1. Cloud, Consumerization, Collaboration and all
the rest…
Morgan Simonsen
Technical Evangelist Atea
morgan.simonsen@atea.no
@msimonsen
morgansimonsen.wordpress.com

2. Agenda
• What is the cloud?
• What is consumerization?
• What is collaboration?
• Fusion: How to make it work together!
• Security
• What can I do today?

3. What is the Cloud?
• Cloud means delivering IT as a service
– It’s no longer you mail server, but your mail service
• Cloud based IT delivery has the following characteristics:
– Pooled resources/multi-tenancy
– Self-Service
– Elasticity
– Usage based
• Can be either private or public
• Service models:
– Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
– Platform as a service (PaaS)
– Software as a service (SaaS)
• Software+service
• Cloudbursting

4. Management in the cloud
• Management of the private cloud and public cloud is very different
• Public clouds never expose complex protocols
– HTTP
– REST API
– FTP
– SCP
• In your private datacenter you have total control

5. Cloud security (or lack thereof?)
• Where is your data? Your
• Jurisdiction? server
here!

6. Players
• Google
– SaaS
– PaaS
• Microsoft
– Office365 (SaaS)
– Windows Azure (PaaS/IaaS)
• Amazon Web Services
– IaaS

7. Cloud storage
• Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored in
virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties
– SkyDrive
– SkyDrive Pro
– Google Drive
– Dropbox
– Ubuntu One
• Applications now directory integrate with cloud storage
– Office 2013

8. The gift of foresight…
• Douglas Parkhill:
The Challenge of the Computer Utility
(1966)

9. What is Consumerization?
• Consumerization is the growing tendency for new information technology to
emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business and
government organizations.
– The reverse used to be true
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• Security
• Service delivery
• Who owns the data/device?
• No more managed devices
• Delivery
– Terminal services
– VDI
– Web Service
– Client Hypervisor

10. What is Collaboration?
• Any technology that facilitates linking of two or more humans to work together
can be considered a collaborative tool
– E-mail
– Instant messaging
– Video conferencing
– Social media
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Yammer
• Collaboration must work across all devices and services

11. Consuming and connecting
• Web service with username/password
– Old school
• Federation
– Claims based resouce access
• Cloud based identities
– Microsoft Account
– Google ID
– Oracle
– Facebook
• Authorized apps
• Hosted directories
– Windows Azure Active Directory

12. Service delivery
• HTTP is still king!
– REST API
– Supports encryption and authentication through TLS/SSL and auth encapsulation
– No new protocol looks to replace it
– Augmented by SOAP and XML
• Cloud is all about the app
– And the app is web-based

13. Hardware and networking
• Near Field Communication (NFC)
– Wirelessly deliver your cloud based ID to providers
– Will enable «Minority Report» like scenarios
• Networking
– Any new service MUST support IPv6
– Your net really isn’t important anymore (don’t buy that new expensive firewall)
• SmartPhones
• Integrated devices like SixthSense
– Consume metadata from the cloud everywhere
– http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

14. Security
• The device and its authentication less important
• Everything becomes user based
– How to provide strong authentication?
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
– Digital certificates
• Two-factor authentication
– Expensive and not user friendly
• Privacy
– Huge amount of digital traces

15. Summary
• The Cloud is the biggest shift in the IT industry since the Internet
– Adopt or die
– Whoever you are; you’re going there (money talks)
• Consumerization will shift focus to users not devices
– So much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits
• Collaboration will increase on all fronts
– The challenge will be to disconnect!