Is the ‘cloud’ right for my business?

July 20, 2011

Company Overview

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Synopsis

Overview

Customers

Parent

Leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Cloud Computing | Managed Hosting | Colocation

S&P 500 Company 10,000 Employees 4 Billion in Yearly Revenue

Over 10 years experience Hybrid portfolio - extensive managed services suite (13) Enterprise Class - SAS70 Type II facilities Nearly 1000 customers

The Windstream Cloud

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Windstream Cloud

Enterprise Platform

Highly Available

Massively Scalable

Secure / Compliant

Hybrid Flexibility

99.99% SLA

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Enterprise Flexibility

Jonathan Donaldson, VCE

Sr. Director, Corporate Engineering

VCE - Agenda

Journey to the ‘Cloud’

Cloud What? – The characteristics that matter

Types of ‘Cloud’ Offerings

Barriers to adoption

What is right for my business?

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IT Megatrends – Cloud Drivers

Deployment of ubiquitous IP networks

Expansion of networked consumer devices

Movement to unified communications

Advancement of highly-scalable, low-cost compute

Convergence of networks, compute and storage

Appetite for new applications

Economic recovery yields technology refresh

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IT-As-A-ServiceIT Production Business Production

Lower Costs Improve Quality Of Service Improve Agility

PlatinumGold

15%

30%

50%

85%

95%

The Journey Starts With Virtualization into the Cloud

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The Characteristics of Cloud

Dynamic / Agile

Service Centric

Self Service

Elastic

Consumption based billing

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Types of Public Cloud Offerings

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Low Cost

IaaSPaaS/StaaS

Managed

Service

Low Cost IaaS

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Pros: Cons: Best For:

• Low Cost• Quick to deploy• Very agile

• IT Burden• Poor SLA• Low visibility• Security

• Development• Phase 1

Startups• Low priority

apps• Short term

scale out• Shared

processing

PaaS / StaaS

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Pros: Cons: Best For:

• Focused• Deterministic

pricing• Good

integration• Low IT burden

• Purpose built• Security• Loss of

operational control

• Focused use cases

• Generic Applications

• Small IT staff

Cloud Managed Service

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Pros: Cons: Best For:

• IT Partnership

• Deterministic

pricing

• Good

integration with

existing

process

• Low IT burden

• Strong SLA

• Can be more

expensive

• Not as agile

as IaaS

• Enterprise

class

applications

Barriers to Adoption

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Security

Visibility

Control

Security, Integration, Reliability & Standards Are key ISSUES to highlight around public clouds

Source: “Service Provider Cloud Strategies”, Everest, January, 2011

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Six Elements of Multi-Tenancy

TRUST = VISIBILITY + CONTROL16

Integrated Best of Breed Technology

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Virtualization

Storage

Network

Unified Computing

Presentation (user access)

App Middleware servers

Management & DB servers

By Industry LeadersApplication

&

Management

Visibility & Control

Nerd Knobs

The ability to monitor the environment and adjust for business reasons

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Scale

BR/DR/BC

Performance Security

Compliance

Dev/Test

What is right for my business?

Create a transformational strategy that balances ambitious architecture with a solid operational framework.

Rationalize applications and platforms to align with business requirements.

Optimize key operational processes for the virtualized data center, including backup, business continuity, management, and security.

Validate architectural designs to minimize risk and help ensure that interoperability and performance levels achieve application objectives.

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Summary

Q&A

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