Introduction to the Cloud Clare Jenkins

Poundbury Systems

• Simply means not here

What is the Cloud

• Who are you?

• How much do you know about the Cloud?

• What would you like to get out of today?

Introductions

• The Cloud has been around for a long time

• Matured over time

• Most people use the Cloud without realising

– Gmail

– DropBox

– Skype

The History of the Cloud

• Faster Broadband

What is the biggest facilitator to Cloud adoption?

• Agility

– Quick to deploy

– Quick to increase

• Lower capex

• Less ties to a location

• Suits the ‘modern way of working’

• IT support provider agnostic

• Global access

• Multiple devices per person

What is the biggest driver of Cloud Adoption?

• Speech recognition

• 3d printing

• Cloud Computing

Technologies Change

• Companies need to start preparing for an influx of mobile device use in the

workplace

• The Cloud will become and even more integral part of ALL IT needs

Predictions – Gartner’s top 10 IT predictions for 2014

Some figures to think about

How the spend is split

Where the spend is coming from

• You can store:

– Document

– Spreadsheets

– Pictures

– Gantt charts

– Etc etc

Cloud for Storage

• The size of your company

• The type of hardware you use

• The software you use

• Where you are based (with a few exceptions)

It doesn’t matter about…..

• Backed up automatically (depending on the provider)

• Accessed from anywhere

• Less hardware on your site

– Quieter

– Cheaper

– Cooler

– Neater

Benefits of storing documents in the Cloud

• Software as a Service

– Word processing when you need it • Platform as a Service

– Provides a computing platform as a service • Infrastructure as a Service

– Provides a range of infrastructure, hardware, storage, processing power

Each gives a different level of control and responsibility

The Cloud as a Service

• In essence, off the shelf vs custom built

• Private Clouds can be accessible by the public but they are controlled by an

individual organisation for their own benefit

• Office 365 and Google Docs are Public Cloud services, where the end user can

buy their own personal space.

• Private Clouds are generally more expensive and take a large degree of skilled

IT resource to support and deliver them. This means they also often take longer

to launch.

Private vs Public Cloud

• All synced with every device

• Things to check

– Mailbox size

– Where data is held

– Is it available if the broadband isn’t there

Cloud as e-mail

• Project Management

• CRM

• Finance

• Collaboration (can be tied into or separate from Project Management)

• Lots of different providers, lots of different functionality, lots of different pricing

models

Cloud as Productivity

• Unified Communications

– Phone / messenger / presence • Skype / Microsoft Lync

• Google Hangouts

• Webex

• All designed to save time and money. Less travelling, quicker

meetings, much more flexible, people can come in and out for

short periods.

Cloud to Communicate

• The choice is yours

• Plenty of free trials

• Is your choice compatible with the software you use and like?

• Do you want to keep business and personal ‘things’ separate?

The Cloud is what you want it to be

• Clare.Jenkins@poundbury.com

Clare Jenkins