DON’T MOVE TO THE CLOUD

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Kirill Bensonoff, ComputerSupport.com

o Founding partner at ComputerSupport.com

o 15 years technology experience – datacenter, enterprise IT, SMB IT, cloud

o Publish annual State of The Cloud Report

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Question?

Do you know what “Cloud” is?

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What is cloud?

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POLL

Please complete the poll on your screen

Why Cloud Makes Sense

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Why Cloud Makes Sense

Pay For Only What You Use

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Why Cloud Makes Sense

Scale With The Times

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Why Cloud Makes Sense

No Upfront Investment

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Why Cloud Makes Sense

Outsource To A Service Provider

When Cloud Stops Making Sense

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense

Steady Demand

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense

Economies of Scale

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense

High Standards

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense

Specialized Needs

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When Cloud Stops Making Sense

Privacy and Security

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Cost Analysis – 10 person company

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Cost Analysis – 200 person email, Office and files

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Cost Analysis – 500 person email, Office and files

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Determine Cloud Readiness for YOUR businessDeciding to move to the cloud, or not? It’s not a simple “get-up-and-go” thing, you need to carefully

examine three key components of your IT resources:

NetworkThis assessment will allow you to determine if your enterprise has sufficient bandwidth to support access to cloud services

ServerExamining the number of servers in use helps you determine whether they can be virtualized and how many you need to achieve your goals

ApplicationLook at what applications you have in place, such as a customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), and determine whether they can be virtualized

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File access

Moving file access services into the cloud may be impractical and laden with latency problems

Windows Authentication

this option relies on a protocol (Remote

Procedure Call, or RPC) that is designed for a LAN

environment.

Selected vendor-specific

applicationsSome vendors will not

provide support if their applications are placed in

the cloud or a virtual environment.

Printing

In many cases, printers do not have sufficient memory to support all the documents that might be sent to them at a given time.

What Not To Move To Cloud for YOUR businessAfter a full assessment of “Cloud Readiness” and you determined a cloud-to-go, there still might be something you

don’t want to move to cloud – a sophisticated hybrid cloud model might be YOUR right choice

Moving To

Cloud?

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Conclusion

The cloud is not a magical solution. CompTIA's Fifth Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study concluded that: 24% of businesses that moved from an on-premise system to a public cloud eventually moved back to an on-premise system.

Plan before action

The cloud has many advantages - But it’s hardly a one-size-fits-

all solution, and any time you make decisions about managing

data and information services, you need to look carefully at the

facts, not just the latest trends.

Do it the right wayWith a spate of new providers entering the cloud marketplace, it

is important to consider how much experience your cloud

provider has: less-experienced providers may experience

growing pains -- in the form of outages or other service issues --

while they expand and mature. If you move mission-critical

infrastructure or applications to the cloud, you want assurance

that there will be no downtime.

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Kirill Bensonoff | Managing Partner, ComputerSupport.com

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