Migrating your business to the cloud.

1. Is the ‘cloud’ right for my business?
July 20, 2011

2. Company Overview
Leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Synopsis Cloud Computing | Managed Hosting | Colocation
 Over 10 years experience
Overview  Hybrid portfolio - extensive managed services suite
 (13) Enterprise Class - SAS70 Type II facilities
 Nearly 1000 customers
Customers
 S&P 500 Company
Parent  10,000 Employees
 4 Billion in Yearly Revenue
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3. The Windstream Cloud
Enterprise
Platform
99.99% Highly
SLA Available
Windstream
Cloud
Hybrid Massively
Flexibility Scalable
Secure /
Compliant
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4. Enterprise Flexibility
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5. Jonathan Donaldson, VCE
Sr. Director, Corporate Engineering

6. 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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7. 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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8. The Journey Starts With
Virtualization into the Cloud
IT Production Business Production IT-As-A-Service
Lower Costs Improve Quality Of Service Improve Agility
85%
95%
50%
30%
15%
Platinum
Gold
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9. The Characteristics of Cloud
 Dynamic / Agile
 Service Centric
 Self Service
 Elastic
 Consumption based billing
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10. Types of Public Cloud Offerings
Low Cost Managed
PaaS/StaaS
IaaS Service
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11. Low Cost IaaS
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• Low Cost • IT Burden • Development
• Quick to deploy • Poor SLA • Phase 1
• Very agile • Low visibility Startups
• Security • Low priority
apps
• Short term
scale out
• Shared
processing
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12. PaaS / StaaS
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• Focused • Purpose built • Focused use
• Deterministic • Security cases
pricing • Loss of • Generic
• Good operational Applications
integration control • Small IT staff
• Low IT burden
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13. Cloud Managed Service
Pros: Cons: Best For:
• IT Partnership • Can be more • Enterprise
• Deterministic expensive class
pricing • Not as agile applications
• Good as IaaS
integration with
existing
process
• Low IT burden
• Strong SLA
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14. Barriers to Adoption
 Security
 Visibility
 Control
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15. Security, Integration, Reliability & Standards
Are key ISSUES to highlight around
public clouds
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Source: “Service Provider Cloud Strategies”, Everest, January, 2011

16. Six Elements of Multi-Tenancy
TRUST = VISIBILITY + CONTROL
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17. Integrated Best of Breed
Technology
By Industry Leaders
Presentation (user access)
Application
& App Middleware servers
Management
Management & DB servers
Virtualization
Unified Computing
Network
Storage
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18. Visibility & Control
 Nerd Knobs
 The ability to monitor the environment and adjust
for business reasons
Performance Security
BR/DR/BC Compliance
Dev/Test
Scale
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19. 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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20. Summary
Q&A
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