1. INSPIRE | EQUIP | CONNECT | The “Cloud” and other IT resources that can be beneficial to nonprofits

2. Simply stated, the “cloud” is just a large amount of physical servers and storage arrays that are situated in an extremely secure data center and accessed over the Intenet. The servers provide the compute power or the “brains” to make programs work and the storage arrays house all of the data What exactly is “the cloud?”

3. Why is the cloud becoming so popular?

4. Some “cloud” vendor examples Office 365, OneDrive, Skype and Azure Google Apps for Nonprofits storage, servers and much more File syncing and sharing, and data backup File syncing and sharing and data backup Cloud based phone system

5. PC(USA) and Cloud Computing Amazon AWS – OGA apps including PC-BIZ Dropbox – File sync and sharing Linode – Web hosting for the PCUSA website Office 365 – email, Office products, conferencing and file syncing

6. Why use the cloud? Many servers and large space Adequate staff to support Electricity and cooling $$$ for hardware and maintenance Reduce servers and room space Reduce the complexity and staff support Reduce utility bills Eliminate hardware and maintenance costs

7. Reduce hardware and maintenance costs Retiring and eliminating physical servers… …saves money.

8. More reasons to consider the cloud

9. 6 racks of equipment Subscription based $2.00 per user per month for premium plan for organizations needing up to 300 license $4.50 per user per month for E3 everything plan for unlimited users Full versions of Office, Office mobile apps, OneDrive cloud storage, Skype for Business, online Office apps and SharePoint E1 version is free and offers everything except the full version of Office and mobile apps For more info on Office 365 for Nonprofits, visit http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizen ship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/ http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizen ship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/

10. Free…no kidding! Many individual churches have already signed up For more information visit https://www.google.com/nonprofits/https://www.google.com/nonprofits/ Verified 501c organizations can apply Includes Google Docs, Sheets, Slides –Google’s version of Office Google Drive cloud file storage User Gmail for your organization and set it up to use your domain name for Nonprofits

11. Both offer file synching,sharing and collaboration File versioning Central administration (with some plans) Ease of use Your files are available everywhere (you have WiFi) Low Cost Multiple plan types with associated monthly costs

12. Comprehensive and powerful offerings Build your own cloud-based datacenter Multiple data centers for failover Servers, storage, databases, workstations Security and Identity Management E-Mail Virtual Workstations Networking and load balancing Difficult to learn and manage for non-tech folks Offer great incentives to learn their products

13. To learn more, visit http://aws.amazon.comhttp://aws.amazon.com

14. A non profit that helps other nonprofits Need to register and create an account as an affiliate of PC(USA) Offers software, hardware and training at great discounts Has a large list of donor partners including Microsoft, Adobe, Dell, Cisco, etc. Offers some cloud-based services

15. Visit techsoup at http://techsoup.orghttp://techsoup.org