Clearing the Air on

Cloud Computing
Karthik Sankar

Clearing the Air on Cloud

Are you Cloud Confused ?
Have you gone to Ooty ?
 Have you visited Kodaikkanal ?
OOTY உதகமண்டல
Let’s use a simple analogy

While visiting these

cities, did you look for
a place to live ?
Did you choose to

Build a house or
Rent an apartment
Suppose you decide to Build
If you build a house, there are a few
important decisions you have to make…
 How BIG is the house

Remodel, addition typically cost a lot more once the house is built …
 But, you get a chance to customize it

flooring
tile windows
roof floor plan

lighting
landscaping
maintenance
How about renting?
Consider a builder in your city builds

a massive number of hotels and inns

You make a fewer,

simpler
decisions
 But…
You do not have
a lot of options to

customize
your unit
 triple pane windows

green materials

high capacity electricity

high speed Internet

However, builders provide you with

very high quality infrastructure
No need to worry about maintenance cost

No need to Hire landscapers,

electricians, plumbers
Pay as You Go …

rent
Just pay your

and utilities
 Let’s translate to
Cloud Computing
My Business Needs…

Security
Privacy

Reliability

High Availability
Building Enterprise
Software
is like …
building a
Medieval Castle
 Let’s hire an Army of IT Engineers

Software Upgrade
Support
Backup/Restore
Service Pack
Development Network issues
 Let’s build a
Huge Data Center

Capacity Planning

Cooling Management

Disaster Plan

Server Crashes
Huge amounts of Electricity
This is how the CFO would feel …
Cloud Computing
is the answer
It could greatly simplify our lives…
What do the experts say ?
“Biggest Paradigm Shift in 20 years”

“Just On”
“Game Changers”
“Tremendous Cost Cutting”
“Pay As You Go”

.. a computing paradigm shift where computing is moved away

from personal computers or an individual application server to
a "cloud" of computers ..

moving computing and data away from the desktop and the portable PC and
simply displaying the results of computing that takes place in a centralized
location and is then transmitted via the internet on the user's
screen
The cloud is a smart, complex, powerful computing system in the
sky that people can just plug into ..
They have the infrastructure

You pay for what you use

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to
increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new
infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing
encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the
Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.
Do you think you have not used Cloud before ???
 Your data is replicated
3 or 4 times in their data centers

High Availability
High Traffic?

Adding “servers” is a click away.

Running in just minutes, not days
It can even load balance
your server traffic
Expect your
Cloud Network
to be always up
 You can even choose
where you want your data
and servers to reside
Just reduce your
computing power,
storage and
costs
 0
On-premise infrastructure
1
Coherent and resilient
∞
Scalability
Acquisition cost environment – not a Interoperability
Adoption cost brittle “software stack” Customizability
Support cost robust multi-tenancy
 Deployment Models

Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Public clouds arerun by third parties , and applications from different

customers are likely to be mixed together on the cloud’s servers, storage systems, and
networks. Public clouds are most often hosted away from customer premises, and they
provide a way to reduce customer risk and cost by providing a flexible, even temporary
extension to enterprise infrastructure.
 Deployment Models

Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Private clouds are built for the exclusive use of one client ,
providing the utmost control over data, security, and quality of service. The company
owns the infrastructure and has control over how applications are deployed on it.
Private clouds may be deployed in an enterprise data centre, and they also may be
deployed at a co-location facility.
 Deployment Models

Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid clouds combine both public and private cloud models. They can help to provide
on-demand, externally provisioned scale. The ability to
augment a private cloud with the resources of a public cloud can be used to maintain
service levels in the face of rapid workload fluctuations. A hybrid cloud also can be
used to handle planned workload spikes.
Architectural Models
 Software
as a Service

Platform
as a Service

Infrastructure
as a Service
Software as a Service - SaaS

Software as a service features a complete application offered as

a service on demand. A single instance of the software runs on the cloud and
services multiple end users or client organizations.
Platform as a Service - PaaS

Platform as a service encapsulates a layer of software and

provides it as a service that can be used to build higher-level services.
Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS

Infrastructure as a service delivers basic storage and compute

capabilities as standardized services over the network. Servers, storage
systems, switches, routers, and other systems are pooled and made available to
handle workloads that range from application components to high-
performance computing applications.
Multi-Tenant Architecture

Corporate 1 Corporate 2 Corporate 3 Corporate 4

Shared infrastructure

Other apps
App 2
App 1 App Server
App 3
App Server Database App Server
Database OS Database
OS Server OS
Server Storage Server
Storage Network Storage
Network Network
In Cloud
We Trust

Should we ???
How secure is my data
How
Put good is the defense
Oh, don’t forget about
a disaster plan
Why in the world
you would give up control?
It’s all about
It’s all about Trust

Trust
Do you trust them that
they’ll still be in the
business
tomorrow?
Pickservices that are
backed by major players
Understand the vulnerabilities
in the cloud
 Cloud Providers use
Isolation techniques

Data Isolation
Virtualization
Computing Isolation

A vulnerability in one tenant has little impact on other tenants

 Data Loss

Reputable Cloud Providers copy data 3-4 times

However, it is normal to store
highly value-able data in
two or more different cloud providers

Data
replicated Service replicated

Cloud Provider 1 Cloud Provider 2

Data Privacy
Data in Transit
data
Internet

Cloud Provider

It can be secured using encryption technology, e.g. SSL

It is used especially for sensitive data
Data at Rest

Biggest prize for attackers!

Cloud Provider

More and more cloud providers are developing native

data encryption

Even if it is stolen, it will be useless for attackers

You can choose where your data resides
Identity
Typical access to a web site
hosted in the Cloud
 Example of
a stronger authentication process
for sensitive web sites

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 Accessing other Cloud Services

Address

https://service.cloudprovider.net

Key1 Key2

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Are you a developer ?
Which is your
cup of coffee ???
 Vs.

LANGUAGE support
.NET (C# and Visual Basic),
Java and Python
C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, Java.

APPLICATION types
Cron Jobs or
via Java/Python based Web Roles and Worker Roles
application schedulers

MIGRATION ease
directly deploying into the automate the deployment
Webserver from a bat file
 Vs.

INTEGRATION with other apps

Google Apps SharePoint, SQL server,
(Accounts, Docs, Gmail, IM, etc.) Outlook,

CUSTOMIZED solutions
No Yes

SCALABILITY issues
app automatically scales need to change the config to
add new web or worker role
instances
Looking for Project Ideas ???
IaaS

PaaS

SaaS
Automation for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is creating challenges for IT organizations that have a

fair amount of manual tasks and processes that are carried out by IT
administrators. Cloud providers are looking to maximize the utilization
of the cloud resources being provided to cloud customers, in the face of
increasingly complex and dynamic workloads.
Virtualization

Technology is available to virtualize the primary computing resources –

servers, storage and networks, and these technologies are enjoying
increasing adoption by end users. Extensive research is underway to
enable effective management of deployments based on virtual
technologies
Application Development

For the cloud to truly become the new IT paradigm, it will not be
enough to simply move the existing applications into the cloud
environment. Inevitably, some new applications will need to be
developed, or existing applications will need to be re-developed to fit
the cloud, rather than the traditional data centre.
Security Issues

What are the security issues and solutions involved that can protect
corporate data in the cloud and address attacks from outside, such as
from Viruses and Trojans, or Denial of Service attacks? What
mechanisms can be used to address these issues in virtualized and
hosted cloud environments?
Moving Workloads to the Cloud

Many IT organizations are looking to utilize cloud-based services to

satisfy some fraction of their computing requirements. However, there
are a fair amount of challenges to transparently move workloads to the
cloud. Among other dependencies, there are significant challenges in
the area of network and storage which need to be met through
automation
Do your Homework !!!
Are you ready for your
journey
References

A great amount of concept and content for this presentation has been taken from
two amazing presentations by Andy Harjanto available on SlideShare
* I’m Cloud Confused - Link
* Cloud Trust - Link

InfoWorld – Cloud Computing - Link

UNISYS Cloud 20/20 Paper Presentation Contest Details - Link

Google App Engine vs. Windows Azure – taranfx.com - Link

Wikipedia

Google