Enterprise Clouds With Canonical

Towards The Enterprise Cloud

James Governor, RedMonk

Why Cloud Computing?

•Cost

•No permission Needed

•Elasticity/scalability

•New Business Models

•Sales “Reuse”

•New features

•Lower cost of maintenance

•New business models

Users Vendors

Economics You Can't Compete With 1

•Open Source

Economics You Can't Compete With 2

•The Web

Economics You Can't Compete With 3

•Simple

Concerns•Hype

•Retraining - multi-thread dev, dynamic ops

•Ending up paying more – rental vs mortgage

•Fear Of Lost Data!

•Lock-in

•Legacy concrete

•Virtualization turns out to be more important?

The Balancing Act/Walking The Line

•Public

•Simple

•Private

•Complex

Born Again

“ If you were born before 1975 you’d call this a mainframe. If you were born after, you’d call it the Cloud. Let’s call it a giant computer.” - Paul Herrod, CTO EMC

Linux Strengths• (Potential) cost of zero

•Reliable,, known quantity “at scale,”

•Transparent

•Mature IT Management tooling

•Virtualization

•Existing, Linux applications

"We use [Linux] because it performs well on inexpensive, commodity hardware. That continues to be true and that continues to be a reason we use it."-- Anthony Golia, Executive Director of Enterprise Computing, Morgan Stanley

Linux Weaknesses

•Focus on the kernel, not apps and UX

•Perceptions and FUD

•Virtualization Fragmentation

Some Recommendations •Enforce Simplicity

•Start With AWS or Virtualisation

•Adopt integrated dev/ops

•Choose tech that supports on or off premise deployment

•Start Small

•Workload Triage

Conclusions

•Market still in Flux

•Cloud is not a product

•Think ahead: new business models

•Beware the Permission-based Web

Credits & Co.• Podium: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/2408993662/

• Cloud diagram: http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/cloud-computing-taxonomy-ontology-please-review.html• Skeleton E. Newman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hryckowian/3102077404/• Netbook: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndevil/3349323242/• Giant hand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76074333@N00/147857534/• Brown field: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brian-m/2812607097/