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What a

Private Cloud can do for your business

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Our presenters

William Rabie is the Director of International Cloud Strategy

and Business Development for savvisdirect. He is responsible

for driving the savvisdirect effort to help clients build cloud

environments and bring international businesses the power of

savvisdirect public, private and hybrid clouds. William has over

20 years of experience with IT and virtualization with more than

ten years with cloud-based technology companies like NetSuite

and Oracle.

Andy Maier has 15 years of experience as a leader in

business and technology, including IT management, product

management, e-commerce, marketing and enterprise

architecture. His areas of experience include cloud

computing, ERP, social networking, collaboration, marketing

technology, user experience, security infrastructure and

portals. After leading many major enterprise initiatives for a

Fortune 100 financial services institution, he led the social

networking and collaboration initiatives for Oracle Fusion

applications and middleware.

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Agenda

• What is a private cloud?

• Value of separating infrastructure from applications

• Private cloud examples

• Questions to ask about why you’re migrating (requirements for

cloud migration)

• Cloud vendor differentiators

• Steps to migrate to a private cloud

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What is a

private cloud?

BENEFITS

• Built on dedicated equipment

• Extra security with full firewall control

• Help accelerate innovation

• Power software development projects

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Accelerates time to market

Greater development control and

agility

Value of separating infrastructure from apps

Rapidly provision

application infrastructure

Easier scalability with

reduced capital

expenditures

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USE CASE:

Secure, accessible data and application backup

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USE CASE:

CDC sandbox in a private cloud

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USE CASE:

New software development and test environment

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What are your company’s private cloud

requirements?

What are the strategic

objectives?

How will the cloud be

used?

What are the workload

expectations and

requirements? How much user visibility

into operational

issues?

How will a cloud model

change workflows,

policies and processes?

Who are the users and

what are their expectations

and requirements?

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Application

delivery

lifecycle tool • Develop new

web apps

• Deploy

applications on

a prepackaged

infrastructure

• Build custom

n-tier application

infrastructure

1 Security Data sits on

dedicated

equipment

with full

firewall

control and

private

network

options

2 Scalability Adjust

services as

your needs

change

3 Onboarding/

migration

assistance Ability to

customize the

level of support

you need

4 Redundancy You design

your own

environment

with all the

redundancy

your data

needs

5 Open-cloud

architecture Option to avoid

vendor lock-in

and remain

flexible based

on need

6

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Application delivery

lifecycle tool

• Develop new web apps

• Deploy applications

on a prepackaged

infrastructure

• Build custom n-tier

application infrastructure

1

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Security

Data sits on dedicated

equipment with full firewall

control and private network

options

2

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Scalability

Adjust services as your

needs change

3

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Onboarding/migration

assistance

Ability to customize the

level of support you need

4

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Redundancy

You design your own

environment with all the

redundancy your data

needs

5

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Private cloud features, advantages and

differentiators

Open cloud

architecture

Avoid vendor lock-in and

remain flexible based on

need

6

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to a private cloud

Migrating

Inventory assets Virtualize applications and systems

Automate processes

Set up security

Build your private cloud

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Determine your

requirements

before you look

at vendors Summarizing your

requirements, goals and

biggest IT challenges into

a succinct report will help

you get exactly what you

need from a vendor.

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