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Housekeeping

• The “New Normal” in IT

• Priorities

• Service Orientation

• Workflows

• Security

• Data

• New IT Architecture

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Agenda

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A Note On Change…

• The Rate of Change Continues to Increase…

• Expectations Continue to Increase

• Support the Business…

• M&A, Global Needs, Increasing Availability

• While Innovating…

• Big Data & Analytics, Mobility, Cloud Delivery Models

• And Reducing Costs…

• Smaller Teams, Shorter Deadlines, Faster Deployments

• And Improving Security

• It’s Time to Rethink the Way We Support IT

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The “New Normal” in IT

• Do More With Less…Faster

• Evaluate Non-Traditional Alternatives

• Move Your Team Out of The “Grind”

• No More “Sausage Making”

• Focus on Strategic Priorities

• Motivate with Opportunity

• Become a Service Organization

• Recognize You’re Not the Only Choice

• Be a Strategic Advisor to the Business

• Make Business Continuity a Reality

• Data is The Key

• Who Owns the Data, Owns the Business…

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What Does This Mean?

• Minimize What You Develop

• Rethink How You Provide

Services

• Reimagine Workflows

• Secure Your Environment

• Be A Partner In Compliance

• Recognize the Value of Data

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Top Priorities

• Ask These Important Questions:

• Does it Create Competitive Advantage?

• Does Someone Provide it as a Service?

• Is There an Open Source Option?

• Reality Check: Good Developers are hard to find, and even harder to keep…

• The Impact: Only develop what you absolutely have to, leaving the rest to others that can afford to attract & retain top development talent.

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Minimize What You Develop

• Evaluate Cloud Everywhere

• Consider Cloud Desktops

• Virtualize Everything You Can

• Be an Advisor to the Business

• Understand the Market

• Understand Your Options

• Make Unbiased Recommendations

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Change How You Provide Services

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Change How You Provide Services

What makes cloud computing so powerful

is the ability to easily expand the

resources committed to any given

application without buying more

hardware. Need more capacity? Your

cloud provider can offer more in an

instant.

- Matt Murphy, General Partner

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

• Widespread adoption of

mobile can lead to more

efficient workflows

• E-signature

• Field dispatch & routing

• End-user expectation of

interface is very high

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Reimagine Business Workflows

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Reimagine Business Workflows

I run my business entirely on my

phone, I believe this is the

future… Jeff Immelt is running GE

off his phone.

- Mark Benioff

• Understand the Danger

• Breach Identification & Isolation

• It’s Not Just the Perimeter

• Encryption

• Network Isolation

• Leverage New Tools

• Don’t Be A Target of Convenience

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Secure Your Environment

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Secure Your Environment

Attackers often gain access

using the simplest attack

methods, ones that you could

guard against simply with a well-

configured IT environment and

up-to-date anti-virus.

- 2014 Verizon Data Breach Report

1. Compliance is not a “business problem”

2. There are great IT solutions to

compliance obligations

3. As an IT leader, you can make a business

impact in compliance

• Infrastructure discipline

• Logging & Tracking

• Electronic Book of Evidence

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Be a Partner In Compliance

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Compliance Example

• Amount of data used globally expected double every 2 years

• Will reach 44 zettabytes (44 trillion gigabytes) in 2020

• Key Insight:

• Applications Migrate Easily…

• Moderately Large Data Sets… not so much…

• Where you store your data is more critical than where you run your application

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Recognize the Value of Data

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The New IT Architecture

Internal Apps

Cloud Delivered

Infrastructure

Vertical

Applications

(SaaS)

Transactional Data

Historically Accumulated “Big” Data

Insight & Analytics

• Minimize What You Develop

• Rethink How You Provide

Services

• Reimagine Workflows

• Secure Your Environment

• Be A Partner In Compliance

• Recognize the Value of Data

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Top Priorities

Q&ABill Santos | President, HOSTING Advanced Solutions

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