The document discusses whether the cloud is right for a business. It provides an overview of a leading cloud computing and managed hosting provider. It then discusses how the journey to the cloud starts with virtualization and how characteristics of the cloud include being dynamic, service-centric, self-service, elastic, and consumption-based billing. The document outlines different types of public cloud offerings including low-cost infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS)/software as a service (SaaS), and managed services. It also discusses common barriers to cloud adoption such as security, visibility, and control. The document emphasizes that security, integration, reliability, and standards are key issues for public clouds and that

1. Is the ‘cloud’ right for my business?
July 20, 2011

2. Company Overview
Leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Synopsis Cloud Computing | Managed Hosting | Colocation
 Over 10 years experience
Overview  Hybrid portfolio - extensive managed services suite
 (13) Enterprise Class - SAS70 Type II facilities
 Nearly 1000 customers
Customers
 S&P 500 Company
Parent  10,000 Employees
 4 Billion in Yearly Revenue
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3. The Windstream Cloud
Enterprise
Platform
99.99% Highly
SLA Available
Windstream
Cloud
Hybrid Massively
Flexibility Scalable
Secure /
Compliant
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4. Enterprise Flexibility
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5. Jonathan Donaldson, VCE
Sr. Director, Corporate Engineering

6. VCE - Agenda
 Journey to the ‘Cloud’
 Cloud What? – The characteristics that matter
 Types of ‘Cloud’ Offerings
 Barriers to adoption
 What is right for my business?
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7. IT Megatrends – Cloud Drivers
 Deployment of ubiquitous IP networks
 Expansion of networked consumer devices
 Movement to unified communications
 Advancement of highly-scalable, low-cost compute
 Convergence of networks, compute and storage
 Appetite for new applications
 Economic recovery yields technology refresh
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8. The Journey Starts With
Virtualization into the Cloud
IT Production Business Production IT-As-A-Service
Lower Costs Improve Quality Of Service Improve Agility
85%
95%
50%
30%
15%
Platinum
Gold
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9. The Characteristics of Cloud
 Dynamic / Agile
 Service Centric
 Self Service
 Elastic
 Consumption based billing
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10. Types of Public Cloud Offerings
Low Cost Managed
PaaS/StaaS
IaaS Service
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11. Low Cost IaaS
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• Low Cost • IT Burden • Development
• Quick to deploy • Poor SLA • Phase 1
• Very agile • Low visibility Startups
• Security • Low priority
apps
• Short term
scale out
• Shared
processing
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12. PaaS / StaaS
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• Focused • Purpose built • Focused use
• Deterministic • Security cases
pricing • Loss of • Generic
• Good operational Applications
integration control • Small IT staff
• Low IT burden
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13. Cloud Managed Service
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• IT Partnership • Can be more • Enterprise
• Deterministic expensive class
pricing • Not as agile applications
• Good as IaaS
integration with
existing
process
• Low IT burden
• Strong SLA
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14. Barriers to Adoption
 Security
 Visibility
 Control
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15. Security, Integration, Reliability & Standards
Are key ISSUES to highlight around
public clouds
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Source: “Service Provider Cloud Strategies”, Everest, January, 2011

16. Six Elements of Multi-Tenancy
TRUST = VISIBILITY + CONTROL
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17. Integrated Best of Breed
Technology
By Industry Leaders
Presentation (user access)
Application
& App Middleware servers
Management
Management & DB servers
Virtualization
Unified Computing
Network
Storage
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18. Visibility & Control
 Nerd Knobs
 The ability to monitor the environment and adjust
for business reasons
Performance Security
BR/DR/BC Compliance
Dev/Test
Scale
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19. What is right for my business?
 Create a transformational strategy
that balances ambitious architecture
with a solid operational framework.
 Rationalize applications and platforms
to align with business requirements.
 Optimize key operational processes
for the virtualized data center,
including backup, business continuity,
management, and security.
 Validate architectural designs to
minimize risk and help ensure that
interoperability and performance
levels achieve application objectives.
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20. Summary
Q&A
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