Discusses key cloud technology ripe for adoption by business in 2009. Includes RightScale, Amazon Web Services, Google Apps, Google App Engine

1. Leveraging the Cloud in 2009 A presentation for Enterprise technologists Presented by Ed Laczynski CTO LTech

2. The Cloud: Noise or Necessity?

3. It is Disruptive “ In a recent test, the Defense Information Systems Agency compared the cost of developing a simple application called the Tech Early Bird on $30,000 worth of in-house servers and software with the costs of developing the same application using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon.com’s Web Services. Amazon charged 10 cents an hour for the service, and DISA paid a total of $5 to develop an application that matched the performance of the in-house application.” Quoted from:

6. Cloud Ecosystem Cloud Deployment Platform Infrastructure as a Service Amazon Cloud Cloud Cloud Decreasing Lock-in / Increasing Portability Increasing Automation SAAS PAAS IAAS Software as a Service Platform as a Service Programming Environment Data Model & Database Monitoring & Analytics Operating System Application Application Data

7. Web Infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service

9. Amazon Web Services

13. RightScale Architecture Web-based Cloud Management Environment * Management Dashboard * User Permissions * Life Cycle Support Cloud Aware ServerTemplate Libraries Automation Engine * Rules * Policies APIs * Functionality * Customization Customer Library RightScale Library Partner Library Community Multi-Cloud Engine * Monitoring * Alerts Customers Professional Services Partners Cloud Infrastructure

15. Messaging and Collaboration Software as a Service

16. Messaging and Collaboration: Google Apps

20. Platform as a Service

21. Worth a look: Google AppEngine Reduced complexity, extreme scalability Java and Python Support. Secure Data Connectors. Rich API.

22. Worth a look: Windows Axure

23. LTech is a leader in Google Apps and Cloud deployments