The document discusses the 15th Annual Conference on Social Sustainability Through Competitiveness with Qualitative Growth held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It focuses on a presentation given by Miroslav Lessev on cloud computing and its key characteristics like on-demand access, resource sharing, and rapid elasticity. The cloud offers benefits like time savings, reduced costs, increased efficiency and sustainability, and significant economic impacts and job growth. While the cloud also faces challenges, the conclusion is that it fundamentally changes how IT is viewed by ensuring stability.

1. 15th Annual Conference on
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH
COMPETITIVENESS WITH QUALITATIVE GROWTH
12 - 13 October 2012, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
THE CLOUD – SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS ENVIROMENT
Miroslav Lessev

2. Key elements
5 Characteristics
On-demand self-service 3 Delivery models
4 Deployment models
Permanent access through Software as a Service
Internet (SaaS)
Public cloud
Resource sharing Platform as a Service Private cloud
Rapidly elasticity (PaaS)
Community cloud
Pay as you go Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) Hybrid cloud

3. Limitations 3
Every program, system or
infrastructure can be easily
migrated to work in a cloud
and the process will be
completely transparent to the
users.

4. Problems 4
 Security and Privacy
 Law, Government, Politics and etc.
 Users and Data Migration
 Interoperability
 Too much undeveloped fields
 The existing clouds are far away
from the model

5. Time Savings 5
 Reduced the time to market launch
 Elasticity, availability and constant
access
 On demand services
 Resource sharing
 Ordering, delivery and commissioning of
new resources is reduced from
Days/Weeks to Minutes

6. Reduced Cost 6
 Transforming CapExp to OpExp
 Pay as you go
 High ROI (Return on Investment)
 Smaller and more qualified IT
departments
 Purchase on demand

7. Green Effect 7
 In 2020 the CO2 emission
generated by IT will reach 15%
 Up to 90% energy efficiency
 Don’t run if you don’t use
 A factor for sustainable
development

8. Economic Impact 8
 Investments
 109.3 billion investments in 2012
 206.6 billion investments in 2016
 The fastest growing IT sector
Source: Gartner Inc., 2012
 Jobs
 1.5 million new jobs worldwide by 2012
 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015
 More than 50% will be found in emerging markets
 More than 50% will accrue to small and medium-sized
businesses
Source: IDC Inc., 2012

9. Conclusions 9
The Cloud model is
fundamentally changing the role
and importance of IT
department, it is no longer
perceived as risky and problem-
generating but as a factor that
ensures stability!

10. Less means more!
Traditional
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS