1. Developing Your Cloud Strategy
Presented by:
Jason Baker, CTO, VISI
James Smale, CEO, Redpath
Paul Selway, President, Redpath
2. Jason Baker, CTO, VISI
Jason Baker has over 14 years of experience working with Internet
and telecommunications organizations in Minnesota.
Prior to VISI, he co-founded Digital North and was the technology
leader within the organization.
In his capacity as Director of Operations, Baker helped Digital North
expand into multiple datacenters serving thousands of customers.
Prior to Digital North, Baker was a key technology driver at iPares, a
multinational dot-com consultancy. Baker managed the profitable Jason Baker
Application Hosting division within the organization. CTO
Early in his career he joined incNET, a startup Internet Service
Provider located in Eden Prairie. As Chief Engineer he guided the
organization during a time when the Internet was first becoming a
useful business tool.
3. James Smale, CEO, Redpath
James brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 20 years of
experience in business and the IT consulting industry
His extensive background and career progression through the
roles Sr. Technical Analyst, Technology Director, Business
Entrepreneur and Principal Partner began from a solid
foundation as a Infrastructure Engineer.
His experience was gained from numerous management roles
and consulting engagements for clients in both Europe, Asia,
Latin America and North America; focused on software James Smale
manufacturing, airline operations, advertising, agriculture & CEO
manufacturing, and health care industries.
James also has extensive experience in operational support
leadership, process improvement, strategic organization
planning and enterprise architecture planning.
4. Paul Selway, President, Redpath
Paul brings to Redpath Consulting Group over 25 years of
experience in the consulting industry.
His extensive background and career progression through
the roles Quality Management Consultant, Managing
Consultant, Technology Director, and Principal Partner
began from a solid foundation as a Software Engineer.
His experience was gained from numerous management
consulting engagements for clients in both Europe and
North America; focused on the healthcar, financial, banking, Paul Selway
President
brokerage, and capital markets industry
Paul has an Electronics Degree, B.S.C Honors Computer
Science Degree and an International MBA from Henley
Management College.
5. About ReliaCloud
ReliaCloud, a product of VISI, is an enterprise-class cloud designed
for businesses and that need dynamic infrastructure.
Based in Minneapolis/St. Paul region
2 data center locations (SAS 70 Type II)
10+ years in data center business
24x7x365 live support
www.reliacloud.com
www.visi.com
Data Center 1: St. Paul, MN
6. About Redpath
Our mission is to help our customers leverage enterprise class cloud
computing technology. We will help you develop your cloud computing
strategy, technology roadmaps, business value propositions and cost
benefit analysis, ensuring it is targeted at reducing IT costs and driving
revenue. Our experienced consulting team believe that you, the customer,
know your business better than anyone, and we know where cloud
computing can enable your business.
We are recognized partners with leading International and Local cloud
vendors (Salesforce.com, Google, ReliaCloud). Let us show you how you
can leverage the cloud.
www.redpathcg.com
7. Agenda
Introduction to the Cloud
Why the Cloud
Use Cases
Developing your Cloud Strategy
The IaaS Decision Process
8. Types of Cloud Computing Services
Infrastructure as a Platform as a Service Software as a Service
Service (IaaS) (PaaS) (SaaS)
• Operating system and • APIs exposed to user • Web application
storage exposed to user exposed to user
• Requires porting
• Mimics traditional applications or re- • Requires uploading of
systems architecture writing from the data into application
ground up
• Supports legacy • No need to code or
applications • Allows for scaling manage
applications without
infrastructure
knowledge
ReliaCloud Google App Engine Google Apps
Amazon EC2 Microsoft Azure Salesforce.com
Rackspace Cloud Server force.com Intuit
9. IaaS - Public Cloud
Multi-tenant
Automatic Upgrades
Pay-as-you-go
Elastic
5 Times Faster
Half the Cost
IDC White Paper sponsored by Salesforce.com: “Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings”, Doc #
219965, September, 2009
11. What’s Driving Cloud Adoption?
Cost savings, economic uncertainty, and the CFO
Accelerated time to delivery
Security and regulatory requirements
Elastic resources
Scalability
Pay for what you use
12. The Cloud Delivers Fast Time to Value
Software Cloud Computing
Automated Upgrades
Large Operating Expenses
Cloud Computing Value
Value
Value
Time
No Capital
Expenses
Upgrade Expense
Large Capital Expense &
High Risk
53% of software projects cost Average 51% ROI
189% of original estimate1 within 12 Months2
1 Standish Group, Chaos Report 2006
2 Third-Party CustomerSat Research on 3,500 Salesforce.com customers, December 2008
13. Business Challenges Are Changing
Information overload
• Volume of information is increasing radically
• Sort, file, and find is a broken paradigm
Collaboration is central
• Work with global, distributed teams
• Connect with external partners
Access anywhere
• Proliferation of smart phones
• Struggles with VPNs
14. The Cloud Delivers Lower TCO
On Premises = Hidden
Costs
Cloud Computing:
46% Lower TCO1
Licenses
Hardware No Upfront License Fees
Consultants No Hardware Infrastructure
Infrastructure Lower Implementation Costs
Dedicated Staff Free Upgrades
Upgrades No Ongoing Maintenance Fees
Predictable
1Source: Yankee Group: Hosted vs. Premise based Sales Solutions: TCO and Trade Offs
15. Use Cases
Cyclical Demand – Retail Web Site
Elastic and near instant scalability
Just in time capacity
Supports any business size
Test and Development Environments
Spin up or down when project needs
Rapid enablement
No capital costs (expensed for usage)
Rapid provisioning
No hardware procurement
Provisioning virtual servers in minutes (not weeks/months)
Self service via web portal
Secure
Rapid decommissioning
16. Creating a Cloud Strategy
7. Select and Implement Strategies
6. Perform Cost Benefit Value Analysis
5. Build Strategic Options (cloud
opportunities)
4. Build Preferred Future State Vision
3. Understand Infrastructure
2. Understand Application Portfolio
1. Assess Current State Business
Architecture
17. IaaS Considerations
Where can I Integrate IaaS into my Infrastructure strategy?
How does IaaS address my shared service model?
IaaS and hardware / OS life cycle management?
Server provisioning process?
Private versus public cloud?
18. Redpath / ReliaCloud - Your Partners to the Cloud
Companies Customers are
invested here: here:
Data Center
Community Sites
19. Promo
Free ½ Day Cloud Strategy Mini-Assessment - Redpath
Redpath Consulting Group will provide two experienced cloud strategy
consultants for ½ day to work with your business and IT team to perform an
assessment of your current state and identify a cloud computing opportunity.
Free Cloud Server for Mini-Assessment - ReliaCloud
ReliaCloud will provide a $200.00 credit towards creating a cloud server or
utilizing cloud storage for you to try one of your apps in the cloud.
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