What is it and does it mean for the NGO sector?

3. 3

4. It’s a
Fan!

5. What is the Cloud?
An approach to computing that’s about internet scale and connecting to (and from) a variety of
devices. The cloud delivers IT as a service, freeing you up to focus on your mission.

7. Security & Privacy
Customizability
Visibility & Control
Data Accessibility
Global Reach
Ease of Provisioning
Business Agility
Deployability & Manageability

8. What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing: Both the applications delivered as services over Internet and the
hardware and systems software in datacenters that provide those services.
Cloud: The datacenter hardware and software.
Infinitely scalable
• Capacity scaling up or down dynamically and immediately
Pay-per-use
• No contractual agreement; pay on usage basis
No upfront cost
• No Capital Expenses, just Operational costs
Hardware management abstracted
• Minimal or no hardware management by the buyer
Sources:
“A Break in the Clouds: Towards a Cloud Definition”, 2009; Vaquero, Rodero-Merino, Caceres, Linder
"Above the Clouds: A Berkley View of Cloud Computing", 2009; UC Berkley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory
“Clearing the air on cloud computing”, 2009; McKinsey & Company

10. Infrastructure Platform Software
(On-Premises) (as a Service) (as a Service) (as a Service)
Applications Applications Applications Applications
You manage
Data Data Data Data
You manage
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Other Manages
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
Other Manages
You manage
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Other Manages
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking Networking

11. Consume it
Build on it
SaaS
Migrate to
PaaS
it
IaaS
Managed Services – components in place, who
manages and what happens with on-premise?

14. NEW REDUCED INCREASED
ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIVITY

15. Manage Costs
Shift from capital expenditures to operational expenditures
Greater Resource Agility
Respond to business demands more effectively
Greater Business Agility
Focus on solving business problems, not on infrastructure issues
Smaller Carbon Footprint
Reduction in physical resources required on-premises

18. Compute
Inactivity
Compute
Period
Average
Average Usage Usage
Time Time
Compute
Compute
Average Usage Average Usage
Time Time

19. How Do I Get Prepared To Move To The
Cloud?
Is It Secure?
Should We Go ‘All In’ Or Hybrid?
How Will We Gain Productivity?
Can You Help Us Comply With
Government Regulations?
Will I Still Have Control?
Will My Legacy Apps Still Work?

20. “Don’t run out and do this just because it’s ‘cloud,’
and don’t run out and not do it because it’s ‘cloud.’ If
the goals and objectives of your organization lead
you to a cloud solution, then go with it.”
Carol Lawson
CIO California Public Utilities Commission

22. 1. On-premises, off-premises, or a combination
of both based on your needs.
2. Enterprise-class services with no compromises
to availability, reliability or security.
3. Consistent, connected experiences across
device or platform.

23. Discounted Offerings (coming soon) Free today
Business Productivity Online Suite
Web Apps

24. Offline Online
Mail Hotmail
Photo Gallery Home
Movie Maker Groups
Messenger Photos
Toolbar Keep your life in sync Calendar
Family Safety Sync
Writer SkyDrive
Spaces

26. One of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's oldest
national societies. SRC is the biggest humanitarian
voluntary organization in Sweden, with approximately 500
employees, 250,000 members, and 40,000 volunteers
The Swedish Red Cross
• Global migration to Microsoft Online Services offering both staff and volunteers interoperable,
easy-to-use tools for staying in touch with colleagues across Sweden and in foreign countries.
• SRC reduced travel and hotel costs while enabling collaboration among staff and volunteers in
different locations. Employees are freed from the confines of the office to be more productive
while on the road, in meetings, or training volunteers in the field, increasing overall productivity.
• IT benefits from a simpler way of consuming and managing technology. IT staff now provide tools
that add value to the services that SRC delivers to the field.
• … and SRC is saving money that it can now redirect toward its humanitarian efforts.

27. “Our employees frequently work out “We did a business case for the
of the office, yet [our existing] Web next five years. We estimate
mail client wasn’t popular. There are that we will achieve a return on
about 1,200 volunteers who are our investment in the [cloud]
heavily involved in the organization project within two years. Over
who would benefit from a reliable, the next five years, we estimate
standardized SRC-sanctioned e-mail that we’ll be saving
service instead of making do with approximately 20 percent in
their own e-mail service providers.” overall costs.”
Jim Terneborg, Joakim Pettersson-Winter,
Infrastructure Technician Chief Technology Officer,
Swedish Red Cross Swedish Red Cross

28. A unique collaboration of 30+ of the world's leading
international humanitarian organizations working
together to solve common problems in the
Net Hope developing world
THEN
• Inconsistent internal e-mail (employee preferences)
• Local SharePoint deployment for cross-agency resource / information sharing
• Inconsistent remote access to mission-critical e-mail infrastructure
NOW
• Exchange Online now powering @nethope.org e-mail addresses
• Outlook Web Access providing reliable and available communications during
critical times (post-Haiti earthquake)
• SharePoint Online will ensure more robust cross-agency collaboration

29. A nonprofit, nonsectarian, nonpartisan, educational
organization, works with educators in response to
requests for resources to strengthen the teaching of
The Jack Miller Center America’s founding principles and history.
THEN
• Using a hosted Exchange solution from another vendor – very expensive and servers
were down often
• No comprehensive collaboration solution and a hodge-podge of web conferencing and
sharing tools
• Security concerns regarding unauthorized users access to file shares, etc.
NOW
• Exchange Online brought costs down and improved reliability
• SharePoint Online used extensively to support remote users and other constituents
who should not have access to internal file servers
• LiveMeeting Online used for project status meetings with remote staff and consultants
… “Love it!”

30. Supporting children and families who are working toward
achieving or maintaining permanency through transition and
therapeutic services.
Inspiring girls to be strong, smart, and bold through gender- Kinship House
specific programs and research-based curricula.
Girls, Inc.
A social services agency offering programs which support families
to raise their children well
Rainbow Family Services
THEN
• Antiquated, abandoned systems including FM Pro databases, Excel spreadsheets and mental lists
• Could not run reports reliably or accurately
• Could not effectively manage relationships
• Fragmented data systems – staff needed easy access to their data
• No ability to extend systems to capture new types of data, could not access data remotely, or at
all in some cases because it was housed on an older workstation
NOW
• Deployed Dynamics CRM Online for Nonprofits with minimal customization and implementation
in less than 1 month (would have been a 6-8 month project with other systems)
• Benefit from integrated and centralized data, flexible and reliable reporting, remote and
networked access to data, flexible data structure, work flows automated to increase productivity
and ensure effective management of relationships

31. “The system runs seven-by-twenty-four, never
gets sick, never goes on vacation, and we
can’t replicate that.”
-Gordon Peterson, IT Director – City of
Carlsbad, CA

32. http://www.adb.org/NGOs/docs/NGOPhilippines.pdf
• Information and communications systems
• Support for networking activities

33. http://www.microsoft.com/cloud
http://www.microsoft.com/online

34. A PC On Every Desk
And In Every Home!

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