1. Why Rackspace and the
Open Cloud are
Important to Non-Profit
Organizations
Non-Profit IT Summit
Presented by: Richie Valadez and Christopher Sziklas
October 9, 2012
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2. What’s in Store
• Challenges of DIY Hosting
• Demystify the Cloud
• Benefits of the Cloud
• Cloud Demo
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9. Essential Characteristics 1
• On-demand self-service. Provision computing capabilities
automatically without requiring human.
• Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network
and accessed through standard mechanisms
• Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to
serve multiple consumers.
• Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and
released to scale rapidly with demand.
• Measured service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize
resource use by leveraging a metering capability.
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10. Service Models 2
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13. RACKSPACE®
WE SERVE
60%
4,500+
RACKERS
OF
THE
190,000+
CUSTOMERS FORTUNE® 100
84,000+ SERVERS
OVER $1
120 +
COUNTRIES
BILLION $$$$
8 GLOBAL DATA Annualized Revenue
CENTERS
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24. Takeaways
• DIY Hosting is Challenging
• The Cloud has many options to fit your business needs
• Rackspace offers Fanatical Support for the Open Cloud
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Power costsUpfront costsHuman resourcesMaintenance costsPatchingextra partsStaying ahead of the technology
Power costsUpfront costsHuman resourcesMaintenance costsPatchingextra partsStaying ahead of the technology
Power costsUpfront costsHuman resourcesMaintenance costsPatchingextra partsStaying ahead of the technology
An over provision of servers creating unused capacity and hence significantly higher cost per process than is desirable An under provision of servers that creates significant impacts in terms service levels
[4]Rackspace uses 0.00081 percent of thRackspace purchases 25 percent renewable energy worldwide world’s energy2009 to 2011 our total customers have grown by 90 percent but our number of servers has grown by only 41 percent.