Cloud Computing Leads to Smart Technologies

Larry Mattox, VC3

Agenda VC3 Background What is Cloud Computing? Examples of Cloud Computing Hosted Desktop Hosted Voice Hosted Websites and Hosted Email Questions

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The Origin of the “Cloud”“Comes from the early days of the Internet where we drew the network as a cloud… we did not care where the messages went… the cloud hid it from us.”

Kevin Marks, Google

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Are you tired of being in the IT business?

Make right decisions without being IT expert Educate yourself, your staff To most, IT is a:

Hassle Challenge Daunting task So… IT tasks sit on far corner of the desk

The challenge is how to keep abreast of technology. Traditional Evolving New

Like it or not, IT is a core piece of your business

Cloud refers to location-independent, on-demand computing platforms. According to Gartner, Cloud computing

What is Cloud Computing?

is a style of computing where scalable elastic IT enabled capabilitiesare provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. Technology that will continue to evolve and be refined. Vast network of vendors, delivery models, target markets and technical possibilities…….

Reasons to Care According to studies performed by Gartner:

21% of organizations looking at cloud services expect to save money.

66% of surveyed expect to implement a cloud strategy by 2014 By 2015, 90% of enterprise and government agencies will

leverage some aspect of cloud computing.

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The successful vendors will "create an integrated experience that makes the problem go away."

Major Players in the Cloud Google

Google App Engine Microsoft

Microsoft Azure Platform Amazon

Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Citrix

Citrix Cloud Center (C3) VMWare

VMware vCloud™ Express Salesforce.com

The Sales Cloud™ Service Cloud 2

GoGrid AppNexus IBM

IBM CloudBurst 1.1 Smart Business Test Cloud Smart Business Desktop Cloud LotusLive iNotes Smart Analytics Cloud Smart Business Storage Cloud IBM Computing on Demand

Examples of Cloud Services Hosted Desktop Hosted Voice Hosted Website Hosted Email

3 Delivery Models Premise

Hybrid Some components in the cloud Some components continue to be premise based

Cloud

Delivery Models Comparison

You buy the servers You buy the desktops You buy all of the network equipment You pay someone to maintain and support it

Premise

Delivery Models Comparison

You buy the servers You buy the desktops You buy all of the network equipment You pay someone to maintain and support it

Premise Cloud We provide the servers We provide the Thin Client,

monitor, keyboard and mouse We maintain your environment

7/24 You pay for what you need on a

per desktop/month basis Little to no up-front capital cost Scale up/down quickly

Why Should YOU Care? It can:

Be more cost effective Provide a more scalable solution Require A LOT less up-front capital Be easier to deploy Offer more functionality Provide a much more cost

effective DR solution

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Hosted Desktop (Virtual Office Advantage) Cloud-based

Desktop Solutionthat works with any device

Never purchase a PC or server again

Utilize more reliable and powerful computers

Eliminate unplanned technology expenses15

Traditional Premise vs. Cloud Based

Traditional Premise

Cloud Based

Annualized Capital Cost $ 38,268 $ 5,247

Recurring Services Cost $ 55,500 $ 77,700

Total Annual Cost $ 93,768 $ 82,947

4 Servers9 Laptops (6 Police MDT’s)28 Workstations

Hosted Voice Never purchase a

phone system again

Save money by consolidating voice and data

Improve productivity and customer service

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Hosted Voice (Voice Advantage) Low upfront capital investment Keep your existing phone numbers Cut monthly telephony costs

Eliminate some monthly line charges Reduce costly Moves-Adds-Changes Lower long distance rates

Mobile and scalable No software and hardware upgrades Enterprise-class features

Legacy phone systems across four vendors Experiencing failures with equipment Felt like their monthly telephony cost was high Approximately 100 handsets Lack of centralized administration Moves, adds and changes were expensive Current system lacked desired functionality

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Hosted Voice Example

Former telephony cost: $6,371/month Voice, data, telephone service agreement

Cost with Voice Advantage: $4,074/month

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How the Cloud Saved Them Money

Hosted WebsitesIf you are hosting your website internally…

you are paying too much

Hosted Email

If you have fewer than 60-90 email accounts then it’s not cost effective to do it internally.

Features:1 GB InboxPOP3/IMAP/WEB accessSpam and Virus Filtering50 MB Attachments Inexpensive set-up and affordable monthly per mailbox cost

Cloud computing is here All organizations will be impacted All organizations will use in some capacity Many will save money with the cloud What’s best for your organization

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