Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples. Presented by Grant Morgan, General Manager: Cloud at Dimension Data. September 05, 2013 edition of the IT News Africa Innovation Dinner (www.innovationdinner.co.za)

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Dimension Data –
Enabling the Journey to the Cloud:
Real Examples
Grant Morgan
General Manager: Cloud

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Dimension Data cloud credentials
• Differentiated cloud technology
• Strong performance guarantees
• Experts in both cloud and
managed services
• Global Coverage
• Solution for both enterprise and
service providers
Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Consistent Cloud Instances Globally for Data Sovereignty

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Software as a Service
Compute as a Service
Dimension Data Cloud Services Portfolio
Dimension Data
Managed Cloud Platform™
Cloud Services for Microsoft Cloud Backup
Managed Hosting
Dedicated
servers
Virtual
servers
Dimension Data CloudControl™ Application Programmable Interface (API)

5. Pain or opportunity
makes people move to
cloud

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Rapid time to Value
Launching
mobile
application for
order entry
Salesforce
automation
Up in 3 weeks

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Pay for what you need | Don’t pay until you start
Traditional project
equipment purchase date
Actual date production
equipment was really
required due to project
delays
Six months of depreciation alone can kill the cost on a project
When you needed to
order the equipment

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Pay for what you need | Burstability – every day
• Almost every
application has a
sine wave of
usage.
• By modifying the
available capacity
throughout the
day you can
reduce costs by
as much as 40%.

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Mattel saved 30% by optmising testing environment
Saved 30%
Customisation of
servers on the fly
Load testing
On-demand
scalability for
production site

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Pay for what you need | Burstability – the big event
Seasonal bursts
• tax season
• holiday e-commerce
• year-end close
One-time bursts
• special events
• flash crowds
• big stories

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Addressing Dis - Synergy
4500
Users
3500
Users
Sale of
business
unit
+30% in
IT cost
per user

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Macsteel International Moves All-In to Cloud
Runs production
SAP on Public Cloud
Global IT
consolidation to
Hong Kong, DR in SA
Outsourced from SA
Cost saving of 25%

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Case study: ClearBenefits improves reliability and
reduces cost; Saves 90% with cloud-based DR
Saved 90%
Resource
reallocation
Cloud-based
disaster recovery
Improved
performance

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Save over time: can reduce cost with programming
As you develop new code you can immediately reduce costs. One client
chopped 30% off their monthly bill by making a simple change in network
discovery.
As you develop new code you can immediately reduce costs.
One client saved 30% on its monthly bill by making a simple
change in network discovery.

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Better operations: size infrastructure on the fly

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Case study: Thermo Fisher launches new application to
address new markets
Launched new
service
Reached new
market segment
Faster innovation
and analysis

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Save over time: immediately take price breaks
Your costs go down immediately as prices go down!

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Launching Your Own Cloud Services?

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Tolly Report – key findings
“The Dimension Data cloud
servers showed consistently
high performance across the
range of resources
benchmarked.”
Tolly Report, July 2013

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Managed Cloud Platform’s
Segregated networks for 3 Tier Architectures
Low (Web) Medium (App) High (DB)
VLAN A VLAN B VLAN C
Public (NAT’ed) IP Space
Public Traffic filtered at
Firewall
Private IP Space
Traffic filtered at VLAN A
Firewall
Multi-cast turned on for
application clustering
Private IP Space
Specific server to server
traffic is filtered at VLAN B
Firewall
Public
user
VPN Gateway
Administrator Administrator
Load Balancing
SSL Offloading
NAT

21. Cloud Adoption Cycle:
A Practicle View
Our objective:
An offering at every stage
of a client’s adoption journey
Private Cloud: SaaS
3
Managed Hosting
/ Outsourcing
2
Web Hosting, Internet
clean pipe, colocation
1
Emergence of
multitenant technology
Public Cloud: IaaS
4
Private Cloud
5

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Low Hanging Fruit Use Cases for Corporate IaaS
• Test and Dev
› Project based work
• Agile Web
› Large ecommerce websites
› Mobile apps
• 3 tier corporate apps – Web, app, DB
› Transformational projects e.g. rewrite of
insurance app with Web browser access,
SAP
• Innovate SaaS services
• Applications for remote users vs campus
users
• Mid size customers putting everything into
cloud

23. Thank you