Why is Cloud So important to Your Business

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WHY IS CLOUD SO IMPORTANT TO YOUR BUSINESS

May 19, 2015Mauro Ronci

MSP Sales Leader Middle East and Africa

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Could-Technologies

allow SMBs to greatly

improve their

competitive position in

the market

Cloud Economics

Significantly reduce IT costs.

Shift capital expenditure into operating one (Capex to Opex).

IT costs become variable and predictable resulting in lower financial risks.

Resources elasticity and solution availability.

Increases the availability of your IT, through 24x7 monitoring and management.

Relieves your IT team from daily operations and provides you a single point of contact for your heterogeneous environment.

To really disrupt, a business should focus on

building differentiation and rent the rest..

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Companies of all

sizes have the

ability to disrupt,

or face the

prospect of being

disrupted

Business Value

Frees capital needed to innovate.

Increases business agility.

Provides access to expensive IT technologies.

Provides access to critical IT skills.

Allows innovative business models (IT as enabler).

“Two guys in a Starbucks can have access to the

same computing power as a Fortune 500

company.”

Jim Deters Founder, Galvanize

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Could-Technologies

are not risk-free.

But are businesses

really better

equipped than

their cloud vendors

to manage

inevitable

emergencies?

Security

Downtime

Data Control and Location

Cloud technologies carry the same risks you do in your current environment, but MSPs have larger economies of scale resulting in better technology, more resources and higher skills to cope with those risks.

Hybrid cloud allows you full control over data location.

Virtualized resources allow

to cope with failure in a

fraction of the time.

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WILL YOU DISRUPT

OR BE DISRUPTED BY

YOUR INDUSTRY?

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The new hybrid cloud delivers choice and flexibility with control

Visibility, control and security

Everywhere data and services exist.

Data and analytics

To provide the best insight you can from all relevant data inside and outside your organization and optimize data sovereignty.

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Data and analytics

in hybrid cloud will

fuel competitive

advantage

Data services to replicate and synchronize data

Analytics services to refine data and provide insight

Cognitive computing services to interact with and change the world

of new applications will be data intensive*

* SOURCE: IDC

~80%

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WILL YOU BE LEFT BEHIND

WHILE OTHERS

TRANSFORM?

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The new hybrid cloud transforms roles across the organization

Developers are empowered

Business leaders innovate

IT leaders advance change

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Leaders need

access to cloud

business apps in

their hybrid cloud

to drive

competitive

advantage

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Accelerate business innovation

Engage and collaborate

Connect business processes fueled by powerful analytics

of Pacesetters say SaaS has changed their organization’s business model*

*SOURCE: IBM CENTER FOR APPLIED INSIGHTS, “CHAMPIONS OF SAAS”

STUDY, JANUARY 2014

71%

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Developers

need a digital

innovation

platform to rapidly

bring

new products and

services to market

Digital Innovation Platform

Extend existing IT investments into cloud business and delivery models

Enable seamless delivery with full DevOps and app lifecycle management

Use any combination of public, dedicated and local development and deployment

Bluemix provides expertise and services across market leading categories:

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IT needs a mix

of deployment

models and

enterprise grade

world class

infrastructure

World Class Cloud Infrastructure in Kuwait

Open, secure, and scalable

-Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service

choices

-On-premises private cloud and

systems

Global cloud footprint

Secure, high-speed network

Expert services and tools

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ARE YOU READY TO

EMBRACE THE BENEFITS

OF HYBRID CLOUD WITH

UBG AND IBM?

THANK YOU

Mauro Ronci

MRonci@ae.ibm.com

https://ae.linkedin.com/pub/mauro-ronci/7/a26/936