Slides for presentation at ecentre Massey University on Cloud Computing "Taking you into the cloud"

1. What is the cloud

2. https://mega.co.nz/
http://guidarapp.com/
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3. Cloud Computing
Networks, servers and applications
• Provided as a service
• On-demand scalability
• Rapidly provisioned and released
https://www.thecloudcode.org/
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4. Cloud Computing
NIST definition also includes:
• Shared pool of resources
• Broad network access
• Measured services
It’s about the public cloud!
http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/
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5. http://www.northbridge.com/2013-cloud-computing-survey
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6. Benefits
Cost savings
Agility
Expertise
Start-up
Scaling
Mature
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7. The (medium-term) Future…
• Amazon AWS continues to dominate
• Silos remain, no real interoperability
• Personal Cloud, BYOC (Bring Your Own
Cloud)
• Enterprises will favour hybrid clouds
• Someone will solve the problem of
processing encrypted data
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8. It’s Only Just Started
Doing new things previously
impossible or unthinkable
Doing whatever we already do
cheaper, faster, better
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9. Questions / comments
Vikram Kumar
CEO, Mega Ltd.
Email: vikram@mega.co.nz
Twitter: @vikram_nz
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