2. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a new style of computing where IT infrastructure is available as a ubiquitous, easily accessible, and reliable utility service conceptually similar to the telephone or electricity. Gartner describes cloud computing as “a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service, enabling better sharing of technologies (especially multitenant applications, or virtual machines), increased automation, rapid and dynamic change, policy-driven and services-orientation, reduced complexity and autonomic response.” The big picture is all about reducing costs, while increasing agility and quality of service.
3. Who are we? Owned by Open Reality Based in Abingdon and Daventry 45 Staff, Group Turnover £6M up 24% in ended March 2010 Provider of Hosted Managed Services Formed in 2000 2 Docklands & 2 Outer London based data centres First Managed Service organisation to be awarded ISO9001:2000 ISO9001:2008 accredited working towards ISO27001:2005 N3 Connected VMWare Enterprise & Service Provider Partner Citrix Silver Partner Microsoft Gold 55 accounts from partial managed service to fully maintained network & server infrastructure
4. A focus on business needs Cloud based Service BrightCloud Flexible Hosting is one of the new breed of Cloud based services; Platform as a Service (PaaS) A Flexible offering, caters for:- Simple requirements like a web server or mail server Complete infrastructure virtualisation Platform for ISV’s to offer Software as a Service (SaaS) Focus on Application Delivery We ensure end to end application delivery through network optimisation and management
6. Continual Investment & Success BrightCloud invested over £200k in Phase-II (Jan 09) hosting platform, and will continue to innovate to provide vital services at low cost. July 2010 – Phase-II reaching capacity and looking to invest £150k expanding Phase-II and commencing Phase-III with £120k investment.
7. Drivers for success Partnership with ISV’s Allow ISV’s to concentrate on their core strengths Hosting new end user environments Customers who know they need Cloud Services Virtualising and Migrating end user infrastructure Project Management and Consultancy
8. Why do ISV’s choose BrightCloud? Expert Focused Business Staff, Accreditations, Experience Proven track record Commitment to process and standards BSI9001:2008 working to ISO27001:2005 ITIL Reduction in length of sales cycle by 33% Increased chances of winning business Reduction in time to deploy by 50% Understand the needs of our ISV’s and their customers powered by
9. Why do corporate businesses choose BrightCloud? Expert Focused Business Staff, Accreditations, Experience Proven track record Commitment to process and standards BSI9001:2008 working to ISO27001:2005 ITIL Flexible consultative approach Long term strategy IT Direction with associated skills
10. Our Cloud Highly Available Tier-3 data centre Flexible Access methods Network Management Application Acceleration
11. Your Cloud Monitoring Visual front end Alerting (email, pager, SMS) Reporting & SLA Reporting Portal for Administration
12. Application Delivery Experts Leaders in Network Analysis & Acceleration Largest Network Instruments Partner in Europe Bluecoat Premier Partner Citrix Service Provider & Solutions Partner
