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Presented by
Karol Fitzgerald
Athlone Institute of Technology

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Agenda
 What exactly is the Cloud ?
 The Digital Revolutions
 What has changed ?
 Cloud Advantages & Disadvantages
 The expanding Cloud
 Summary

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What exactly is the Cloud ?
 The “Cloud” is a metaphor for the Internet
 On computer network diagrams the internet is represented as a cloud
 National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) and the Cloud Security Alliance defines Cloud
Computing as
 “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
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The Digital Revolutions
 PC Revolution – 1980’s
 IBM PC launched in the
US
 Digitization of data e.g. documents, photos, movies, music, newspapers, books, etc.

 Cloud Revolution
 Has evolved slowly over the last decade e.g. email, video/audio streaming and file sharing
 Instead of storing locally data is stored remotely
 Focuses changed from digitization to atomization and ubiquitous computing

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What has changed ?
Traditional Computing Building Blocks

Hardware

Platform

Window's
7
PC/MAC
OS X

Building blocks of the Cloud

Software
MS Word
IE 8 iWorks You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com)

HaaS
Amazon Web