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Chapter 6 The Cloud
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Some of the SaaS products that Falcon could use are:
• Google Mail
• Google Drive
• Office 365
• Salesforce.com
• Microsoft CRM OnLine
• And many others …

You already know what the first three SaaS offerings are. Salesforce.com and Microsoft’s
CRM OnLine are customer relationship management systems, which you will learn about in
Chapter 7.

PaaS Services at Falcon Security

With PaaS, Falcon leases hardware and operating systems in the cloud from the cloud vendor.
For example, it can lease EC2 (Elastic Cloud 2, a PaaS product offered by Amazon.com), and
Amazon.com will preinstall either Linux or Windows Server on the cloud hardware. Given
that basic capability, Falcon would then install its own software. For example, it could install
its own, in-house developed applications, or it could install other applications licensed from
a software vendor. It could also license a DBMS, say, SQL Server from Microsoft, and place
it on an EC2 Windows Server instance. In the case of software licensed from others, Falcon
must purchase licenses that permit replication because Amazon.com will replicate it when it
increases servers.
Some cloud vendors include DBMS products in their PaaS services. Thus, Falcon could
obtain Windows Servers with SQL Server already installed from the Microsoft Azure cloud
offerings. That option is likely what Toshio was considering when he mentioned the $10 per TB
per month.
DBMS are also included in other vendors’ cloud offerings. As of May 2015 Amazon.com
offers the following DBMS products with EC2:

Amazon Relational A relational database service supporting MySQL, Oracle, SQL
Database Service (RDS) Server, or PostgreSQL
Amazon DynamoDB A fast and scalable NoSQL database service
MongoDB A NoSQL DBMS product that stores objects in JSON format

Amazon ElastiCache An very fast in-memory cache database service
Amazon Redshift A petabyte-scale data warehouse

Finally, Falcon might use a CDN to distribute its content worldwide and to respond to leads
generated from advertising as described in Q6-1.

IaaS Services at Falcon Security

As stated, IaaS provides basic hardware in the cloud. Some companies acquire servers this way
and then load operating systems onto them. Doing so requires considerable technical expertise
and management, and hence a company like Falcon is unlikely to do so.
Falcon might, however, obtain data storage services in the cloud. Amazon.com, for example,
offers data storage with its S3 product. Using it, organizations can place data in the cloud and
even have that data be made elastically available. Again, however, an organization like Falcon
would more likely use SaaS and PaaS because of the added value they provide.