BY Zohra Banu

Rohan Desai
We School

Cloud Computing
 Agenda
• Journey So far …
• Why Cloud?
• Target Sectors
• Success stories
• Failure stories
• Ares to cater
• Road ahead
• Cloud future in India
• Challenges?
 Journey So far …
• Dates back to 1960 when Computing was compared
with Public utility by John McCarthy
• Old concept- exploited by many email clients but
became buzzword recently
• Major drivers:
– Outsourcing
– Cost cutting drives
– Developing ecosystem
• Similar to the journey: Electricity generators to
Electricity grid
• Spark new business models built around collaboration,
networks and information across all industries
 Why Cloud?
• Accelerated deployment of new applications
• Move from CapEx to OpEx
• Flexibility to handle demand peaks and
valleys
• Help businesses to concentrate on their core
competency
• Heavy cost reduction through ‘Shared
services’
 Success stories
• 500,000+ organizations use Google Apps
• GE moved 400,000 desktops from Microsoft Office to
Google Apps and then migrated them to Zoho for privacy
concerns
• New York Times
– Didn’t coordinate with Amazon, used a credit card!
– Used EC2 and S3 to convert 15 million scanned news articles to PDF
(4TB data)
• Nasdaq
– Uses S3 to deliver historic stock and fund information
– Millions of files showing price changes of entities over 10 minute
segments
• President Obama’s Citizen’s Briefing Book Based on
Salesforce.com Ideas application
 Failure stories
• Even temporary service outage = Failure
• Cloud biggies Google / Amazon service
outages in 2009
• VMware’s license bug in 2008
 Areas to cater
• Health Care Industry
• Research in pharmaceuticals and
automobile industry
• Media & Entertainment Industry
• Telecommunication
 Road ahead
• Google and IBM plan to roll out a
worldwide network of servers for a cloud
computing infrastructure” – Infoworld
• TCS to build ‘Nano of Cloud’ for SMB
• Cognizant and Microsoft to jointly develop
Cloud solutions
• SAP India predicts 50% of its revenue to
come from cloud computing in next 3-4
years
 Cloud future in India
• Established ‘Brand-India’ for IT outsourcing
• SME sector – A biggest business opportunity
• Conducive IT ecosystem
• “IP protection better than China”
“India Cloud will dominate the world” – Steve
Ballmer CEO Microsoft
• Indian Cloud Computing market to grow to
$1.08 bn by 2015‘ – Economic Times
 Implications
• Relationships Vs technology.
• Next-generation management solutions
• Transition Plan
 Challenges?
• Data control and security
• Reliability
• Portability – Service provider dependency
• Social issues:
– What will happen to existing IT staff of cloud
embracing company?
Thank You !!!