Welcome to Cloud IT, the resource for the future business network
I think Cloud computing is the future of business computer networks. Most people think of applications when it comes to cloud computing but I think its most important impact will be on business computer networks.
Business computer networks have not changed much if any since they were first available, physical servers with single or only a few applications usually in a storage closet without any redundancy, a single internet circuit, little or no power backup, no air conditioning, no redundant storage, no monitoring, no capacity planning and it has been like this for the past 20 years.
Usually it takes a combination of new technologies to create a revolutionary improvement in the way something is done. A combination of new technologies is now available to revolutionize the way business networks are designed.
These new technologies are Wide Area Network optimizers, Virtualization, multi cpu/core servers, and Co-Location hosting providers. These technologies allow for the delivery of
inexpensive virtual servers located in a datacenter with network, power, and air conditioning
redundancy to serverless offices.
This is not theoretical. My name is Rick Parker and I started Bedouin Networks in late 2006 to prove this would work. Bedouin's beta client was Gimundo.com and Gimundo ran on the Bedouin platform for about 14 months before being sold. The results were simply stunning, no downtime
for any services, none, for the last 7 months. This is the way IT should be and can be. What I will be doing is explaining how this was done and what can be done to improve the concept and design by suggesting and requesting feedback from others.
Introduction
The basic concept of Cloud IT is a serverless office, all servers (domain controllers, file servers, mail servers, etc.) are virtualized in a datacenter with WAN Optimized connections. Why? Less expensive and more reliable.
This is not theoretical. My name is Rick Parker and I started Bedouin Networks in late 2006 to prove this would work. Bedouin's beta client was Gimundo.com and Gimundo ran on the Bedouin platform for about 14 months before being sold. The results were simply stunning, no downtime for any services, none, for the last 7 months. This is the way IT should be and can be. What I will be doing is explaining how this was done and what can be done to improve the concept and design by suggesting and requesting feedback from others.
Some of the Vendors on the right I am sure you have heard of, others probably not, but they were selected primarily through experience but a few out of sheer interest. This is one of those circumstances where the whole is exponentially more important then the parts. The list is a Cloud IT Stack made up of the primary components, Datacenter, WAN Optimization, Virtualization, Monitoring, etc. some components may be swapped out but one of each is required.
The othe key concepts are the Virtual Private Cloud and RAID to the next level, The Redundant Array of Inexpensive Datacenters
This is not theoretical. My name is Rick Parker and I started Bedouin Networks in late 2006 to prove this would work. Bedouin's beta client was Gimundo.com and Gimundo ran on the Bedouin platform for about 14 months before being sold. The results were simply stunning, no downtime for any services, none, for the last 7 months. This is the way IT should be and can be. What I will be doing is explaining how this was done and what can be done to improve the concept and design by suggesting and requesting feedback from others.
Some of the Vendors on the right I am sure you have heard of, others probably not, but they were selected primarily through experience but a few out of sheer interest. This is one of those circumstances where the whole is exponentially more important then the parts. The list is a Cloud IT Stack made up of the primary components, Datacenter, WAN Optimization, Virtualization, Monitoring, etc. some components may be swapped out but one of each is required.
The othe key concepts are the Virtual Private Cloud and RAID to the next level, The Redundant Array of Inexpensive Datacenters
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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The best place to start to get an idea of how this works is the Riverbed website. This is a link belwo with a basic diagram. When I first saw this diagram and realized the benefits of combining this with virtualized servers it basically became an obsession to prove it would work to the point of spending about $100k of my own money to prove it. This was 18 months ago way before the terminology of Cloud computing was defined. I did not even know what to call it, but I was sure it would work.
http://www.riverbed.com/docs/deployment_diagrams/deployment_interceptor.pdf
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