Building the Business Case for Cloud Services

Protocol Network Services Cloud Offering

• Focused on delivering a suite of Cloud IT Services

– Cloud Servers

– Data Backup

– Bare Metal back up / DRP

– Virtual Desktop

– Collaboration

– Cloud Applications

• All infrastructure is physically in Ontario, Canada

– Tier 3 data centers

Cloudpaging

• HostedBizz has a formal relationship with Numescentto offer their CloudPaging technology

• We can operate this solution from our Tier 3 Data center or from Amazon Cloud Services

7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud

• Total Cost of Ownership

• Resource Costs

• Time to value and ease of implementation

• Access to innovation

• Ability to try before you buy

• Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement

• Attractive commercial models

Primary Drivers to Adoption of Cloud

Flexibility, 46%

Cost saving, 17%

Low cost of adoption, 14%

New service offering, 8%

Skills gap, 7%

ROI, 5%

Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

Ease of Cloud Implementation

Time to Implement

Benefit

Data Backup

Cloud Servers

Disaster RecoveryVirtual DesktopCollaboration

Hosted Telephony

The Case for Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Reasons for Data Loss

Source: Department of Trade + Industry UK 2012

Don’t use Tape Back Up !!!

• Resource intensive

• Very slow Read / Write

• Unreliable

• 77% of SMBs that tested their tape backup solutions failed to restore - (BCN)

Backup Statistics

50%

36%

14%50% of SMBs have no Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan

Out of those that have a plan:

• Half implemented a plan following an outage or loss• Only 28% have actually tested their plan

36% of SMBs have no backup plan but intend to have one

14% of SMBs have no backup plans

Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

The Average SMB had 6 outages in 2010

• Cyber Attacks• Power Outages• Hardware Failure

Why do businesses not undertake backups ?

0% 20% 40% 60%

Lack Resources

Lack Skills/Qualified Staff

Data Protection Is Not aPriority

Never Occurred To Them

Do Not View ComputerSystems As Critical

Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

Cloud Backup for Disaster Recovery

Servers on Customer

Site

Backup Client Data

into the Cloud

Take Bare Metal

Snapshots into the Cloud

Customer Site Server

Fails !!

Cloud Server lit up with

full OS, Applications

and Client Data

Hybrid backup model:

• Onsite backup w/ storage

• Replicate to the cloud

• OS, Applications & Data

• Instant restore to VirtualServers

• Business Continuity & DR

The Case for Cloud Servers

7 Reasons to Move to the Cloud

• Total Cost of Ownership

• Resource Costs

• Time to value and ease of implementation

• Access to innovation

• Ability to try before you buy

• Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement

• Attractive commercial models

Gartner Prediction

• Gartner predicts that 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets by 2012, a shift that will have a major impact on IT…

…that means that 1 in 5 businesses will dump all of their IT assets as they move to cloud”

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/gartner-1-in-5-businesses-will-dump-all-it-assets-they-move-cloud-740

Why Move to Cloud Servers

• Scalable– Truly elastic computing gives you the ability to flex computing

resources up and down

• No term, managed infrastructure– Removes the need for capital expenditure

– Frees up your resources to focus upon your business

• Secure and Reliable– servers are housed in SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 Type II-compliant Data

Center, built to Tier 3 standards with 99.95% uptime commitment

Why Move to Cloud Servers

• Multiple Operating Systems - Examples– BareMetal

– CentOS

– Debian

– Ubuntu

– CloudLink

– Fortigate

– iPal Interactive Drupal

– Windows 2008

– Windows 2012

Why Move to Cloud Servers

• Simple Provisioning– Control all resources through a simple Management Console

– Changes are just a couple of mouse clicks away

• Custom Configuration– Have a common feature set or proprietary application?

– No problem, unique templates can be easily generated

• Unlimited Resources– Near unlimited resources of computing are available to you

The Case for Virtual Desktops

Hosted Virtual Desktop

• Cloud Management of all desktop computing applications– Productivity tools

– Enterprise wide Applications

• Fully Managed Infrastructure– Secure

– Virus / Patch Management

– Ideal for remote offices - No VPN requirements

– Persistent Storage

• Works from any broadband connected device

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

FatClients$800

ThinClients$150

PowerPoint Launch

PowerUsage

ComputerRe

LoginTime

100watts

19watts

8sec

2sec

20min

1min

>60sec

6sec

VDI Performance vs. Desktop PC’s

53%

53% of all organizations polled already consciously use cloud computing in some shape or form within their organization. This

is a 10% growth in the last nine months.

The Case for Moving to The Cloud

• Solutions are now well proven and hardened

• Flexible integrations allow graceful migration to the cloud

• Prioritize services to move to the cloud based upon:– ROI

– Simplicity

– Risk

• Flexible Commercial Models– Fixed Price solutions with SLA’s

Protocol Network Services Cloud – http://www.protocolns.com