1.
Building the Business Case for Cloud
Services

2.
Protocol Network Services Cloud Offering
• Focused on delivering a suite of Cloud IT Services
– Cloud Servers
– Data Backup
– Bare Metal back up / DRP
– Virtual Desktop
– Collaboration
– Cloud Applications
• All infrastructure is physically in Ontario, Canada
– Tier 3 data centers

3.
Cloudpaging
• HostedBizz has a formal relationship with Numescent
to offer their CloudPaging technology
• We can operate this solution from our Tier 3 Data
center or from Amazon Cloud Services

4.
7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Resource Costs
• Time to value and ease of implementation
• Access to innovation
• Ability to try before you buy
• Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement
• Attractive commercial models

5.
Primary Drivers to Adoption of Cloud
Flexibility, 46%
Cost saving,
17%
Low cost of
adoption, 14%
New service
offering, 8%
Skills gap, 7%
ROI, 5%
Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

6.
Ease of Cloud Implementation
Time to Implement
Benefit
Data Backup
Cloud Servers
Disaster Recovery
Virtual DesktopCollaboration
Hosted Telephony

7.
The Case for Cloud Backup and Disaster
Recovery

8.
Reasons for Data Loss
Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

9.
Don’t use Tape Back Up !!!
• Resource intensive
• Very slow Read / Write
• Unreliable
• 77% of SMBs that tested
their tape backup solutions
failed to restore - (BCN)

10.
Backup Statistics
50%
36%
14%
50% of SMBs have no Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan
Out of those that have a plan:
• Half implemented a plan following an outage or loss
• Only 28% have actually tested their plan
36% of SMBs have no backup plan but intend to have one
14% of SMBs have no backup plans
Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey
The Average SMB had 6 outages in 2010
• Cyber Attacks
• Power Outages
• Hardware Failure

11.
Why do businesses not undertake backups ?
0% 20% 40% 60%
Lack Resources
Lack Skills/Qualified Staff
Data Protection Is Not a
Priority
Never Occurred To Them
Do Not View Computer
Systems As Critical
Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

12.
Cloud Backup for Disaster Recovery
Servers on
Customer
Site
Backup
Client Data
into the
Cloud
Take Bare
Metal
Snapshots
into the
Cloud
Customer
Site Server
Fails !!
Cloud Server
lit up with
full OS,
Applications
and Client
Data
Hybrid backup model:
• Onsite backup w/ storage
• Replicate to the cloud
• OS, Applications & Data
• Instant restore to Virtual
Servers
• Business Continuity & DR

13.
The Case for Cloud Servers

14.
7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Resource Costs
• Time to value and ease of implementation
• Access to innovation
• Ability to try before you buy
• Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement
• Attractive commercial models

15.
Gartner Prediction
• Gartner predicts that 20 percent of businesses will
own no IT assets by 2012, a shift that will have a
major impact on IT…
…that means that 1 in 5 businesses will dump all of
their IT assets as they move to cloud”
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/gartner-1-in-5-businesses-will-dump-all-it-assets-they-move-cloud-740

16.
Why Move to Cloud Servers
• Scalable
– Truly elastic computing gives you the ability to flex computing
resources up and down
• No term, managed infrastructure
– Removes the need for capital expenditure
– Frees up your resources to focus upon your business
• Secure and Reliable
– servers are housed in SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 Type II-compliant Data
Center, built to Tier 3 standards with 99.95% uptime commitment

17.
Why Move to Cloud Servers
• Multiple Operating Systems - Examples
– BareMetal
– CentOS
– Debian
– Ubuntu
– CloudLink
– Fortigate
– iPal Interactive Drupal
– Windows 2008
– Windows 2012

18.
Why Move to Cloud Servers
• Simple Provisioning
– Control all resources through a simple Management Console
– Changes are just a couple of mouse clicks away
• Custom Configuration
– Have a common feature set or proprietary application?
– No problem, unique templates can be easily generated
• Unlimited Resources
– Near unlimited resources of computing are available to you

19.
The Case for Virtual Desktops

20.
Hosted Virtual Desktop
• Cloud Management of all desktop computing
applications
– Productivity tools
– Enterprise wide Applications
• Fully Managed Infrastructure
– Secure
– Virus / Patch Management
– Ideal for remote offices - No VPN requirements
– Persistent Storage
• Works from any broadband connected device

21.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

22.
Fat
Clients
$800
Thin
Clients
$150
PowerPoint
Launch
Power
Usage
Computer
Re
Login
Time
100watts
19watts
8sec
2sec
20min
1min
>60sec
6sec
VDI Performance vs. Desktop PC’s

23.
53%
53% of all organizations polled already consciously use cloud
computing in some shape or form within their organization. This
is a 10% growth in the last nine months.

24.
The Case for Moving to The Cloud
• Solutions are now well proven and hardened
• Flexible integrations allow graceful migration to the
cloud
• Prioritize services to move to the cloud based upon:
– ROI
– Simplicity
– Risk
• Flexible Commercial Models
– Fixed Price solutions with SLA’s
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