Infrastructure as a Cloud Service: Opportunities and Challenges

R Badrinath EB, HP, Bangalore

2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The material in this presentation represents the views of the author and do not necessarily represent those of HP.

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Motivation

Automation Delights

Your life as the IT manager of say PESIT:

Get the right machine Slap on the software Keep it patched up to date Figure out when to replace it Make sure it is being used well

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Outsource it and Pay per Use

Your life as the owner of a business, say someone who runs sales for a shop chain.
Find a product/service solution to a task Try it out, compare with other? Buy Maintain Dispose/ Replace / migrate when it is needed

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So, What is Cloud Computing?

Simplify the interface of IT. . By servitizing it.

(You dont have to know mechanics to drive an automobile).

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Some Characteristics

Move from Capex to Opex Automate, automate, automate Ubiquitous access

Discussion is up the stack

Sharing information & services internal, B2B, B2C,
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Opportunities The consumer

Democratization of compute power (Linuxification) Reduced TCO Opex is now the useful part Focus on the core activity bio science, engineering, finance, statistics, governance Leverage cloud knowledge/practices
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Opportunities The provider

Access to a large market ( and the long tail) Focus on the end-value adds Simplify Software delivery early and perpetual beta

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Challenges The consumer

Lock-in Privacy of data Integrity of data

Tracing, audit and billing

Authenticity of partners sharing Trust (especially as you move up the stack) I dont control my stuff anymore!

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The scale and speed challenges

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Challenges The provider

Scale
Managing the big

Multi-tenancy and sharing

vs. security concerns: Distributed Identity, authorization delegation vs. other (performance?) SLAs.

Service Differentiation Portability vs. customer loyalty Control over software usage

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A Security Challenge
Delegates access to C

A
Permits access to C

B
Accesses C

A, B, C are often agents Should C trust A? Should C trust B? Can trust be revoked? How to control Delegation? How to process the access?
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C
Industry has spent too much time writing software (and OSes) for controlled environments, and the good user.

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Security Technologies

Crypto Certs and CAs PGP and SPKI

ACLs
RBACs Capabilities Some recent work is promising. Logics to express Delegation

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Conclusion

The Cloud like it or not, its here to stay Technology is still evolving to deal with issues of scale, security and SLAs, among others There are many other facets we did not talk about:
Large data center management Service integration Standards Virtualization and automation technologies

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Exciting time to be a consumer and a technologist

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Remember: A Technology is not a Solution

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Thank You.
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