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Time
12 hours 57 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
13
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>> Now we're going to be talking about
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Community Cloud deployments.
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We're going to talk about those
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>> key characteristics that
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>> differentiate the community clouds from
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the other deployment models we've discussed.
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Why would an organization
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>> want to use a Community Cloud?
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>> What's the business justification
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for use of Community Cloud?
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Then what are the benefits and
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limitations of the community cloud?
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I really think this is an
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interesting cloud deployment model,
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and I hope you agree.
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In the Community Cloud,
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one affiliated group of
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organizations is really sharing Cloud infrastructure.
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In most cases that underlying infrastructure is also
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owned and administered by that affiliated group.
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Now, this was all in disperse administration.
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There isn't always one Cloud provider
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administering all of the underlying
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Cloud infrastructure,
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each group is maintaining potentially it's
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piece of the Cloud infrastructure
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or application and other members
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of this group get to share and utilize these resources.
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You might be asking, well, how does this happen?
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How do I get to be part of the community?
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Well, that's exactly how the Community Cloud is set up,
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it's typically a group
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or organization or set
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of companies that work together in tandem,
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such as there are research organizations that
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coordinate and shared data or
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applications together in a Community Cloud.
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There are some instances where
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private Cloud providers provide
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a Community Cloud service.
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One of the examples of this is like AWS
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provides a federal Cloud,
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and this is
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a big business opportunity in Community Cloud.
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For example, in 2020,
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the US government granted a contract to
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Microsoft to host their government Cloud.
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That contract was worth cool $10 billion.
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Now, you might say, "Wait,
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why is the government using analyzing
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and Community Cloud?"
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Well, one of the advantages is in
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terms of security and compliance.
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With all the organizations
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using the Cloud sharings, remember,
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the same regulatory compliance obligations,
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there could be standardization
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across the community cloud.
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As we've seen in the other Cloud models,
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that reliance and regulatory burden
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could be very different depending
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on who's using the Cloud,
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their business model, but in the community club,
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because most of the organizations
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share the same exact mission,
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there could be standardization
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of those controls which grants
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a higher level of security and
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compliance within the Cloud environment.
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You really see this in that FedRAMP for example.
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We'll go into what FedRAMP is,
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but it's a standard for maintaining
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Federal Information Security based cloud systems.
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It was applied across both,
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I guess, Amazon and Microsoft.
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Government Cloud both have this and were battling it
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out to see who was going to get
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this $10 billion contract.
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Typically, the cost of the community Cloud
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is lower because all of these organizations are
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sharing and sharing alike and they are bearing
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the cost of administering the Cloud and its resources.
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But overall, the main characteristic,
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common set of organizations that have
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a common mission or say
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underlying security concerns share in
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the administrative costs of maintaining
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the Cloud or they engage a provider who
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provides the Cloud only
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to a distinct set of organizations
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that have a common goal or affiliation in mind.
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Quiz question. Which of the following is
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the most significant difference between
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community Cloud and public Cloud deployments?
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Is it shared costs,
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shared services, or organizational affiliation?
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If you said organizational
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affiliation and you'd be correct.
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That's really the common denominator
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among how community clouds work.
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As a shared mission or connection among
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the organizations that participate
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in the community Cloud.
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All right, in this module, we talked about
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the characteristics of the community cloud,
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as well as the business case
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for using the community Cloud.
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We've talked about the example of
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federal government agencies utilizing
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secure community Cloud because of
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their very high need for
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security and compliance adherence in the Cloud.
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All right, I'll see you in the next module.
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