2. Meetup 13-Feb-13
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ITL Cloud initiative – who we are?
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What we are talking about?
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Estonian Cloud – SWOT analysis
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What next?
3. Who we are
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Estonian Providers (IAAS, PAAS)
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Global providers
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HP, Santa Monica Networks, Datel..
Integrators, consultants
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Cybernetica, Tehnopol..
Hardware vendors
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Microsoft, Fujitsu..
Software developers and SAAS
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Elion, Zone, Levira..
Atea, Võrguvara, Signwise..
Law firms
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Borenius, Glimstedt..
4. What we are talking
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Finding common ground
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Goals have been declared openly
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Not about sharing local market but widening it
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Sharing knowledge about export, standardization, law, public
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SWOT analysis of Estonian Cloud Services
5. Task force initiatives
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Government, public cloud, EU Cloud initiatives
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Marketing cloud services, trust and understanding
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Export – finding niche for Estonian providers on for EU/global
market
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Standardization and certification for cloud services
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Working together with startup scene :)
6. Infrastructure SWOT (1)
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Strengths
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Climate, geological stability
Internet connectivity
Labor and property costs
Weaknesses
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No Uptime or similar certified datacenters
Connectivity resources are extremely concentrated
Scalability is restricted on local market
7. Infrastructure SWOT (2)
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Opportunities
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Estonia has nice image as IT country (or at least we think so)
„Cloud First“ Initiative in EU
Finland is building direct sea fibre to Germany
Threats
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EU is more conservative compared to US
Jurisdiction and legal issues on both service quality and data protection
Other countries are not sleeping
8. Platform SWOT (1)
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Strengths
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Local providers are close
No legacy to support
Security awareness generally good
Weaknesses
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No scalable IAAS offerings
Commercial platform licensing favors larger domestic markets
Very few PAAS offerings
9. Platform SWOT (2)
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Opportunities
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Estonian IT and security specialists have good image
Niché global offerings combining local services
Threats
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Software providers are yet to embrace PaaS model
Estonian SaaS providers and startups prefer international PaaS
10. Software SWOT (1)
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Strengths
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Initial investment is small
Cloud scalability supports product based offerings
Niché offerings are well developed
Weaknesses
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not knowing how cloud supports business processes
not knowing how exactly cloud works
not all products are suitable for cloud
11. Software SWOT (2)
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Opportunities
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International markets are within reach
Delivery costs are low
Openness inside incubators
Weaknesses
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Service provider ties and riskis therein
Technical boundaries can be unpredicted
Caveats within support contracts and jurisdiction
Data ownership issues
12. Next steps with Startups
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Let's be more open to eachother
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What is missing?
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How can we improve?
