BUSINESS IN THE CLOUD : OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud?!? What CloudFor today’s IT pros, the forecast is calling for clouds! With all the benefits that cloud servers have to offer.
The future looks bright for small and midsized businesses – especially those who are looking to minimize capital expenditures while scaling quickly and adding new capabilities.
It’s also good news for cloud server providers – especially those who have a differentiated product offering and a clear understanding of what cloud buyers want.
The hunter gets hunted
How to compete against your competition
Take a peek into the minds of cloud buyers.
73% of IT pros recently surveyed already use cloud servers, are planning to use cloud servers within the year, or are actively investigating cloud servers as an alternative to on premise servers.
But for many IT pros, one cloud server looks much like another, which begs the question: In a commodity market, how can cloud server providers stand out from the pack?
And what exactly are today’s IT pros looking for in a cloud server provider?
Business Drivers for Service Providers
Service Providers are seeing
• Greenfield opportunities - build cloud revenue within your existing customer base, and win new customers• Revenue leakage – some customers are switching to cloud solutions,
from competitors
Service Providers are tell us they want a cloud platform
• That is reliable, massively scaleable, and secure• That leverages low-cost components• That provides the ability to differentiate themself (from Amazon and others)• That maximize their revenue opportunities
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
Empowering simplicity
• Intuitive self-service portal• Highly automated
Low cost to launch and operate
• Low-touch operational model• Use commodity hardware, without a costly SAN• Lowest cost per IOP, lowest cost per VCPU• Delivers 60% gross profit, 20% montly compound growth
Maximum revenue opportunities• Leading IaaS capabilities – with HA, high security, etc• Value added system templates via our intergrated App Store• Layered solutions : VDI, Telecom, Resources as a Service• Able to get connected to ComputeNext.com for more federated Cloud customers
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
Create your own revenue-generating cloud computing service (IaaS) in your own datacenters
Complete solution • Customer-facing service elements• Infrastructure management elements• Back-office integration with unique API
Compelling capabilities for your customers• Leading IaaS capabilities, App Store, Layered Solutions. • With intergration of ComputeNext able to offer deployments worldwide in various
geographical regions
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Simple design• Low buildout cost • Low operating cost• Differentiated solution• Broad feature set• Secure platform• Mature proven technology
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Webbased portal• Self service model
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Integrated App store• Broad amount of solutions
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Advanced event log system• Per user defined
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Multi tenant with quotas• Scale-up well as Scale-out• Customer Portal • Simple & powerfull• Whitelabel brand-able• App Store
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• Support Rhel and CentOS• Supports Xen,KVM,Vmware,
hypervisors • Support all i386/x64 guest
Operating systems• Back-office integration• Billing,Provisioning,
Operational monitoring & Management API support
123Cloud Enterprise Cloud Platform
• HA capability with customer workload recovery• Strong security capailities
including ACLs & Vlans
Monetization and differentiation
Differentiated service offerings• 123Cloud enables service providers to create unique, differentiated IaaS services
Classes of service tailored by the service provider
• Multi-tiered environment, class-of-service driven• Selection of virtual hardware templates• Selection of VM images & applications• VLAN Access• Quotas for VM, CPU, memory, storage• Intergrated VNC client for support
Billing & Usage• Billing and management interface • Opportunity to additionally monetize App Center• Fully internationized / multi-language
Why 123Cloud vs. VMware,Hyper-V,
Simplicity• Easy implementation for you, ease of use for your customers
Lowest build cost & lowest operational cost• No costly prerequisites, designed for massive scale with low touch
Maximum cloud revenue opportunities• Feature and functional rich• App store and layered solutions
Compelling and differentiated offering• Class of service and self branding capabilities enable you to differentiate your offering in the market
Security • 123Cloud delivers two levels of enhanced security to provide assurance customers need to adopt
the cloud
Platform maturity • Third generation architecture for reliablity, scalability, sercurity
Additional ROI strategy : ComputeNext
Building your cloud platform to serve your customers cloud services is key• With the combination with ComputeNext you generate additional
revenues by connecting your infrastructure to serve international based customers which are aiming to deploy services in various geographical regions.• We believe your chance of closing the sale with any customer interested
in Cloud servers, is very high because of the choice, single identity, single billing and offerings in various verticals.• Signing up for Computenext gives you access to our Roadmap, to our
experts and resources, Support marketing efforts, indirect sales, technical and customer care, unique product offerings such as Media services.• This is about having mutual revenue streams in a very consistent basis.
Contact 123Cloud
Marco van den AkkerFounder & Partner
123Cloud BV
Heliumstraat 1602718 RS Zoetermeer
+31 85 201 01 91
[email protected] : @123_cloud