DaaS/IaaS Forum Moscow - Chris Rogers
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The document discusses some of the challenges with moving to public cloud computing. It outlines key questions around security, scalability, and segregation. Specifically, it notes that public clouds can scale instantly on demand but lack strong security controls and segregation between customers. The document provides recommendations around endpoint security, secure communications, service level agreements, and capacity planning to help address customer concerns with moving to the public cloud.
DaaS/IaaS Forum Moscow - Chris Rogers
- 1. The hard road to the public cloud Chris Rogers Citrix Technology Professional
- 2. Provider Examples Security Scalability Segregation Questions
- 3. Cloud = Commodity
- 4. AWS, EC2, S3 Based on Xen Elastic – scalable and flexible No liability Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- 5. Scalable? Instant capacity on demand Withstood Anonymous attack Secure? Obscurity, so much data. New controls coming online all the time. Hundreds available now Segregated? NO
- 6. No virtualization Massively scalable SLA for business customers – liability?
- 7. Secure? Two-factor authentication Scalable? Massive Segregated? NO
- 9. Your customers WILL ask
- 10. Virtual machine and hypervisor specific security Patch! Have a dedicated management network Investigate security providers - Bromium Endpoint security Control endpoints Containers and encryption Citrix XenMobile MDM Secure communications VLANs! Limitation of 4096 networks – investigate double tagging Netscaler/Access Gateway endpoints
- 11. Service Level Agreements standards compliance benchmarking shared liability transparency of systems Offer security expertise independent certifications – SAS70, ISO, PCI, etc. Encryption data at rest
- 12. TRUST
- 13. Capacity planning is key
- 14. Have a modular model Monitor usage Capacity planning User demands are huge, plan for it Redundant providers
- 15. Enterprise customers will demand it.
- 16. Where is data stored? Where do processes run? Decisions – help your customer make the right ones Which apps are suited for the cloud?
Editor's Notes
- #4: Economies of scale Zynga, twitter, facebook, Netflix, pinterestCheaper, faster, better, or is it