2. Who is Bernard Golden?
CEO: HyperStratus, A Silicon Valley Cloud
Consultancy
20+ years experience in large IT shops,
enterprise software, global consultancy,
venture capital
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Advisor, CIO Magazine
Author, “Virtualization for Dummies,” two
forthcoming books on cloud computing
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4. Silicon Valley Education Foundation
• Purpose: Better education in Silicon Valley
• STEM focus
• Key issue: teacher collaboration
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6. Infrastructure Options
External Hosting
Virtualization Amazon Cloud
Provider
Single machine, subject Adds redundant hardware, Removes hardware
to outages virtual machine migration from equation
Growth is
Growth requires Growth requires
accommodated by
additional equipment, additional equipment,
additional EC2
still subject to outages still has SPOF
instances
No additional skill Significant skill Modest skill
development required development required development required
7. Lessonopoly Cloud TCO Savings
Horizontally
Single Server Multi-Tier
Scaled
55% 57% 55%
8. Common Challenges in TCO Analysis
• Understanding current IT cost structure
• Forecasting future application load/traffic/storage
• “One version of the truth”
9. Unexpected Lessons Learned
• “If it’s not one thing, it’s another” -- Emily
Litella
• “It is difficult to get a man to understand
something when his job depends on not
understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair
• Cloud scalability offers real-world benefits
10. Additional Resources
• Lessonopoly white paper: Card with “LWP”
• HyperStratus “Application Security Best
Practices in AWS”: Card with “Security”
• bernard.golden@hyperstratus.com
• Follow me on twitter: bernardgolden
