3. COMPUTING ERAS: PAUCITY TO PLETHORA
Mainframe Pre-PC Era PC Era Internet Era Consumer Era
Era (1980) (1995) (2000) (Today+)
21st century implicit and natural computing
• Increasingly natural interfaces
• Embedded intelligence in everyday objects
• Ubiquitous network access and cloud services
6. OPPORTUNITIES
• Increased Productivity & Agility
• Performing IT more cheaply
• Capitalizing on new ways to address individuals and
business
• Benefitting from further democratization of IT
• Operating services without IT limits
• Leveraging the cloud to reach a world wide audience
• Developing transformative experiences and solutions
7. Microsoft’s Datacenter Evolution
Datacenter Co- Quincy and San Chicago and Dublin Modular Datacenter
Location Antonio Generation 3 Generation 4
Generation 1 Generation 2
Facility PAC
Deployment Scale Unit
Server Rack Containers IT PAC
Density
Capacity and Deployment
Scalability and
Time to Market
…Sustainability
Lower TCO
7
9. Cloud & Mobile is revolutionizing commerce
3. Enabling emerging market businesses
4. Balancing the competitiveness of nations
9
10. Canada Cloud Context
Unaware
Simply not in
they're using
the cloud
Cloud
17%
19%
Don’t know enough
to get in the cloud Using Cloud
35% Services
29%
“ Cloud computing may feel like a last
While 61% of Canadian Businesses say they don’t know enough resort to many CIOs and IT managers
about the Cloud, 80% agree that there is value in moving to the
because they are running out of options to
cloud Microsoft Canada & Leger Marketing Survey of
Canadian Business, Oct 2011
deal with the ever-growing deluge of data,
the complexity of making enterprise
applications work together and what must
However according to the IT World the biggest sometimes feel like the grunt work of
challenge to acceptance in Canada is determining managing multiple data centres.”
how to write the ROI model.
11. SALESFORCE.COM
IT as a SERVICE
ORACLE
CUSTOMER SERVICE PROVIDERS GLOBAL PROVIDERS
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
12. CUSTOMER SERVICE PROVIDERS GLOBAL PROVIDERS
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
12
13. CUSTOMER SERVICE PROVIDERS GLOBAL PROVIDERS
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
13
18. “The Questionnaire (of the business community) indicated the occurrence
of misperceptions within the business community regarding the USA
Patriot Act, and how the lack of clarity surrounding this piece of
legislation has resulted in lost opportunities.”
“While the USA PATRIOT Act does not create a restriction on the movement
of data across borders, misperceptions surrounding it appear to be
negatively impacting data flows”
The likelihood of the (US) government resorting to searches of
personal data from provincial Canadian public sector authorities
held by, or accessible through, service providers in the United States
as a reliable law enforcement or counterterrorism tool is
“vanishingly small.” – Fred Cate – paper to trilateral committee on
transborder data flow
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ecic-ceac.nsf/eng/h_gv00520.html
19.
20.
21. How to quantify Cloud Benefits
Describe in Government Value terms
Public Value
Policy Outputs Quality of Service
Efficiency Public Trust
and Outcomes Experience
Accessible Citizen
Improved Faster Variable
Services Engagement Enhanced Greater
policy policy Lower cost cost Transparency
and and security sustainability
outcomes delivery base
data participation
22. Public Value Framework–
Connecting the dots for Government Cloud
Ultimate Business Goal: PUBLIC VALUE
Executive
KPIs Policy Outcomes Service Quality Efficiency Public Trust
Core
Financial KPI
CAPITAL COST
Business
Initiatives Energy efficiency & Centralized security
Reduce real estate costs Decrease technology costs More data & apps on-line
sustainable infrastructure certification
Operating
Reduce Cost Improve Speed Improve Service Quality/ Improve Security
KPIs SLA adherence Decrease Carbon
of delivering IT services of app deployment of apps & infrastructure
ITSM and BSM; Footprint deployment
Data center Application automation, Outsourced services
Process / consolidation/optimization Data center services
app-ready infrastructure shared services Enterprise security
Function
Innovation Communication Whole-of-government
Analytics Cloud Mobility
Solutions & Collaboration Platform Solutions
23. 1. COST – Reduce Capex
University of Toronto
Cloud Services to meet student demand
Objective Approach Results
IT improvements
• Reduce costs • U of T conducted an extensive business • Email system consolidation
• Reduce complexity analysis prior to deciding on the cloud • Office 365 available to all students
• Reduce number of # email • incl. • Addressed Student demand for
systems • Privacy Impact Assessment modern services
• Increase security • Technical assessment • Addressed strict compliance
requirements
• Extensive consultation Business Outcomes
• Using a staged roll out to clients • Significantly reduced costs
24. 4. Flexibility
Government of Ontario
Sees Waves of Potential After Testing Private Cloud Solution
As Ontario sought to modernize its aging infrastructure, its government
Challenge wanted to test the feasibility of setting up a private cloud.
The Government of Ontario collaborated with Microsoft to test the
feasibility of expanding a chosen set of IT services to a private cloud built
Solution on Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ technology and Microsoft®
System Center data centre solutions.
Results • Updated IT infrastructure and aligned with introduction of new data centre
• Architected services to share underlying infrastructure resources without losing
privacy and security
• Brought agencies onboard in a cost-effective manner
• Aligned with industry best practices to keep Ontario at the forefront of the digital
world
25. 8. Rapid Development of New Business
Aer Lingus
Airline Improves Service Offerings, Developer Opens
Opportunities with Cloud Services
Aer Lingus wanted to make their online static route-maps more
Challenge dynamic and actionable without consuming significant
bandwidth.
Aer Lingus teamed with iPlanit and used the Windows Azure
Solution platform to develop the Dynamic Route Maps application which
leverages a hybrid cloud to deliver business results.
Quickly brought the solution to market and opened new
Results opportunities to improve offerings, while avoiding capital
infrastructure costs.
27. Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
PhyloD is Statistical tool developed by Microsoft
Research used to analyze DNA of HIV from large
studies of infected patients
• 100’s of HIV and HepC researchers actively use it
• Typical job: 10 – 20 CPU hours;
• Extreme jobs: 1K – 2K CPU hours
• Large number of test runs for a given job (1 – 10M tests)
• Highly compressed data per job ( ~100 KB per job)
28. Benefit Drivers:
CASE STUDY • Efficiency
• Reduced its hosting costs by two orders of
magnitude by eliminating the need for physical
Location Data and Services Firm Speeds Performance Six servers and expensive licenses
• Increased speed of its location-based services by
Times with Cloud Services six times
• Agility
“It is two orders of magnitude cheaper for us to host our web services on Windows • Improved ability to focus on core business
Azure than with a hosting provider.”—Arthur Berrill, Vice President of Technology,
DMTI Spatial Situation/Solution:
Looking to replace expensive Oracle database
software that it used for its location-based
services and that it hosted with a third-party
provider, DMTI Spatial turned to the Windows
Azure™ platform.
Company Profile: Key Advances:
By using the Windows Azure platform, including
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ and Windows Azure
Marketplace DataMarket, DMTI reduced its hosting
costs, improved the performance of its service, and
can now better focus on its core business.
Founded in 1994 and based in Toronto, Ontario, DMTI Spatial is an
independent software vendor that offers location-based business intelligence
solutions and web services to businesses in Canada.
