To the cloud

Our Business Cloud

Presenting the Plan for the (near) Future

Overview

• What's Happening?• A Plan From Above• Our Business Cloud• vs. The Old• Bottom Line

Changing Media

Device Consolidation

WTF?

We have a plan - The plan will...• Dramatically Lower over all Tek and business costs • Make internal business processes more efficient

and productive• Provide for quick adoption of innovations• Allow us to introduce new products and services

for customers with an menu of options• Create opportunities for new business models and

revenue streams

We will do this by...

Define Design Deploy

Defining the Future

If you could start with a blank slate, what would you do? How does that compare to the current infrastructure. We plan the transition by mapping from past to future.

Investing Strategically

We will do this by adopting a strategic investment and migration plan with 1, 2, 3 and 4 year horizons

Increase Bandwidth

We will dramatically increase bandwidth to take advantage of price decreases and create ability to choose outsourcing options. 

Capital to Rental Model

We will move from a capital investment and model to a monthly rental model for all infrastructure items. 

Extend Certain Asset Life

We will keep certain assets in play for another year or two while waiting for new service offerings to become practical. 

Help From Above

We will aggressively move to cloud computing to reduce risk and cost and increase flexibility and scalability.

Why is it Better?

• Can Do More with Less• Large Scale Low Cost Data Centers• 24/7 Operations and Staffing• World Class Security and Efficiency

• Let’s us concentrate on Core

What Me Worry?

• Many Fearo Loss of Controlo Securityo Reliability

• Once you give up control (and responsibility)o Reliability if based on your bandwidtho Providers uptime may affect you

• Remembero Phones and Electricity were once newo Uptime is a core for Rackspace, Amazon,

Google, Salesforce and Microsoft

Our Business Cloud

Communication

Purpose        Provide infrastructure for communication between staff and client in a variety of means and techniques.

Technology• Voice, Messages, Video, Data, Content

Suppliers• Verizon, AT&T, RIM, HTC, Motorola, Facebook, Google, Skype, etc 

Collaboration

Purpose

Allow for client, staff and external resources to participate as a team on project materials, ideation, tribal knowledge and project delivery.

Technology• File Sharing, Screen Sharing, Virtual Desktop, Remote Presence, Wiki, Content Management, Social Networking

Suppliers• Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe, Google, Citrix, Salesforce, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, 37signals

Coordination

Purpose    To create, organize and manage project materials, human resources, client and prospect information, invoicing, bills and reporting.

Technology• MIS / ERP/Accounting, Sales Force Automation, Project Management, Human Resources

Suppliers• Intuit, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Adobe, ADP

Control

Purpose        Production process workflow and production capacity.

Technology• Collocation, Requirement Definition, Production Management, Version Control, Deployment Management, Measurement, Reporting

Suppliers• Rackspace, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Google, Amazon

Cloud Advantages

•  Lower Workstation Cost•  Reduced Software Cost•  Instant Software Updates•  Increased Data Reliability•  Device and Location Independence•  Reliability and Scalability

vs. The Old

• Sophisticated Network Infrastructure – mostly Microsoft• Many Generations of Hardware and Software• Client Hosted Web and Collaboration Software• TB’s of Server Based, NAS, SAN, Tape storage• Full Time Admin Staff

• Customer facing systems to collocation equipment• Now provisioning virtual servers in the Cloud• Migrating from Exchange to Google Apps

Recommendations

• 1-2-3-4 Planning• Bandwidth Migration• Replace with new when appropriate• Nurse the Old and Frail for a year or two

Bottom Line

• Our Business Model Thrives on Thought Leadership• Traditionally we spend 8-10% on IT/Tek• We can move to 2-3% of revenues• Move from Capital Investment to Monthly Rental• Scale IT with people resources and production

capacity and demand• Fully leverage location independence

Q’s ?