Cloud Computing

Simple overview including Softlayer Chris Sparshott

 Your laptop is a computer, CPU, RAM You can run more applications on a stack of laptops than you can a single laptop A Blade center is a stack of laptops managed as one single computer or Server

On the bare Metal laptop Running on the tin

Applications

Microsoft Excel

Operating System

Windows 7
Hardware

Laptop

On the Bare Metal Blade Center

Applications

Microsoft Excel Windows 7

Operating System

Hardware

Blade Centre

Utilisation of hardware
Imagine that each of these individual servers is being used at 20% of its maximum capacity. Therefore,80% of the server is not being used E.g. CPU, memory, storage under utilised

Virtualised spread the load

Application

Operating System

Virtualisation

Hardware

Virtualisation
With Virtualisation you can run more applications on less hardware It also helps with fail-over should one of your blade servers have a fault

Many types of software environments

Application

Operating System

Virtualisation

Hardware

Imagine a room with 1000 blade centres = a Data centre

Application

Operating System

Virtualisation

Hardware

Private Cloud e.g. Your employees only

Public Cloud e.g. anyone from any organisations

sharing the hardware to run their applications

Hybrid
client
Cloud deployment of software on infrastructure in a data centre

Gateway between the clients on premise software and the Cloud based software

Imagine 10+ rooms containing 10,000 blade servers spread around the globe

You will know some of these customers

IBM purchased this company DBaaS

IBM Passport Advantage software and Softlayer

Application = PA software

Passport Advantage software

Operating System

Virtualisation

Hardware

Meets IBM software

Software Master agreement http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/licensing_for_SoftLayer.html

Licensing requirements The bring your own software and license (BYOSL) option allows IBM customers, who have accepted the terms of the IBM SoftLayer Standard Master Service Agreement to bring and upload Eligible IBM software Programs to the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure, provided the customer complies with the Program use requirements and has sufficient quantities of PA software license entitlements (Entitlements). Only the IBM Software listed as "eligible" in the "Table of Eligible BYOSL Software Programs" section below may be uploaded to the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure. When a customer uses Entitlements for a Program under this BYOSL option in cloud-provisioned Instance, those Entitlements are dedicated to that Instance and Customer may not use such Entitlements outside the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure at the same time. Question are we adding this agreement into our ELA contracts?

Thank you
Questions?