Cloud Therapy

JOE SHIELDS IP PATHWAYS

IP Pathways -- What We Do Made Easy
We talk with companies about their business issues
We look for places with technology can help the business issue(s)
We bring in engineers to architect and implement solutions to ultimately
solve the business issue(s)
Accomplishments
Founded in 2007
Engineering Driven & Focused on
the Data Center
Fast Growth 100 in 2011 & 2012
& 2013 (CRN Magazine)
Top Virtualization Practice 2011
(CRN Magazine)
NetApp Leader in Storage
Efficiency 2011 (Dave Hitz)
Tech Elite 250 2012 & 2013 (CRN
Magazine)
THE CLOUD
Cloud What We Like
Speed To Deploy
Flexibility
Scalability
Managed
Pay For Use
OPex vs. CAPex
Cloud Our Biggest Fear
Cloud Our Biggest Fear
This Wont Happen To Me
Data Transfer
10TB over 10Mbps ~2443 hours (101 days)
10TB over 100Mbps ~244 hours (10 days)
Does not account for UDP overhead, latency or jitter
The Math Behind Your Public Cloud Exit Strategy
Consumption Based Contracts
Does your budgetary process account for
increases in consumption?
How do you do departmental chargeback?
Central IT expense vs departmental expense?
Best Cloud Use Case. Period
Documented ROI Before and After
Security is Assumed
Value to Customers
Cost Savings
Staff Reduction or Greater Efficiency?
Do your research
Booze, Allen, Hamilton Study -
Once implemented, it could take as long as
4 years before the accumulated savings
from agency investments in cloud
computing offset the initial investment
costs; this timeframe could be longer if
implementations are improperly planned
or inefficiently executed.