An overview of the evolution of Cloud and ‘aaS’ Steve Caughey Technical Consultant, Cloud Innovation Centre

Contents Why Cloud ? Cloud types and growth Cloud and the IT department Big Data and good news for the North-East

Triumph of light Network Butter’s Law Kryder’s Law Storage Moore’s Law Computation Capacity Time

Innovation

Custom-built

Product

Utility Service

700000 sq ft Langfang – china 6.3M sq ft

2500 servers per container – capacity for 250K Google 900K servers Amazon 450K Lanfang 6.3m sq ft

Economies of scale for who?

How is Cloud impacting your business ?

The mainframe era The Enterprise Department A IT department Department B The Enterprise

The client/server era Department A IT department Department B

The cloud era Department A IT department Department B ? The cloud

The cloud era Department A IT department Department B ? The cloud

The growth of connected devices

There’s a lot of data today There are nearly as many pieces of digital information as there are stars in the universe Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003 Stacking a pile of CD-ROMs on top of one another for all current global storage capacity would stretch 80,000 km beyond the moon 90% of all digital information was created in the last 2 years

The National Institute for Smart Data Innovation (NISDI) will enable industry to unleash the huge potential for innovation offered by the explosive growth in digital data. Once processed and analysed, digital data can become “Smart Data”, enabling new products and services that greatly benefit the country’s economy and its citizens. However, a major skills gap is preventing the UK from realising the potential of Smart Data. NISDI will overcome this barrier by creating a unique new facility which brings together industry, the public sector and universities to create the skills, ideas and resources needed to exploit these opportunities. Driven by the needs of industry, NISDI will allow the region, the Northern Powerhouse and the UK to become global leaders in this important sector, estimated to be worth around $125bn per annum. The National Institute for Smart Data Innovation (NISDI) will enable industry to unleash the huge potential for innovation offered by the explosive growth in digital data. Once processed and analysed, digital data can become “Smart Data”, enabling new products and services that greatly benefit the country’s economy and its citizens. However, a major skills gap is preventing the UK from realising the potential of Smart Data. NISDI will overcome this barrier by creating a unique new facility which brings together industry, the public sector and universities to create the skills, ideas and resources needed to exploit these opportunities. Driven by the needs of industry, NISDI will allow the region, the Northern Powerhouse and the UK to become global leaders in this important sector, estimated to be worth around $125bn per annum.