CloudAsia 2012 Highlights

May 18th 2012

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Conference Highlights

• Observations on Cloud Computing, Tim Grance, NIST

• Case Studies

o Changi Airport Case Study, Steve Lee, CIO

o SITA Case Study, Greg Ouillon, VP Air Transportation Industry Transport (AITA) Cloud

o Enterprise Challenges in Cloud Adoption, Ezhil Arasan Babaraj, Director R&D Labs, CSS Corp

o MyTransport.SG: Co-Creating with the Community, Mrs Rosina Howe, Chief Innovation Officer &

Group Director, Innovation & InfoComm Technology, Land Transport Authority

• Security

o Outbound data leakage case studies, Wong Onn Chee, Managing Director, Infotect Security

o Cloud Security, Jim Reavis, CSA

• Network Access

o Metro Ethernet for Cloud Services, Firdaus Monir, Telekom Malaysia

• Other Useful Data

o Couple of good slides from IBM, Simon Choy, Chief Strategist and Executive Sponsor - Cloud, IBM

ASEAN

o Importance of hybrid architecture and APIs, Simon West, CMO, SoftLayer Technologies

o Asia Cloud Computing Stats, Per Dahlberg, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cloud Computing Association

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I recommend the use of the NIST Cloud framework as the most impartial available. Though the Hybrid cloud definition could be improved the overall

framework provides a common language and framework.

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Cloud Computing is simply a technology (virtualized and automated IT infrastructure) and business model (pay per use). I think of it simply as “IT

infrastructure outsourcing”. On Trust, its like asking if a hosted server is secure – the whole system needs to be evaluated, not a piece of technology.

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I liked Tim’s summary of Cloud Issues.

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A key point here is the browsers and client apps MUST be considered part of the cloud deployment.

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Using Cloud Computing technology is a business decision. Legacy applications requirement migration – which costs time and money and has risk.

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Access networks remains key. The presentation by Firdaus Monir, shown later in these slides, provides a good review of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s work here.

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Cloud Computing is simply a technology, organization’s existing security systems must be extended / complemented to adopt this technology.

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Great summary of the issues to consider in adopting Cloud Computing.

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Great summary of the steps. Business led, with a consideration of architecture, bi-directional app / workload migration strategy. The final point is key and why

taking an incremental approach is critical, focus on the workloads that have fewer issues.

Case Studies

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Good case study on Cloud adoption.

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Changi airport is big! 28k workers, 200 businesses.

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Currently the 7th largest airport by traffic.

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Strong demand for shared services.

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More broadly, many airports are adopting cloud computing. Cost savings are primary motivation, followed by agility (which means it costs less to do new

things, such as supporting multiple devices.)

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SITA and Orange Business Services (OBS) also adopting cloud computing (reviewed later in this pack).

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Good example of some of the apps that can be applied to the cloud (both public and private). Here public is used for disaster recover / business continuity as well

as public-facing services – but encryption is important.

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Changi has its own MPLS network between its multiple private data centers. These support a range of shared services including information kiosks, customer

feedback terminals and displays, and check-in terminals.

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Cost dominates, and the agility benefit is closely linked to being able to support multiple devices – an increasing problem for CIOs. Changi’s energy bill is about $100M per year, so energy savings do have a significant impact on cost savings.

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SITA was mentioned in the Changi case study and presents another case study in successful cloud adoption

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Good case study on the implementation of a community cloud.

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Cloud Computing enables resources to be shared across all customers.

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Note the 100ms latency requirement, hence importance of MPLS network as well as global DC infrastructure. Global Telcos are winning Cloud deals in such big

deployments; but SMB, mid market and large national enterprises are much more competitive.

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Services offered are available via a marketplace.

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Good example of cloud adoption. But note it’s a special situation, and not typical of many businesses. Same is true with web-based start-ups. Hence the gap we

currently see in cloud computing adoption.

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This presentation gave a good summary of the issues and initial approach.

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This key is identifying the initial workloads to migrate to the cloud, here TOGAF provides a good decision tree as described in my pre-conference workshop.

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Good list of best practices – multi-cloud to avoid lock-in, understand what SLAs mean, stateless / loose coupling / design for failure are true for any IT solution

today; but equally important to solutions including cloud computing.

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Case Study on use of co-creation community.

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Security

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Great review of the outbound data leakage from websites. Though not specifically a cloud problem, as many cloud deployments include the companies website, it’s a

good time to plug this gap during the cloud migration project.

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Useful resource on Cloud Security best practices.

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Network Access

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Provides a good review of the relevance of Metro Ethernet Forum, as access remains critical to cloud computing.

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Other Data

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Included as they had a couple of good diagrams on the changing role of CIOs and the current status of cloud adoption.

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SoftLayer highlighted two key points: Reality of a hybrid architecture across dedicated services, cloud instances and private clouds; and the increasing role of

APIs (Application Program Interfaces) to manage this infrastructure by the enterprise.

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Useful data points on cloud computing in Asia

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