Cloud Computing
for Small Businesses
Christopher Urban
SUNYIT
Department of
Computer and Information Sciences
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Agenda
• A little history
– PCs, cell phones, e-commerce, cloud computing
• Cloud computing
– Driving forces
– 5 myths
– Some definitions and concepts
– Providers of cloud services
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A Little History
• John Atanasoff (born in Hamilton, NY) invented
the first digital computer (late ’30s)
• Thomas Watson, President, IBM, 1943:
“I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers.”
• In the mid-1950s, businesses began to see
computing technology as a means to increase
efficiency
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A Little History
• In the 1970s business began to see computing
technology as a means to increase effectiveness
• Personal computer sales began in 1970s
• Just over 1M sold by 1981
• IBM: Releases the PC in August, 1981
• Over 5M personal computers sold 1981-84
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A Little History
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By 1990 over 20M personal computers sold
Windows 3.0 released in 1990
WWW publicly available in August 1991
Mosaic introduced in in 1993
By 2000 over 140M personal computers sold
By 2008 over 1B personal computers sold
By 2014 over 2B personal computers sold
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A Little History
• Today there are over 6B cell phone subscribers
• 75% of the world’s population has access to a
cell phone
• Metcalfe’s Law: the value of a tele-communications
network is proportional to the square of the
connected users of the system.
• Tom Freidman: the world is flat
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E-Commerce
• 1994
– Yahoo
– Amazon
• 1995
– E-Bay
– Google
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E-Commerce
• 1997
– Virtually every major company,
organization, government, and media
outlet had a Web presence
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Cloud Computing
• 1997
– Ramnath Chellapa: “computing paradigm
where the boundaries of computing will be
determined by economic rationale rather than
technical limits alone.”
• 1999
– Salesforce.com
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Cloud Computing
• 2002
– Amazon develops a business model to allow
other organizations to make use of Amazon's
necessary excess capacity
• 2002 to today
– Explosive growth in Cloud Computing
– Services provided to anyone, anytime,
anywhere
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Driving Forces of Cloud Computing
• Pervasive and mobile computing
• Squanderably abundant bandwidth
• Proliferation of Internet services
– Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc…
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Cloud Computing Myths & Truths
• 5 Cloud Computing Myths and Truths for
Small Businesses
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The Cloud: A Layered Approach
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Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications
Development / Testing / Quality Assurance
Operating Systems / Virtualization
Servers / Storage / Cabling / Power / Cooling
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The Cloud: A Layered Approach
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) :
– Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine
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Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications
Development / Testing / Quality Assurance
Operating Systems / Virtualization
Servers / Storage / Networking / Power / Cooling
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The Cloud: A Layered Approach
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
– Windows Azure, Google App Engine
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Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications
Development / Testing / Quality Assurance
Operating Systems / Virtualization
Servers / Storage / Networking / Power / Cooling
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The Cloud: A Layered Approach
Software as a Service (SaaS)
– Dropbox, Salesforce, Quickbooks, OfficeTime
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Ready-to-Use and/or Tailorable Applications
Development / Testing / Quality Assurance
Operating Systems / Virtualization
Servers / Storage / Networking / Power / Cooling
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A Natural Starting Point For Small Businesses
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
– Why build something that you can buy if
• The cost is at or below the price of building it
• The quality meets your expectations
• The delivery time is certain to be well ahead of
your build delivery time
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The Cloud: Enabling Software
This software allows:
• On-demand access and service
• Self-provisioning
• Metering
• Elasticity
• Multi-Tenancy
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The Cloud: Public, Private, Hybrid
• Public: outside an organization’s firewall
• Private: inside an organization’s firewall
• Hybrid: part public and part private
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Office Time
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405820,00.asp
• Sage One
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405001,00.asp
• Adobe FormsCentral
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405001,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• DocuSign Pro
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393565,00.asp
• Office 365
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383731,00.asp
• Adobe Connect
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387818,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Gliffy
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403220,00.asp
• Mindomo
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381226,00.asp
• Salesforce
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364726,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Quickbase
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338771,00.asp
• Box
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410914,00.asp
• Freshbooks
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411886,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Intuit Online Payroll Plus
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406340,00.asp
• Abukai Expenses
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395848,00.asp
• Microsoft Skydrive
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409569,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Google Drive
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403546,00.asp
• Rebit Pro
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411940,00.asp
• PureCloud
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412584,00.asp
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Providers of Cloud Services
for Small Businesses
• Lynda
– http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385781,00.asp
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Who Should Be Driving the Cloud Train?
• The IT folks?
• The CEO?
• Both because cloud computing is not just about
technology, it is also about business models
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Cloud Computing is Not a Panacea
• As with any major move, you need to do your "due
diligence"
• Basic Checklist for Cloud Computing Customers
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Questions?
• Ask anything…
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