Mitigating Infrastructure and Energy Challenges Through Cloud and Managed Services - Cloud Computing breakfast briefing by Aidan Keates - Realtime Bytes Presales Manager

1. Mitigating Infrastructure and
Energy Challenges Through
Cloud & Managed Services
Aidan Keates – Presales Manager

2. What are the challenges?
Infrastructure Energy
• Support Business? • Minimize Energy Costs
• Manage the costs? • Improve Availability
• Disaster Recovery • Energy hungry, dated
equipment

3. Mitigating
Infrastructure
“Reducing the infrastructure footprint of the organization will
lead to lower spend on computing, storage, and network
hardware and software, as well as labour, services and utility
costs to deploy, operate and support that infrastructure”

4. Cloud and Managed
Services Value Proposition
Infrastructure Energy
• 80% Reduction of Total • 80% Reduction in Energy
Cost of Ownership – says Consumption
Microsoft • Reduction in Cooling
• 86% Reduction in Cabling Demand
and Cabinets– says Cisco • High Availability
• 85% Increase in
Computing Efficiency –
says VMware

5. Huh? What are…..
Cloud Services? Managed Services?
“The delivery of computing as “The practice of transferring
a service whereby shared day-to-day related
resources, software and management responsibilities
information are provided as a to a service provider for
utility over a network on a improved effective and
pay-as-you go basis” efficient operations.”

6. What Services are
Available Today?
Cloud Services Managed Services
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Local Area Networking (LAN)
– Virtual Servers • Wide Area Networking (WAN)
– Virtual Desktops • Hardware and Software Support
– Remote Storage
• Voice/Communications Systems
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• System Monitoring and Reporting
– CRM, ERP, Exchange, Oracle, SAP,
HR, Payroll, Web services – • Security – Firewalls, IDS & IPS
Filtering, AntiSPAM, Caching, • IT Help Desk
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Document Solutions & Printing
– Development Environments
• WAN optimization
• Communication as a Service (CaaS)
• Application Development
– Hosted Voice over IP
– Audio/ Video Conferencing
Facilities

7. Seamless Access to
Services
• Partnership with Utande IS
• Fibre & Wireless based, High
Speed, Reliable Connectivity
• Tier 3 Data Centre

8. Seamless Remote Access
to Services
• Partnership with Q-KON
• 23 Years of sound engineering
expertise
• Zero Latency VSAT
• Business Broadband
Xcellerated (BB-X)

9. ICT is Transforming……
Buy? (CAPEX) OR Subscribe? (OPEX)
Pay as you grow ICT Services!!

10. Who are we?
Realtime Africa Bytes Technology Group
• Large ICT Conglomerate • Largest SA owned ICT
• 31 Years of Service Company in RSA - $1BN
Excellence Turnover
• Regional Service • Proven track record in
Coverage  Managed Services
 Enterprise Networking
– Harare  ITIL Based Service
– Bulawayo Delivery
– Lusaka • 90 Points of Presence in
– Kitwe in Sub-Sahara Africa

11. Why Realtime Bytes
• Realtime Bytes is a TRUE Systems Integrator
 Alliances with “BEST of Breed”
 Ability to INTEGRATE Multi Vendor Solutions
 Solution FOCUSED not Product Centric
 Strong SERVICE ethic
 Industry Proven Track Record

12. Existing Customers Include…
Sapp
i

13. Product Credentials
• Cisco Gold Partner
• Oracle Gold Partner
• VMware Enterprise
Partner
• Microsoft Gold Partner
• SAP Business Objects
Partner
• Juniper Networks
• DELL Certified Partner
• SUN
• HP
• 3Com / Tipping Point
Gold Partner

14. Questions?