High energy & nuclear physics

Computing

• Computing

• connection to the « Compute » service > 99,95%
• Web and Worker roles > 99,9%
• note : service interruption  interruption > 5 mn

• Storage

• « failed » transactions (error rate) < 0,1%
• credit = 10%
• if 0,1% <= error rate < 1%
• Credit = 25%
• if error rate >= 1%

Database service

• Database service

• https://www.windowsazure.com/fr-fr/pricing/details/sql-database
• costs is highly dependent from the size of the DB
• ~1€ per GB/month
• not so cheap!

• Comparison with Oracle pricing (Oct. 2013)

• Standard Edition
• 350€ per named user + 77€ maintenance
• or 17,500 € (no limit-processor license)+ 3,850€ maintenance
• Enterprise Edition
• 950€ per named user + 209€ maintenance
• or 47,500 € (no limit-processor license) + 10,450€ maintenance

For one computer

• For one computer

• From $4 to $5 per month per computer!

• Unlimited data size

• Possible encryption

• From 20 TB 5 years ago to 40 PB in 2013

Previous previsions

• Previous previsions

• Gartner (2010):
• $150.1 billion by 2013
• identifies the Cloud as one of the four trends that will change IT and the economy in the next 10 years (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1470115)
• IDC (2010):
• the market for private enterprise Cloud servers will grow from an $8.4 billion opportunity in 2010, to a $12.6 billion market in 2014
• SaaS revenue will grow five times more than traditional software
• by 2014, about 34% of all new business software purchases will be consumed via SaaS

• 2012 key figures (Gartner, Feb. 2013)

• revenue: ~$130 billion (public clouds) (+18,5%)
• IAAS : +43% ($9 billions) (fastest-growing segment)
• cloud advertising: 48%!!! ($62 billon!) (1st segment)
• BPaaS: 28% - SaaS: 14,7%; PaaS: only 1%
• Prediction for 2016: $677 billon, incl. $310 billion for advertising (+17,7% of annual growth)

• Cloud vendors are experiencing growth rates of 90% per annum (FSN, March 2013)

Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO) (March 2010)

• Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO) (March 2010)

• about 75% (90% in a year) of Microsoft customers are doing entirely cloud based or entirely cloud inspired

• Real adoption of cloud: yet the early days!

• 75% according to RightScale (cloud service broker) – strong biais: RightScale customers!
• 30% according to Forrester Research
• 37% according to Virtustream/Neovise (cloud platform providers)

56% of UK CIOs and Senior IT leaders see complexity of their own ICT systems as the biggest barrier to their adoption of the cloud (NTT report, May 2013)

• 56% of UK CIOs and Senior IT leaders see complexity of their own ICT systems as the biggest barrier to their adoption of the cloud (NTT report, May 2013)

• 53%: launching new services and applications more quickly (80% in the transport and logistics sectors
• 60%: cloud providers do not  appreciate how complex legacy ICT systems are, and fear migration to the cloud could fail
• 46%: cloud is a great enabler of ‘bring your own device’ and flexible working, through enabling remote access to data and applications
• Challenge: making cloud infrastructure work seamlessly with legacy platforms and applications
• 28%: legacy systems are too expensive (or valuable) to abandon 
• 68% have had cloud-based systems in place for two years or less

Integration of legacy systems

• Integration of legacy systems

• Limited customization

• Complexity

• Lack of standards

• (almost) Impossible migration/reversion

• Security, Privacy

• Legal issues and regulations

• Reliability

• Performance

• Financial Cost

• Reorganization cost

• Human cost

Collaborative computing, virtualization, dynamic provisioning of resources have definitely demonstrated their value

• Collaborative computing, virtualization, dynamic provisioning of resources have definitely demonstrated their value

• from a high performance computing point of view
• from a cost effectiveness point of view
• from a business point of view

• No one-size-fits-all solution → hybrid approaches

• Still strong open issues

• A domain prone to bubbles