CFO SUMMIT SERIES – CLOUD COMPUTING

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

To share knowledge and information with our clients and prospects

To showcase various topics, with the help of subject matter experts

Provide a form for networking and new perspectives to the CFO community

Introductions

Confusing Cloud Perspectives

Cloud Information

TGO’s experience moving to the cloud

New business opportunities enabled moving

Questions

Ted Rajanayagam Pathway Communications CTO

Blair Hicken TGO Consulting CIO

Established in 1988

We are a business consulting company specializing in solutions for the office of the CFO

Our Vision: Build long term relationships by providing value and earning trust

Single, trusted source Cloud

Managed connectivity

Value-added services

Multiple Canadian Data Centres

Canadian jurisdiction

Security focus www.pathcom.com

IT as a service

Cloud allows access to services without user technical knowledge or control of supporting infrastructure

Best described in terms of what happened to mechanical power over 100 yrs ago

Now computers are simple devices connected to the larger cloud

Data processing, storage and software applications that used to run locally are now being supplied by big central computing stations. They're becoming, in essence, computing utilities.

What is the

Cloud?

Why is there confusion?

IT as a service

Cloud allows access to services without user technical knowledge or control of supporting infrastructure

Best described in terms of what happened to mechanical power over 100 yrs ago

Now computers are simple devices connected to the larger cloud

Data processing, storage and software applications that used to run locally are now being supplied by big central computing stations. They're becoming, in essence, computing utilities.

The Cloud

Worldwide Forecast:

2009 2010 2014

$58.6 billion $68.3 billion $148.8 billion

Private Public

43% 32%

What is cloud computing?

What are the benefits?

When should we consider it?

What are the risks?

What does it cost?

History explaining the evolution and differences in clouds

Hosted (rented or leased) use of computing resources

Accessed over the Internet

Several “flavours”: Software, platform or infrastructure

Public, private, hybrid

Analogous to hosting, but with added features and benefits

Includes: Virtualization: one physical machine – many servers

Cloud “orchestration” software

Rapid provisioning: start, stop, clone, tear down

Automated processes: backup, high availability, templates

Metering and billing

Monitoring and reporting

High speed access to network (usually Internet)

Access from any device, any location

On demand self service Resource provisioning without service provider intervention

Rapid elasticity Rapid and elastic resource provisioning; scalable usage

Resource pooling Common resources for multiple tenants; dynamic resources

allocation

Broad network access Internet based; desktops, smart phones, laptops

Location independent In-house or external

Usage measurement Metering of usage; automatic control and optimization of

resources

Immediate, measurable, benefits: Productivity, equipment capacity utilization, operating costs

Usable across various industries and sizes

Easy, low risk availability

Free, low cost retail services Storage (e.g. Dropbox), desktop applications (Google)

Long term precedence in industry with Salesforce.com

Rapid developments in technology: virtualization, orchestration

Open source driven

Adoption by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle

Practically every industry

Governments

Fortune 500

Small to mid-size organizations

Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications on demand

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platform for building software applications (O/S, tools)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Processing, storage, network capacity, other resources

Public cloud

Available to general public over Internet

Private cloud

Restricted to enterprises and private users

Hybrid cloud

Blend of public and private clouds

Productivity: equipment utilization Reduced capital, operating costs

Equipment, employment

Convenience: access anytime/anywhere Reduced time and effort: automation Flexibility, scalability:

Deploy on demand Rapid provisioning

Predictable costs: metering, reports Business continuity: built in redundancy Transparency: measurement, monitoring,

metering, reporting

Virtually any application or service which works off internal networks Examples: CRM, ERP, Email, Accounting, Web commerce

Not suitable where: Data must be located in-house, such as print and file servers

High bandwidth requirements where speed is not available

Legal requirements to locate data within Province/City

Time to refresh equipment/software

Capital cost containment necessary

Service demand fluctuates

Current facilities inadequate for uptime

Business continuity vital

Central application - distributed users

Security

Migration

Support quality

Location of data (outside Canada?)

IT can focus on adding high value to the organization in a more efficient manner

Still need internal infrastructure

Less expensive long term

Capital, operations (licensing, labour, space)

Public cloud pricing models are complex: per minute/hour per asset used

Predictable pricing needed

By the month

Usage metering for estimation of required capacity

Do I need a public or private cloud? What are the benefits? Are they measurable? Is the provider capable, reliable? Can the provider offer a private cloud service? What security does the private cloud infrastructure offer? Can the cloud be customized to our requirements? Do we have fast, redundant access and connectivity? Is migration and service and support available? Does the contract include SLAs with penalties? Is the pricing simple and predictable? What reports, checks and balances are available? Is the timing correct? Can we “start small and grow”?

Private cloud with security

Fast, redundant connectivity

Capable, reliable provider

Service and support essential

Reports

Single, trusted source Cloud

Managed connectivity

Value-added services

Multiple Data Centres

Canadian jurisdiction

Security focus

Is it the right time

What are our the business objectives

What solutions are the priority

Concerns

Instant Scalability

Security and no disruptions