Clare Jenkins of Poundbury Systems helped to de-mystify cloud computing and explained why it really can help you spend less time at your desk

1. Super Systems
for Super Women
Clare Jenkins
Poundbury Systems

2. The Biggest Super System of all
• The Cloud

3. What is the Cloud
• Simply means “not here”
• A range of services, you can pick and choose according to your needs
• Some are free, some are paid for. Simply combine for the experience you want

4. The History of the Cloud
• The Cloud has been around for a long time (1960’s)
• Matured over time
• Who uses the Cloud?
• Most people use the Cloud without realising
– Gmail
– DropBox
– Skype
– Hotmail / Outlook.com
– Facebook

5. What is the biggest facilitator to Cloud adoption?
• Faster Internet Access

6. The Cloud Explained
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7. What are the drivers of Cloud Adoption?
• Agility
– Quick to deploy
– Quick to increase
– Quick to decrease
• Lower capex
• Less ties to a location
• Suits the ‘modern way of working’
• IT support provider agnostic
• Global access
• Multiple devices per person

8. Predictions – Gartner’s top 10 IT predictions for 2014
• The Cloud will become and even more integral part of ALL IT needs

9. Things you can use the Cloud for:
• Storage
• Services: Word processing, CRM etc.
• E-mail
• Productivity
• Communications and Collaboration

10. Cloud for Storage
• You can store:
– Document
– Spreadsheets
– Pictures
– Gantt charts
– Videos
– Etc. etc.
Massive amounts of data

11. It doesn’t matter about…..
• The size of your company
• The type of hardware you use
• The software you use
• Where you are based (with a few exceptions)

12. Benefits of storing documents in the Cloud
• Backed up (automatically depending on the provider)
• Accessed from anywhere
• Less hardware on your site
– Quieter
– Cheaper
– Cooler
– Neater

13. How much data are we now using
• Floppy Drive – 1.4MB
• CD – 700 MB
• USB – 2GB
• DVD – 4.7GB
• One Drive – 1 TB
• HDD – 2TB
Almost 1.5 million
floppy disks to 1
External Hard Drive

14. Cloud as e-mail
• All synced with every device
• Things to check
– Mailbox size
– Where data is held
– Is it available if the broadband isn’t there

15. Cloud to Communicate
• Unified Communications
– Phone / messenger / presence
• Skype / Microsoft Lync
• Google Hangouts
• Webex
• All designed to save time and money. Less travelling, quicker
meetings, much more flexible, people can come in and out for
short periods.

16. The Cloud as a Service
• Software as a Service
– Word processing when you need it
• Platform as a Service
– Provides a computing platform as a service
• Infrastructure as a Service
– Provides a range of infrastructure, hardware, storage, processing power
Each gives a different level of control and
responsibility

17. Cloud as Productivity
• Project Management
• CRM
• Finance
• Collaboration
• Lots of different providers, lots of different functionality, lots of different pricing
models

18. Private vs Public Cloud
• In essence, off the shelf vs custom built
• Private Clouds can be accessible by the public but they are controlled by an
individual organisation for their own benefit
• Office 365 and Google Docs are Public Cloud services, where the end user can
buy their own personal space.
• Private Clouds are generally more expensive and take a large degree of skilled
IT resource to support and deliver them. This means they also often take longer
to launch.

19. The Cloud is what you want it to be
• The choice is yours
• Plenty of free trials
• Is your choice compatible with the software you use and like?
• Do you want to keep business and personal ‘things’ separate?

20. Clare Jenkins
• Clare.Jenkins@poundbury.com