There is a lot of talk in technology circles about 'the Cloud' these days. Wondering what it means for you and your business systems? While this new era of cloud computing can bring benefits to your organization these need to be weighed against the risks. Learn from experts what is really happening today and what you should be considering for the future.

1. CFO SUMMIT SERIES – CLOUD COMPUTING
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

2.  To share knowledge and information with our
clients and prospects
 To showcase various topics, with the help of
subject matter experts
 Provide a form for networking and new
perspectives to the CFO community

3.  Introductions
 Confusing Cloud Perspectives
 Cloud Information
 TGO’s experience moving to the cloud
 New business opportunities enabled moving
 Questions
Ted Rajanayagam Blair Hicken
Pathway Communications TGO Consulting
CTO CIO

4.  Established in 1988
 We are a business consulting company
specializing in solutions for the office of the
CFO
 Our Vision: Build long term relationships by
providing value and earning trust

5.  Single, trusted source
 Cloud
 Managed connectivity
 Value-added services
 Multiple Canadian Data Centres
 Canadian jurisdiction
 Security focus
www.pathcom.com

6.  IT as a service
Cloud allows access to services without user technical knowledge or control

What is the
of supporting infrastructure

yrs ago Cloud?
Best described in terms of what happened to mechanical power over 100
 Now computers are simple devices connected to the larger cloud
 Data processing, storage and software applications that used to run locally
are now being supplied by big central computing stations. They're
becoming, in essence, computing utilities.

7.  Why is there confusion?

9.  IT as a service
Cloud allows access to services without user technical knowledge or control

The Cloud
of supporting infrastructure
 Best described in terms of what happened to mechanical power over 100
yrs ago
 Now computers are simple devices connected to the larger cloud
 Data processing, storage and software applications that used to run locally
are now being supplied by big central computing stations. They're
becoming, in essence, computing utilities.

10.  Worldwide Forecast:
2009 2010 2014
$58.6 billion $68.3 billion $148.8 billion
Private Public
43% 32%

11.  What is cloud computing?
 What are the benefits?
 When should we consider it?
 What are the risks?
 What does it cost?

12.  History explaining the evolution and differences in
clouds
 Hosted (rented or leased) use of computing
resources
 Accessed over the Internet
 Several “flavours”:
 Software, platform or infrastructure
 Public, private, hybrid

13.  Analogous to hosting, but with added features and
benefits
 Includes:
 Virtualization: one physical machine – many servers
 Cloud “orchestration” software
 Rapid provisioning: start, stop, clone, tear down
 Automated processes: backup, high availability, templates
 Metering and billing
 Monitoring and reporting
 High speed access to network (usually Internet)
 Access from any device, any location

15.  On demand self service
 Resource provisioning without service provider intervention
 Rapid elasticity
 Rapid and elastic resource provisioning; scalable usage
 Resource pooling
 Common resources for multiple tenants; dynamic resources
allocation
 Broad network access
 Internet based; desktops, smart phones, laptops
 Location independent
 In-house or external
 Usage measurement
 Metering of usage; automatic control and optimization of
resources

16.  Immediate, measurable, benefits:
 Productivity, equipment capacity utilization, operating costs
 Usable across various industries and sizes
 Easy, low risk availability
 Free, low cost retail services
 Storage (e.g. Dropbox), desktop applications (Google)
 Long term precedence in industry with Salesforce.com
 Rapid developments in technology: virtualization,
orchestration
 Open source driven
 Adoption by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle

17.  Practically every industry
 Governments
 Fortune 500
 Small to mid-size organizations

18.  Software as a Service (SaaS)
 Applications on demand
 Platform as a Service (PaaS)
 Platform for building software applications (O/S, tools)
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
 Processing, storage, network capacity, other resources

19.  Public cloud
 Available to general public over Internet
 Private cloud
 Restricted to enterprises and private users
 Hybrid cloud
 Blend of public and private clouds

20.  Productivity: equipment utilization
 Reduced capital, operating costs
 Equipment, employment
 Convenience: access anytime/anywhere
 Reduced time and effort: automation
 Flexibility, scalability:
 Deploy on demand
 Rapid provisioning
 Predictable costs: metering, reports
 Business continuity: built in redundancy
 Transparency: measurement, monitoring,
metering, reporting

21.  Virtually any application or service which works
off internal networks
 Examples: CRM, ERP, Email, Accounting, Web commerce
 Not suitable where:
 Data must be located in-house, such as print and file servers
 High bandwidth requirements where speed is not available
 Legal requirements to locate data within Province/City

22.  Time to refresh equipment/software
 Capital cost containment necessary
 Service demand fluctuates
 Current facilities inadequate for uptime
 Business continuity vital
 Central application - distributed users

23.  Security
 Migration
 Support quality
 Location of data (outside Canada?)

24.  IT can focus on adding high value to the
organization in a more efficient manner
 Still need internal infrastructure

25.  Less expensive long term
 Capital, operations (licensing, labour, space)
 Public cloud pricing models are complex: per
minute/hour per asset used
 Predictable pricing needed
 By the month
 Usage metering for estimation of required capacity

26.  Do I need a public or private cloud?
 What are the benefits? Are they measurable?
 Is the provider capable, reliable?
 Can the provider offer a private cloud service?
 What security does the private cloud infrastructure offer?
 Can the cloud be customized to our requirements?
 Do we have fast, redundant access and connectivity?
 Is migration and service and support available?
 Does the contract include SLAs with penalties?
 Is the pricing simple and predictable?
 What reports, checks and balances are available?
 Is the timing correct?
 Can we “start small and grow”?

27.  Private cloud with security
 Fast, redundant connectivity
 Capable, reliable provider
 Service and support essential
 Reports

28.  Single, trusted source
 Cloud
 Managed connectivity
 Value-added services
 Multiple Data Centres
 Canadian jurisdiction
 Security focus

29.  Is it the right time
 What are our the business objectives
 What solutions are the priority
 Concerns
 Instant Scalability
 Security and no disruptions