An notes and resources for cloud implementation

Types:

• public
• private
• hybrid

As a services:

• IaaS - cut IT expense, cloud enabled data
• PaaS - time to market
• SaaS - imediate access

cloud features and bennefits -> throuhg standards, automatization:

• it's cost
• it's bullet proof
• it's speed
• it's simplicity
• it's time to market
• it's effeciency
• IT'S DIFFERENT FOCUSE
• IT'S DIFFERENT BUSINESS MODEL THAN WITH TRADITIONAL IT

• specific TOC and ROI to calculate
• custommer must see what have been improved
• security in every aspect

Image management

• Standard set of images (OS, middleware, databases) offered in fixed sizes and SLA packages
• Up to 99.9 instance availability

• confidence in product
• confidence in team

Docs

##Getting Cloud Computing Right http://www-05.ibm.com/de/cloud/pdf/Gettingcloudcomputingright.pdf

##Whitepaper about the CCRA http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/ciw03078usen/CIW03078USEN.PDF

##Redguide about Cloud Enabled Data Center adoption pattern http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4893.pdf

##Redguide about Cloud Service Provider adoption pattern http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4912.pdf

##Academy Technote about the CCRA http://www-05.ibm.com/it/cloud/downloads/Cloud_Computing.pdf

##CCRA Submission to the OpenGroup http://www.opengroup.org/cloudcomputing/uploads/40/23840/CCRA.IBMSubmission.02282011.doc

##REDBOOK: IBM Implementation Services for Private Clouds: An Implementation Guide for Practitioners and Architects (publically available soon) http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248123.html