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.© 2010. Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC

The Media Buzz on Cloud Computing

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications

Special Report on Cloud Computing - 8/4/2008

The market for Cloud Computing will surge to $95B in the next 5 years (2013) with 12% of all software going to the cloud.

May, 2008

Cloud computing is poised to do for technology what the electrical grid did for power.

May 25, 2008



What is Cloud Computing?

What is Cloud

Computing?

Internet Centric

Software

SaaS + HaaS + PaaS

Resource Virtualization

Using Internet to access tech-

enabled Services

Using Internet to access tech-

enabled Services

Utilities-based pricing

User Friendly version of Grid

Computing

Outsourced, pay as you go,

On Demand



Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.

Cloud Computing Demystified…

More Simply…



The Cloud Computing Advantage

1. No capital investment - not own data centers, hardware, support team; use outside provider of servers, storage, and bandwidth

Traditional Computing

Cloud Computing

Users

CostCost

Users

2. Infinite Scale - tens of thousands of servers, storage arrays, bandwidth)

3. Flexibility & Efficiency – elastic provisioning in an instant

Days to Weeks Seconds to Minutes



How Companies are using Cloud Computing?

•Harvard Med School: Harvard’s Laboratory for Personalized Medicine (LPM) uses customized Oracle AMIs on Amazon EC2 to run genetic testing models and simulations.

•Starbucks: Using salesforce.com platform to build its new online community for sharing new ideas ‘My Starbucks Idea Web’.

•Sanmina-SCI: 10,000 employees uses Google Apps instead of MS outlook and Office for their desktop applications

•Animoto: Using Rightscale to go from 40 servers to 40,000 servers in 1 day after being featured in a popular website



Infrastructure Strategy

IT Budget (Before) IT Budget (After)

Business as UsualNew BusinessInnovation

IT budget today is consumed to support existing assets. Strategic priority is to free up committed costs to enable new business value.



Infrastructure Services StrategyIT capabilities must be aligned to enable and enhance business

objectives

HoweverMost businesses perceive internal IT organizations and capabilities

as impediments in critical success path

Business Demands IT Capability

Time to Market Standardization

Low Cost

Scalability

Reliability

Availability

Reuse

Automation

Business Continuity

Simplification

Nimble

On Demand

Metric Reporting

Flexible

Secure

Resilient

Transparent



The Third Eye Consulting Offering

Analysis of current infrastructure deployments leading to specific recommendations on a set

of actionable objectives necessary for IT to establish and accelerate delivery of cost-

effective and robust business value



The Third Eye Consulting Difference

Proven Success

Quantifiable Value

Proposition

Enduring Partnership

• Lead with a quantitative opportunity assessment

• Identify & prioritize opportunity areas• Develop an actionable implementation plan

• Collaborate with clients for the long term• Establish QBR process & checkups• Remain a trusted business solutions advisor and partner

• Demonstrated expertise in delivering enterprise IT projects

• Focus on speed to value without compromising on quality

• Provide on-going support



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Third Eye Cloud Computing Value Assessment (C2VA) Process

The C2VA Process is a customer-specific diagnostic scan to identify and quantify enterprise-wide Cloud Computing

opportunities and develop a pragmatic migration strategy that speed up time to value

UnderstandCurrentITEnvironment

DocumentCurrentArchitecture & Cost

IdentifyOpportunityAreas

DevelopImplementation& MigrationPlan

ContinuousMonitoring&Feedback

C2VA Deliverables:• Assessment of company IT system technology & readiness for Cloud

Computing• Suggested system / solution migration & change• Quantified benefits – technical & financials – of migration• Enabling solution and deployment schedule

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Third Eye’s Clients

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Performed the C2V Analysis & Deployment for these clients



Thank You!

Dj DasManaging Director,

[email protected]

Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC.


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