What is cloud computing and its characteristics and why your organization needs it more than ever?

1. INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

2. About Speaker
● Ronak Patel
○ CEO at Sunflower Lab
○ Entrepreneur
○ Love solving problem
using technology
○ Married, Two sons (6 & 3)

3. Why learn about Cloud computing?
● It’s a buzzword. Everyone is talking about.
● Google search on ‘Cloud Computing’ bring about
97,400,000 results

4. Worldwide Public Cloud Services
Forecast (Millions of Dollars)

5. What Is “Cloud computing”?
● On-demand delivery of compute power, storage,
applications and other IT resources as service via internet.
● Instead of buying, companies can use the technology like
compute, storage and other services on need basis. Think of
it as your utility service provider. You pay per use.

6. Cloud Characteristics
● On-demand
● Ubiquitous Access
● Multi-tenancy (Resourcing Pooling)
● Elasticity
● Pay as you go

7. Enabling Technologies For Cloud
● Broadband internet access
● Advancement in Processing power - Multi-core CPUs
● Virtualization technology
● Distributed Storage
● Service oriented architecture and web services

8. Cloud Computing Architecture

9. Software As A Service - SaaS
● Off-the-shelf application are accessed using internet. These
applications are typically web based.
● Example
○ Email - Microsoft office 365, Gmail,hotmail
○ CRM - Salesforce, zoho
○ Communication - Slack, GoToMetting
○ File sharing - Dropbox, Box
○ Accounting - Intuit quickbook, wave

10. SaaS - Pros and Cons
● No Development & Maintenance
● Collaborative working
● Mobility
● Resilience
● Free or Paid Subscription
● Generic solutions not always suitable for your requirement
● Future customization not possible as per your need

11. Platform As A Service - PaaS
● Provides tools and platform to build new online
applications.
● Example
○ Google App Engine
○ Azure Platform
○ force.com

12. PaaS - Pros and Cons
● Time and cost Saving with rapid development
● Build software as per your need
● Easiness of deployment
● Limit developers to provider’s language and tool
● Vendor lock-in

13. Infrastructure As A Service - IaaS
● Allow existing application to run and store data on cloud
hardware
● Example
○ Amazon AWS
○ Rackspace open Cloud
○ Azure
○ IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

14. IaaS - Pros and Cons
● Full control of VMs and everything inside it
● More flexibility for enterprise integration
● Customer runs and control VMs using Iaas without owning
own servers
● Customer responsible for backups and failover strategy
● Unlike with Saas or Paas, Customer responsible for VM
management

15. Advantage of Iaas (Close look)
● Cost
● Elasticity
● Reliability
● Flexibility
● Security
● Pay as you use

16. Cost

17. Elasticity

18. Pay as you use

19. Reliability
● Multi availability zones and regions
● Auto Back-ups and archives
● Replication

20. Flexibility
Enables organization to use the programming models,
Operating system, database, and architecture with
which they are already familiar.

21. Security

22. IAAS Deployment model
● Public cloud
○ multi-tenant environment
○ Shared hardware
○ Pay as you go model
○ Low cost
● Private cloud
○ Single tenant environment
○ Security & Compliance
○ High performance
○ Customization

23. SMB Challenges

24. Cloud Advantages for SMBs
● Replacing cost to build servers, software, or platforms with
predictable operational expenditure
● Outsourcing the burden of maintaining your own hardwares
and software
● Scale up and down as per demand
● No long term commitment
● Stay Innovative and Competitive
● Available from anywhere

25. How SMBs using Cloud
● Cloud Applications (SAAS)
○ Office 365
○ Google G Suite
○ Slack
○ Box, Dropbox
○ Trello, Jira, github
○ Concur, ADP
○ Wave accounting, Intuit quickbook
○ ZOHO CRM, salesforce

26. How SMBs using Cloud
● Cloud Platforms (PAAS)
○ Force.com, SAP Cloud platform
○ Google App engine
○ Microsoft Azure
○ Amazon AWS (lambda, Elastic Beanstalk etc)
○ Heroku
○ Dokku

27. How SMBs using Cloud
● Cloud Infrastructures(IAAS)
○ Amazon AWS (EC2, S3)
○ Microsoft Azure
○ IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
○ Google Compute Engine
○ Rackspace open Cloud

28. About Sunflower Lab
● Technology Company build software for any display and
platform ( Mobile, web, Custom Software, IOT)
● AWS Cloud consulting partner
● Work with small to mid-size company and start-ups
Freebies
● Cloud consulting to analyze/define how cloud can help your

29. Questions?
Feel free to email info@thesunflowerlab.com
for any additional questions.
Thanks.