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Who am I … – Pietro Race – Director of Network Services Meet the Panel … – Cole Davisson, CTO – Andrew Valley, VP Sales – Roque Napoli, Senior System Analyst – Aaron Tinsley, IT Support Representative
In This Session … – Define the Cloud – Discuss Options, Pros & Cons
What We’ll Cover … – What is the Cloud? – Cloud Benefits – Cloud Issues – Amazon Cloud Option
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service to a recipient or a community of end- recipients
Types of Cloud Services. I.Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) o Servers, Virtual Services, Storage, Switches, Backups II.Platform as a service (PaaS) o Database, Web servers, Web Hosting III.Software as a Service(SaaS) o Virtual Desktop, , Quantum, Dropbox What is a Cloud ?
Cloud Benefits – Cost – Superior Infrastructure and Support – Scalability and flexibility – Reliability
Cloud Benefits Cost – A la carte services – Replace up-front capital Infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business – Servers can be setup in minutes and deliver results faster – Operating System and database licensing as part of service
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Cloud Benefits Superior Infrastructure and support – Hosted by large companies like Amazon, Oracle, Rackspace and Microsoft who back their services with experience and proven uptime. – AWS GovCloud (US) is ITAR compliant – 7/24 account service
Cloud Benefits Scalability and flexibility – Because the environments are virtual they can be quickly modified to accommodate a larger workload or even scaled back. Memory, hard drive space and CPUs can be tailored to exactly what you need – Whether you need one virtual server or thousands you only pay for what you use.
Reliability – Reliability is improved because multiple redundant sites are used, which makes well-designed cloud computing suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery. – Instances can be quickly deployed to replace damaged Operating Systems and databases – Amazon boasts 99.95% uptime – Microsoft and Google tout 99.9% uptime Cloud Benefits
Cloud Challenges Internet Dependence Administration Privacy, Security, Sustainability, and abuse.
Cloud Challenges Internet Dependence – If your internet connection is not reliable or you do not have broadband available then the Cloud is not for you. Once the internet goes down then your business does as well – GovCloud requires more internet infrastructure and a direct connection to an Amazon solutions provider
Cloud Challenges Administration – Requires staff with cloud knowledge and proficiency in cloud instance administration – Cloud consultants can be very expensive and time consuming
Cloud Challenges Privacy, Security, Sustainability, and abuse – As with any new technology there will be issues with privacy and security – Sustainability may become an issue if centralized hosting ends up costing more than in house environments – Abuse, hacking and data safety could always be an issue
Quantum Amazon Cloud Options Unmanaged Single EC2 Instance Option Managed VPC, RDS, Dual EC2 Option Backup Option
Quantum Cloud Options Unmanaged Single EC2 Instance Option o One single Database with Terminal services 1-5 Users Large instance Windows 2008 R2 (BYOL for TS and Oracle) Basic Quantum Backups Locally Unmanaged Server and Database $ $ per month
Quantum Cloud Options Managed VPC, RDS, Multi EC2 Option o RDS Database, Quantum and Terminal server,2X or Citrix Users + High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance One EC2 instance as Quantum Application Server One, or more,EC2 instance(s) as Terminal /Citrix server One RDS instance on Oracle Relational Database Service managed by Amazon. Oracle licensing can be included or BYOL Cost varies from $ per month
Quantum Cloud Options Unmanaged and Managed Backup Option o Database backup server Large instance VPC and VPN Hourly charge plus VPN data charges Managed or Unmanaged ? Cost ranges from $400 to $1200
Is the Cloud right for you?…
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