Thinking about moving to the cloud? Review this presentation before making your final decision.

1. DON’T MOVE TO THE CLOUD

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Kirill Bensonoff, ComputerSupport.com
o Founding partner at ComputerSupport.com
o 15 years technology experience – datacenter, enterprise IT,
SMB IT, cloud
o Publish annual State of The Cloud Report

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Question?
Do you know what “Cloud” is?

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What is cloud?

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POLL
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6. Why Cloud Makes Sense

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Why Cloud Makes Sense
Pay For Only What You Use

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Why Cloud Makes Sense
Scale With The Times

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Why Cloud Makes Sense
No Upfront Investment

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Why Cloud Makes Sense
Outsource To A Service Provider

11. When Cloud Stops Making Sense

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense
Steady Demand

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense
Economies of Scale

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense
High Standards

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense
Specialized Needs

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense
Privacy and Security

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Cost Analysis – 10 person company

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Cost Analysis – 200 person email, Office and files

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Cost Analysis – 500 person email, Office and files

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Determine Cloud Readiness for YOUR business
Deciding to move to the cloud, or not? It’s not a simple “get-up-and-go” thing, you need to carefully
examine three key components of your IT resources:
Network
This assessment will allow you to
determine if your enterprise has
sufficient bandwidth to support
access to cloud services
Server
Examining the number of servers in use
helps you determine whether they can
be virtualized and how many you need
to achieve your goals
Application
Look at what applications you have in place, such as
a customer relationship management (CRM) and
enterprise resource planning (ERP), and determine
whether they can be virtualized

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File access
Moving file access services
into the cloud may be
impractical and laden with
latency problems
Windows Authentication
this option relies on a protocol
(Remote Procedure Call, or
RPC) that is designed for a
LAN environment.
Selected vendor-
specific applications
Some vendors will not provide
support if their applications are
placed in the cloud or a virtual
environment.
Printing
In many cases, printers do not
have sufficient memory to
support all the documents that
might be sent to them at a
given time.
What Not To Move To Cloud for YOUR business
After a full assessment of “Cloud Readiness” and you determined a cloud-to-go, there still might be something
you don’t want to move to cloud – a sophisticated hybrid cloud model might be YOUR right choice
Moving
To Cloud?
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Conclusion
The cloud is not a magical solution. CompTIA's Fifth Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study concluded
that: 24% of businesses that moved from an on-premise system to a public cloud eventually moved back
to an on-premise system.
Plan before action
The cloud has many advantages - But it’s hardly a one-size-fits-all
solution, and any time you make decisions about managing data and
information services, you need to look carefully at the facts, not just the
latest trends.
Do it the right way
With a spate of new providers entering the cloud marketplace, it is
important to consider how much experience your cloud provider has: less-
experienced providers may experience growing pains -- in the form of
outages or other service issues -- while they expand and mature. If you
move mission-critical infrastructure or applications to the cloud, you want
assurance that there will be no downtime.

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Kirill Bensonoff | Managing Partner, ComputerSupport.com
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