cloud computing - whats the point(master)

Dave CoplinIT Architecture and PlanningMicrosoft Consulting Services

Cloud ComputingWhat’s the Point?

A Disruptive Influence...

www.theenvisioners.com

From: Jonathan MurrayWorldwide Technology Officer

Microsoft

Disclaimer*1. Forward Looking Statements: The following presentation contains certain

predictions and forecasts which may possibly/probably, turn out to be wholly inaccurate.

2. Utility: The forward looking nature of this presentation is unlikely to provide any information which will prove useful for addressing near term challenges in your business or personal life.

3. Work In Progress: This is an ongoing piece of work; as such the author reserves the right to right to amend, replace or contradict any premises, argument or logical statements contained herein.

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Overview

Cloud ComputingWhat’s the Point?

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Microsoft Office LabsExplore. Experiment. Discuss.

New Application Opportunities

• Mobile interactive applications• Parallel batch processing• The rise of analytics• Extension of compute-intensive desktop

applications• “Earthbound” applications

Source: “Above the Clouds - A Berkley View of Cloud Computing”, February 2009

Building the Capacity

The $1 Comparison

Source: “Above the Clouds - A Berkley View of Cloud Computing”, February 2009

2003 20081Gbit 2.7Gbit

8 CPU hours 128 CPU hours

1Gb 10Gb

2.7x

16x

10x

Technology Biorhythms

Storage (Compute) Power Bandwidth

Time

Challenges

Cloud ComputingWhat’s the Point?

Trust

Bandwidth

Culture

Trust

Do you trust the cloud?

Who “owns” my data?

Do you trust them?

Differential Privacy

Differential Privacy

96%

Differential Privacy

Source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/databaseprivacy/dwork.pdf

“A randomized function K gives –differential privacy if for all data sets D1 and D2 differing on at most one element, and all

S Range(K), where the probability space in each case is ⊆over the coin flips of the mechanism K.”

Bandwidth

Remember, data flows up

as well as down...

Culture

Millennials

8 mil

Baby Boom

14 mil

GenX11 mil

Millennials

17 mil

9 mil

GenX11 mil

Social Networking Comes of Age

Source: “Global Faces and Networked Places” A Nielson Report on Social Networking’s New Global Footprint, March 2009

http://apps.gov

Summary

Cloud ComputingWhat’s the Point?

Cost Efficiencies from the Cloud

££ Generated Savings ££

RealisedSavings

Re-investment inProgrammes

OPPORTUNITYCOST

2%Remember:

Trust

Bandwidth

Culture

WARNING!

Which will you be?

Thank-you

Acknowledgements• Key Contributors:

– Rob Bailey, Stuart Aston, Gary Burt, Jonathan Peach, Robin Cavonius• Microsoft Social Computing in Business DL:

– Lawrence Liu, Alina Fu• Microsoft IT Architecture and Planning team

– Andrew Quinn, Vivek Warrier, Fred Warren & the DelStrat DL• Microsoft WW Technology Officer team

– Jonathan Murray, Stephen McGibbon• Special thanks to Donald Tether

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