for active servers.

Control over the geographical location of instances Allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.

In November 2010, Amazon switched to its own retail website to EC2 and AWS

Amazon EC2

An online file storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services

Provides storage through web service interfaces.

First publicly available web service. March 2006: United States November 2007: Europe

Uses the same scalable storage infrastructure to run its own global e-commerce network.

Amazon S3

A cloud computing platform and infrastructure

Created for building, deploying and managing applications and services.Done through a global network of Microsoft-manage data centers.

Provides both PaaS and IaaS services.

Supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks

Released on February 1, 2010

Allows developers to build sites using ASP.NET, PHP, orNode.js

Migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code.

Google – Windows Azure

98% of all Americans have access to the internet.

Causing mass obsoleteness

Computers manufactured today have no CD/DVD optical disk drive.

The new floppy drive

I.T. job security at great risk

Case – Killing Industries

Wants to better adapt the software to meet the advantage of social, big data and cloud computing.

Wants to make its software suite in the cloud smarter and offer more interactivity to those who use it.

Machine learning application. Code name: OsloDesigned to learn user usage and understand how users work with Office 365.

Preparing new API for files, contacts, email, calendar and tasks in Office 365.

Connect your documents and presentations to the cloud. We used the cloud to create this presentation :3Makes it easier to get your documents on all your devicesAOL meets Microsoft Office meets the cloud

Case – Office 365

Video – Microsoft Office 365

1997 – “Cloud computing” term is coined by Information Systems Professor Ramnath Chellappa

1999 – SAAS offered for first time from Salesforce.com.

2000 – Dot com bubble bursts. Amazon realizes cloud architecture increases efficiency.

2002 – Amazon Web Services is launched offering cloud-based services.

2003 – Blackberry introduces first smart phone with access to internet

Timeline (Weather Almanac)

2004 – Google launched their cloud based email (Gmail)

2008 – Release of iPhone with no buttons (a clue to a virtual future)

2011 – Apple launched iCloud and cloud applications are becoming credible replacements.

2013 – PCs replaced by personal clouds where all your content is found.

Forecast for the future – Cloud will be integrated in some way with everything.

Timeline Cont.

Cloud services are within our forecast

Wean off of hardware gradually with computers

Businesses sit aloft cloud 9 with such services.

In summation,