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1 JOINING THE CLOUD REVOLUTION Presented by: Bill Lowrey

Are You Ready To Join The Cloud Revolution?

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JOINING THE CLOUD REVOLUTIONPresented by: Bill Lowrey

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Today’s Presenter:

ABOUT ALL COVERED

Bill LowreyServices Marketing Manager

25 years experience in IT services for enterprise and small- and medium-sized businesses

• All Covered – IT services from Konica Minolta

• Established in 1997

• Headquartered in Foster City, California

• Offices in over 25 cities in the United States

• Over 800 employees with approximately 600 engineers with industry certifications

Bill Lowrey

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WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?

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WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?

Cloud computing is a revolution in the way that computingpower is delivered to businesses.

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24/7 ANYWHERE CONNECTIVITIY

Today’s users need 24/7 access to their data from a multitudeof devices from wherever they are.

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MANAGING YOUR OWN IT RESOURCES

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BUSINESS DRIVERS

Costs – Do you want to move away from having to buy, maintain and eventually upgrade your own computer systems to run your business?

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BUSINESS DRIVERS

Access and availability – Do you need access to your data from any location and from any type of device?

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BUSINESS DRIVERS

Security – Do you want the peace of mind of knowing that your business data is stored in a secure data center and accessible from the cloud?

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INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATIONS

Businesses used to make their own electricity with their own generator in-house…

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INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATIONS

Then: Edison revolutionized power delivery. It became cleaner, cheaper and most importantly on-demand.

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CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud computing today allows you to access unlimited computing without the investment, maintenance and hassle.

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WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE CLOUD?

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CLOUD BENEFITS

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SUCCESS STORIES – CLOUDRisk Mitigation & Regulatory Compliance

Clarkston State Bank

PROBLEM:

Locations with aging infrastructure, intermittent internet and unreliable power caused major outage. All 6 branches lost access to the network and internet for several days.

SOLUTION:

All Covered cloud servers and co-location

BENEFITS:

• Eliminated need to purchase new servers for secondary locations

• Reliable power to all centrally located servers while removing the need to purchase backup power

• Achieved compliance conditions

Location: Clarkston, Michigan

Established: 1911

Description: Community bank with 6 branches in Oakland County, Michigan. Dedicated to meeting the financial needs of local residents and businesses.

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MIGRATED TO CLOUD

On-Premise Solution Cloud Solution

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SUCCESS STORIESRegulatory Requirement

Bank of Ocean City

PROBLEM:

• Auditor concerns about proximity to water

• Needed flexibility for future growth

SOLUTION:

• Work with line of business vendors to host applications in All Covered cloud

• Deployed virtual desktop infrastructure to enable remote access

BENEFITS:

• Ability to meet audit and compliance requirements with cloud server replicated to two datacenters

• Simplified remote access to all employeesthrough standardize virtual desktop

Location: Ocean City, Maryland

Established: 1916

Description: Community bankwith 6 branches in Ocean City,Maryland. Dedicated to providingsuperior customer service withcutting edge technology.

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SUCCESS STORIESWorkflow and Collaboration

Avison Young

PROBLEM:

Need to collaborate amongst employees while defining and improving internal business processes

SOLUTION:

All Covered application development with SharePoint

BENEFITS:

• Intranet tools to share data between all offices and employees

• Modernized manual processes by bringing them online

• Allowed for much greater accessibility to company tools and resources, even on mobile devices

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Established: 1978

Description: Commercial real estate services firm with 1,500 real estate professionals in 58 offices in 47 cities. Approximately 70 million square feet under management.

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CUSTOM COLLABORATION PLATFORM

All housed in a Tier 3 data center with integrated backup and replication to a secondary location.

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CUSTOM COLLABORATION PLATFORM

Cross platform access to common tools, reports, departmental applications and latest company bulletins.

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SUCCESS STORIESDisaster Recovery

Greater Des Moines Partnership

PROBLEM:

Fire in an adjacent building

SOLUTION:

All Covered backup for servers

• Business continuity in the cloud

BENEFITS:

• Servers damaged by water and smoke replaced by virtual cloud servers in under 2 hours

• Access to building was lost, but full access to systems and data in the cloud was uncompromised

Location: Des Moines, Iowa

Established: 1888

Description: Community development organization service central Iowa.

**21 affiliate chambers of commerce

**5,000 business members

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DISASTER EVENTGreater Des Moines Partnership

• Months after the Younkers Building fire, nearby businesses finally reopen.

• Younkers Demolition: Neighboring organization affected.channel 13, whotv.com, May 19, 2014

kcci.com, June 12, 2014

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RECOVERY PROCESS

a. Spin-up data in the cloud

b. Acquire new physical facilities

c. Look for long-term location

d. Move any existing on-premise servers to the cloud

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ALL COVERED CLOUD BENEFITS

• Cloud team with over 40 years of multi-tenant data center experience

• Over 200 companies run their businesses in the All Covered cloud

• 250 additional businesses use All Covered for the cloud backup and business continuity

• Redundant data centers in two geographic locations

• 99.995% uptime guaranteed

• 24 x 7 support by live team

• Over 3PB of production storage – SSD, SAS and SATA

• Hybrid or private IaaS cloud services available

• ‘Reserved Compute’ option available

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ALL COVERED CLOUD SERVICES

• All Covered can help with your IT needs so you can focus on your business

• All Covered is a proven provider of cloud platforms and services

• Ready to get started? Let’s get the discussion underway!

Similar to how Edison revolutionized power…

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CLOUD SERVERS OFFER

Certain conditions apply.

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HOW TO GET STARTED…

• Talk with an All Covered expert

• Map out business benefits you’d like to achieve

• Build a custom solution that’s right for your business

• Phased approach

• Combined cloud and on-premise

• Call 866-446-1133

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QUESTIONS?

To speak with an All Covered Services Consultant, call:

866-446-1133www.allcovered.com

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THANK YOU.