CirrusDB provides cloud database and business intelligence services that help companies reduce costs and improve flexibility. Their offerings include managed database services, cloud databases, pre-configured appliances, and professional services. CirrusDB integrates multiple cloud platforms through their Cirrus Enterprise Manager product and claims advantages in scalability, virtualization, and clustering.

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7. In-house Vs Cloud Comparison Traditional in-house model Database in a cloud Time to Terabyte Weeks to purchase, install and configure hardware and software Immediately available - Hours from sign-up to data loading Start-up Costs/Risk Server hardware, SAN, DBMS software (>$200,000USD) 1 month fee ($500+) On-going costs Maintenance fees, depreciation expense, manual administration overhead Monthly fee Data Center Overhead Floor and rack space, cooling and power costs None Scalability Scale painfully by migrating to new hardware or DBMS. Must often over-buy up front to accommodate future growth. Scale seamlessly, as needed, by adding instances to cluster (or removing them) Purchase Approval Complex process; funded via capital expenditure budget and requiring a 3- year ROI model Funded via departmental operating expenditure budget requiring a 1- month ROI model

9. ROI for Remote DBA Assumptions: Remote database support per database is $1000/month Total ROI = $110K or 47.8% Description of Cost Internal Remote Solution Average Annual Salary $80,000.00 Included Average Benefits $20,000.00 Included Average Training Costs $5,000.00 Included Average Hardware & Software Costs $5,000.00 Included Average Office Space Costs $5,000.00 Included Average number of DBAs per 10 databases Maintained 2 Included Total Maintenance Costs $230,000.00 $120,000.00

11. Managed Database Services save 68% over Internal IT Assumptions Pricing is based on maintaining an Oracle database with hardware and licensing costs included. An full time Oracle DBA is factored in with benefits amounting to $100K/yr Total ROI = $320K or 68% Internal IT Managed Services Capital Investment $100,000 $0 Setup Costs $10,000 $6,000 Monthly Services $0 $4,000 Monthly Labor $10,000 $0 Cost Over 3 Years $470,000 $150,000

12. Cirrus Enterprise Manager (CEM) – Our flagship product integrates services from multiple cloud services partners Cirrus Enterprise Manager (CEM TM ), is an easy to use user interface that brings together the most popular cloud infrastructures together for you to build a Database As A Service (DBAAS) solution in the cloud, tailored for your company. CEM platform provides enhanced visibility to available cloud services and enables the user to create a new instance, in any of the CirrusDB partnered cloud service providers such as Amazon, GoGrid, Flexiscale, Azure etc. In addition to the setup features, CEM also gives the user the ability to go in and see the usage statics for each instance and change CPU, memory, disk allocation settings as needed. It is also our place for your billing and payment needs. You can manage your account, company profile, manage users and the account's billing and payment information.

13. CirrusDB is our database hosted on the cloud, which scales without limits with superior performance CirrusDB cloud database is a DBaaS offering by CirrusDB, that allows DB architects and developers to design and build databases in the cloud. All the databases are stored, hosted and managed (optional) in the CirrusDB cloud or one of its partner cloud services. Currently CirrusDB partners with Amazon Cloud, Go Grid and Flexiscale services for their hosting requirements. CirrusDB is committed to provide the most flexible financial models, simpler and easily pluggable interface and a more reliable service. Since we partner with the major cloud service providers, it gives us the ability to be more reliable and also provider users with options to choose from.

14. Stratus – Our pre-configured OLTP database appliance saves you money and time for any new deployment Stratus is a series of highly customizable, plug-n-play transactional database server products for specific database operations with a ground-breaking performance. They will be available in a choice of SUN/HP/DELL blade servers and will host MySQL or PostgreSQL DB on Unix/Linux/Windows platform. Typically a stratus can be plugged into your network and thats about it. Your database is ready for use. Stratus comprises of a hardware configuration highly optimized for a specific need, a very minimal operating system wherein features and configuration of the operating system are dictated by the special purpose database server and supporting components, a preconfigured database server, preloaded with configuration data to serve a specific enterprise application.

15. Cumulus – Our OLAP data warehouse system is pre-configured for superior performance Cumulus is an efficient BI solution built on Column-oriented database architecture, aggressive use of data compression and high concurrency models that delivers packaged BI solutions with a ground breaking performance and real-time access to data. Cumullus uses massively parallel processing (MPP) architectures to provide high query performance and platform scalability. MPP architectures consist of independent processors or servers executing in parallel. Most MPP architectures implement a “shared nothing architecture” where each server is self-sufficient and controls its own memory and disk. Shared nothing architectures have a proven record for high scalability and little contention. Cumullus appliances distribute data onto dedicated disk storage units connected to each server in the appliance. This distribution allows DW appliances to resolve a relational query by scanning data on each server in parallel. The divide-and-conquer approach delivers high performance and scales linearly as new servers are added into the architecture.