Whiteboard Message for Cloud Computing

Answering End user questions in 5 minutes with a white board

1. What is Cloud Computing?

2. How does Cloud computing impact my business? My Competition’s business?

3. What are Schneider Electric’s Cloud Computing solutions?

“Public Cloud”“Private Cloud”

“Hybrid Cloud”

Q: What is Cloud computing? (option 1)

A: multiple server resources accessed over the network – via a computer, tablet, smart phone, or another device. Applications are provided and managed by the cloud; data is stored remotely in the cloud.

APC by Schneider Electric – Name – Date

Q: What is Cloud computing? (option 2)

A: multiple server resources accessed over the network – via a computer, tablet, smart phone, or another device. Applications are provided and managed by the cloud; data is stored remotely in the cloud.

APC by Schneider Electric – Name – Date

Q: What is Cloud computing? (option 3)

A: multiple server resources accessed over the network – via a computer, tablet, smart phone, or another device. Applications are provided and managed by the cloud; data is stored remotely in the cloud.

Q: How does Cloud Computing impact my business? How does it impact my competition’s business?

A: Opens opportunity to focus on business and change the value of the resources required to use applications and access data – redundancy, availability, and risk can be managed by cloud providers. You may now be able to compete with others in your market at a lower cost using a Cloud strategy.

Data Center is a business Investment

(Competitive advantage)

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Data Center is The Business

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(outsourcing)Cloud Computing service provider

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markets leverage Cloud service

provider’s data center and facility

investments

APC by Schneider Electric – Name – Date

Q: What are Schneider Electric’s Cloud Computing solutions? (option1)

A: Software - Schneider Electric provides the only open architecture software solution to manage, monitor, and maintain the critical infrastructure required to make a wiring closet, server room, high performance computing center or enterprise data center operate at the lowest cost.

Virtual machine manager

Operations

COMPUTE management

Moving VMs for best productivity

Keeping watch on power, cooling, people

PHYSICALmanagement

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APC by Schneider Electric – Name – Date

Q: What are Schneider Electric’s Cloud Computing solutions? (option2)

A: Rightsizing - Schneider Electric provides the only fully scalable solutions that enable public, private, and hybrid cloud strategies for Business Enablement, Competitive Advantage, and Service Providers around the world.

Cloud computingVirtualizationH/W Consolidation

UPS RACKCOOLING

PDU

“Snap-together” unitsform a functional POD

INTERNAL modularity

Units with scalable

internal capacity

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POD modularity

“Step and repeat” for large data centers

data center size LargeSmall

Chillersubsystem

SUBSYSTEM modularity

Multiples of the same large element

Generatorsubsystem

CRACsubsystem

UPSsubsystem

●Reconfigurability●Capacity changes●Acquisition lead time●Efficiency optimization

●Serviceability

●Simplifies planning

●Simplifies incremental growth

●Targeted availability