Cloud Strategy Map December 2008 by Jian Zhen http://cloudfeed.net Offered under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Topic
Azure
Layer 0: Global Foundational Services
Layer 1: OS
Storage
Fabric Controller
VM/Virtualized Computation
Development Environment
Layer 2: Services
Live Services
.NET Services
SQL Services
SharePoint Services
Dynamics CRM Services
Layer 3: Applications
SharePoint Online
Exchange Online
Dynamics CRM Online
Hyper-V
People
Ray Ozzie (Chief Architect)
Topic
People
Russ Daniels (CTO)
Cloud as authority, local storage as cache
Topic
People
Padmasree Warrior (CTO)
Cloud computing
abstracting the services and applications from physical resources
Using a more on-demand layer
From private to hybrid to inter-clouds
Inter-clouds: federation for application information to move around
Cloud Computing Stack
IT foundation
Flexible infrastructure
Platform as a service
Applications
Application Delivery
Doug Gourlay
Software as a Service
WebEx
Infrastructure as a Service
Next evolution of app architecture
Stored permanently on the server
Temporary executed on clients
Pervasive network connected computing
Workload portability
Shift statefully from one building to another
Move workload from one autonomous system from another
Move from one provider to another
Federated group of autonomous systems exchanging workload
VFrame
Topic
VDC-OS
Infrastructure vServices
vCompute
FlexMigration
VMotion
vNetworking
vStorage
Application vServices
Availability
Security
Scalability
Cloud vServices
vSphere
vCloud
A set of new technologies
Charge-back system
SLA tracking tool
Service provider community
vApp
API
vCenter
vApp
VMsafe
VM Fault Tolerance
vLockStep
vClient
Client Virtualization
Offline Desktop
VMWare View (VDI)
VMWare ThinApp
VMWare Infrastructure
View Composer
View Manage
People
Paul Maritz (CEO)
Need to create dynamic information marketplace
Cloud app load is different than OS app load
Jeff Jennings
Bill Shelton
Dr. Stephen Herrod (CTO)
Dan Chu
Strategy
First step is to abstract the hardware
Second step is to abstract the OS
Topic
Flex Migration
Topic
Cloud Center
XenServer
NetScaler
Workflow Studio
WANScaler
Cloud Bridge
Cloud bursting
Deliver Center (VDI)
XenDesktop
XenServer
NetScaler
XenApp
App Receiver
People
David Roussain
Strategy
Own the infrastructure end-to-end
WAN optimization for moving apps/VMs around
XenDesktop for VDI
XenServer for server virtualization
XenApp for app wrapper
Subtle difference in strategy compare to VMW and MS
Not yet (seems) targeting as a platform
VMW lacks WAN optimization
Topic
Force.com
Marc Benioff (CEO)
Topic
GAE
People
Dave Giroaurd
Legal tangle of moving data between clouds
Unclear area of law on who owns what
Topic
EC2
EBS
SQS
SDB
S3
CloudFront
People
Werner Vogels (CTO)
Topic
Sun Grid
People
Jonathan Schwartz (CEO)
Dave Douglas
Lew Tucker
Topic
Mozy
Topic
People
Kevin Lynch (CTO)
Cloud platform compatibility is a problem
Topic
People
Paul Bell
Private cloud enterprise is a strong trend
Adoption for VDI is similar to server virtualization
Work closely with VMWare or Citrix on VDI
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