Ed Duguid Technical Consultant West Chester Consultants

1. Ed DuguidTechnical ConsultantWest Chester Consultants Certified Partners in Vmware, Oracle, Microsoft, CISSP, COMPTIA Security+

2. Contact Information Ed Duguid www.iduguid.com Email with subject: MACE Cloud ed@iduguid.com

3. Cloudy Management

4. What is the Cloud? What is the cloud?

5. Why use Cloud Providers? Cost – Equipment cost, setup install, Scalability –quickly scale up or down Pay for what you need Allocate IT resources by department Shift responsibility

6. Benefits to Cloud Hosting • Transfer Responsibility • Limit downtime – upgrades • Free up IT resources – reduce costs, labor • Budget monthly – reduce capital budget for IT hardware, • Disaster Recovery/Backups

7. Cloud Providers Personal • iCloud • DropBox Business • Rackspace • Amazon • Google

8. Cloud Terminology • IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service • SaaS – Software as a Service • PAAS - Platform-as-a-Service • StaaS - Storage as a Service • DaaS - Desktop-as-a-service • Anything-as-a-Service

9. Enterprise Cloud Providers • Rackspace • Amazon EC2 - Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud • Microsoft Azure – Microsoft’s services • Oracle • SAP

10. Private Cloud vs Public Cloud Amazon EC2 - scalability HP/Microsoft: Enterprise Public Cloud Private Cloud with Public Cloud failover Integrated Cloud and research issues

11. Cloud Requirements Review your company needs Email hosting Application services – Sharepoint, Financial Apps, CRM, H/R Storage capacity Security – Personal Identifiable Information (PII), HIPPA Current IT demand/ Future demand

12. Consolidation

13. When to use a Private Cloud ? Company wants to maintain environment within the company network and maintains responsibility Cost to move to the public cloud Current infrastructure already in place

14. Cloud Computing: XaaS TermsCaaS, IaaS, MaaS, SaaS, PaaS, StaaS • SaaS: Software as a Service. eg. google doc/group, Microsoft cloud services, iCloud? • PaaS: Platform as a Service. Amazon EC2 • Windows 2008 $0.12/hr (server license included) • IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service, CU UIS hosted by host.com. Vmware supports IaaS • StaaS: Storage as a Service. Carbonite ($59/yr), Amazon S3 (0.14/GB, month; 0.01/1000reqs)

15. Other Cloud Terms • VM – virtual machine • Three 9’s or four 9’s – high availability • Clustering –shared resources • Fault Tolerant-redundancy fail-over • MTTR – Mean Time to Recover • MTBF – Mean Time between failures • SLA – Service Level Agreements

16. Traditional vs. Virtual Virtual Architecture Traditional Architecture

17. Cloud Management

18. Cloud Services

19. Barriers to cloud hosting • Hardware cannot support, legacy. • Security concerns • Management approval • Responsibility

20. Ability to expand • Elastic – Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. • You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. • controlled with web service APIs, application can automatically scale itself up and down depending on its needs.

21. Best Practices – Cloud Security Security in depth - Firewalls –active checking packets, - Network security – isolation, intrusion detection, - virtual private network – VLAN - Application security - Security review – annual

22. Phased approach to Cloud Company COOP or backup New and Critical applications Consolidation of hardware or remote sites Hardware/software replacement

23. Free Stuff • Amazon Free Virtual Machine – limited to MB • iCloud/Google Drive/Microsoft Skydrive– • Google Docs • Pixlr.com – online graphics editing • EverNote – online notebook, • Sign Up Genius / punchbowl.com(Party Planning)

24. Partly Cloud? Are you in the cloud yet? Questions? Ed Duguid www.iduguid.com Email with subject: MACE Cloud ed@iduguid.com