YOUR PATH TO THE CLOUD

JUNE 2013

Who is All Covered

• About All Covered– Division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions

U.S.A., Inc.

– One of the nation's leading IT services companies.

– Cloud experts with over 1,200 servers under management in our datacenters.

– All Covered has local offices in over 25 cities with more than 500 engineers, and is fully certified in all major IT technologies.

• Our Mission– To help companies achieve their goals through better

management of information and more effective collaboration and communication.

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B.C. – Before the Cloud

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Collaboration

Web

Commerce

Data Backup

Applications

E-mail

Relationship

Management

Print Sharing

File Sharing

What is in the Cloud –

Extension of IT Systems

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Disaster

Recovery

IP Telephone

Collaboration

Media

Streaming

Web

Commerce

Video Conference

Remote Desktop

Data Backup

Applications

E-mail

Relationship

Management

Contractors

and Vendors

Traveling

Workforce

Who is in the cloud?

Migrated to or

Originated in the Cloud

• Netflix

• iTunes

• Hulu

• Salesforce.com

• Amazon

• Google

Did not Migrate or

Migrate Well

• Blockbuster Video

• Sony Music

• Circuit City

• Tower Records

• USPS

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Innovators are in the Cloud!

Why go to the Cloud?

• Our competitive environment is changing.

• We need to protect our business.

• We need to increase revenue.

• We want to expand.

• Customers expect us to.

• My company wants to be more innovative.

• Everybody else is doing it.

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Stronger Reasons

Weaker Reasons

Cloud for Businesses

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Workforce

Enablement

Flexibility

Business

Continuity

Commerce

Asset Protection

Communication

Customers

Risk Avoidance

Real-life Business Situations

Situation• Company outgrew current office

space and was relocating across town to new building.

• Organization has servers located at primary office with remote offices accessing email and applications via Internet connection.

• Company uses large number of contractors and supports a Bring-your-own-Device model for application access.

• A fast growing company needs email and collaboration services solution without capital expense commitment.

Challenge

• Flexibility to eliminate downtime

during physical relocation of

servers.

• Reducing risk of failure of on-

site servers or single Internet

connection.

• Maintaining security while

providing broader access to

applications and services.

• Avoiding large capital expenses

while still having access to

necessary technology.

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Flexibility

• Scenario: an organization was moving their office to a larger location across town.

• Objective: access to data and systems during the move and elimination of downtime to setup at new location.

• Results:– Servers replicated to cloud

before move.

– Systems were operational during the move.

– Employees worked remotely during office shut-down.

– No loss of productivity by the office.

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Risk Mitigation

• Scenario: a community bank with five locations had all its servers at central branch with single Internet connection.

• Objective: eliminate single points of failure in IT infrastructure to reduce risk to all branches.

• Results: – Centralized servers in cloud

datacenter.

– Implemented redundant Internet connections.

– Provided disaster recovery restoration of data, if needed.

– Eliminated need to purchase stand-by servers and networking gear in secondary branches.

– Exchanged large, up-front capital expense for smaller, monthly fixed operational expense.

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Security and Access

• Scenario: a home healthcare provider in six cities on the East coast and 95 employees had 80% of its workforce on the road.

• Objective: organization wanted to provide secure access to sensitive data with the ability for employees to use their own laptops or tablets to access all systems with no downtime. Also concerned about severe weather such as hurricanes.

• Results: – Created database and remote services farm in

the cloud with consolidated security infrastructure for all systems.

– Able to provide Windows remote workstation and browser-based applications for tablets via secure cloud solution.

– Backup and replication of data and servers ensured no downtime during Hurricane Sandy. Employees were able to work from any remote location with Internet connectivity.

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Constrained Capital

• Scenario: a fast-growing technology company needs to have email, collaboration and development environment.

• Objective: company wants to preserve funds for research and development while being able to expand quickly when needed.

• Results: – moved all servers, internal systems

and application platform to the cloud.

– client can grow up or down with hardware and software as needed.

– Infrastructure costs are bundled into monthly services including cloud computing power, software, disaster recovery and support.

– No initial investment in infrastructure and ongoing services are a monthly operational expense.

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Summary of Cloud Benefits

Business goal

• Constant access

• Risk avoidance

• Secure data

– Physical security

– Electronic

security

• Minimize capital

expenditures

Cloud benefits

• Flexible work environment

• Failsafe protection

• Protection from external

dangers

– Power, weather, intrusion

– Hackers, malware

• Monthly operational

expenses

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Your Path to the Cloud

Workforce

Enablement

Flexibility

Business

Continuity

CommerceAsset & Data

Protection

Communication

Customers

Risk Avoidance

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Where will you start building?

• Ask yourself the following:

– What is my biggest business challenge?

– Do I have a disaster plan in place?

– What new services can I offer?

– Are capital constraints limiting my innovation?

– Is my current technology providing the

flexibility needed for my workforce?

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Places to Start

• Would you like to better protect your company’s valuable information?– Access from anywhere

• Traveling

• Home

• Starbucks

– Device independence• Company Laptop

• Personal laptop or home PC

• Tablet

• Smartphone

• Web browser

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Places to Start

• Would you like to better protect your

company’s valuable information?

– Physical or site security.

– Natural disasters.

– Secure access to applications to the right

people at the right times.

– Employee data theft, hackers, malware.

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Places to Start

• Would your company benefit from

constant uptime of IT systems?

– Management of system infrastructure

– 24/7 monitoring and remediation of issues

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Places to Start

• Do you have outdated hardware that

needs refreshing but would prefer it to be

an operational expense?

– Predictable monthly costs

– Combines hardware, software, support

– Avoid capital expenditures

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Places to Start

• Would your organization like flexibility in

the computing resources you use?

– Scalable up and down

• Seasonal needs

• Contractors and temporary personnel

• Big project needs

– Avoid hardware escalation

– Provision what you need when you need it

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All Covered’s Cloud Solution

• What is All Covered’s

Cloud?

– Multi-tenant

Private/Hybrid cloud

• Virtual Servers + Physical

Servers segmented in a

private network

• Not public cloud such as

Office365, Intermedia, Am

azon or Rackspace

– Tier 3 Datacenters

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All Covered’s Cloud Solution

• What is All Covered’s Cloud?

– Software as a Service – SaaS• Exchange, SharePoint, Lync

– Infrastructure as a Service – IaaS• CPU, RAM, Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery

– Platform as a Service – PaaS• Windows, Linux, Citrix, Remote Desktop

– Flexible architecture to add resources as needed to create technology that dynamically address business issues.

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Your Next Steps

• Identify business objectives you’d like to

achieve.

• Ask the relevant questions about the

innovation you need.

• Identify your Path to the Cloud.

• Start a conversation with All Covered

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QUESTIONS?

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