Presentation made on 11 April at 2nd cloud computing and virtualisation summit, abu dhabi

1. - Cloud ware -The Financial And Productivity Benefits Of Moving Resources From Privately Owned Computers To The Cloud Ajay Rathi, DAMAC Holding Co. LLC

2. Agenda Evolution What is Cloud Computing ? Why Cloud Computing ? In house Vs Cloud Future of Cloud ! Major providers Market Predictions

3. Typical Business Organization

4. Evolution towards cloud 2010-….. 2000-2010 1990-2000 1980-1990

5. Inhouse Outsourced Cloud

8. Cloud is !!!!!! Ready to use Risk Software as Service Cost Platform as Service Infrastructure as Service Reliability Scalability

9. Why Cloud Computing ?

10. IT requirements to meet Unlimited Business Expectations High Availability Fault Tolerance State of art Sophisticated Technology High Security Latest Infrastructure Highly Skilled Manpower Multi Platform Limited Budget

11. Challenges of In-House implementation High capex Low facility utilization ( 50 to 55%) High depreciation (40-45%) Power and Cooling cost, Real estate cost 30% hardware obsolesce Multi platform management Application licensing Backup and restore Highly skilled manpower Patching of OS, Antivirus patching, firewall upgrades

12. Cloud Brings Economics - Pay only for the required service Better Availability Scalability and Elasticity - Ubiquitous Access Self Provisioning Metering Zero IT Maintenance. Multi platform, multi application and multi vendor support

13. Cloud computing turns Capex to Opex In house Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure Pay for what you use Upfront License Fees 18+% Annual Maintenance Fee Included Customer Bears All IT Costs & Risk Vendor’s Problem 18 – 24 Month Release Cycles Monthly Innovation Customer Bears All Upgrade Costs & Risk Vendor Handles “Ship and Forget” Vendor Accountable

14. Future of cloud in 2010 and beyond… Cloud developer communities will grow faster than open-source Cloud providers tackle lock-in Cloud integrators will get an enterprise to show off.. Cloud computing consolidates The real innovation will be in the business of cloud computing, not the technology. Cloud infrastructure commoditize, and prices fall Home sourcing becomes mainstream A new wave of entrepreneurship emerges The days of multi-million dollar enterprise software projects dwindle. Cloud computing penetrates all areas of business management

17. Google APPs Market Place

19. Who should move to cloud The processes, applications, and data are largely independent. The points of integration are well defined. A lower level of security will work just fine. The core internal enterprise architecture is healthy. The Web is the desired platform. Cost is an issue. The applications are new.

20. GARTNER PREDICTION By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud service offerings)

21. Weaknesses are fading …………. Thank You Questions Please Ajay Rathi