Confused by “weather” or not to go to the cloud? You're not alone! We promise to demystify “the Cloud” and discuss the various options available for software today. You’ll walk away with a new understanding of: • “The Cloud” and why it is important. • Available options in hosting services, as well as, the risks and benefits of each. • The top 3 questions to consider before you implement

1. WELCOME!
What You Need To Know About “The Cloud”

2. About Sage
3rd largest ERP solution provider
to businesses worldwide
The Sage Group, plc. (London: SGE.L)
6.2 Million Customers Worldwide
Over 32,000 Unique Not-For-
Profit Customers in North America
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3. Our Speaker
Grant Howe
Vice President of R&D
Sage Nonprofit Solutions
15+ years in Software Development
30 years experience with Nonprofits
Boy Scouts of America, Sig Tau Alumni Association
Board Member
Favorite food: Italian (anything with Alfredo sauce)
@geekbyte if you want to tweet nice things
@darthvader if you want to use the dark side
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4. AGENDA
• What Is “The Cloud”?
• Where Is My Server?
• What Is Virtualization?
• What Is Metered Use?
• Why Should I Care?
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5. Everyone Is Talking About It
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6. What Is “The Cloud”?
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7. Where Is My Server?
• You just can’t hug a cloud server
“I am the cloud”
Example of “blackbox” server
Inside a server container
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Image courtesy of tomshardware.com

8. Where is my server?
“Trailer Park” Roofless Cloud Datacenter Concept
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Image courtesy of tomshardware.com

9. Container o’ servers!
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10. Cloud Primer
WHAT IS VIRTUALIZATION
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11. Before Virtualization
• 1:1 relationship
between servers /
hardware
• Memory / disk space /
CPU tied to single
server
• Lots of servers….
• Lots of waste…
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12. After Virtualization
• Many:1 relationship between servers / hardware
• Memory / disk space / CPU shared across sets of servers
• Fewer and bigger servers to manage….
• Resource optimization…
• Dell PowerEdge Blade Enclosure
• 16 Hardware “blades”
• Up to 8 CPU “cores” each
• Its possible to run 128 servers
in several square feet of space…..
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13. What Magic is this?
• How do we fool many servers in to using the same
hardware?
• How do we assure they play nice and the resources
are allocated appropriately?
• Introducing the magic of the
“Hyper-Visor”
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14. What is a Hyper-Visor
• A thin layer of magic software paint
• Fools the operating system (Windows, etc.)
• Manages allocation of resources
• Manages fault tolerance
• Provides a management interface to create and manage
virtual servers
Magic Paint ->
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15. How did we get to Cloud from
Virtualization?
• Traditional virtualization still required in house servers
• People saw the value of having more small servers
• We all began buying bigger hardware
• But the number of virtual servers skyrocketed….
• So we bought more hardware....
• A vicious cycle!
• We have more hardware than ever before to manage
and its even more critical than it used to be.
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16. The Cloud is Born
• Amazon had built their own Private massive
virtualized environment
• They figured out how to build a massive hypervisor
network that spanned all of their data centers
• It was a key business need for their growth to be able
to scale quickly and efficiently on a massive scale
• Whoa, we could “rent” our computing power to other
companies! $$$$$
• Amazon EC2 and S3 were born as metered use
offerings to the general Public
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17. The Cloud is Born
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18. Different Types of Clouds
PRIVATE CLOUD
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19. Private Clouds
• Pool of resources that are solely yours to allocate
• Most like the “Family Plan” we all know
– No one outside your family can share that pool of minutes,
but you don’t get to use more than your total pool of minutes.
• Best for: servers that have stable resource usage
• Can be expensive if not fully utilizing resources
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20. Private Cloud Providers
• Infrastructure as a
service (IaaS)
• Offer dedicated hardware
• Sage Nonprofit partners
with Rackspace on
Sage Nonprofit Online
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21. Different Types of Clouds
PUBLIC CLOUD
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22. Public Clouds
• Shared resources and/or bandwidth
• Like a phone plan where you share minutes with your
entire city, a “Neighborhood Plan”
• Best for: when you need to scale internet facing
servers, like web servers
• Pay premium for flexibility and
burst capacity
• Example: “The Oprah Effect”
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23. Public Cloud Providers
• Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS)
• Platform as a Service
(PaaS)
• Shared hardware only
• Saleslogix and Sage
One hosted on Amazon
EC2
• Watch for new Sage
offerings on Windows
Azure
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24. Different Types of Clouds
HYBRID CLOUD
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25. Hybrid Clouds
• Creating a link between both a Public and Private
Cloud so they can work together
• If you could have a “Family Plan” and “Neighborhood
Plan” on your phone and choose to which plan to
charge the minutes
– You could be more conservative with your dedicated minutes
and more generous with the shared ones.
• Best for: when you need to scale some services (web,
fundraising) but not others (reporting, backend
database)
• “Buy the base, rent the spike”
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26. SAGE IN THE CLOUD
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27. www.SageNonprofit.com/SageNonprofitOnline
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28. Contact Information
• Listen to this webcast here.
• Connect with Grant via email at Grant (dot) Howe (at) Sage (dot)
com or Twitter @geekbyte
• Connect with Sage
– www.SageNonprofit.com
– Email nps <at> sage <dot> com
– Download the presentation and handouts from
www.slideshare.net/sagenonprofit
– Read a follow up blog, http://www.SageWords.net.
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