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Portsmouth Business School Hot Topics Seminar

Portsmouth Business School Hot Topics Seminar. Cloud Computing By Phil Nicholls, MD Emerge IT Ltd. Cloud Computing. Topics to be discussed today Background            The fear of losing data in the Cloud Does the Cloud really save you money?

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Portsmouth Business School Hot Topics Seminar

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  1. Portsmouth Business School Hot Topics Seminar Cloud Computing By Phil Nicholls, MD Emerge IT Ltd

  2. Cloud Computing Topics to be discussed today • Background •            The fear of losing data in the Cloud • Does the Cloud really save you money? • Lessons from Cloud computing in the Real World!

  3. Cloud Computing • Background • Emerge provides ERP solutions to SME’s • Experience in server provision & Cloud services • ERP = the big challenge to Cloud

  4. Jargon RAID SLA Fail-over Redundancy Cloud Computing IaaS Disaster Recovery PaaS Backup Rental or leasing Hosting SaaS

  5. Jargon

  6. Losing your stuff • Access to Cloud storage is no different to access to storage on your PC • Risk of your in-house server crashing vs a cloud providers server crashing • Impact of your in-house server crashing vs a cloud providers server crashing • Level of technology: Yours vs Theirs

  7. Will it save you money? • Sometimes, yes, sometimes, no • But it will prevent you from spending it all upfront • You don’t necessarily pay less, but you pay different people for different things • Balance Sheet vs P&L • Make sure you think of everything • Will you be changing your software often? • Will your staffing levels fluctuate wildly?

  8. Cloud in the real world Real life examples • New ERP solution • 15 user system (£30,000) • Implementation consultancy (£30,000) • Server hardware (£9,000) • Total 1st year investment £69,000 • Annual investment thereafter - £4500 • Software maintenance

  9. Cloud in the real world Real life examples - new ERP solution • Hosted/SaaS • Licences per year £667 p.m. (£8,000 p.a.) • Implementation consultancy (£30,000) • Server hardware £250 p.m. (£3,000 p.a.) • Total 1st year investment £41,000 • Annual investment thereafter - £11,000

  10. Cloud in the real world Real life examples – new ERP solution

  11. Cloud in the real world Real life examples • Office • Per user purchased (£220) • Per user per month Office 365 (£8.40) • Annual Office 365 charge (£100.80) • If you keep your Office application for more than 2 years, the Cloud version is more expensive

  12. Cloud in the real world Conclusions • Cloud computing and SaaS has its place • Like any other investment you must consider your situation carefully and decide what your requirements are, long-term as well as short-term • Cloud computing is a new exciting world, but make sure you understand why you are jumping in before you do

  13. Cloud in the real world Thank you

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