This presentation looks at what cloud computing is, what it can do in practice, it's future potential for businesses and some of the pitfalls to be aware of before cloud sourcing a project.
This presentation was given at the Web Directions South conference on 9 October 2009. It was delivered in the business track and was aimed at an audience that were relatively fresh to Cloud Computing or had limited experience.
The transcript can be found at: http://bit.ly/tkyxs
6. Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is comprised of five key characteristics, three delivery models, and four deployment models. - NIST Cloud Computing Working Definition
7. A Network based Service , that is available on demand such that the end consumer considers it not their problem
14. Hybrid Clouds [Diagram of services such as EC2, Rackspace Cloud etc sitting out on the Internet and I consume them into my network alongside private cloud offerings]