RightScale User Conference

1. A Revolution in SEC Reporting is here.Dave Tucker

3. Collaborate on the Cloud and monitor your financial reports from period close to SEC filing

4. Respond confidently to last-minute changes

5. Collaborate, Monitor, ControlAudit Committee Controller Disclosure Committee Auditors SEC Reporting Director General Counsel Outside Counsels Tax Advisors CFO Sub-certifiers CEO Investor Relations

7. Built on a Cloud Platform

8. Our Challenge We have some custom application code that cannot run in the Google AppEngine Environment Must have the same scalability characteristics We don’t have a large sys-admin staff (1 person) but need to manage large server arrays

9. Leveraging RightScale Start with RightScale pre-built script packages Tweak to include our application components Configure scaling parameters Production servers are now “disposable” Amazon ELB Apache Tomcat

11. New security vulnerabilities published for underlying components

12. Need to respond quicklyBefore RightScale: Update each machine image manually Different OS bases and tweaks for different servers Lots of manual effort to update and redeploy images Now: Check out new RightScaleUbuntu image Tweak scripts for new image Rebuild and redeploy entire datacenter in under 12 hours

13. Impact of Cloud for financial reporting teams

14. Thank You