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Shape Your Business For the Future:

Powering Transformation With Cisco

Tomorrow’s Workplace Harnessing the Benefits of Collaboration

Henry Farahar

Sales Director Logicalis

15th May 2012, Tuesday

Agenda

Overview of Tomorrow’s Workplace

Our Virtual Workspace Solutions

Client Case Studies

The Logicalis Value

Cisco Innovate 2012 | Singapore

The Journey to Unified

Communications & Collaboration

BI Portal

Collaboration

VDI/VXI

Personal Productivity

Unified Comms

Enterprise Applications

Web 2.0 Content

E-mail

Audio, Video, Photo

Personal Productivity Tools

Limited Visual

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Tomorrow’s Workplace?

Increased Communication

Quicker Time to Market

Increased Customer Satisfaction

Increased Staff Satisfaction

Reduced Costs

DRIVES BUSINESS EFFICIENCY

Virtual Teams Training

Emergency Planning Internal Communication

Mobile/Remote Worker

Employee Productivity


Desktop Challenges……


Logicalis Virtual Workspace Architecture


VDI – The Key Benefits

Cost Reduction Improved Performance

Offsite backup.

Instant on Thin Clients offer ‘quick booting to reduce wait time’

Reduced Noise

No Fan or hard drive means less noise

No ‘Maverick’ software

Software is loaded and managed in the Datacenter.

Energy Savings

Thin Clients use an average of 80% less energy (avg. 25watts

vs. 170 watts)

IT Management

Typically management & support accounts for more than

70% of your ownership costs

Thin Clients last longer

No moving parts (fan, hard drive) mean less maintenance issues – MTBF greater than 8

years

Thin Clients are less Expensive

Reduction in acquisition costs for computing devices


Case Study 1

A major betting and gaming player in Hong Kong….


The Client

Operating in over 100 branches and on various mediums

Extensive infrastructure supporting the business and in

excess of 26,000 employees

Requiring a robust and secure technology environment to

support various usages and requirements


The Challenge

Lowering back end costs whilst maximising profitability

Streamlining process and management

Increasing ease if transaction

Managing the “spike intensity” of network


What was Needed?

Remote access to network from various devices

Central Management

Lower support costs

Enable effective future deployment & management

Enhancement of customer experience


The Solution

Virtualized environment

Mobile customer betting kiosks/access points

Integration with desktops and mobile signage

Tailored, centrally managed applications

Scalability for future growth


Case Study 2 – Beazley Group


The Client

Result of Intercontinental M&A

Private to Public company in 2002

High growth velocity – resource, real estate, geography


The Challenge

Sustaining growth

Offering a consistent international service

Weak and unreliable infrastructure

IT and the growth of the company mis-aligned

IT hindering the companies growth


What was Needed?

New IT Management structure

Definition of strategic technology roadmap

Stable network for today and future-proofed

A strategic advisor and technology to meet these needs


The Solution

Implementation of secure, reliable network foundation

“Going from a single point of failure on everything to no single

point of failure on anything” (Dave Boswell)

Wireless Network

IP Telephony on single Global network

Collaboration tools

Quality of Service support


The Outcome

Confidence and increased use of network internally and

client facing

Direct Cost savings

Ease and efficiency

Seamless transition and expansion

Relationships growth through video

Future-proofing


Key Themes

Consolidation and management of the legacy infrastructures

Access to a full suite of collaboration tools

New business benefits beyond replacement of old

technology

Business and technology working as one!


The Logicalis Value


Logicalis

Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider

with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and

collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services.

Circa $1.2 billion in revenues.

Operations in Europe, USA, South America and Asia Pacific

Over 2,500 employees worldwide

Over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers

Strong global partnerships with technology leaders

- Cisco Systems, HP, IBM and Microsoft.

Centre of excellence for data centre services


Strategic Global Partnership

• High-level accreditations with key partners

• 21 International awards in 2011


Able to deliver solutions and services

across all models

Data Centre

& Cloud

Consultancy

Services Communications

& Collaboration


Integrate solutions into a business-

based IT service

Data Centre

& Cloud

Consultancy

Services Communications

& Collaboration

Managed Services


Why Logicalis?

“Logicalis is in something of a sweet spot with its focus on network infrastructure, data centre and related services, which it is no doubt putting to good use on client’s cloud investments. “ October 2011 “...a few companies will emerge as leaders over the next 2-3 years and, in our view, Logicalis is showing all of the signs of being one of these leaders.” (regarding Cloud Services) August 2011 “We see that Logicalis is well positioned to grab a share of the emerging cloud market, as well as growing in the more established datacentre services markets.” August 2011 From a recent Managed Services briefing, “This is a great time for Logicalis... the next ‘industry darling’ for managed services.” October 2011


Any Questions? Thank-you! Henry Farahar, Logicalis [email protected]