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Understanding Cloud Architectures: The New Uptime

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Winston Damarillo Morphlabs
Description As cloud computing becomes more prevalent and moves from an option to an edict, it is important to understand the framework that makes it reliable and scalable. This session will discuss the building blocks of the cloud architecture and the functional innovation it brings: The "Assumed Failure" model of deployment, the mechanics of self-healing and autoscaling for clouds and applications, application high availability vs VM high availability, interoperability (and what it means for your deployment) and finally why standards are necessary for innovation.
Questions
Answered
  1. How do you evaluate the ROI of going to the cloud?
  2. What are the costs and benefits that you need to consider when building a case for the shift to cloud computing?
  3. What is HA in the cloud?
  4. How do you know when the clouds is not a good idea?
  5. What kind of apps belong in the cloud?
Level Intermediate
Category Cloud Storage / Delivery
Tags Cloud Architecture, Self-service