What is an infrastructure cloud, any cloud? icloud, dropbox, Amazon web services, vCHS, Oxygen, etc.
I hope you have a clearer understanding after reading this comparison. Let's answer this question at the end.
Credit:
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What is a well run cloud? Based on EMCs collateral:
1. Self Provisioned
2. Consumption funded
3. Automated Deployment
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
5. Built in Security
6. Brokered and Built
7. Standardized Services
How does this translate to the common person? How is this changing the way we lead our lives and changing the way businesses optimize their environments daily. I will not discuss PaaS, Iaas, DaaS, SaaS, XaaS, Servers, Networking, Enterprise Storage, etc. Let's take this down to how this impacts our lives everyday.
I'll make the analogy between renting a car and Cloud. Lets call it "RacaaS". Renting a car represents the cloud.
If you answer these questions, as listed then owning a car is probably not cost effective and renting a car is a much better alternative. We are going with the assumptions that all costs are included in the rental (gas, insurance, maintenance, etc). Anything you would be responsible for if you owned a car.
Questions:
1. Do you have a garage? no
2. Do you have any expertise on maintaining a car? no
3. Do you know how much tires, gas, oil changes etc will cost you for the life of the car? no
4. Do you know when your car will break down? no
5. If your car breaks down, do you know how to fix it or how much it will cost? no
If you answered the above questions as indicated then buying a car is probably not an effective solution to your transportation requirements. Renting a car as a service or RacaaS is your best bet. Think Zipcar.
How does RacaaS relate the the above "well run cloud" definition?
1. Self Provisioned
When you need a car you go to the conveniently located secured lot and pick it up whenever you need it. If you have a car that you would like to use, you can leave it at the lot and use it whenever you need to.
2. Consumption funded
When you drive the car you pay by mile. Thats it! Gas, maintenance, tires, etc are included.
3. Automated Deployment
You simply put your credit card in the point of sale touchscreen machine, select your car, and the car is delivered to you by the valet.
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
When you arrive at the RacaaS site you know exactly how much the type of car you chose costs per mile before you drive away. You know it is maintained and if there is an issue a new car of the same type will be provided on the spot. Like AAA but better.
5. Built in Security
The RacaaS site is guarded and maintained. No one can come or go without passing through security. You can however allow others to use your account securely. In addition there will be an armed escort available at all times hidden in a compartment in each car that takes up no space. You are secure at all times.
6. Brokered and Built
You don't need to do anything except interact with the valet and pick your car. If one is not available from the POS system that fits your requirements the RacaaS will build one for you. Want a Sherman Tank? Customize your build on the point of sale touchscreen and the valet will bring it out to you.
7. Standardized Services
When you arrive at the RacaaS site you know that a car will be available, reliable, clean, and customizable on the fly for a set price. There is no guesswork. If you don't need a car today, you don't need to maintain it. If you need a small sedan today for a short trip to the store, a truck to go to home depot, or a superpowered tank to take care of some pesky critters in your yard, you can get it on demand.
The nerd stuff:
So now that you understand RacaaS, let me explain how this model applies to IT infrastructure.
We will follow the same blueprint:
1. Self Provisioned
You need a server? Go to the portal and provision a server. On demand. You have an application that requires 4 servers to function efficiently for 20 days out of the month and requires 10 servers to function efficiently for 10 days a month, for those 10 days, provision and additional 6 servers. When they are not needed, Shut them down. You have some applications or some servers and don't have the space to store them? Move them to the cloud. You ran out of space on your hard drive... Dropbox - cloud based storage. You want to store all your pictures in one spot... flickr cloud based photo storage and sharing application. You don't want to run your own email server... gmail. Cloud has been around for years. It just has a name now.
2. Consumption funded
If you need a server you pay by storage, CPU and RAM. You know that cost ahead of time. You want more flickr storage, you pay an extra $5 a month. You want to move your sales reporting software offsite... salesforce.com and pay by user.
3. Automated Deployment
You need a server, an application, a platform, a desktop, anything, go to the portal and click on what you need. Automation tools like vCloud Director and vCAC allow for automated provisioning.
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
All prices are provided up front. You know the costs before you scale.You know if you are buying an econo sedan or a Sherman tank, a simple desktop or a 16 node SQL backend.
5. Built in Security
Secured in redundant locations with power and cooling provided and 99.999 percent uptime. Secure access to your infrastructure 24/7. Multi tenancy and firewalls to secure all access.
6. Brokered and Built
The cloud provider both sells and builds the infrastructure. You simply chose what you need and provision from a portal.
7. Standardized Services
All services have SLAs that are guaranteed. You know what you are paying for and what you are getting.
Next - Hybrid Cloud. Oh Geez, How do we explain this?
You want a car in your garage as well as access to any car you want at the RacaaS site. Or you want to store your car sometimes at the RacaaS site and sometimes in your garage. Or in IT, we want some servers onsite in our datacenter and some in the cloud. Sometimes I want to add servers in the cloud to augment my datacenter or move my workloads to the cloud if I need to perform maintenance on my datacenter. In case of emergency Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS).
I hope you have a clearer understanding after reading this comparison. Let's answer this question at the end.
http://pulseblog.emc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/EMC-Cloud-Solutions.png
What is a well run cloud? Based on EMCs collateral:
1. Self Provisioned
2. Consumption funded
3. Automated Deployment
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
5. Built in Security
6. Brokered and Built
7. Standardized Services
How does this translate to the common person? How is this changing the way we lead our lives and changing the way businesses optimize their environments daily. I will not discuss PaaS, Iaas, DaaS, SaaS, XaaS, Servers, Networking, Enterprise Storage, etc. Let's take this down to how this impacts our lives everyday.
I'll make the analogy between renting a car and Cloud. Lets call it "RacaaS". Renting a car represents the cloud.
If you answer these questions, as listed then owning a car is probably not cost effective and renting a car is a much better alternative. We are going with the assumptions that all costs are included in the rental (gas, insurance, maintenance, etc). Anything you would be responsible for if you owned a car.
Questions:
1. Do you have a garage? no
2. Do you have any expertise on maintaining a car? no
3. Do you know how much tires, gas, oil changes etc will cost you for the life of the car? no
4. Do you know when your car will break down? no
5. If your car breaks down, do you know how to fix it or how much it will cost? no
If you answered the above questions as indicated then buying a car is probably not an effective solution to your transportation requirements. Renting a car as a service or RacaaS is your best bet. Think Zipcar.
How does RacaaS relate the the above "well run cloud" definition?
1. Self Provisioned
When you need a car you go to the conveniently located secured lot and pick it up whenever you need it. If you have a car that you would like to use, you can leave it at the lot and use it whenever you need to.
2. Consumption funded
When you drive the car you pay by mile. Thats it! Gas, maintenance, tires, etc are included.
3. Automated Deployment
You simply put your credit card in the point of sale touchscreen machine, select your car, and the car is delivered to you by the valet.
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
When you arrive at the RacaaS site you know exactly how much the type of car you chose costs per mile before you drive away. You know it is maintained and if there is an issue a new car of the same type will be provided on the spot. Like AAA but better.
5. Built in Security
The RacaaS site is guarded and maintained. No one can come or go without passing through security. You can however allow others to use your account securely. In addition there will be an armed escort available at all times hidden in a compartment in each car that takes up no space. You are secure at all times.
6. Brokered and Built
You don't need to do anything except interact with the valet and pick your car. If one is not available from the POS system that fits your requirements the RacaaS will build one for you. Want a Sherman Tank? Customize your build on the point of sale touchscreen and the valet will bring it out to you.
7. Standardized Services
When you arrive at the RacaaS site you know that a car will be available, reliable, clean, and customizable on the fly for a set price. There is no guesswork. If you don't need a car today, you don't need to maintain it. If you need a small sedan today for a short trip to the store, a truck to go to home depot, or a superpowered tank to take care of some pesky critters in your yard, you can get it on demand.
The nerd stuff:
So now that you understand RacaaS, let me explain how this model applies to IT infrastructure.
We will follow the same blueprint:
1. Self Provisioned
You need a server? Go to the portal and provision a server. On demand. You have an application that requires 4 servers to function efficiently for 20 days out of the month and requires 10 servers to function efficiently for 10 days a month, for those 10 days, provision and additional 6 servers. When they are not needed, Shut them down. You have some applications or some servers and don't have the space to store them? Move them to the cloud. You ran out of space on your hard drive... Dropbox - cloud based storage. You want to store all your pictures in one spot... flickr cloud based photo storage and sharing application. You don't want to run your own email server... gmail. Cloud has been around for years. It just has a name now.
2. Consumption funded
If you need a server you pay by storage, CPU and RAM. You know that cost ahead of time. You want more flickr storage, you pay an extra $5 a month. You want to move your sales reporting software offsite... salesforce.com and pay by user.
3. Automated Deployment
You need a server, an application, a platform, a desktop, anything, go to the portal and click on what you need. Automation tools like vCloud Director and vCAC allow for automated provisioning.
4. Transparent pricing and SLA
All prices are provided up front. You know the costs before you scale.You know if you are buying an econo sedan or a Sherman tank, a simple desktop or a 16 node SQL backend.
5. Built in Security
Secured in redundant locations with power and cooling provided and 99.999 percent uptime. Secure access to your infrastructure 24/7. Multi tenancy and firewalls to secure all access.
6. Brokered and Built
The cloud provider both sells and builds the infrastructure. You simply chose what you need and provision from a portal.
7. Standardized Services
All services have SLAs that are guaranteed. You know what you are paying for and what you are getting.
Next - Hybrid Cloud. Oh Geez, How do we explain this?
You want a car in your garage as well as access to any car you want at the RacaaS site. Or you want to store your car sometimes at the RacaaS site and sometimes in your garage. Or in IT, we want some servers onsite in our datacenter and some in the cloud. Sometimes I want to add servers in the cloud to augment my datacenter or move my workloads to the cloud if I need to perform maintenance on my datacenter. In case of emergency Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS).
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