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Welcome to the deflationary world of digital services
The next 30 minutes
What we’re hearing from the board room and beyond
How we apply our technology to reduce cost
The options we have
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The board have concerns and down the list is IT
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Security, ease of consumption, cost savings and
collaboration are on our minds for today as
budget cuts are the reality
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Positive spiral through technology
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Opening doors through deflationary IT
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Where everyone is embracing the cloud
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Change means effort?
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How does internal IT feel?
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How much could we actually save?
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£350K a year -the best we’ve achieved
to date
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Aberdeen City Council
Migrated entire
infrastructure in under 6
weeks
No disruption to
service
Significant monthly savings
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“Aberdeen City Council has been impressed with the quality,
flexibility and personalisation of service during transition
to the new arrangements in extremely tight timescales, with
minimum interruption to normal service. In brightsolid, we
have found a partner with whom we can innovatively work
as we digitally transform our council services while also
reducing our operational costs.” Aberdeen City Council Finance
Policy and Resources Convenor Councillor
Willie Young
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Price matching our clouds to Azure, a recent example
Hardware operational budget of
<£1m
Azure cost
estimator tool
Azure £250K per year
brightsolid£185K
per year
brightsolid includes: service desk, remote back-ups and DDoS protection
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How?Critical Attributes, Choices, Outcomes
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Secure Communications
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Example Amplified DDoS as standard
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Green technology for cost savings
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Ecofris PUE sub 1.2525 Kw per
rack
Cooling the price of high density IT
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DR has to be there……. And at a third of the price of your primary cloud
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Save money, cost and capex
To enable DR
Focus on the
important
Provide flexibility & Agility
To try new
services
Move to Digital
services
So we can, but why move to cloud?
Decision made by CIOs to adopt hybrid, but often no strategy to achieve it.
of enterprises have decided to implement Hybrid Cloud, but have not yet selected strategies and/or partners
46%Hybrid cloud
market will beworth £56Bby 2019 i
Hybrid Cloud Implementation Status ii
26%Using now
28%No plans yet
28%Within12 months
18%In 12-24months
Hybrid Cloud, adoption set to accelerate
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brightsolid Cloud We have four Cloud Platforms…
Hyper-V Dundee HVD
99.99% SLA
Hyper – V Aberdeen
HVA99.99% SLA
VMware Dundee VMD
99.99% SLA
VMware Aberdeen
VMA99.99% SLA
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Two Core Cloud Capabilities two choices within eachDedicated Cloud and Multi-tenanted Cloud
Dedicated Cloud:
Infrastructure dedicated to a specific Customer
Customer may have security specific concerns
Multi-tenanted Cloud:
Customer resides on brightsolid multi-tenanted cloud
Shared infrastructure
Software enables virtual tenant boundaries
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Dedicated Cloud
Historically:
Very large customer –economies of scale
Specific hardware requirements
Stringent security requirements
Benefits:
Dedicated architecture ensures security isolation
Zero chance of ‘noisy neighbour’ syndrome
Can be certified to specific security accreditations
Caveats/Limitations:
Dedicated cloud typically doesn’t take advantage of economies of scale
Limits scope for resiliency/can make architecting for resiliency more expensive
Performance benefits that can be delivered by broader design of a multi-tenanted platform aren’t present
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Multi-tenanted Cloud
Ideal cloud candidate:
Customers looking to start their journey to the cloud
Customers with a requirement for a strong IaaS Platform
Benefits:
Broad design strategies = economies of scale
Resiliency and performance benefits at economic price point not achievable by dedicated
Future proofed infrastructure –take advantage of future capabilities sooner
Caveats/Limitations:
Standardised hardware reduces scope to customise to customer specific requirements
Cannot be used for VDI scenarios due to licensing issues
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Hyper-V Dundee and Aberdeen Infrastructure Overview
Windows Azure Pack (WAP)
Hyper-V Cloud Platform
Storage Spaces
Hyper-V
Microsoft System Centre
WAP
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VMware Dundee and Aberdeen Infrastructure Overview
VMWareCloud Platform
V-Center
Infinibox Storage
VMWare Hosts
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Welcome……to hybrid cloud
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Scale infrastructures and apps safely, on demand
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Deliver new apps whilst conforming to strict compliance
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Save money on existing applications with a cloud consistent model
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Be confident and expert in security
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Backup may be boring, but essential…….and are included in our price
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So is support………….
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And DDoS scrubbing…..
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ButCould we just dip a toe in the water…
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Yes of course
Try Maxi Cloud
Try our IaaS – free trial to confirm data for TCO proposals
Try Microsoft 365 from us
Try our Back up
Try our DR as a Service
Try our Archive in the future
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Becoming a regional hub for global delivery
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True collaboration with customers where knowledge
and skill sharing is key
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A bit about us
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Values driven family culture
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Awards and AccreditationsSecurity is at the heart of everything we do
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Enough about us, we want to hear from you