1A - The Cloud: Was it manna from heaven or just a tin of rice pudding? Roger Chester & Peter...

Todays topic is and your presenters are

Roger Chester

Peter Bodley-Scott

Thales Tsailas

Think about this before you go any further

This is what we will look at today

1. What cloud computing is

2. Why we should do it

3. How quick and easy it is

What cloud computing isn’t

Doing it for real

Before

After

What’s left

Where our data lives

The Business Process

2013 2014 2015 2016 Total£ £ £ £ £

Capital expenditure          SQL server 14,000    14,000 28,000Exchange server     12,000  12,000Terminal server     12,000  12,000Domain controller   14,000    14,000Snap server 3,000      3,000Hyper V server   5,000    5,000Total 17,000 19,000 24,000 14,000 74,000Revenue expenditure          Maintenance   9,000 9,000 9,000 27,000Spam filtering 2,160 2,160 2,160 2,160 8,640Total 2,160 11,160 11,160 11,160 35,640

Grand total 19,160 30,160 35,160 25,160 109,640

Hosting

Revenue expenditure          only          Set up 3,159      3,159Hosting fee 8,436 12,654 12,654 12,654 46,398Licences 2,156      2,156Data migration 5,462      5,462

Additional BroadBand Line 1,600 2,400 2,400 2,400 8,800Grand total 20,812 15,054 15,054 15,054 65,974

Savings -1,652 15,106 20,106 10,106 43,666

Cumulative savings -1,652 13,454 33,560 43,666

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4£0

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ServersCloud

Financial Savings

The proven benefits of cloud computing

Saves money

How long did it take?

Timescale

12 July 2012

28 August 2012

1 October

2012

The Key – Managing Relationships

Take stock

Software

Hardware

Take stock again and find out what you missed the first time and then do it again

Office 2010

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft MapPoint

Windows Server

Exchange Server

SQL Server

Terminal Server

Microsoft Donated Licences from CTX

£50,000 for free!

This is what we have learned

1. Moving to the cloud is a no brainer

2. Moving to the cloud saves money

3. Moving to the cloud helps the environment

My Charity is larger than LionHeart

You may have more users but LionHeart has

Two CRM systems with 250,000 records in

An SQL based Finance System

Remote users

Local and network scanning

Don’t forget no user training required only a new network login