1. How Mid-Sized Businesses Can Mitigate
Cloud Risks & Reduce Time Spent
Managing Providers by 80%
Cisco Cloud Consumption as a Service
http://www.cisco.com/go/cloudconsumption
Cloud Consumption

2. Cloud: Great Equalizer for Mid-Sized Businesses
 Believe cloud brings enterprise technology
capabilities within their reach
 Rapidly moving to consumption pricing
 Pursuing the agility and promise of public
and hybrid cloud
Mid-Sized Customers48% using approved public cloud
36% have pilot projects underway,
investigating cloud
10-15X more cloud services purchased
without IT involvement
Deloitte, Cisco

3. Significant Challenges Managing Cloud
Mid-Sized Businesses
Cloud Visibility
 Cloud spending shifting from IT to LOB
 Limited resources to discover, monitor
cloud services
 Partial understanding of rising cloud costs
Finding & Managing Providers
 IT need to rapidly introduce services to
meet the needs of business
 Limited resources to find, assess,
manage the right service providers
Risk & Compliance
 Data security, privacy, compliance risks
 Potential risks, financial stability of cloud
providers often unknown

4. Visibility
Monitor Use & Predict
Cloud Needs
Risk
Reduce Cloud Risk &
Protect Your Business
Benchmarking
Discover & Evaluate
Providers
Introducing…Cloud Consumption as a Service
Strategically Manage Cloud Use from One Portal
 Discover all cloud services
(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
 User identification
 Cloud usage trending,
reports
 Monitor website usage
 Advanced categorization,
filtering
 Data security notifications
 Cloud provider risk profiles
based on 150+ industry risk
controls
 Cloud provider certification
records
 Trigger-based usage
anomaly alerts
 Compare providers and
find the right cloud service
to meet your requirements
 Benchmark usage against
peers
Cloud Consumption

5. Identify Usage Trends &
Predict Future Needs
Features: Monitor Cloud Usage & Predict Needs
of Internal Groups
Discover & Monitor
Cloud Service Provider Use
Top CSPs by Traffic/Users
 Identify all known and unknown CSPs
 CSP usage
 Individual CSPs by traffic
 CSP categories by traffic
 CSP traffic volume, trending
 CSP distribution: authorized, unauthorized
 Identify cloud use by individual users
 Understand under/over-utilized CSPs
 Identify potential consolidation
opportunities
 Monitor accessed websites
CSP Traffic
Consolidation Opportunity

6. Features: Identify Cloud Risks & Protect Your
Organization
Data Security Tools & Alerts CSP Risk Profiles & Certifications
 Explore CSPs by high-risk categories.
 View CSP risk distribution and prioritize
mitigation actions
 Cloud service anomaly alerts and trigger-
based alerts to monitor spikes in usage or
discover usage anomalies
 Risk profiles derived by comparing the
vendor against nearly 150 industry-
defined cloud risk controls
 View lists of CSP certifications
Data Security Snapshot

7. Features: Evaluate Providers In Less Time with
Benchmarking & Analytics
Provider Comparisons & Benchmarking
 Find the right provider
for your business and
security requirements
 Compare costs, risk
profiles, anomalies and
certifications
 Benchmark cloud
provider service use
against peers
Benchmarking

8. Save Time For Your IT Team
Mid-Sized Businesses
Visibility
 Cloud Service Provider
Discovery
Risk
 Respond to Data
Security Anomalies
Find & Manage Providers
 Research & Compare
New Cloud Providers
 Assess Cloud Provider
Risks
Average Days Spent
Per Year
Average Days Per Year
Using Cloud Consumption
as a Service
Findings based on time savings estimates for mid-market customers and derived from customer interviews. Time savings will differ based on customer complexity. Cost savings based upon $55/hour IT employee.
Activities

9. Tangible Business Benefits
Reduce Cloud Risks/Costs and Strategically Manage Cloud
Challenge
Risks,
Compliance
Benefits
 Reduce security and financial exposure by
identifying cloud risks and compliance issues
Mitigate
Business Risk
Outcomes
Visibility
 Know what cloud services are being used
 Predict future cloud needs
 Benchmark cloud use against peers
Costs  Reduce cloud costs by consolidating cloud
services
Optimize
Costs
Finding/
Managing
Providers
Meet the Needs
of Business
Faster
 Find the right cloud services to meet business,
risk, and compliance requirements
 Rapidly meet the needs of internal groups
Monitor Cloud
Usage