The next generation Cloud Challenge is dealing with Cloud Silos

Agenda

Some slides (not too many..) A demo

Who are we ?

Well We dont just target SME / SMB And we dont really do Storage ! Oh. And were Britishso we travelled a

What we spend our time thinking about

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Unifyin g Clouds

Data Integration / Data Access

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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
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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 dayespecially 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 cant 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 dayespecially 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

Web

Single view of all Clouds

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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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