Considerations for cloud computing in Charities

Presented by:

Andrew Brenson, Freelance IT Consultant

Mark Thomas, Solutions Architect, Databarracks, Databarracks

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Agenda

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What are the considerations for charities in cloud computing?

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Objective:

Introduction

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Currently: Freelance IT consultant, working mainly with charities and NGOs

Previously: Treasurer, Charities Consortium IT Directors Group - now the Charity IT Leaders Head of IT, Major UK Charity 10 years at Channel 4

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Introduction – Andrew Brenson

10 Years providing backup and disaster recovery cloud services

Now provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Why did Databarracks ask Andrew to carry out the research?

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Introduction – Databarracks

Mark Thomas – Solutions Architect

The shape of the cloud computing market

What is “cloud computing” to charities?

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“IT is a fashion industry and Cloud Computing is the new

black”

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Introduction

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Is cloud adoption a bell curve?

Key:

Current adoption level

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Is cloud adoption a bell curve?

A genuinely different model

Question:

Are there any IT Directors who have not seriously considered using cloud

services?

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The shape of the market

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IT representation in the board room?

Is there any?

Key issues for charities

Why should or shouldn’t charities use cloud services?

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Cost

CapacityUsage

Traditional computing Cloud computing

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Transition

YourBusiness

YourBusiness

70%

On-PremiseInfrastructure

30%

Managing All of the “Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting”

Managing All of the “Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting”

Cloud-BasedInfrastructure More Time to Focus on

Your BusinessMore Time to Focus on

Your Business

Configuring Your Cloud

Assets

Configuring Your Cloud

Assets

30%70%

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Changing shape of the IT team

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Trust

“X” as a Service

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IaaS

SaaS PaaS

BPaaSDRaaS

FRaaS

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“X” as a Service

Green IT

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Green IT

Forget all the hype, there are lots of new cloud services that can really help you.

Understand exactly what services you are getting - what is the responsibility of the service provider and what you are doing

Put together a real business case to prove to the organisation that

what you are doing is the right decision. Share knowledge

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Advice

Charity round table Provisionally booked in for the 15th May in Central London Potential topics:

Cloud Disaster Recovery Hybrid clouds from multiple service providers Compliance and cloud computing What are the issues for migrating legacy systems?

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Save the date

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Questions?

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