AWS Customer Presentation- Melrose

AWS – Service Continuity Project
April 2010
LSE: MRS www.melroseresources.com Melrose Resources plc

To provide service continuity for
SharePoint
SQL (ERP solution, HR, Intranet)
File systems (Corporate data)
Active Directory
Options
‘ Traditional Setup’
Purchase SAN / Server hardware
Scottish mid tier data centre
Dedicated communications links
‘ AWS’ setup
Rent EC2 instances and EBS datastores
Choice of top tier Amazon data centre (Availability Zones)
OpenVPN, increased investment in Internet communications

AWS – Service Continuity Project Benefits
Quick to deploy – servers and storage deployed minutes rather than weeks
Little or no Capex – saved £50K or 80% initial head office deployment
On demand capacity – quick to respond to increased data / systems or invocation
Challenges
Security – how to demonstrate security to business
Early adopter pains
Small number of niche support providers for SME market
Increased focus on service to business – not managing hypervisor, hardware
No long term contractual tie ins – easy to test and prove before bigger commitment

Future of AWS within Melrose Resources
Expansion of Service Continuity project to include USA, Egyptian and Bulgarian offices
Increased use of Amazon S3 for offsite data storage as part of our tiered storage topography
Evaluating core Reservoir Engineer analysis work using EC2
Evaluating VDI
Moving servers into EC2 – BES, Single Sign On, SharePoint, OCS

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