10 Simple Ways to Simplify Your Business on the Cloud

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Simplify Your Business on the

Cloud

Andy Harjanto

10 Simple Ways to

The dawn of cloud computing

First, What the heck isCloud ComputingNeed a quick introduction to

Cloud Computing?Read this presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/Guppers/how-your-business-can-take-advantage-of-cloud-computing

Just to recap from that presentation

Cloud platform provides you with

Cost ElasticityPower ElasticityHigh AvailabilityScalabilityGlobal ReadyLong term Cost Reduction

But yet, if one asks you…

Let’s jump, fly high above the cloud

This is probably how you feel

Less Control?

RiskyToo early

Resistency

How?

Let’s look at issues facing Enterprise IT

Do we want to keep going?

Business Software is increasingly complex

Feature after Feature after Feature

Complexity increases support costs

Add burdenon IT Staff

More Servers to monitor

More Data back-up

Application Training

Building EnterpriseSecurity

Stone WallFire-proofMoatArmy Death Hole

is like….

Building Medieval

Castle

But often, It makes that much harder for

customers,

partners,suppliers

to connect to you

In other words,

Business software foundation wasdesigned around 3 decades ago

LAN

File Based Access Control

Rich, Heavy Protocols

Centralized User Repository

My Enterprise Island

Heavily Object Center(Server, Files, Docs)

Application Silos

The enterprise world we live in

2010 and beyond

Global Direct, Open CustomersCommunication

Transparency

Work RemotelyDigital Life Convergence

(e.g. Social Media)

(Work and Personal lines are blurring)

(Customers, Resources, IPs are acquired everywhere)

(Mobility Trend)

(Blogs, Social Computing) Brief Collaboration(Assemble the best, Disassemble upon completion)

And yet, innovations

on consumer side flourish

Search

Social Networking

Real-time Search, Social Media

New Mobile Experience

Video

Isn’t it time to hit the reset button?

Yes, now it’s time to

simplify your business

We have been in many successful

simplifications process before

Rich User Interface to HTML

RPC, DCOM to HTTP, REST

XML to JSON

Email to 140 Characters

Shrink-wrap software to online

Old and New Technology

Often live side by sidein harmony

for long, long time

Let’s build

Simple Cloud

SolutionsFor Business

Simplification #1

Zero Installation

“At least, we should aspire to”

Managing OS, Servers, Applications, Devices is more than a full time job

A Cloud Service should require zero (or minimum) installation

Servers

Clients

Mobile

This also means less maintenance

Upgrade

App Compatibility

Service Pack

Down Time

Simplification #2

Reduce Your Support Cost

Bring the culture of

Self-Service

Community HelpSelf-Register

Self-Reset-Password

Self-Personal-Information-Control

Reduce the number of business applications

users need to master

Simplification #3

Transparency

FilesProject

Servers

Employees

ActivitiesSelf-UpdatesSpreadsheet

Business SoftwareEvolution

Focus on ObjectsFocus on Subjectand activities

more more

Transparency boosts Productivity

Social Consumer: Activity Feed

Business with Transparency Activities

Simplification #4

Short is Better

“Such a noisy world we live in”

Sshhh… did you hear that?

Podcast

Radio

OnlineEmail

Social Networking

Picture

SMS Phone

Readers

Voice IP

TVMusic

Blog

Mail

Tweet

Video

Can we ever keep up?

140 characters or less

Express your message in…

BriefEssential

Simplification #5

Mobility

“You are now free to move around the world”

50% more active

facebook mobile users are

than non-mobile users

*65 million mobile users on Facebook

Smart-phones, Tablets are becoming our

personal computer

Text Messagingis increasingly

popular

740 billions

text messages in 2009

it doubles from 2008

Can you access enterprise data from

mobile phone today?

not just email…

Simplification #6

Identity

Bring down this walled garden

How many more sets of username/password

I have to

remember

Syntomos, Corp

Issued on 11/17/09 Expired 11/17/10

Secure and Fluid identity Flows

Gestone collaborates withSyntomos

Melissa’s access to Syntomos Corp is

Granted

Melissa Reed

Gestone, LLC

Bottom line…

In the cloud, no one can

monopolize the identity

Companies can produce and consume others’ identities

With that, it..Opens up the Corporate Walls

…much easier fortwo companies

to collaborate

WS-Trust

A few standards emerging…

…but we’re still early in the game

CardspaceIdentity Selector

Simplification #7

User In Control

More people are bringing their personal computer, phone to access corporate network

this wave continues because…

Digital Life Style Convergence

“I do personal stuff at work”

“I work at home”

A Cloud Service should allow user to choose tools fit with user’s digital life style

Simplification #8

Privacy

“Collect only what you need”

Collecting more than you need,

invite unwanted visitors

not to mention some legal implication

John Reed

In a Cloud Service, collecting only full name and photo are sufficient for identification to others

Why should we collect these?

Birth-date

AddressMarital Status

ReligionSex

Interesting enough, even with less data,

identity can still flow securely between corporations

Simplification #9

Search

Consumers have enjoyed far superior search experiencesthan the enterprise users

Why Search Is Complex in Enterprise?

Technology Silos

Database

File System

Network OS

EmailApplication

Access Control

Who has access to what is important

SimplificationAll objects can be tagged, multiple times

Object has owners, may be modified by others

Find all messages, documents,

status updates,

sent/modified/posted

by Sally Johnson last week

regarding project 7503

In such… search can be simplified

How about Access Control?

This leads to next simplification…

Simplification #10

Security

Today’s Access Control

Subject

Resource

Today’s Access Control

Hard to answer:

“What does John have access to?” (have to visit every file, database, server)

A person joins organization

Make sure access control is appropriately setin files, servers, database. (Be extra careful to grant access to Partners, Customers, Vendors, Suppliers)

Simplified Access Control

Organization or Group BoundarySubject &

Resource

Cloud Security Deserves

A Separate Presentation(Stay Tuned)

ThreatAuthentication

Authorization

Federation

Encryption

Identity

So, Go right ahead

Leapfrog your competitors

Yes, Cloud Computing is still young

We’re all learning from it

Take

Baby Steps

Leaner . Agile . Adoptive

We’ll run much faster

Fly High above the cloud

So, how do we start?

For Enterprise, evaluate at department level

Grow organically inside your company

For small business, migrate at your own pace

It’s easy to take advantage of it today

What’s Next?

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