Can you substitute the Desktop with a Browser.5 Lessons learned and advice from Global Micro - Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year 2010 and 2011. Presentation by JJ Milner. www.globalmicro.co.za. Follow me on twitter @jjrmilner

1. JJ Milner
Global Micro

4. Global Micro Solutions
• Established by JJ Milner in 1995
• Longest standing Cloud Provider in South Africa
• Deployed 1st Hosted Thin Client Desktop as early as 1999
• Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year 2010
• Provides White Label platforms for Telkom,
Vox Telecom and Mustek
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5. The promise of software as a service from the cloud is to
provide you everything you get from a traditional network…
but can it do this from a browser ?
Cloud City
• Rich Applications
• Automatic Backups
• Seamless Software Upgrades
• Mobile File Access
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6. Web Apps
• Almost Zero Installation Advantage
• Online collaborative applications while
more limited do provide great value
• Pay-as-you-go - Pay-as-you-grow
• Platform Independent
• Completely Mobile
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7. Local Apps
• Extended User Sessions
• Use of Local / LAN Databases
• Heavy Computational Tasks
• Graphics / Physics Animation
• Low Latency
• Specialised Interfaces (Cameras, POS, barcodes)
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8. Is The Web Secure ?
•Dropbox confirms security glitch – no password required
•(Privacy Inc. June 20, 2011 4:37 PM PDT)
Is Local Storage The Answer ?
•More than 1 in 10 laptops will be stolen within their lifetime
•(Wikipedia)
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9. LOCAL & THE WEB
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10. 5 Strategies
born from lessons learned in the last
10 years as a cloud provider
• Harness the best of the client & the cloud.
• Feel the power of the local PC
• Harmonise this with the mobility and redundancy of the cloud.
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11. SA Bandwidth availability and performance
cannot be guaranteed
• Don’t deploy terminal services, VDI or web applications
• for latency sensitive workloads
• Always have a local cache
• Only replicate changed data
• Assume you may need to work disconnected
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12. ThinApps
• ThinApps are the same functional versions of traditional
applications like Microsoft Office
• Instead of a traditional installation, they are streamed from
the web or local cache server
• Pay per use (monthly) with Office on demand
• You only need to be connected to the internet once every 30
days to validate the license
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13. AllenPortTM Virtual Filing Cabinet
•Store your data in a 256 Bit Encrypted filing cabinet
•Make sure only you have the Keys
•Your ISP can’t protect you
•Beware of the “Monitoring & Interception of Telecommunications
Act”
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14. AllenPortTM Virtual Filing Cabinet
• Mirror all your data from your local machine
to a secure data centre
• Replicate your private data to all your devices
• Replicate your public data to all your co-workers
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15. Choose A Unified Platform
• Manage, Patch & Deploy your ThinApps from a secure App Store
• One identity to manage your Apps and your Virtual Filing Cabinets
• You must be able to reconstruct your files, folders and applications if your Death Star
is damaged, stolen or destroyed.
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16. Unify your approach
•Encrypt your data locally and replicate to the Cloud,
your co-workers and your other devices
•Use “pay-as-you-go” ThinApps so that
you can run disconnected
•Manage and secure both with
a unified App store from a vendor
with a proven reputation
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