Internet Mapping and GIS in the Cloud Tom Brenneman

What do people use to interact with web maps? Mobile Focused interactivity Location sets the context for interactivity My… Augmented reality Notifications Desktop Highly interactive Feedback based on context in the application Analysis / compilation Tablet Simple interactivity (big button) Dashboards and information aggregation

Where is internet mapping going? Mobile 2 Billion Internet users worldwide & 5 Billion cell phone users UN telecommunications agency Mobile internet adoption outpaces desktop internet adoption by 8x (Economy + Internet Trends) More smart phones than PCs will be sold in 2011 RBC analyst Mike Abramsky Within 5 years “More users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Mary Meeker There are 6.8 Billion people in the world Mary Meeker – Morgan Stanley research – head of global technology research team

How is the infrastructure of the internet changing? Internal infrastructure High risk Inflexible Inefficient Cloud infrastructure Low risk Easy to scale Use only what you need

Three Scenarios for the Cloud Your software Cloud Services Your software Cloud Infrastructure What does Cloud mean to you? You can do three things: Run sw on premise and consume stuff from cloud: ArcGIS Online, ArcWeb Services, geocoder Move sw into cloud. My whole publication env in cloud using ESRI AMI Reselling services from your software in the cloud SaaS in the cloud (right ASP licensing from us) Your software Cloud services

Private Clouds Public Clouds Your cloud strategy will be specific to your organization. Private cloud and/or public cloud.

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