4. James Smale, CEO, Redpath James brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 20 years of experience in business and the IT consulting industry His extensive background and career progression through the roles Sr. Technical Analyst, Technology Director, Business Entrepreneur and Principal Partner began from a solid foundation as a Infrastructure Engineer. His experience was gained from numerous management roles and consulting engagements for clients in both Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America; focused on software manufacturing, airline operations, advertising, agriculture & manufacturing, and health care industries. James also has extensive experience in operational support leadership, process improvement, strategic organization planning and enterprise architecture planning. James Smale CEO
5. Paul Selway, President, Redpath Paul brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 25 years of experience in the consulting industry. His extensive background and career progression through the roles Quality Management Consultant, Managing Consultant, Technology Director, and Principal Partner began from a solid foundation as a Software Engineer. His experience was gained from numerous management consulting engagements for clients in both Europe and North America; focused on the healthcar, financial, banking, brokerage, and capital markets industry Paul has an Electronics Degree, B.S.C Honors Computer Science Degree and an International MBA from Henley Management College. Paul Selway President
6. About ReliaCloud ReliaCloud, a product of VISI, is an enterprise-class cloud designed for businesses and that need dynamic infrastructure. Based in Minneapolis/St. Paul region 2 data center locations (SAS 70 Type II) 10+ years in data center business 24x7x365 live support www.reliacloud.com Data Center 1: St. Paul, MN
7. About Redpath Our mission is to help our customers leverage enterprise class cloud computing technology. We will help you develop your cloud computing strategy, technology roadmaps, business value propositions and cost benefit analysis, ensuring it is targeted at reducing IT costs and driving revenue. Our experienced consulting team believe that you, the customer, know your business better than anyone, and we know where cloud computing can enable your business. We are recognized partners with leading International and Local cloud vendors (Salesforce.com, Google, ReliaCloud). Let us show you how you can leverage the cloud. www.redpathcg.com
8. Agenda Introduction to the Cloud Why the Cloud Use Cases Developing your Cloud Strategy The IaaS Decision Process
9. Types of Cloud Computing Services ReliaCloud Amazon EC2 Rackspace Cloud Server Google App Engine Microsoft Azure force.com Google Apps Salesforce.com Intuit
10. IaaS - Public Cloud Multi-tenant Automatic Upgrades Pay-as-you-go Elastic 5 Times Faster Half the Cost IDC White Paper sponsored by Salesforce.com: “Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings”, Doc # 219965, September, 2009
12. What’s Driving Cloud Adoption? Cost savings, economic uncertainty, and the CFO Accelerated time to delivery Security and regulatory requirements Elastic resources Scalability Pay for what you use
13. The Cloud Delivers Fast Time to Value Cloud Computing Software Automated Upgrades Large Operating Expenses Cloud Computing Value Value Value Time No Capital Expenses Upgrade Expense Large Capital Expense & High Risk Average 51% ROI within 12 Months2 53% of software projects cost 189% of original estimate1 1 Standish Group, Chaos Report 2006 2 Third-Party CustomerSat Research on 3,500 Salesforce.com customers, December 2008
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18. Use Cases Cyclical Demand – Retail Web Site Elastic and near instant scalability Just in time capacity Supports any business size Test and Development Environments Spin up or down when project needs Rapid enablement No capital costs (expensed for usage) Rapid provisioning No hardware procurement Provisioning virtual servers in minutes (not weeks/months) Self service via web portal Secure Rapid decommissioning
19. Creating a Cloud Strategy 7. Select and Implement Strategies 6. Perform Cost Benefit Value Analysis 5. Build Strategic Options (cloud opportunities) 4. Build Preferred Future State Vision 3. Understand Infrastructure 2. Understand Application Portfolio 1. Assess Current State Business Architecture
20. IaaS Considerations Where can I Integrate IaaS into my Infrastructure strategy? How does IaaS address my shared service model? IaaS and hardware / OS life cycle management? Server provisioning process? Private versus public cloud?
21. Promo Free ½ Day Cloud Strategy Mini-Assessment - Redpath Redpath Consulting Group will provide two experienced cloud strategy consultants for ½ day to work with your business and IT team to perform an assessment of your current state and identify a cloud computing opportunity. Free Cloud Server for Mini-Assessment - ReliaCloud ReliaCloud will provide a $200.00 credit towards creating a cloud server for you try out one of your apps in the cloud.
22. Redpath / ReliaCloud - Your Partners to the Cloud Customers are here: Companies invested here: Data Center Community Sites
Assess your current state business architectureDetermine what applications enable which business architecture domainsMap out the supporting infrastructure for these applicationsDocument preferred business architectureGenerate strategic options (look for cloud opportunities)Perform a cost benefit analysis (CBA)Select and implement best strategies
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