HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST PLATFORM OUT OF THE CONFUSING ARRAY ON OFFER IN THE MARKET TODAY? Innovative European cloud platforms give their views on the market today and how best to evaluate the choices before you. 1 October 15th, Luxembourg Presentation of Numergy 47 % 20 % 33 % 2 Public Cloud Offering 3 3 Cloud : Who does what ? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Client or Partner Manage Applications Software as a Service (SaaS) Client or Partner Configure Runtime Server Software (Database, …) Client or Partner Manage OS Virtualization Provider Manage Provider Manage Storage Scope NUMERGY Network Provider Vendeur Manage Server Hardware DataCenter 4 Simplicity of the platform Step 4 Step 3 Choice of services Choice of capacity for VM Stpe 2 Choice of l’OS Step 1 Choice of environnement 5 Business Context §  Main CXO concern is restructuring: §  Align costs and financial structure with economic reality §  Innovate on your market and on your operations §  Reduce your time to market §  Implications for IT: §  §  §  §  §  §  §  §  No non-essentials Continual and significant cost/headcount reduction Validate suppliers/outsourcers Ready for opportunity + speed of response Keep up to date with legislation and sustainability Opex rather than Capex Elasticity Scalability 6 Cloud Computing: the answer to CIO business challenges like electricity was or any other utilities Resources agility Cost-effectiveness Strengths of Cloud Computing Financial predictability Alignment with business priorities 7 7 Our vision of cloud IT strategy Virtualized Infra Private Cloud Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) (internal ou hosted) Hybrid Cloud Provide digital energy to our partners/resellers and extend together their range of services to assist our clients in building an agile and efficient Information System. 8 What must a recession-proof strategy deliver? •  A pathway to continual reduction in IT service overhead •  Flexible and responsive service modelling: •  §  Scale up §  Scale down §  Scale different The ability to carry the burden of: §  Compliance §  •  Changing demographic and rise of ‘digital natives’: §  New work-styles §  Increased need to address digital consumer for marketing and sales •  Mobility becomes ubiquitous for worker and consumer •  Sustainability and CSR become moral, legal and business imperatives (green saves money/planet) •  Low latency network and locally hosted data §  Technology Innovation and Delivery •  On-demand – from SaaS to cloud •  Convergence – voice and data services, local and global, fixed and mobile •  Technology innovation is matched by a commitment to innovate in: •  9 Legislative change •  Delivery processes •  Partnership models •  Commercial and contract definition On-demand is the way forward 9 In short : a utility model Public Cloud 10 11 Cloud Team Alliance guiding principles Client focus Country value •  Integrated client teams •  Local presence •  Optimise brand strength •  EU data protection compliance •  Local leader •  International challenger Partner ecosystem •  Local strengths to feed alliance •  Associated to local system integration capabilities Alliance branding Cost efficient Resource optimization •  Agile cost model •  Local billing •  Capacity load balancing 12