Life In The CloudAhmed Soliman

Agenda● What is cloud computing?● Key Characteristics● Companies● Criticism and disadvantages● Political Issues● Present and Future● Egypt?!

What's Cloud Computing?● Style of computing which is

dynamically scalable.● Virtualized resources are used as a

service.● Users need not to have any

knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology of the infrastructure of the 'cloud'.

Key Characteristics?● Customer of cloud computing

platform consumes resource as service.

● Subscription based vs. Metered Based.

● Highly Available.● Secure.● Virtualized and Scalable.

Companies● Amazon AWS● Sun Microsystems (Q-Layer)● IBM● Salesforce● Google● Yahoo

Criticism● Your data safety is questionable.● You can see my data?● How to delete my data?

Political Issues● Can you put data in that country?● Am I restricted with the US. Or any

country's law?● Conflicts between countries.● Cryptography limits.

Present and Future● Can Cloud computing be still

explored more?● Do we have a chance to do

something

ThanksAhmed Soliman