1 About Cloud Sherpas

Agenda at-a-glance

2 7 Myths About Cloud Computing

3 Pointers and Where to From Here

CLOUD SHERPAS

• Established in 2007 • Over 800 employees across North America , Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East • Headquartered in Atlanta, with offices throughout North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East • Salesforce Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner • Google Enterprise Partner of the Year 2011, 2012. 2013 • First Partner to Achieve ServiceNow Preferred Partner Status. Currently ServiceNow Master Services Partner

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Cloud Sherpas delivers unrivaled cloud advisory and technology services to the world’s largest brands. We help Fortune 500 clients and thousands of others businesses around the globe in nearly every industry develop cloud strategies, implement and integrate cloud solutions, and transform their businesses to achieve desired business outcomes. Over 5,000 cloud implementations. Over 3 million users in the cloud.

OVERVIEW

Google Enterprise 2011, 2012 & 2013 Global Partner of the Year

ServiceNow’s highest level of services certification

United States, United Kingdom & Australia

Cloud adoption is a journey. We can help your business at every phase.

Enhance Account mgmt & support to ensure the solution evolves with your business

• Premium Support

• Cloud Management

Integrate Make better decisions when your data is integrated with other clouds and systems

• System Integration

• Custom Development

• Mobility Solutions

Implement Transform the way your customers, partners and employees interact

• Implementation

• Data Migration

• Change Management

Advise Ensure your cloud strategy is on a successful path

• Workshops • Industry & Functional Frameworks

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Into the Cloud…

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Pizza as a Service

7 Myths About Cloud Computing

My data is not safe in the cloud

#1

Myths About Cloud Computing

#1: MY DATA IS NOT SAFE IN THE CLOUD

Cloud is only for new tech companies

#2

Myths About Cloud Computing

#2: CLOUD IS ONLY FOR NEW TECH COMPANIES

Cloud is only for small nimble organisations

#3

Myths About Cloud Computing

#3: CLOUD IS ONLY FOR SMALL NIMBLE ORGANISATIONS

Larger companies can benefit too. How? ●  Take high cost/low ROI workloads and make them nimbler

and cheaper

●  Your business and customer expectations are changing -

can your legacy infrastructure keep up?

●  We focus on the world’s largest brands

I lose control with the cloud

#4

Myths About Cloud Computing

#4: I LOSE CONTROL WITH THE CLOUD

●  Think of it like outsourcing

●  You’re already using cloud

●  Not all clouds are created equal

●  Cloud services at your command through orchestration Image Credit: meship.com

Cloud can’t show ROI

#5

Myths About Cloud Computing

#5: CLOUD CAN’T SHOW ROI

ROI ●  No Hardware or Software to Manage

●  Lower Total Costs of IT

●  Access to a Scalable Platform: Elastic Capacity

●  Increase Innovation: experiment often and fail quickly at a lower cost

Transformation of your IT Department ●  Lets you transition from Infrastructure to Services - More relevant to the business

●  IT is no longer “Blah Blah Blah...give me $12m”

Cloud can’t handle my complex business

#6

Myths About Cloud Computing

#6: CLOUD CAN’T HANDLE MY COMPLEX BUSINESS

Cloud simplifies processes and increases agility to respond to complexity ●  People said the iPhone wouldn’t work for business either

●  Moving to cloud gives you an opportunity to re-work processes and manage

organisational change

●  Apps create more process, and mobility and wearables create more complexity -

are your legacy systems set up to handle them?

●  Think of the workloads your business needs to handle - Workflow, ITSM,

Request Management, Facilities Mgt, CRM, app development, mobility,

collaboration?

Moving to the cloud is easy

#7

Myths About Cloud Computing

#7: MOVING TO THE CLOUD IS EASY

Pointers & Where To From Here

Pointers

How can you respond?

●  Cloud isn’t really all that new and you’re using Cloud already

●  Not all clouds are the same

●  Cloud has demonstrable agility, ROI and effectiveness

●  What you’re going to run up against is fear of the unknown

●  The only way to conquer that fear is with education

●  Pitch a big vision, but pick a workload and start small immediately

Mapping the Ascent to the Cloud

THE CLOUD DISCOVERY WORKSHOP Identify opportunities to leverage the cloud by:

1.  Defining an overall cloud strategy

2.  Evaluating existing Application Architecture

3.  Identifying desired future-state business

capabilities

4.  Outlining a transformation plan

Be fully prepared and ready to make the ascent to the

cloud

So What’s Possible?

The Discovery focuses on the total landscape of business automation platforms. We help identify those platforms that make the most sense to include in the plan for transformation.

Questions?

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