By Frederik Van Hecke (Cluttr) at CloudCamp Ghent 2010

1. a hybrid cloud ecosystem
cloudcamp ghent - 20/10/2010
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2. hybrid?
• Something that has two different types of
components performing essentially the same
function
(Merriam-Webster)
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3. a hybrid cloud
• Transparent combination of several clouds
• Different types (IaaS / PaaS)
• Different deployment models (Public / Private)
• Different vendors & physical locations
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4. a hybrid cloud ecosystem
• Different “species” coexist & interact
• Management moves to higher level
• Workload can move from one to another
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5. hybrid use-cases
• Handling peak loads
• Cost-driven deployment
• Fast scaling
• Cloud-based fail-over mechanism
• The “InterCloud” or “Cloud of Clouds”
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6. available technology
• Hybrid solutions
• CloudSwitch
• VMWare vCloud Director (Redwood)
• Public cloud management tools
• Rightscale & others
• Public cloud APIʼs
• jClouds & others
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7. remaining challenges
• Standardization
• Open cloud market space
• Source-to-destination conversion
• Disk-level (IaaS - IaaS)
• Application-level (IaaS - PaaS - IaaS)
• Technical problems related to relocation
• Legal issues
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8. thank you
frederik van hecke
frederik @ cluttr.be
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