1. A Pragmatic Path to Cloud
Mark Arruda, Director of Solutions Architects
Sylvain Boyer, VP Marketing & Product
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2. Cloud Could Cut $12 Billion
from US Government
Cloud Computing Annual Deficit: Study,
Market Will Top Forbes
$241 Billion in 2020,
Forrester
Agility Trumps Cost as
Primary Cloud Computing
Benefit, ITBusinessEdge
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3. Some Cloud Trends
82% of US companies run at least one
application in the cloud
25% run a mission critical application…
Like Wifi, Mobile, and other productivity waves,
“rogue” cloud is leading the way for business and
governments
~15% of apps cannot be virtualized
4. Challenges
Security
Is my data secure? Who has access, both physical and logical?
Performance
Will my applications perform well in a virtual environment? Will user experience
be acceptable? Can I scale performance on demand?
Privacy
I need to maintain security data standards such as SSAE 16, PCI, SOX.
Portability
Is my environment able to move between/interoperate with different cloud
providers? Can I leverage different providers in a DR scenario?
Rogue IT
I need to stop my users from going outside IT’s walls for service – how can I
improve my teams responsiveness while maintaining my security and
compliance standards?
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5. Roadmap to the Cloud
Where do I begin??
Assessment Consolidation/Rationalization Cloud/Hybrid Decision
• How many • Unused/forgotten • Some applications
servers? servers suited for cloud
• Can my apps • Many applications with • Some applications or
be virtualized? low workloads workloads are not
suitable at all – what to
do?
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7. CentriLogic Approach to Cloud?
Start small, scale
Hybrid IT fast
Solutions
prove the
optimizes your model, and
business IT quickly scale the
needs benefits
Data Sovereignty
Passionate about you
Patriot Act,
Helping you build
PIPEDA, EU Safe
your Roadmap to the
Harbour,
Cloud compliance
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Why this topic? Relate to Jim’s needs.Many customer discussions, people love to talk about the cloud, but don’t really know where to start and how fast to move. We’ve put a bit of material together, and hope we can discuss more with you during or after the baseball game.Let’s make this interactive… first question gets an autographedbaseball!
So it’s a fantastic time to be in our industry. We haven’t seen such a fundamental change in IT since the PC came to the workforce in the 80s!The market is huge and growing. Many ads on the side of highways would make you think that you can get the elastic resources, increase speed of innovation, increase productivity, increase you business agility, and do all with the simple push of a button!