The document discusses the experience of a law firm, Morgan Cole LLP, in adopting cloud services. They implemented Mimecast's unified email management SaaS to achieve objectives like consolidation, archiving solutions, disaster recovery, and centralised management while staying within budget. The cloud services provided flexibility like supporting an acquisition of over 80 users. It helped with business continuity, archiving and retrieval needs. It provided cost savings and risk management while improving utilization. Users provided unsolicited positive feedback about search capabilities and ease of access provided by the cloud services.

1. Constructing the case for Cloud Justin Pirie @justinpirie blog.mimecast.com [email_address] Cloud Circle London September 16 th 2010 bucklava

2. Analyst Blogger

3. Community Manager

4. Social Media Influence

5. Where I work

6. Cloud Services for Microsoft Exchange tipiro

7. Cloud Wrapper

8. For Microsoft Exchange

9. matthewbradley Email Security

10. neilalderney123 Email Continuity

11. dolescum Email Archive

12. Benefits of Google Apps

13. For Microsoft Exchange

14. What do users get? minifig

15. mescon Unlimited Storage

16. Ronan_C Fast Search

17. Uptime szeke

18. Over 500,000 users can’t be wrong!

19. Constructing the case for Cloud bucklava

20. Paul Wicks How did I get here?

21. Not the train Andrew®

22. Or my Brompton Ben Cooper

23. nep It was...

24. ParaScubaSailor and...

25. To understanding Cloud Wen Nag (aliasgrace)

26. LIVING_BY_THE_MOMENT At the beginning...

27. It was about money... wwarby

28. Ian Muttoo From CapEx

29. To OpEx

30. stuartpilbrow Real Benefits Hidden

31. Will Scullin Before creating plans

32. massdistraction Understand Real Benefits

33. jeffc5000 Otherwise we risk...

34. Cloud Initiative Blocked dmoola

35. Probably for... dheuer

36. LIVING_BY_THE_MOMENT Back to the journey

37. Lightbulb moment #1 microrama

38. IT’s role in the Enterprise? le niners

39. What do we do? Daniel Mohr

40. Production Function of IT? bewarenerd

41. Sound Academic? a_sorense

42. Combination of Inputs

43. edwin.11 To produce Outputs

44. IT’s are hard to find ilovememphis

45. labanex.com Sales: Prospects into Orders

46. jamesjyu Supply Chain: Orders into Invoices

47. Finance: Invoices into Cash alancleaver_2000

48. What does IT do? Daniel Mohr

49. IT Production Value #1 = Speed TexasEagle

50. Jeffrey Barke Strategy into execution

51. Fast as Possible Warren D

52. IT needs to be Responsive Chris Devers

53. Domingos Soares Neto Not a bottleneck

54. IT Production Value #2 = Scale ....Tim

55. Take Operations Detroit Public Library

56. Increase Capacity, Reduce Cost ABB

57. Lightbulb moment #1 microrama

58. IT Should Equal Agility Picture Taker 2

59. ROI Frameworks lack agility measures Ruddington Photos

60. Lightbulb moment #2 microrama

61. F-85 beaten by MiGs Destinys Agent

62. andrusdevelopment Need a solution

63. Maverick Pilot

64. OODA Loop

65. Mix Lean and OODA

66. Align Cost and Value

67. Lightbulb moment #2 microrama

68. How can Cloud Help? tipiro

69. #1 Don’t worry about Scale Dru!

70. #2 Separate Config and Code sadashotit

71. #3 Continuous Updates The Doctr

72. #4 Loosely Coupled Systems ElenahNeshcuet

73. Cloud is Different- FACETS Swamibu

74. Flexibility khalid almasoud

75. Availability Sally M*

76. Cost shareski

77. (user) Experience

78. Timeliness Yukon White Light

79. Security

80. What are your peers doing? nccarf_au

81. Plans for the immediate future 29% of respondents report plans to move their first applications to the cloud in the coming year, while 36% plan to increase their use of the cloud. All Respondents Q16 - Which of the following best describes your organisation’s plans for the next twelve months? Base 333 (Considering cloud use at Q15)

82. Uses of cloud computing Q13. Which of the following applications does your company use cloud hosting for? Base: 257 (those reporting cloud use at Q12) UK 88 US 169 Respondents who are using the cloud are most likely to use cloud for email, security, and storage. Uses on individual user desktops, such as scheduling and desktop applications, are less frequently reported. % Using UK US Email 57% 65% Security 48% 54% Storage 50% 50% ERP 35% 46% Email Archiving 30% 48% CRM 25% 50% Sales Management 24% 31% Continuity 30% 27% Desktop Applications 18% 33% Scheduling / Calendars 17% 30% Other uses 2% 4%

83. Uses of cloud computing by company size US respondents’ usage of all categories of cloud applications has increased significantly since the 2009 survey, with security and ERP showing particularly striking increases. Email cloud adoption is driven by mid-size businesses Storage cloud is most popular with enterprise businesses Whilst security is favoured by smaller businesses Q13. Which of the following applications does your company use cloud hosting for? Base: 257 (250 or less: 54, 251-1000: 95, 1000+: 108)

84. Uses of cloud computing: US 2009 vs. 2010 US respondents’ usage of all categories of cloud applications has increased significantly since the 2009 survey, with security and ERP showing particularly striking increases. Changes in awareness of cloud hosting have probably had some impact on these increases in reported use. Q13. Which of the following applications does your company use cloud hosting for? Base: US 169 (2010)

85. Possible applications for the cloud: Applications being considered Q17a Which cloud-based applications a) have you considered/are you considering using? Base 333 (Considering cloud use at Q15), 121 UK, 212 US US respondents lead the UK respondents in every category of cloud application, and are substantially more likely to be planning cloud-based ERP or CRM systems than their UK counterparts. % Considering UK US Email 60% 66% Security 45% 46% Storage 48% 49% ERP 28% 44% Email Archiving 38% 46% CRM 27% 48% Sales Management 31% 32% Continuity 26% 28% Desktop Applications 32% 36% Scheduling / Calendars 23% 26% Other uses 1% 4%

86. Cloud applications being actively researched Q17b Which cloud-based applications B) are you actively researching / have you actively researched? Base 333 (Considering cloud use at Q15), 121 UK, 212 US US respondents also lead UK respondents in active research, with particularly large gaps in ERP and CRM. % Actively Researching UK US Email 52% 54% Security 40% 42% Storage 35% 42% ERP 28% 40% Email Archiving 26% 38% CRM 23% 47% Sales Management 24% 31% Continuity 19% 23% Desktop Applications 21% 33% Scheduling / Calendars 17% 26% Other uses 0% 3%

87. redteam Cloud Transforms IT guy

88. Into a business enabler shindohd

89. Over to Jeff Justin Pirie @justinpirie blog.mimecast.com [email_address] Cloud Circle London September 16 th 2010 bucklava

90. Identifying value & getting sign-off Jeff Wright Partner & I&T Director Morgan Cole LLP Solicitors [email_address] Cloud Circle London September 16 th 2010

91. Context - me

92. Context – it’s all about me!

93. Context - Morgan Cole LLP

94. Context - Morgan Cole LLP

95. My inheritance in 1BC

96. Cloud – our experience

97. Board buy in

105. Questions Justin Pirie @justinpirie blog.mimecast.com [email_address] Jeff Wright Partner & I&T Director Morgan Cole LLP Solicitors [email_address]