Leverage the Power of the Cloud for your Business Phil Marshall Hosting & Managed Services Meridian IT e : m: Tuesday, in Room 3

Privately held technology solutions company. 29 consecutive years of profitability& growth. 3 Continents, 6 countries, 33 offices, 600 professionals, 600 customers International delivery capability built through acquisition & organic growth. Committed to providing Business Benefit through innovative IT. World-wide vision / World-wide delivery. Flexible Reliable Expert Responsive Meridian Group Highlights… 2

Company started in 1991 – MITL 2003 – MITL was purchased by Meridian Group Focused on IBM – (Power i, Power p, System x and Storage) Customers across all sectors – strong in finance, insurance & retail IBM Premier Partner > 10 years. Core tech and sales team been together for > 10 years. Flexible Reliable Expert Responsive We help our clients identify, evaluate and implement systems that suit their Business needs …... Meridian IT (UK) – who we are … 3

What is Cloud Computing ? “ Computing in which applications, data and IT resources are provided to end users as services delivered over a network. “ “..a style of computing where scalable IT capabilities are provided as a service…”. “ Source: Gartner Source: Computerworld Source: Cloud Computing by Judith Hurwitz “ …on-demand computing: ….computing resources are made available by a provider to users on an as-needed, pay-per-use basis.” 3 essential attributes… 4 CPU Mem Stor Services

It’s Been an Evolution … David Mitchell, IT Research, Ovum Mainframe – centralised Departmental - de-centralised Personal Computing / Client Server Application Service Provision (ASP) Cloud & Software as a Service 5 CentralisedDe-CentralisedGlobal

Industry Shift... “We expect cloud computing to account for $7 billion of our net revenue by 2015.” – IBM “Computing is undergoing a seismic shift.” – Microsoft “The money spent on cloud computing is growing at over five times the rate of traditional, on-premise IT.” – Cloud Connect “Cloud-based services will grow 19.6 percent to $109 billion by the end of 2012.” – Gartner “Cloud computing is changing the way that IT resources are utilised and consumed.” – Cisco 6

Industry Shift - The BBC’s prediction in

And which application areas are leading... 8

So what does Cloud Computing look like ? There are 4 established models Business Process as a Service BPaaS Platform as a Service PaaS Software as a Service SaaS Infrastructure as a Service IaaS Customer consumes Business Process. eg : Payroll, HR Customer uses applications, eg : , CRM (SalesForce), Sage, ERP Customer uses Infrastructure plus middleware, development tools, databases, programming languages Customer uses servers, storage & network resources from a provider, elastically 9

So what does it look like... There are 4 established models Business Process as a Service BPaaS Platform as a Service PaaS Software as a Service SaaS Infrastructure as a Service IaaS 10

IaaSPaaSSaaS Graphic Source: IBM So what does it look like... the IBM Model… 11

Source: SaaS Blogs at The User experience

and lots more Service Models are being developed … Backup as a Service BaaS Security as a Service SECaaS Storage as a Service STaaS Data as a Service DaaS Customer backups system onto rented server partition Customer can store data flexibly eg Googleapps Typically anti-virus, anti-spam etc, eg Messagelabs Customer rents use of data, typically for marketing Kenosha, WIOak Brook, ILUK * 3 IaaS PaaS SaaS BaaS STaaS Germany Meridian’s Datacentres13

Rental Pricing Model No Setup cost. Pay for what you use So what are the benefits ? CharacteristicsBenefits Rapidly Scalable Changes with your business. On demand Fast to implement Flexible Model Scales by Demand = No wasted capacity Managed by Provider You don’t have to maintain the skills Clustered Infrastructure Highly Resilient 14

Owned by Provider Capex to Opex (tenant not owner) So what are the benefits ? CharacteristicsBenefits Infrastructure maintained No maintenance costs. SLA Guaranteed availability 24*7 monitoring Fixed before it affects the business Upgraded by Provider Always on the latest.. Shared infrastructure Economies of scale (HW, DC, Staff) Reduced cost 15

Is cost reduction the only reason to go to the Cloud? Probably not, however... 16

The Solution, with Menu options … Provision of IBM Power servers Hosted in World-class datacentre with 24*7 operations Monitored and managed 24*7 by Meridian’s team Dual path multi generator Power supplies Supported by 24*7 IBM maintenance Cloud V7000 storage System x (virtualised) Redundant Cisco infrastructure 24*7 Operations support/deliveries/security Managed Backup service to tape or eVault Replication to a remote datacentre Multi-homing ip, dual path load balanced across 5 providers Additional ip bandwidth (1MB increments) Additional CPW (500CPW increments) Additional Memory (4GB increments) Additional Disk (500GB increments) Monitoring of apps 17

So is this real ? We’ve been doing this for 9 years… Customer uses Infrastructure plus development tools, databases, programming languages Platform as a Service PaaS Software as a Service SaaS Infrastructure as a Service IaaS Customer uses applications, eg : , CRM (SalesForce), Sage, ERP Customer uses servers, storage & network resources from a provider, elastically … we are delivering each of these models and now … Backup as a Service BaaS Storage as a Service STaaS 18

Many thanks… Phil Marshall Hosting & Managed Services Meridian IT e : m: