2012-02-16 Cloud Solutions

Small Business
Cloud Solutions
Nate Solloway, Tech Outsourcing Manager, IT
February 16, 2012

Thrive. Grow. Achieve.

SMALL BUSINESS CLOUD SOLUTIONS

WHAT’S ON TAP

• What is the Cloud?
• Common uses for small business
• Is it right for YOU?
• File Hosting
• Email Hosting
• Hosted CRM
• Q&A

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BUZZ WORDS!



Let’s use a simple analogy
Say you just moved
to a city, and you’re
looking for
a place to live



You can either

Build a house or
Rent an apartment


If you build a house, there are a few
important decisions you have to
make…



But, you get a chance to customize

flooring
Roof
floor plan
lighting
landscaping


Once the house is built,

you’re responsible for maintenance
Hire Landscaper
Heating and Cooling

Pay property tax
House Keeping

Gutter Cleaning

Water



How about renting?



Consider a builder in your city builds

a massive number of apartment units



A unit can easily be converted
into a 2,3,4 or more units



You make a fewer,

simpler
decisions
You can start with one
unit and grow later, or
downsize



But…
You do not have
a lot of options to
customize your unit



Pay as You Go
Just pay your rent
and utilities



STAFF ARE PROBABLY ALREADY USING THE CLOUD

• Webmail
• Personal Pictures
• Videos
• Personal Files
• Banking



CONVENIENCE AND FLEXIBILITY

• 51% of internet users who have done a cloud computing activity say a major
reason they do this is that it is easy and convenient.
• 41% of cloud users say a major reason they use these applications is that they
like being able to access their data from whatever computer they are using.
• 39% cite the ease of sharing information as a major reason they use internet
applications or store data there.



DECISION MAKING

• Are you at a point where a change of some sort is necessary? If so, you must
decide on a direction. If not, you may choose to wait if you are not incurring
significant cost or productivity loss by staying in your current situation.
• The external one-time implementation costs – hardware,
implementation/migration costs
• The ongoing costs - monthly hosting fees vs. support staff salaries or consultant
fees, etc.
• Availability of staff to provide support and network administration
• Availability of facilities to house on-premise servers
• Desire to share information across geographic boundaries and related costs -
travel, telecommunications to connect multiple offices, etc.



WHY IS THE CLOUD SO APPEALING?

Reduce Capital Free Up Important Peace of Mind
Expenditures Resources •Datacenters,
•New hardware, •Administration, networking, and
software, maintenance, backups can be
peripherals and the upgrades and overwhelming for
never-ending implementation are the average SMB to
upgrade pressures costly and time- manage. With
are eliminated with consuming. Give hosted Exchange
hosted solutions time back with solutions, SMBs can
hosted solutions. focus on the most
important goal –
growing their
business.



FILE OFFERINGS



EMAIL OFFERINGS



IN HOUSE E-MAIL + FILE SHARING



HOSTED EMAIL OVER 5 YEARS



HOSTED EMAIL + CLOUD FILE SHARING EMAIL 5 YEARS



RAFFA Private Cloud

Take you
from this



RAFFA Private Cloud

To this!



RAFFA PRIVATE CLOUD

• Customized to your needs
• As low as $350 per server
• RAFFA customer service planning, deploying and supporting your cloud
• Managed services for RAFFA clients



HOSTED CRM

• Salesforce.com 10 users free (nonprofit), $25 per user per month
• MS Dynamics $9.99 per month (nonprofit)
• CiviCRM WebHosting + Customization
• SugarCRM $360 per user per year


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