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mark.baker@ mark.baker@ Presented by: Prof Mark Baker ACET, University of Reading Tel: +44 118 378 8615 E-mail: Mark.Baker@ Web: http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab An Introduction to Clouds March 24, 09 What is Cloud Computing? Providing Software as a Service (SaaS) - delivering applications over the Internet. More recently also Hardware infrastructure, platform as a service. Based on Utility Computing - pay-as-you-go: The under lying idea of infinite resources, No up-front costs, Billing (e.g. hourly). March 24, 09 mark.baker@ Different Cloud Computing Layers? Application Service (SaaS)? Application Platform Server Platform Storage Platform Amazon S3, Dell, Apple, ... 3Tera, EC2, SliceHost, GoGrid, RightScale, Linode Google App Engine, Mosso, F, Engine Yard, Facebook, Heroku, AWS MS Live/ExchangeLabs, IBM, Google Apps; S Quicken Online, Zoho, Cisco March 24, 09 mark.baker@ Virtualization Virtual workspaces: An abstraction of an execution environment that can be made dynamically available to authorised clients by using well-defined protocols, Resource quota (e.g. CPU, memory share) Software configuration (e.g. O/S, provided services) Implement on Virtual Machines (VMs): Abstraction of a physical host machine Hypervisor intercepts and emulates instructions from VMs and allows management of VMs VMWare, Xen, etc. Provide infrastructure API: Plug-ins to hardware/support structures March 24, 09 mark.baker@ Hardware OS App App App Hypervisor OS OS Virtualized Stack Cloud-Sourcing Why is it becoming a Big Deal: Using high-scale/low-cost providers, Any time/place access via web browser, Rapid scalability; incremental cost and load sharing, Can forget need to focus on local IT. Concerns: Performance, reliability, and SLAs, Control of data, and service parameters, Application features and choices, Interaction between Cloud providers, No standard API – mix of SOAP and REST! Privacy, security, compliance, trust… March 24, 09 mark.baker@ Different types of Cloud Amazon: Com