The Future of Cloud Computing

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The Future of Cloud Computing

Jim Lynch of TechSoup Director, Green Technology Thursday, November 12th₂₀₁₅

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Our Work

Builds local communities for people working in social

good technology. Simplifies international

giving for grantmakers and grantees. Provides NGOs with

technology, products, services, and education at low or no cost.

Connects philanthropy programs with validated NGOs around the world.

Creates apps that help communities solve critical

problems. Provides an information

system for NGO reporting and transparency.

TechSoup.org NGOsource NGOk

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Our Story

We are a global network of 62 partner NGOs that provide the best technology resources to over a half-million organizations in 127 countries.

We connect organizations (including foundations) and people with the

resources, support, and technology they need to change the world. Foundation Resources:

•  NGOSource - http://www.ngosource.org/

•  TechSoup for Foundations - http://www.techsoup.org/foundations

•  Validation Services - http://www.techsoup.org/validation-services

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One of the promises of the cloud has been

that hosted IT services will ease up on the

demands of IT departments. Have you found

that to be the case yet?

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•  Continued dominance of the cloud

paradigm & more services.

•  No single platform will meet all IT

needs in near term.

•  Data creation, collection, analysis

and visualization will steeply increase.

•  Increased reliance on integration

tools that will work across cloud services.

•  Security concerns will not go away

especially as BYOD and IoT develop. Maybe for a next presentation, though.

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•  Established in 2000 in Palo Alto

•  Gordon Moore is Co-founder of Intel

•  $6 billion in assets, 90 employees

•  Program Areas: Environment,

Science, Patient Care, SF Bay Area

•  Barry Weiss – Director of Technology

•  With foundation for 14 ½ years, 30

years of experience

•  Responsible for the Foundation’s

technology and systems and four IT staff

•  Challenges: mobile workforce,

multiple devices, document sharing, ubiquitous access

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•  Office 365 – cloud-based platform for Microsoft Office applications including hosted email and calendars with Exchange Online. (Main platform)

•  Box.com – online file-sharing platform with good security and management tools for end-users and administrators.

•  Insightly – online CRM and project management software that organizes interactions with

clients, and also keeps track of projects, emails, notes, leads, and milestones

•  Smartsheet – online workflow, project management and team collaboration software. It is

now integrated with Microsoft Outlook.

•  LucidChart - online diagramming software that allows users to collaborate in real time to

create things like flowcharts, org charts, and website wireframes.

•  MailChimp – online email marketing, mass email, and analytics software that imports

contacts from a CRM database or spreadsheet.

•  Survey Monkey – online survey platform that collects and compiles responses to

questions and also provides data analysis.

•  Citrix GotoMeeting – online video conferencing and other online meeting platform on

computers or mobile devices.

•  Docusign – electronic signature and encrypted Digital Transaction Management service

for electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents on computers and mobile devices.

•  When looking for new services, hosted systems are a top priority.

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The Future of the Cloud

Services We’ll Need

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•  Synata.com — contextual intelligence or

data mining service that brings data and documents from Box, Dropbox,

GoogleDrive, OneDrive etc via search to end-users.

•  Docurated.com — is a document search

firm that allows users to find a specific chart, slide, collateral, or piece of

content without opening any documents. End users just search like they would on Google.

Document Management and Search Across Multiple Locations

New business intelligence cloud services that work across cloud platforms, in-house file servers and individual hard drives.

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•  Microsoft BI (Business Intelligence) – is

part of the Office 365 Suite. It essentially creates graphs, charts and other

visualizations from various datasets in and out of the Microsoft environment.

•  Google Fusion Tables – the analytics

tool for Google Apps shops.

•  Tableau – a lighter weight tool suitable

for small offices.

•  Domo – Easy end-user tool creates data visualizations and dashboards on

demand.

•  Splunk – searches, monitors, and

analyzes machine-generated big data via a web interface. Splunk4Good is for creating social value data projects.

•  The future: to make it easy for normal people to use these tools.

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•  BYOD has been a fact of IT life for quite

awhile and it is still a mess.

•  Mobile Iron – A company partition can be

added or removed instantly on any device without affecting the personal partition.

Other MDM platforms include:

• AirWatch

• SOPHOS Dialogs Smartman

• Fiberlink MaaS360

• Symantec Mobile Device Security

• IBM Tivoli

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No single cloud platform does it all – yet. The Moore Foundation needs to

manage accounts across nine primary cloud services. Single sign-on

services make it easier for end-users to work across multiple cloud

services and also for IT administrators to manage everyone's accounts.

Cloud Identity Access Management (IDaaS or Single Sign-on)

AppDirect cloud management platform:

•  Single sign-on for end-users for all their

cloud apps on all devices

•  Easy password administration

•  Easy on and off-boarding of employees

•  Single monthly payment

•  Helps with interoperability across services.

Other IDaaS platforms include: •  Okta

•  Centrify

•  Ping Identity

•  OneLogin

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The Future of Cloud Computing