The next generation Cloud Challenge is dealing with Cloud Silos

SMEStorage Cloud Fair Presentation 2012

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1. The  next  genera+on  Cloud   Challenge  is  dealing  with  Cloud   Silos  
2. • Some  slides  (not  too  many…..)   • A  demo   Agenda  
3. Who  are  we  ?   Well……     We  don’t  just  target  SME  /  SMB     And  we  don’t  really  do  Storage  !     Oh….     And  we’re  Bri+sh…so  we  travelled  a  long  way!  
4. CloudFair  2012   Data Integration / Data Access    Unifying        Clouds   What  we  spend  our  +me  thinking  about  
5. CloudFair  2012   We  live  in  an  era  of  unprecedented  change   • Mainstream software applications continue to lose audience to pay as you go SaaS model • Entrance / Exit is easy • Participation is judged on business value • New Cloud companies challenge the status quo • Box, DropBox, Twitter, FaceBook etc • Companies ‘assets’ are slowly diverging • Online / offline • Saas, Data, Social
6. CloudFair  2012   What  is  behind  the  transforma+on  ?   • IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services lower the barriers to entry • Smart Device penetration • Personal SaaS culture permeating business culture • Corporate behavior changing: • Peer recommendation drive decisions • Recognize the power of outsourcing • Moving away from ‘self-administering’ to ‘hosted’ • “On the move” drives purchasing and infrastructure decisions • Mobile and Cloud the two biggest combined / overlapping trends
7. CloudFair  2012   What  challenges  does  this  transforma+on  present  ?   • IT under pressure from execs to support a flexible Smart Device driven SaaS infrastructure • Proliferation of Smart devices hard to manage and support • Driven by BYOD type policies • Data exists in Silos amongst SaaS Services, internal Apps and Messaging services • Hard to locate or search amongst corporate data • More data being stored in non traditional data sources • Although data exists in email or archive it is “stuck” and not visible
8. ‘My  Cloud  is  beRer  than  your  Cloud’   • SaaS Service Providers competing for you to move your data from one silo to another • and invariably it is not easy to move • and more are popping up every day…especially in the Cloud Storage space • Companies show that they will potentially try and move provider / data based on just one feature missing • “We want DropBox replication” • “We can’t work with the DropBox files on iWork on our iPad” • “Our Core business Apps need FTP support” CloudFair  2012  
9. What  about  legisla+on  ?   • How do you add governance amongst the distributed sprawl of public / private cloud services • HIPCA, FERPS etc • and more are popping up every day…especially in the Cloud Storage space • What about Country specific legislation ? • Patriot Act • Legislation regarding data staying within country borders ? • Canadian Public Sector or Government body • Australian business laws on customer privacy • etc CloudFair  2012  
10. So  how  do  we  manage  the   sprawl  of  different  SaaS  and  Data   Services  ?  
11. The  Open  Cloud  File  Server     Unify  Data,  increase  visibility,  add  governance,  reduce  Cloud  Sprawl   SaaS or on-premise Single view of all Clouds Web CloudFair  2012  
12. Unify   CloudFair  2012  
13. Visibility   CloudFair  2012  
14. Governance   CloudFair  2012  
15. Reduce  Sprawl   CloudFair  2012  
16. Availability   CloudFair  2012  
17. DEMO     CloudFair  2012