Presenter: Scott Holland The Benefits of Cloud Computing
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What is Cloud – The Analogy By Degrees From Headache to Advantage Benefits of Scale How Does RCS Do IT?
The Analogy Homemade Pizza is comparable to building your own cloud with conventional IT infrastructure. You can exactly manage the what, how, and when of your requirement but resources and knowledge pose a challenge. Frozen Pizza is compared to Private Cloud services, where all work is done by the maker and you require doing only limited things. However, flavors and prices are fixed here. Delivered Pizza is like Managed Cloud option, where what you want and how you want is well taken care of and it is delivered right at your doorstep. You don’t need any skills or resources as all the work is done by the maker. The only downside is with the fixed number of choices you have. Restaurant Pizza is comparable to the Public Cloud which is the most economical option and does not require you to have any kind of expertise. This is the best option if you want virtualization without any hassles associated with infrastructure management. The only limitation is limited menu, which leaves less room for individual customization. Choose your own topping pizza is like a Hybrid Cloud option that allows you to mix and match different choices available and get the best fit. Stig Alstedt, HP Norway’s Technology Director
By Degree CONTROL = RESPONSIBILLITY
• How much control do you need? – SaaS – Software as a Service • Limited control and reduced responsibility
– PaaS – Platform as a Service • Some control with increasing responsibility
– Iaas – Infrastructure as a Service • Full control and ultimate responsibility
From Headache to Advantage! • • • •
Compliance Cost Control Resources Agility
Efficiencies of Scale
How We Do IT RCS offers Counterpoint in a Software as a Service model, running on a Hybrid Cloud that is based on traditional IT infrastructure that we own and manage in combination with Managed Cloud and Private Cloud services provided by Tierpoint.
TierPoint: From Local Provider to National Scale… TierPoint Data Center Footprint
“TierPoint has evolved from a small local data center consolidator to a big-fish player in several regional markets to a full-blown national provider of hybrid IT solutions.” (source: DCK.com Jun 2016)
Public Cloud/HyperScalers - Highly Scalable infrastructure that deploys virtual servers or services based on propriety platforms developed by the people running them. Resources can be added in minutes and rates are based on a pay for what you use model . Resources are allocated from a large pool of shared resources. Examples are
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Compute IBM SoftLayer
Public Cloud/Multi-tenant - Scalable infrastructure that deploys Virtual Servers on traditional enterprise hardware and software platforms in a multi-tenant fashion with customized user interfaces . Resources are typically taken a pool of shared resources. Resources typically billed in tradition fashion with bursting ability. • TierPoint • Other MSP vendors Private Cloud – Dedicated infrastructure stack designed and managed by a vendor, primarily made for high performance or compliance goals in mind. Typically one company dedicated to one set of infrastructure.
Public Cloud/HyperScalers – Best used when you develop applications to run specifically in their infrastructure with the intension of dynamically spinning up and down resources. Application design should be highly redundant and not rely on single points of failure. Public Cloud/Multi-tenant - Best used when moving traditional enterprise application from on premise to cloud. Usually chosen for general application workload that requires occasional scalability, and usually there are cost savings due to multitenant design. Traditional enterprise application might have single point of failure in application design, so they will reply on multitenant highly redundant infrastructure to keep application running with the most uptime. Private Cloud - Best for performance workload that requires dedicated compute/storage resources, or compliance regulations requiring dedicated infrastructure.
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Key Cloud Advantages Advantages
Benefits
Speedy deployment of scalable resources
Deploy infrastructure capacity on demand, increase efficiency
Less expensive than dedicated environments
Greater cost control without having to purchase individual servers, eliminate costly refresh cycles
