Your journey to…. cloud

Infocom Green Cloud Computing

Greece 10th April 2014

Nick Papadoglou, PhD

Head of Corporate Product Marketing

Dream Destination

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What are these questions

Will I reduce Costs going to cloud?

Expectation gap

You can’t have it all

Is your cloud secure? Should I

trust you and why?

Ensure to comply with strict

accreditation

When to embrace cloud?

Migration to/from cloud

Compliance/Governance

SLA? How about End-to-End?

Can it be customized and do I

need to?

Will I lose my job?

Lets talk with an example

Desktop as a Service

Hol Daas vs. VDI

Traditional VDI

Try before you buy

Low touch cloud-based Implementation

Easy desktop management

Low OPEX monthly subscription pricing

Modular scale from 50 virtual desktops and

up

Must commit $$$ upfront

High touch implementation

Feature rich management

Priced higher than a traditional PC

Scalable to customer requirements

DaaS On Demand

Deploy it in 3 steps

Create

Virtual

Desktop

Assign to

Users

1

2

User

Login

3

Desktone Inc.

Problem statement: Migration

Deployment – hosted/hybrid

Hol Managed

Hol Cloud

Customer Managed

Network File

Server Storage

User Data

Customer Facility

Remote Office

Mobile Workers

DaaS vs. VDI

Internal VDI solution

RFI/RFP/RFQ – 2 months

Installation/configuration

and PoC – 4 months

CAPEX: ~ 120K Euros

OPEX: 1 FTE (min) +

licensing/power

Hol cloud DaaS

Installation/configuration

and PoC – 1 month

No CAPEX

OPEX: Desktop per user

per month and 0,25 FTE

High availability and

redundancy via SLA

NPV of both solutions

- €

500,0 €

1.000,0 €

1.500,0 €

2.000,0 €

2.500,0 €

3.000,0 €

3.500,0 €

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VDI

DaaS

~18K€

118K€

100K€

Challenges faced

Opportunity

From IT operations…

…to IT Service Broker

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reality