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To better deliver better applications businesses are more and more ready to use flexible resources included those from outsourcers To achieve this they need to make sure that the workloads that make up their applications are designed to be mobile This require commonality across inhouse and outsourced resources
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Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentres Index Cycle II , Jan 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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Hypervisor
Hardware
Data centre
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Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II Cloud findings, April 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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Source: Quocirca Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II Cloud findings, April 2012, ~950 senior European IT managers
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Enterprise cloud services $9.2B worldwide in 2010, but that number is expected to grow to $22.3B in 20% of companies will no 2014, 30% CAGR Managed/Cloud longer run ICT equipment Services in-house in 2012 In 2 to 5 years 40% of business customers will buy their ICT from the Cloud
75% of IT Managers reveal that they are using or evaluating a cloud solution
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Courtesy of EuroLAN
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The flexible management of workloads Whatever opinion you believe the move to cloud will only happen if workloads can be moved
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Five basic types of workload: Application workloads Database workloads Desktop workloads Appliance workloads Functional workloads
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Server
Server
Server
Private cloud Corporate firewall
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The tools for moving workloads Common platforms and tools that are available for building and managing both public and private clouds
Open source?
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Linus Torvalds
Interviewed in New Scientist on June 9th 2012 on his receipt of the Millennium Technology Prize
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Conclusions?
The move to cloud will continue, the pace will vary For businesses the main driver is flexible application delivery That in itself requires flexible management or workloads Flexible workload management requires platforms based on open standards
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