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How To Get Started in the CLOUD
Contents What is Cloud Computing? Benefits – Cloud & Hybrid Hosting What can Clouds do for ME? When to use the Cloud? How to get started? Landscape & Differentiators
How are YOU doing your Hosting now? Self-Hosted How do you do Cooling, Power, Security, etc? Is it cost-effective? Shared Don’t you want to grow easily? Dedicated Can you scale? How long to deploy? Colocation Premium pricing? Clouds Do you have full control? Are you satisfied with features?
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is… Programmatic Shared Abstraction Pay as you go Over the Internet Self-service Use only what you need Scalable …On-Demand!
Being an “aaS” SaaS – Software as a Service PaaS– Platform as a Service IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
The “Cloud Pyramid” Cloud Services economy is a pyramid Layers equate structure Building blocks:  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Platform-as-a-Serice (PaaS) Applications (SaaS) Breadth vs. Niche
The "Cloud Pyramid" Describes Cloud Services Economy Building blocks: IaaS -> PaaS -> SaaS Google App Engine
Benefits Cloud Computing & Hybrid Hosting
Benefits of the Cloud Not confined to Small Discipline of IT All aspects of Computing & IT Servers Load Balancers Firewalls Networks Storage Software Do        Smarter!
Cloud computing economics 30,000,000 servers are not in the cloud.  Yet. Average server 10% utilized.   Not green.   Wastes green. CapEx to OpEx Use only what you need Turn stuff off Scale easily
Cloud vs. Physical Servers Over-spending on Infrastructure! Over-spending on Infrastructure! Demand Over-spending on Infrastructure! Time
Cost of Ownership Myth Myth - “It’s more expensive in the Cloud” “Cheaper to buy your gear and & divide by 36 months”.  AKA “The McKinsey Myth” Reality – Nobody can estimate their true needs 3 years out Cloud pricing coming down
What can Clouds do for Me? Helping Startups, SMBs, SMEs, Gov’t, Enterprise
Do Just About Anything! QA/Dev/Demo/Training environments Disaster Recovery Replacement for existing physical infrastructures Statistical Analysis & Bulk Processing …the sky’s the limit! Why are these suitable for cloud? You “own” your complete environment. Turn off at night, easy to deploy & replicate
When to use Best scenarios to use Cloud Computing
Not a Single Solution Pure Cloud vs. Hybrid Dedicated or Colocated Back-end High I/O performance Compliance Managed Services Cloud Front-end Horizontal scalability Dynamic Self-Service
How to get Started Best ways to start using the Cloud
Try it! Self-service Evaluate Vendors Decide on the Cloud Pyramid layer Infrastructure – complete control Platform – framework (Java, Ruby, .NET, Python) control Application – more of a business use, not hosting
Landscape & differentiators The competitive landscape & key differentiators
GoGrid vs. Amazon Web Services Cloudcenters GoGrid is established leader Datacenter model ‘in-the-sky’ Standards-based datacenter-like infrastructure Real, contiguous, persistent IPs and VLANs Persistent data storage Infrastructure Web Services AWS is established leader Web service model, pick and choose services ‘a la carte’ Great for developers Proprietary interfaces
What is GoGrid? Private Server Images! Public & Private Clouds Windows & Linux Servers in the Cloud Web-based Portal & API FULL root or Admin access Connect via SSH or RDC Free f5 Load Balancing Free Dedicated Public & Private Networks/IP’s Free Support
GoGrid v2.0! Announced for CloudWorld 2009! MyGSIs = Private Server Images Imaging of servers Vertical & horizontal scalability Cloning Store images cheaply on Cloud Storage Easy 3-Step Process Create Image Sandbox Configure & Run Prep Script Save Image
GoGrid Portal
GoGrid Portal – Add a Server
GoGrid - MyGSIs
Hardware “in the Cloud” Only GoGrid currently delivers Cloud Computing with: Real, contiguous blocks of static IP addresses Real VLANs (Public/Private) Persistent Storage Windows 2008 and SQL Server Included f5 enterprise-grade load balancing Support for “hybrid” cloud / dedicated  GoGrid “Cloud Connect” PCI compliance with dedicated DB server Custom physical hardware managed or colocated AJAX GUI & Open API standard specification for “cloudcenters”
CapEx is dead! Demand to use the Cloud! Trial GoGrid for free! $100 Coupon code GGJK Summary
Contact Information John Keagy CEO/Co-Founder of GoGrid & ServePath Email: john@gogrid.com Michael Sheehan Technology Evangelist for GoGrid & ServePath Email: michael@gogrid.com Site: http://www.GoGrid.com Blog: http://blog.GoGrid.com

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  • 1. How To Get Started in the CLOUD
  • 2. Contents What is Cloud Computing? Benefits – Cloud & Hybrid Hosting What can Clouds do for ME? When to use the Cloud? How to get started? Landscape & Differentiators
  • 3. How are YOU doing your Hosting now? Self-Hosted How do you do Cooling, Power, Security, etc? Is it cost-effective? Shared Don’t you want to grow easily? Dedicated Can you scale? How long to deploy? Colocation Premium pricing? Clouds Do you have full control? Are you satisfied with features?
  • 4. What is Cloud Computing?
  • 5. Cloud Computing is… Programmatic Shared Abstraction Pay as you go Over the Internet Self-service Use only what you need Scalable …On-Demand!
  • 6. Being an “aaS” SaaS – Software as a Service PaaS– Platform as a Service IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
  • 7. The “Cloud Pyramid” Cloud Services economy is a pyramid Layers equate structure Building blocks: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Platform-as-a-Serice (PaaS) Applications (SaaS) Breadth vs. Niche
  • 8. The "Cloud Pyramid" Describes Cloud Services Economy Building blocks: IaaS -> PaaS -> SaaS Google App Engine
  • 9. Benefits Cloud Computing & Hybrid Hosting
  • 10. Benefits of the Cloud Not confined to Small Discipline of IT All aspects of Computing & IT Servers Load Balancers Firewalls Networks Storage Software Do Smarter!
  • 11. Cloud computing economics 30,000,000 servers are not in the cloud. Yet. Average server 10% utilized. Not green. Wastes green. CapEx to OpEx Use only what you need Turn stuff off Scale easily
  • 12. Cloud vs. Physical Servers Over-spending on Infrastructure! Over-spending on Infrastructure! Demand Over-spending on Infrastructure! Time
  • 13. Cost of Ownership Myth Myth - “It’s more expensive in the Cloud” “Cheaper to buy your gear and & divide by 36 months”. AKA “The McKinsey Myth” Reality – Nobody can estimate their true needs 3 years out Cloud pricing coming down
  • 14. What can Clouds do for Me? Helping Startups, SMBs, SMEs, Gov’t, Enterprise
  • 15. Do Just About Anything! QA/Dev/Demo/Training environments Disaster Recovery Replacement for existing physical infrastructures Statistical Analysis & Bulk Processing …the sky’s the limit! Why are these suitable for cloud? You “own” your complete environment. Turn off at night, easy to deploy & replicate
  • 16. When to use Best scenarios to use Cloud Computing
  • 17. Not a Single Solution Pure Cloud vs. Hybrid Dedicated or Colocated Back-end High I/O performance Compliance Managed Services Cloud Front-end Horizontal scalability Dynamic Self-Service
  • 18. How to get Started Best ways to start using the Cloud
  • 19. Try it! Self-service Evaluate Vendors Decide on the Cloud Pyramid layer Infrastructure – complete control Platform – framework (Java, Ruby, .NET, Python) control Application – more of a business use, not hosting
  • 20. Landscape & differentiators The competitive landscape & key differentiators
  • 21. GoGrid vs. Amazon Web Services Cloudcenters GoGrid is established leader Datacenter model ‘in-the-sky’ Standards-based datacenter-like infrastructure Real, contiguous, persistent IPs and VLANs Persistent data storage Infrastructure Web Services AWS is established leader Web service model, pick and choose services ‘a la carte’ Great for developers Proprietary interfaces
  • 22. What is GoGrid? Private Server Images! Public & Private Clouds Windows & Linux Servers in the Cloud Web-based Portal & API FULL root or Admin access Connect via SSH or RDC Free f5 Load Balancing Free Dedicated Public & Private Networks/IP’s Free Support
  • 23. GoGrid v2.0! Announced for CloudWorld 2009! MyGSIs = Private Server Images Imaging of servers Vertical & horizontal scalability Cloning Store images cheaply on Cloud Storage Easy 3-Step Process Create Image Sandbox Configure & Run Prep Script Save Image
  • 25. GoGrid Portal – Add a Server
  • 27. Hardware “in the Cloud” Only GoGrid currently delivers Cloud Computing with: Real, contiguous blocks of static IP addresses Real VLANs (Public/Private) Persistent Storage Windows 2008 and SQL Server Included f5 enterprise-grade load balancing Support for “hybrid” cloud / dedicated GoGrid “Cloud Connect” PCI compliance with dedicated DB server Custom physical hardware managed or colocated AJAX GUI & Open API standard specification for “cloudcenters”
  • 28. CapEx is dead! Demand to use the Cloud! Trial GoGrid for free! $100 Coupon code GGJK Summary
  • 29. Contact Information John Keagy CEO/Co-Founder of GoGrid & ServePath Email: john@gogrid.com Michael Sheehan Technology Evangelist for GoGrid & ServePath Email: michael@gogrid.com Site: http://www.GoGrid.com Blog: http://blog.GoGrid.com