Award winning Leeds-based digital agency, calls9, delivered an excellent presentation regarding the benefits of the cloud, architecting for the cloud and accelerating innovation with the cloud at ITBoss. ITBoss is an invitation only networking event for Senior IT Professionals in Yorkshire.

1. Accelerating Innovation
With The Cloud

2. 1. Background
2. Our Clients
3. Why the cloud
4. Architecting for the cloud
5. Lessons from the cloud
6. Q&A
Accelerating Innovation
With The Cloud

3. Background
calls9 provide technical and
creative services to the Legal,
Education and Commercial
sectors.

7. Why the cloud?

8. Why the cloud?
Scalability
Key Facts
Reddit scales to handle 4 billion
monthly page views with only 20
employees
Spotify offers access to over 16
million songs
Airbnb stores 10 terabytes of
user photos

9. Why the cloud?
Availability
Key Facts
11 regions located around the
world, 25 redundant Availability
Zones and 52 Amazon
CloudFront points of presence.
Scalability

10. Why the cloud?
Security
Key Facts
Encryption
Granular user access
Build your own VPN
Standards compliance
Scalability
Availability

11. Cost Effectiveness
Why the cloud?
Key Facts
Zynga moving back to the cloud
after spending $100 million on its
own data centres in 2011.
Scalability
Availability
Security

12. Accelerate Innovation
Why the cloud?
Key Facts
Scalability
Availability
Security
Cost Effectiveness

13. Accelerate Innovation
Why the cloud?
Key Facts
Scalability
Availability
Security
Cost Effectiveness

15. Architecting for the cloud

16. Architecting for the cloud
Key Principles
• De-coupling
• Stateless
• Automation

17. Static Files
Web Server
DB Server
Internet Traffic

18. Static Files
Web Server
DB Server
Internet Traffic

19. DB ServerWeb ServerStatic Files
Internet Traffic

20. Web Server
Internet Traffic
DB ServerStatic Files
DNS

21. Web ServerStatic Files
DNS
Internet Traffic
API Server DB Server

22. CacheWeb ServerStatic Files DB Server
DNS
Internet Traffic
API Server

23. CacheWeb ServerStatic Files DB Server
DNS
Internet Traffic
API Server Client
Dashboards

24. Lessons from the cloud

25. New Technologies
Lessons from the cloud

26. New Software Paradigms
De-coupling
Stateless
New Technologies
Lessons from the cloud

27. Importance of Workflow
New Technologies
New Software Paradigms
Lessons from the cloud

28. Importance of Workflow
New Technologies
New Software Paradigms
Lessons from the cloud

29. Accelerating Innovation
with The Cloud

30. Develop new products
Accelerating Innovation with the Cloud
calls9 Nucleus
Legal Answer System
Knowledge Portal

31. Accelerating Innovation with the Cloud
Powerful technology
Easy-to-use
High speed
Backups and security
Fully supported
Develop new products
Improve Customer
Experience

32. Accelerating Innovation with the Cloud
Powerful technology
Easy-to-use
High speed
Backups and security
Fully supported
Develop new products
Improve Customer
Experience

33. Thank you

34. Accelerating Innovation
With The Cloud