THE CLOUD COMPUTING TRANSFORMATION IS HERE. ARE YOU READY?There is a lot of attention and hype around cloud computing and many organizations are trying to figure out what to do. The cloud has a range of options and benefits that should be considered, but is public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud/on-premise the right answer for your organization? Do you need business productivity solutions in the cloud or a cloud platform in which you can develop your own custom applications, or both? Insight can help you make sense of all the rhetoric and get down to reality to meet your business needs today and in the future.

WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources are provided over a network.

What Constitutes Cloud Computing? 1. Software as a Service (SaaS) 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) 3. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

WHY CLOUD?It’s no surprise to learn that IT infrastructure complexity is increasing, yet many enterprises still spend as much of their IT budgets maintaining inflexible, siloed systems. To move forward, organizations are looking at the promise of cloud-based IT services to give them a competitive edge.

KEY BENEFITS OF THE CLOUD • Overcome technology challenges faced by your business• Reduce infrastructure and management costs and complexities• Keep up with the consumerization of IT, where users are demanding their home technology

experience at work• Increase economies of scale by leveraging higher utilization and elastic computing to serve the

needs of business and customers on demand• Reduce operational costs by subscribing to services based infrastructure• Enable better mobile computing experience for end users and management by IT

START WITH CLOUD SOLUTIONS THAT MEET YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS You don’t have to go 100% all-in with cloud computing in one giant leap. Insight can help you design the right solutions for your needs by combining today’s offerings from leading providers like Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and others with your own current or expanded on-premise IT infrastructure.

For example, you have the option to host several services such as e-mail, contact management and calendaring in the cloud today with solutions from any of these vendors, and look at other solutions in the future. Whatever solution(s) you choose, the InsightCloud team is ready to help with the transition to make it as seamless as possible.

The InsightCloud Computing Roadmap model was built to provide our customers with an educated approach to embracing Cloud solutions. This model looks at the business use cases and goals that drive our customers’ needs instead of the traditional method of deploying point solutions to meet specific workload challenges.

CLOUD MESSAGINGASSESSMENT SERVICESCloud Solutions

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SOLUTION OVERVIEWThe Cloud Messaging Assessment focuses on the cloud based Messaging Solutions that can be leveraged by customers to obtain a distinct competitive advantage through increased economies of scale and flexible technical service capabilities (See Figure 1 above for details). InsightCloud also offers additional Cloud Accelerators (available separately) to provide a robust view into your organizations Reference Architecture model, providing our customers with a best practices based roadmap for the design and deployment of dynamic IT solutions across many additional workloads.

Industry technology advancements have provided a shift in the way in which companies manage and provide services to employees, customers and partners. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Messaging space consisting of messaging and real time collaboration. Traditionally, these services have been provided by internal IT staff managing standalone or “on premise” implementations of email and real time collaboration tools.

The InsightCloud team has developed the Cloud Messaging Assessment to organize the decision points, financial models and features of available cloud messaging solutions into a concise set of reports, matrices and migration plans that enables our customers to make the most fiscally responsible and technically sound planning decisions for their business. Embracing the flexibility of the cloud requires an educated approach to choosing the proper solution from one of the many vendors offering services in this space. Our specialists have the experience to help you navigate through these solutions to find the right fit for your needs and requirements. You can choose from two separate pricing Tiers which provide a full infrastructure and requirements assessment along with an option for a complete financial model and TCO analysis of the data.

SCOPETIER 1 – CLOUD ASSESSMENTDiscovery and Analysis • Interview stakeholders and gather business and technical requirements for the Messaging

workload • Analyze Messaging service requirements • Regulations • Auditing • Compliance

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Figure 1 – The diagram above depicts an IT roadmap with a holistic business use case focused approach to cloud computing.

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• Develop a list of service dependent systems and applications • Develop a list of 3rd party add-ons, services and applications that integrate with the current

messaging solution

Service Definition • Analyze current and future state Service Level Agreements / requirements • Define service and user requirements in Gaps Matrix • Threats • Opportunities • Prioritized requirements • Map Productivity Application requirements against up to three (3) cloud based solutions in

Traceability Matrix • Required Features compared to available Functionality by solution

Strategy Delivery • Present Insight’s recommendations for a viable, cost effective cloud based Messaging

solution • Define appropriate architectural design and high level co-existence and migration strategy for

the cloud based Messaging platform

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WHY INSIGHT

Insight is a leading provider of cloud computing solutions since 2005 and currently manages nearly half a million users in a variety of vertical and sizes. Insight offers best in class solutions from the industry’s leading service providers and augments these with turn-key services such as deployment / migration services, technical support services, billing and contract services among others. Insight finds that most clients need assistance moving into cloud computing and can offer additional services including cloud computing assessments, assisted proof of concepts and cloud trials.

For more information, contact your local Insight representative, email cloud@insight.com, visit www.insight.com or call 800.INSIGHT.

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Deliverables • Requirements Gathering Document • Messaging Solution Recommendations Document • Requirements and feature matrices for up to three (3) Messaging solutions • Migration and coexistence plans for the recommended solution • Service Level Agreement Definitions for the Messaging platform

TIER 2 – FINANCIAL MODELLINGAll scope and deliverables from Tier 1 along with:

Service Definition • Analyze current on premises operating costs and compare to projected cloud operating costs

for up to three (3) Messaging solutions

Strategy Delivery • Define a TCO financial analysis between up to three (3) compared cloud based Messaging

solutions

Deliverables • Cloud Readiness Document • TCO Analysis • Executive Presentation

Project Team & Estimated Duration • One Insight Business Analyst • One Insight Project Manager

Estimated Duration: Tier 1 – 1 week Tier 2 – 2 weeks