Superfast Business - Introduction to the cloud 2014
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Introduction to the Cloud Clare Jenkins
Poundbury Systems
• Simply means not here
What is the Cloud
• Who are you?
• How much do you know about the Cloud?
• What would you like to get out of today?
Introductions
• The Cloud has been around for a long time
• Matured over time
• Most people use the Cloud without realising
– Gmail
– DropBox
– Skype
The History of the Cloud
• Faster Broadband
What is the biggest facilitator to Cloud adoption?
• Agility
– Quick to deploy
– Quick to increase
• Lower capex
• Less ties to a location
• Suits the ‘modern way of working’
• IT support provider agnostic
• Global access
• Multiple devices per person
What is the biggest driver of Cloud Adoption?
• Speech recognition
• 3d printing
• Cloud Computing
Technologies Change
• Companies need to start preparing for an influx of mobile device use in the
workplace
• The Cloud will become and even more integral part of ALL IT needs
Predictions – Gartner’s top 10 IT predictions for 2014
Some figures to think about
How the spend is split
Where the spend is coming from
• You can store:
– Document
– Spreadsheets
– Pictures
– Gantt charts
– Etc etc
Cloud for Storage
• The size of your company
• The type of hardware you use
• The software you use
• Where you are based (with a few exceptions)
It doesn’t matter about…..
• Backed up automatically (depending on the provider)
• Accessed from anywhere
• Less hardware on your site
– Quieter
– Cheaper
– Cooler
– Neater
Benefits of storing documents in the Cloud
• Software as a Service
– Word processing when you need it • Platform as a Service
– Provides a computing platform as a service • Infrastructure as a Service
– Provides a range of infrastructure, hardware, storage, processing power
Each gives a different level of control and responsibility
The Cloud as a Service
• In essence, off the shelf vs custom built
• Private Clouds can be accessible by the public but they are controlled by an
individual organisation for their own benefit
• Office 365 and Google Docs are Public Cloud services, where the end user can
buy their own personal space.
• Private Clouds are generally more expensive and take a large degree of skilled
IT resource to support and deliver them. This means they also often take longer
to launch.
Private vs Public Cloud
• All synced with every device
• Things to check
– Mailbox size
– Where data is held
– Is it available if the broadband isn’t there
Cloud as e-mail
• Project Management
• CRM
• Finance
• Collaboration (can be tied into or separate from Project Management)
• Lots of different providers, lots of different functionality, lots of different pricing
models
Cloud as Productivity
• Unified Communications
– Phone / messenger / presence • Skype / Microsoft Lync
• Google Hangouts
• Webex
• All designed to save time and money. Less travelling, quicker
meetings, much more flexible, people can come in and out for
short periods.
Cloud to Communicate
• The choice is yours
• Plenty of free trials
• Is your choice compatible with the software you use and like?
• Do you want to keep business and personal ‘things’ separate?
The Cloud is what you want it to be
Clare Jenkins