1. Building the Business Case for Cloud Services

2. [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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

7. The Case for Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

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

9. 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)

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. The Case for Cloud Servers

14. 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

15. 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:

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. The Case for Virtual Desktops

20. 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

21. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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