greater business impact with an optimized cloud strategy

Greater Business Impact with an

Optimized Cloud Strategy

#HybridCloud

Enrico Fuiano

Visually I suggest we select a different image

Enrico Fuiano

I would steer clear of the 'competitive advantage' angle .. there is a lot of debate right now re: cloud's ability to provide true competitive advantage which is a loaded term by itself .. what we settled on is greater business impact

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A Second Wave of Cloud Adoption is Emerging

Improve strategic allocation of IT budget

Reduce time to

provision IT services

Meet SLAs

Increase revenue

Lower IT costs

Enrico Fuiano

Do we want to have a visual that reminds of data center?

Bustamante, Justin (DAL-GHI)

The narrative is centered around the emergence of a second wave of cloud adoption - unlike the first wave (focused on operational officiency metrics such as lower IT costs etc.. ) the second wave has higher expectations and views cloud as a platform to innovate and grow the buiness ...Visually we should represent this differently


54% of companies expect cloud to impact strategic allocation of IT budget within

the next 2 years

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Driving Key Business Outcomes

Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Cisco, Don't Get Left Behind: The Business Benefits of Achieving Greater Cloud Adoption, Aug 2015.

Enrico Fuiano

this slide supports with a data point the previous one corroborating the focus on cloud as a catalysts for innovation and growth


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The Five Levels of Cloud Adoption

Source: IDC

Ad Hoc Opportunistic

• Opportunistic

Repeatable

• Repeatable

Managed Optimized


Enrico Fuiano

let's see if we can get IDC to approve the slide above which for slide share drives home the point


Moving from Ad Hoc to Optimized cloud adoption can reduce IT costs by 77%

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What Are You Doing to Prepare?


Enrico Fuiano

The visual does not seem connected with the storyline

Enrico Fuiano

Please ensure consistency when citing the source Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Cisco, Don't Get Left Behind: The Business Benefits of Achieving Greater Cloud Adoption, Aug 2015.


Nearly half of organizations are using or planning to implement private cloud, and

64% of cloud adopters are using some form

of hybrid cloud

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Where Do Your Peers Stand?



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And the Cost of Doing Nothing… Could Be in the Millions


Enrico Fuiano

Do we want to keep this black background color?


So what next steps should you take?...

#HybridCloud

Enrico Fuiano

Visual?


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Let’s start the journey: The Business Cloud Advisor Summary will provide preliminary

guidance regarding where you stand in relation to your peers - by geo, industry,

and company size.

Take a Brief Survey

https://www.ciscobusinesscloudadvisoradoptionreport.com/

Enrico Fuiano

It is important that we position correctly the Adoption report 'as a preview' of the capabilities we have to offer ...

Enrico Fuiano

do we promote the white paper or the InfoBrief?

Enrico Fuiano

this may not be the best but let's position the Adoption report as a way to begin the dialog


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