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Women And Technology Today

Training 201:

Cloud Computing

Course Instructor:

Lauren States, Vice President, Enterprise

Initiatives, Cloud Technology and Client

Innovation, IBM

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Cloud Computing

Lauren States, Vice President, Enterprise Initiatives

Cloud Technology and Client Innovation

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Running a business today is demanding…

Businesses are faced with the challenges of:

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Doing more with less

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Increasing efficiency and productivity

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Improving customer service

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Fostering innovation

We need tools that fit the way we work today. Businesses depend on IT to enable them to respond to challenges faster.

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There is a need to overcome IT roadblocks and align IT more tightly

with business priorities

Rising Costs

Need for Maximum Flexibility & Speed

Difficulty Deploying New IT Services

Increasing IT Complexity

Businesses need IT to be an enabler of

innovation and a catalyst for change

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Cloud Computing is the delivery of server capacity, storage or software

by a service provider via the internet.

What is Cloud Computing?

 Access anywhere  Always available

 Automatically scalable to demand  Self service

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How can Cloud change your business?

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Reduce IT complexity so you can focus on your business

 Eliminate the need to focus on IT maintenance, upgrades, back-up and restore, security compliance, and other administrative IT activities

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Access IT resources quickly with minimal investment

 Extend collaboration capabilities, such as e-mail or document sharing, utilize software applications, or add more users without additional hardware, software or staff

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Pay only for the resources you use

 Pay a predictable price for only the resources you need

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Reduce IT costs – eliminate need for servers and maintenance staff

 Eliminate the need to buy and maintain hardware and software and extend the value of your existing hardware and software investments. Redirect staff to more strategic business initiatives

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Adapt quickly to changing demand and business requirements

 Quickly scale resources up or down based on demand

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Bring new services to market faster

 Quickly and easily extend your business network with social networking that connects you to customers, partners and suppliers in new ways. Accelerate the delivery of business applications

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Which IT resources can be outsourced to the Cloud?

Server capacity

E-mail services

Document & File

sharing

Web hosting

Collaboration tools

Virtual desktops

Disaster

recovery

Start with low-risk resources that

are costly to maintain in-house

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Reduced loan processing time from 7 days to 24 hours

 Created competitive advantage with a 10-15 day loan process (compared to 30-45 days typical of most banks)

 Improved customer service with a faster more convenient loan process allowing customers to review and sign

documents from their home

 Integrated with Silanis e-SignLive e-signature application Solution

 IBM LotusLive

One of Ohio's and Florida's fastest growing mortgage companies

Challenge

Current processing time for mortgage applications is 7 days and significant time and money is spent on printing, shipping,

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A new approach to collaborative care

 Connected the medical group’s 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists throughout San Diego County to help doctors deliver more complete and accurate decisions about patient care

 Provided analysis of multiple patient data sources to give doctors actionable decision support on their desktop – highlighting gaps in care, clinical research or potential drug interactions

 Helped doctors see trends in SCMG patient populations Solution

 Collaborative Care Solution (IBM and ActiveHealth Management)

Association of primary care physicians and specialists throughout San Diego, California

Challenge

The current state of medicine today is one of paper records,

fragmentation and not having the information doctors need at the right time and the patient isn't truly a part of their own healthcare.

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Saving money to invest in education

 Pike County Schools avoided the cost of replacing 1,400 workstations by deploying a virtual desktop solution on the IBM cloud

 Achieved cost savings of more than 60%

 Increased security

 Reduced SW license and overall maintenance costs

Solution

 IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud

A leading school district in Kentucky, serving more than 10,000 students

Challenge

Pike County Schools needs to replace 1,400 aging workstations across its district. Schools traditionally purchase classroom PCs each year, resulting in a mix of vintages, models, and compute resources.

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Getting Started with Cloud

 Technology is enabling a smarter planet

 We must face head-on the challenges to building an effective IT

 Cloud computing is one key way to address the challenges of a smarter planet

Resources:

 ibm.com:

 IBM developerWorks:

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you!

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