The next generation Cloud Challenge is dealing with Cloud

Silos

• Some slides (not too many…..)• A demo

Agenda

Who are we ?

Well……

We don’t just target SME / SMB

And we don’t really do Storage !

Oh….

And we’re British…so we travelled a long way!

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Cross-C

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Data Integration / Data Access

Unifying Clouds

What we spend our time thinking about

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We live in an era of unprecedented change

• Mainstream software applications continue to lose audience to pay as you go SaaS model

• Entrance / Exit is easy

• Participation is judged on business value

• New Cloud companies challenge the status quo

• Box, DropBox, Twitter, FaceBook etc

• Companies ‘assets’ are slowly diverging

• Online / offline

• Saas, Data, Social

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What is behind the transformation ?

• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services lower the barriers to entry

• Smart Device penetration

• Personal SaaS culture permeating business culture

• Corporate behavior changing:

• Peer recommendation drive decisions

• Recognize the power of outsourcing

• Moving away from ‘self-administering’ to ‘hosted’

• “On the move” drives purchasing and infrastructure decisions

• Mobile and Cloud the two biggest combined / overlapping trends

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What challenges does this transformation present ?

• IT under pressure from execs to support a flexible Smart Device driven SaaS infrastructure

• Proliferation of Smart devices hard to manage and support

• Driven by BYOD type policies

• Data exists in Silos amongst SaaS Services, internal Apps and Messaging services

• Hard to locate or search amongst corporate data

• More data being stored in non traditional data sources

• Although data exists in email or archive it is “stuck” and not visible

‘My Cloud is better than your Cloud’

• SaaS Service Providers competing for you to move your data from one silo to another

• and invariably it is not easy to move

• and more are popping up every day…especially in the Cloud Storage space

• Companies show that they will potentially try and move provider / data based on just one feature missing

• “We want DropBox replication”

• “We can’t work with the DropBox files on iWork on our iPad”

• “Our Core business Apps need FTP support”

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What about legislation ?

• How do you add governance amongst the distributed sprawl of public / private cloud services

• HIPCA, FERPS etc

• and more are popping up every day…especially in the Cloud Storage space

• What about Country specific legislation ?

• Patriot Act

• Legislation regarding data staying within country borders ?

• Canadian Public Sector or Government body

• Australian business laws on customer privacy

• etc

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So how do we manage the sprawl of different SaaS and Data

Services ?

The Open Cloud File Server Unify Data, increase visibility, add governance, reduce Cloud Sprawl

SaaS or on-premise

Single view ofall CloudsWeb

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Unify

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Visibility

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Governance

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Reduce Sprawl

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Availability

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DEMO

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