Cloud for ISP's

The Cloud is Now: Get Your Piece Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO Mike Belote of Telx

So What is The Cloud?

Hosting is Cloud

The Cloud is about High Availability of Data

3 Types (or 11, but who is counting?)
Cloud Services Types (Forrester)
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Plus 8 More (according to InfoWorld)
Integration as a service
Security as a service
Storage as a service
Database as a service
Information as a service
Process as a service
Testing as a service
Management as a service

Variations on the Theme
Public Cloud -- a service anyone can tap into with a network connection and a credit card.
Private Cloud – (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) mimics the delivery models of public cloud but within the enterprise firewall.
Hybrid Cloud – Some resources are in cloud and some are managed internally.

Why All the Buzz about CLOUD Now?

Ubiquitous Broadband

3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi, WiMax

Ubiquitous Broadband mixed with a mobile workforce means that cloud-based apps will be impactful to SMB space.

Proven Players

Think Apps Stores

Increasing Confusion
Customers don’t know what cloud is or how it can help them.
(One poll showed 24% of users did not know what cloud computing was or identified it synonymously with SaaS or managed services.)
Where there is confusion there is opportunity!

So How Do SP’s Make $$?

Cloud Computing Specialty for CP
IBM says 91 percent of IT professionals think cloud computing will overtake on-premise computing as the primary way organizations acquire IT by 2015. The specialty covers 5 types of channel partners:
Cloud Application Providers — deliver business applications via a subscription model through the cloud such as Software as a Service.
Cloud Builders — design, build and manage clients’ cloud needs, typically integrating with existing infrastructure and public, private and hybrid clouds.
Cloud Infrastructure Providers — provide a public cloud infrastructure or Platform as a Service on which application providers and companies can host their offerings.
Cloud Services Solution Providers — resell multiple public cloud services and offer complementary services such as training and integration.
Cloud Technology Providers — provide the tools, services, and technologies — such as cloud management, billing metering and monitoring — that help clients use the cloud more effectively.

A Dozen Opportunities
Web Hosting
MS Exchange & Email & Blackberry
Conferencing – Web, Audio, Video
Software like CRM, ERP and Office Suites
Hosted PBX and Voice Apps (IVR)
Security - including Video Surveillance
Monitoring – network, security, data
TEM and TAM
Data Storage, Backup, E-mail Archiving
Verticals, like e-Health or M2M
Redundant Bandwidth + 4G
DR/BC and Network Design Consulting
Think like a Net-Head!

+6
Be a Cloud Enabler!
Integration of DB, systems
Trusted Advisor
Education
Consulting (BC/DR, design)
Network Services

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Cloud for ISP's

by RAD-INFO, Inc. on Feb 17, 2011

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