1. Life In The Cloud
Ahmed Soliman

2. Agenda
● What is cloud computing?
● Key Characteristics
● Companies
● Criticism and disadvantages
● Political Issues
● Present and Future
● Egypt?!

3. What's Cloud Computing?
● Style of computing which is
dynamically scalable.
● Virtualized resources are used as a
service.
● Users need not to have any
knowledge of, expertise in, or control
over the technology of the
infrastructure of the 'cloud'.

4. Key Characteristics?
● Customer of cloud computing
platform consumes resource as
service.
● Subscription based vs. Metered
Based.
● Highly Available.
● Secure.
● Virtualized and Scalable.

5. Companies
● Amazon AWS
● Sun Microsystems (Q-Layer)
● IBM
● Salesforce
● Google
● Yahoo

6. Criticism
● Your data safety is questionable.
● You can see my data?
● How to delete my data?

7. Political Issues
● Can you put data in that country?
● Am I restricted with the US. Or any
country's law?
● Conflicts between countries.
● Cryptography limits.

8. Present and Future
● Can Cloud computing be still
explored more?
● Do we have a chance to do
something

9. Thanks
Ahmed Soliman