Building the Business Case for Cloud Services

[Company Name] Cloud Offering Focused on delivering a suite of Cloud IT Services Cloud Servers Data Backup Bare Metal back up / DRP Virtual Desktop Collaboration Cloud Applications All infrastructure is physically in Ontario, Canada Tier 3 data centers

Cloudpaging HostedBizz has a formal relationship with Numescent to offer their CloudPaging technology We can operate this solution from our Tier 3 Data center or from Amazon Cloud Services

7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud Total Cost of Ownership Resource Costs Time to value and ease of implementation Access to innovation Ability to try before you buy Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement Attractive commercial models

Primary Drivers to Adoption of Cloud Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

Ease of Cloud Implementation Hosted Telephony Time to Implement Benefit Disaster Recovery Data Backup Virtual Desktop Collaboration Cloud Servers

The Case for Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Reasons for Data Loss Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

Don’t use Tape Back Up !!! Resource intensive Very slow Read / Write Unreliable 77% of SMBs that tested their tape backup solutions failed to restore - (BCN)

Backup Statistics 50% of SMBs have no Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan Out of those that have a plan: Half implemented a plan following an outage or loss Only 28% have actually tested their plan 36% of SMBs have no backup plan but intend to have one 14% of SMBs have no backup plans The Average SMB had 6 outages in 2010 Cyber Attacks Power Outages Hardware Failure Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

Why do businesses not undertake backups ? Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

Cloud Backup for Disaster Recovery Servers on Customer Site Hybrid backup model: Onsite backup w/ storage Replicate to the cloud OS, Applications & Data Instant restore to Virtual Servers Business Continuity & DR Cloud Server lit up with full OS, Applications and Client Data Backup Client Data into the Cloud Customer Site Server Fails !! Take Bare Metal Snapshots into the Cloud

The Case for Cloud Servers

7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud Total Cost of Ownership Resource Costs Time to value and ease of implementation Access to innovation Ability to try before you buy Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement Attractive commercial models

Gartner Prediction Gartner predicts that 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets by 2012, a shift that will have a major impact on IT… …that means that 1 in 5 businesses will dump all of their IT assets as they move to cloud” Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/gartner-1-in-5-businesses-will-dump-all-it-assets-they-move-cloud-740

Why Move to Cloud Servers Scalable Truly elastic computing gives you the ability to flex computing resources up and down No term, managed infrastructure Removes the need for capital expenditure Frees up your resources to focus upon your business Secure and Reliable servers are housed in SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 Type II-compliant Data Center, built to Tier 3 standards with 99.95% uptime commitment

Why Move to Cloud Servers Multiple Operating Systems - Examples BareMetal CentOS Debian Ubuntu CloudLink Fortigate iPal Interactive Drupal Windows 2008 Windows 2012

Why Move to Cloud Servers Simple Provisioning Control all resources through a simple Management Console Changes are just a couple of mouse clicks away Custom Configuration Have a common feature set or proprietary application? No problem, unique templates can be easily generated Unlimited Resources Near unlimited resources of computing are available to you

The Case for Virtual Desktops

Hosted Virtual Desktop Cloud Management of all desktop computing applications Productivity tools Enterprise wide Applications Fully Managed Infrastructure Secure Virus / Patch Management Ideal for remote offices - No VPN requirements Persistent Storage Works from any broadband connected device

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

VDI Performance vs. Desktop PC’s PowerPoint Launch Power Usage Computer Re-image Login Time Fat Clients $800 8sec 100watts 20min >60sec Thin Clients $150 2sec 19watts 1min 6sec

53% 53% of all organizations polled already consciously use cloud computing in some shape or form within their organization. This is a 10% growth in the last nine months.

The Case for Moving to The Cloud Solutions are now well proven and hardened Flexible integrations allow graceful migration to the cloud Prioritize services to move to the cloud based upon: ROI Simplicity Risk Flexible Commercial Models Fixed Price solutions with SLA’s