Presentation given at NY GIS Conference May 16, 2012

1. What’s the weather tomorrow?
Learon Dalby
Sanborn
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2. Thin Line
• What are you trying to accomplish?
– What is your end game?
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3. Points of Failure
• Uptime
– Redundancy
• Power National Institute of
• Network Standards & Technology
• Scalability http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/index.cfm
• Disk Storage
• Functionality
• Security
• Geographic Distribution
of Centers
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4. A project
• Data Storage
• Data Management
• Data Distribution
• Web Mapping
• Application Support
• Platform
http://agioar.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/geostor-assessment/
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5. Options
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Data as a Service (DaaS)
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6. Options
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Data as a Service (DaaS)
The short is you are paying $ to have someone else
support your IT and that’s ok so long as you understand.
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7. Hosting
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8. Virtualization
Single box
App 1
App 2
App 3
App 4
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9. Virtualization
Utilization of single box
12.00%
14.00%
App 1
App 2
32.00% App 3
82.00% App 4
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10. A few parts of a cloud
Bandwidth
VM VM
Bandwidth Staff
Security
Security
Power
Power Staff Staff VM
VM Bandwidth Security Bandwidth
VM Power
Staff
Security Bandwidth Security
Power VM VM
VM
Staff
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11. Geographic Distribution of Centers
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
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12. Geographic Distribution of Centers
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
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13. Robustness
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
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14. Robustness
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
VM
VM VM
Multiple
Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
Security
Power VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM VM
Multiple VM Multiple
Bandwidth VM Bandwidth VM
VM Staff
VM Staff
Security Security
Power VM Power VM
VM VM VM VM
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15. Common Host
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16. Common Host
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17. • Esri
• Google
• The RITRE Corporation
Presented in the this session – obviously doing stuff
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18. Disclaimer
• The following are in alphabetical order
• They do not represent a comprehensive list
• The list is only intended to give you a sense of a few who
are using cloud services
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19. arc2earth.com 19

20. github.com 20

21. geoiQ.com 21

22. Mapbox.com 22

23. opengeo.com 23

24. openshift.redhat.com 24

25. stamen.com 25

26. WeoGeo.com 26

27. Conclusion
• Know what you want to accomplish
• Understand the capabilities of various
providers
• This will take work on your part
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28. Learon Dalby
@learondalby
(M): (501) 920-2446
(O): (501) 771-5111
ldalby@sanborn.com
www.sanborn.com 28