This video was originally posted from Novell in November. It is a case study showing how Platespin helped Atos Origin Netherlands migrate servers to a new data center with minimal downtime.
Using technology like this will help to launch our newest cloud services. The official branded services will be launched in Q1-2010 around the globe. While Atos Origin has a lot of experience with Cloud Services, we're not known in the market as a Cloud Services provider. So, the services aren't new to us, but seeing them may be new to you (the customer).
Hans ten Berge posted a wrote this blog entry this summer: Cloud Computing Undressed. It's in Dutch, so I've got a crude translation here:
Clouds where we really talking about. Cloud Services, SAAS, PAAS IAAS what is the link. In this blog I try to give the essence. Gutted antics, undressed.
Cloud computing is really of no more than:
- A model where services are offered via the Internet which use paid
- It is a scalable model that computing power, power and data storage has
- It is based on Utility Based Computing as long-established
- SAAS Combined with services offered as SAAS
It is actually an "online through the Internet data center flexibility, CPU, storage and flow. The latter is not unimportant because it is the largest expense of the whole.
On top services can be offered. Depending on the type of service that lets you create three formats: IAAS PAAS SAAS. Download PDF Factsheet here.
- Infrastructure as a Service or IAAS
- Software as a Service or SAAS
- Platform as a Service or EASTER
There are other variations or refinements to invent as DAAS (Database as a service) but I was not specific enough to serve as typing. There is also a dependency you cannot and does not have EASTER without IAAS IAAS without SAAS. So both have a relationship with the platform. Software as a Service is a program running on a IAAS also be developed on an EASTER. SAAS and PAAS cannot exist without IAAS.
Infrastructure as a Service
The foundation and the basis of the services is in IAAS. This is a Utility-Based Infrastructure. A flexible and scalable virtualized datacenter (or several) that are dependent on demand and load can behave differently. This has everything to do with virtualization course. What does the data center depends on the virtual bodies. The services are provided by the user via a web portal created, used and removed. This form of self (provisioining) is an important prerequisite. Condition is also a huge high availability system. Although a condition can also go wrong. An interesting website is http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/CloudComputing:Incidents_Database . Here are all the calamities in IAAS kept. IAAS is the basis on which piggyback SAAS and PAAS. The advantages and disadvantages of this infrastructure are immediately visible in the parent departments.
Platform as a Service Platform as a Service
Platform as a Service is really half finished product on top of the cloud. It is offered as a service but you can still nothing. It is more a programming platform. The most common forms are the Google Apps and Microsoft Azure (which recently made known the prices see blog updates on Azure), and of course Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing). Each of these platforms deliver the future of our countryside and computer use.
Software as a Service Software as a Service
Software as a Service is an application for consumer or end-users on top of the PAAS built. You use the service and paid per unit of time. But do not the program locally on your machine. All you need is there for a browser. Good examples of existing SaaS solutions are natural Salesforce.com. A brilliant first application for sales people. It has all previous Siebel and put aside. And you see that success is determined by the concept. Everywhere you application / functionality. But more and more companies are taking recourse to the field of SAAS. Everyone already uses a fact GMAIL.
Gartner Hype Cycle voor Cloud Computing
According to Gartner standing Cloud computing is in the Technology Trigger phase. This means that excessive attention to but it really does not know what it will mean. Everyone talks about it but what are we talking about? In this blog I try to undress the cloud again to what it is.
Gartner Hype Cycle on Cloud computing
Is it what it is or nothing?
Then we go in terms of the predictions and opinions go. My personal opinion is that Cloud Computing the entire computer use and computer experience will change completely. The absence of your application offers so many benefits locally. No installation, no problems with updates or viruses that nestle in your application. The everywhere have the functionality independent of your device. Take GMAIL, 8 years back there was nobody to think that your mail "online" was accessible.. Now you do not imagine that your mail is locally on your PC. Then you put your mail again. Not to mention no longer be available from your PC by another virus that came along again. No, I think we will soon see many devices only provide a display and link but the real work exists and is used in the cloud.
Kindle Reader
If we look at devices that are ideal for such applications come to you soon PlayStation Portable Reader de "online readers" the Amazon Kindle, but also the PlayStation Portable or DS will be a much bigger role and the "real PC" a lot smaller. Natural features should be added, but thinking in this direction.
In the example of GMAIL and all variants that are created as GGoogle Apps, Google Maps, Microsoft Sky Drive, Flickr. Flickr for your photos you see that the adoption of software as a service has been in our way of life has come. You can not talk about whether this works because we are already in the middle. Within two years now and create more and more Public and Private Clouds. The examples that I mention above are all Public Clouds. Private Clouds are minor variations within a company or group companies all the benefits of a Public Cloud in it but have additional benefits. Traceability of data and use, access from the cloud to BackOffice systems, integration with existing architectures.
Word Wake
"A PC on every desk" was once a "ridiculous" vision of Microsoft in 1975, watching this trend, I think the vision can be adjusted. By the time this vision was filed was a ridiculous, but soon became quite normal . Cloud computing is as big as that. Online services go in the future a large part of the computing part. It's easier, cheaper and more flexible. If you are a business are not working with this trend you started a large backlog. The challenge lies in organizing the service, who is the owner, risk management and the use and usability, not technology.
Hans ten Berge Hans Berge at
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