Data Centre OperationsBuild, Operate, Deliver.

Lee FisherVP Products@abiquo

@bootdisk

2012 – Cloud comes of age?

The year ‘everyone’ got the ‘cloud’…..

BenefitsEfficienciesCost Savings

….was the year it became a dirty word.

Data Centers are go!

A significant proportion of the average organisations IT budget is allocated solely to data center operations (excluding software)

25%

Of all applications run in 2 or more data centers

80%The rate of data growth per year

60%

Of current workloads are being processed in data centers

50%

Are we there yet?

How has IT helped me?

Of businesses make technology/cloud decisions without getting IT involved

47%

Have no single unified management platform for their virtualisation/cloud platform

78%Of businesses feel that their IT strategy isn’t under control

60%

Of businesses feel that virtualisation/cloud has not delivered on its key promises

84%

The new customer

The Mobile Computing era

3 Core Elements : Mobile, Social, Cloud

Changed more than the way we consume music

High Street shelves less important than digital shelves

Can do, Need to, Right now

The ‘power’ has shifted from IT, to user

Is it any wonder?

End users in the business see little, or no benefit of virtualisation or cloud

“Endless approval forms and processes”

“IT still says no”

“Why do things take so long?”

“We try our best to avoid IT and procurement because of the hassle”

They want a frictionless experience

Why?

What’s the hold up?

The technology exists

You could automate IT

You could adopt new controls

You could adopt new technology

You could do things faster

You could do things simpler

You will remain in business

Integrate this!

IT perception – this is difficult!

What do we do with the legacy software suites we’ve acquired?

Consulting costs will be very high

We have to rip and replace the kit and processes

Our perpetual licenses don’t work in the cloud

Our partners are competing with each other

Do we build it ourselves or use someone else’s?

The business case is weak

Silo Processes

Very little integration today between technology and processes

Different management consoles, managed by different teams/groups

Many authority levels across the business

Little automation between technologies

Rip and Replace is not compatible

Business needs to evolve existing processes into cloud

Not bin them

Most new clouds are bolt on services to existing business

Forces virtualisation and cloud to play a part at the edge of the business, not at it’s heart

Our Approach

Build your cloud, from tech you have

Provide a range of services to enhance your business

Adopt Public cloud – when you are ready

Integrate with operational processes you have in place today

Put cloud at the heart of your business

Not on the fringes of it

How we can help

Education – how the cloud can revolutionise your business

Technology Independence

Fast integration of existing tools, processes

Integrate your existing workflows into your virtual computing model

Simple migration to cloud model

Don’t just build a cloud, operate it

Data Centre OperationsBuild, Operate, Deliver.

Lee FisherVP Products@abiquo

@bootdisk