To be presented at BDPA Cincinnati's Blacks in Technology 12/18/13

1. Cloud Computing
Mark Stockman, Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati
School of Information Technology

2. About Me
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Technologist
UC Faculty Member
ACM
Systems/Virtualization
Cybercriminology
Why am I here?

3. School of Information Technology
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350 Students (growing)
11 Faculty (growing)
BSIT (MS Soon…)
Applied Computing

4. Wayback Machine…
• Mainframes
• PCs
• Distributed Servers

5. Datacenters
• Why?
Security
Management
Fault Tolerance
Load Balancing
Bandwidth

6. My favorite….

7. Server Sprawl

8. Server Virtualization
• Hypervisor
• Orchestration
• Migration

9. Central Storage

10. Storage
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DAS
Storage Array
SAN (Block level)
NAS (File level)
Fibre/iSCSI

11. Cloud Computing
• … as a Service
Software
Infrastructure
Platform
• Desktop, Metal, DR, IT

14. Cloud Computing
A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient,
on-demand network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources (e.g.,
servers, storage, networks, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction.

15. Cloud Computing
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on-demand*
shared pool of computing resources
rapidly provisioned
minimal management effort
* differentiates from just data center/virtualization/shared storage

16. Typology

17. Drivers?
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Rent/Own
Elasticity
Expertise
Infrastructure
– Compute
– Storage
– Network

18. Implications
• Security/Privacy (legal restrictions)
• SLAs
• Deployment policy
(not so fast)
• BYOD
• IT workforce shift

19. SaaS Providers

20. Iaas Providers

21. thanks…
mark.stockman@uc.edu