An introduction to cloud computing for small and medium businesses.

1. B2B TechnologiesCloud Solutions for SMB

2. B2B Technologies Mission: To make our customers more competitive and profitable by delivering innovative information technology solutions that increase employee productivity. Who we are: IT Professional Services firm specialized in delivering business productivity solutions using Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Partner: Gold Certified Partner since 2002

3. Markets and Industries Corporate: SMB: 50-500 employees Enterprise: 500–5000 Public Sector: Education K12 Higher Ed

4. Practices SharePoint Portals & Collaboration Exchange Messaging & Communication Identity Management & Security Business Intelligence Cloud Services

5. Cloud Computing – What is it? Many interpretations and implementations Most simply it is hosting business applications in an off-site data center Users access with a browser over the Internet Examples CRM – Salesforce.com, Microsoft CRM E-mail & Collaboration – Microsoft Office 365 ERP – NetSuite Application & Computing Platform: Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure

6. Cloud Computing – Why? # 1 Cost Savings: Cloud data centers are cheaper than yours because of economies of scale Software Hardware People Subscription licensing: Only pay for exactly what you need when you need it Capital costs move to Operational expense

7. Why – Continued Instant ability to scale and access additional computing capacity Anywhere access: Office, road, home Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone Availability of current state-of-the-art solutions: Always using the latest and greatest versions Likely more secure and more reliable than in-house data center

8. Office 365 Cloud email with Microsoft Exchange Simple integration with Outlook SharePoint - #1 portal solution on the market Public Website Corporate intranet Partner extranet Office Current versions of Office and Office Web Apps Corporate IM and Live Meetings with Lync

9. Office 365 - Reliability, Security, Compliance Multi-dimensional approach to help safeguard services and privacy of data and mitigate risk Premium anti-spam and antivirus protection provided by multiple virus scanning engines Data replicated in data centers in multiple locations to protect against data center-wide failures. Aligned with ISO 27001, SAS 70 Type I, FERPA, HIPPA, FISMA, EU Safe Harbor Seal Guaranteed 99.9% SLA

10. B2B Cloud Services Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner: Certified expert consulting services to help businesses move to Office 365: Quick-starts: Assess Migrate Integrate Train Experience Over 50 migrations Over 250,000 users