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11 September 2013 Dimension Data Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples Grant Morgan General Manager: Cloud

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Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples. Presented by Grant Morgan, General Manager: Cloud at Dimension Data. September 05, 2013 edition of the IT News Africa Innovation Dinner (www.innovationdinner.co.za)

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Page 1: Dimension Data – Enabling the Journey to the Cloud: Real Examples

11 September 2013

Dimension Data –

Enabling the Journey to the Cloud:

Real Examples

Grant Morgan

General Manager: Cloud

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Dimension Data cloud credentials

• Differentiated cloud technology

• Strong performance guarantees

• Experts in both cloud and

managed services

• Global Coverage

• Solution for both enterprise and

service providers

Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Consistent Cloud Instances Globally for Data Sovereignty

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Software as a Service

Compute as a Service

Dimension Data Cloud Services Portfolio

Dimension Data

Managed Cloud Platform™

Cloud Services for Microsoft Cloud Backup

Managed Hosting

Dedicated

servers

Virtual

servers

Dimension Data CloudControl™ Application Programmable Interface (API)

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Pain or opportunity

makes people move to

cloud

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Pay for what you need | Don’t pay until you start

Traditional project

equipment purchase date

Actual date production

equipment was really

required due to project

delays

Six months of depreciation alone can kill the cost on a project

When you needed to

order the equipment

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Pay for what you need | Burstability – every day

• Almost every

application has a

sine wave of

usage.

• By modifying the

available capacity

throughout the

day you can

reduce costs by

as much as 40%.

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Mattel saved 30% by optmising testing environment

Saved 30%

Customisation of

servers on the fly

Load testing

On-demand

scalability for

production site

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Pay for what you need | Burstability – the big event

Seasonal bursts

• tax season

• holiday e-commerce

• year-end close

One-time bursts

• special events

• flash crowds

• big stories

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Addressing Dis - Synergy

4500

Users

3500

Users

Sale of

business

unit

+30% in

IT cost

per user

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Macsteel International Moves All-In to Cloud

Runs production

SAP on Public Cloud

Global IT

consolidation to

Hong Kong, DR in SA

Outsourced from SA

Cost saving of 25%

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Case study: ClearBenefits improves reliability and

reduces cost; Saves 90% with cloud-based DR

Saved 90%

Resource

reallocation

Cloud-based

disaster recovery

Improved

performance

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Save over time: can reduce cost with programming

As you develop new code you can immediately reduce costs. One client

chopped 30% off their monthly bill by making a simple change in network

discovery.

As you develop new code you can immediately reduce costs.

One client saved 30% on its monthly bill by making a simple

change in network discovery.

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Better operations: size infrastructure on the fly

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Case study: Thermo Fisher launches new application to

address new markets

Launched new

service

Reached new

market segment

Faster innovation

and analysis

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Save over time: immediately take price breaks

Your costs go down immediately as prices go down!

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Launching Your Own Cloud Services?

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Tolly Report – key findings

“The Dimension Data cloud

servers showed consistently

high performance across the

range of resources

benchmarked.”

Tolly Report, July 2013

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Managed Cloud Platform’s

Segregated networks for 3 Tier Architectures

Low (Web) Medium (App) High (DB)

VLAN A VLAN B VLAN C

Public (NAT’ed) IP Space

Public Traffic filtered at

Firewall

Private IP Space

Traffic filtered at VLAN A

Firewall

Multi-cast turned on for

application clustering

Private IP Space

Specific server to server

traffic is filtered at VLAN B

Firewall

Public

user

VPN Gateway

Administrator Administrator

Load Balancing

SSL Offloading

NAT

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Cloud Adoption Cycle:

A Practicle View

Our objective:

An offering at every stage

of a client’s adoption journey

Private Cloud: SaaS

3

Managed Hosting

/ Outsourcing

2

Web Hosting, Internet

clean pipe, colocation

1

Emergence of

multitenant technology

Public Cloud: IaaS

4

Private Cloud

5

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Low Hanging Fruit Use Cases for Corporate IaaS

• Test and Dev

› Project based work

• Agile Web

› Large ecommerce websites

› Mobile apps

• 3 tier corporate apps – Web, app, DB

› Transformational projects e.g. rewrite of

insurance app with Web browser access,

SAP

• Innovate SaaS services

• Applications for remote users vs campus

users

• Mid size customers putting everything into

cloud

New Targeted buyers

• Start as high in the organisation as possible

e.g. CIO, CFO

• Head of application development

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Thank you