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@ Building the Caribbean Cloud Concepts, Progress and Priorities

OVERVIEW Defining Accessing Building the Cloud the Cloud the Cloud

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? Is the cloud... • Hosted servers? • Virtualization? • Virtualized platform operated by someone else?

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? “The Cloud” is a metaphor for “The Internet” “Cloud computing” means storing, processing and accessing data and programs over the Internet, or a distributed network, instead of your local computer or network

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? For consumers, the cloud represents – Wide accessibility – Disposable computing – Low cost – Simplicity – Transferred operations responsibility

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? For service providers, the cloud represents – Speed to market – Global presence – Scalability – Redundancy – Reduced operations cost

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? Cloud vs Virtualization

NIST DEFINITION (SP 800-145) Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

CLOUD CHARACTERISTICS Broad On-Demand Resource Network Self-Service Pooling Access Rapid Measured Elasticity Service

Accessing The Cloud

HOW WE USE THE CLOUD

HOW WE USE THE CLOUD

TYPES OF CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE o Public o Private o Hybrid

The Caribbean Cloud

CLOUD = PHYSICAL LOCATION Google Core Datacenters Located in the Americas, Europe and Asia – 10 regions – 30 zones – 100+ points of presence https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure

CARIBBEAN SUBMARINE FIBER CONNECTIVITY

GOOGLE DATACENTER

GRENADA EXCHANGE POINT 1 - Fiber panel 2 - Cisco switch 3 - Cisco switch 4 - Cisco router 1 5 - Solaris server 6 - Fiber cables 7 - Patch cables 2 7 6 3 4 5

REQUIREMENTS Connectivity Colocation Energy Operations Services Customers Capacity

PLATFORM OPTIONS

NEXT STEPS o Proof of Concept o Limited rollouts o Move to datacenters o Commercial offerings

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