Tony O’Dowd presented at the Cloud On-Boarding Clinic in the Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. The clinic, which was hosted by the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) aims to help companies leverage the benefits of using cloud computing in their businesses. Tony's presentation, ‘Cloud Computing It’s a world of complexity!’ draws upon Tony’s experience successfully launching a cloud based company, and addresses four of the greatest challenges facing companies wishing to implement a cloud infrastructure across their businesses. For more information about KantanMT contact; info@kantanmt.com.

1. Presenter: Tony O’Dowd
Founder & Chief Architect
KantanMT.com

2. Help us to be like…

3. #1: Cloud Developers
 Programming Languages
 HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript
 PHP, ASP, Java
 Perl, Python, Node.js
 Amazon AWS, Azure, Google App Engine
 SQL Scripting, Data Modelling
 Hadoop, Pig
 SVN, GitHub
 BrowerStack
 IDEs
 DreamWeaver, Helios, ZendStudio, MS
DevStudio, Adobe Experience, CoffeeCup,
WordPress

4. #1: Jobs are different
 Cloud Deployments
 SRE – Site Reliability Engineering
 Application Architects
 GUI Developers
 WEB Developers
 College Graduates
 Influence curriculum
 To create next generation cloud
developers for our industry

5. #2:Business Challenges
 Migrating to the cloud
 As much a business challenge
 It is not a technology challenge, really!
 Lumpy Revenue Model
 Flow-based revenue models
 CAPEX expenditure
 Now OPEX expenditure
 Challenging to understand
 How to implement without killing
existing revenue streams
 What are the pitfalls, best-practices?

6. #3: Commonality
 Cloud is complex!
 Lots of providers
 offering the same
 packaged differently
 Incomprehensibly documented
 Same problems as desktop
 MFC offer common APP layers
 Cloud Computer
 Need Common App Layers
 Aka CommonCloud

7. #4: Security
 Security has many layers
 Access Security
 Physical Security
 Data Security
 Privacy Policy Statements
 Industry is intensely
interested in security
 Over 100 mentions of the word
‘Security’ in IC4 research line-up
questionnaire – that’s good!

8. Summary
 #1: Cloud Developers
 We need to create a world-class
stream of these
 #2: Business Challenge
 We need to educate traditional
ISVs on embracing cloud
economics
 #3: Commonality
 Accelerate the development of
CommonCloud
 #4: Security
 A rich and significant field of
research that will never stop
presenting challenges
Ireland Inc. – Formula 1 for
Cloud Development
Know-How

9. Presenter: Tony O’Dowd
Founder & Chief Architect
tonyod@kantanmt.com
Thank you.