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Cloud
Computing
2013• Cundall IT and audio visual • Setting the scene
• Business models
• Types of clouds - services • Issues – be careful! • Adoption models • Commercial property • Case studies • Summary
Cloud Computing
• Lifecycle, consultancy led
– Strategy and business case support – Concept and detailed design
– Procurement and implementation
• Key areas
– Revenue generation / cost reduction
– Audio visual and collaborative technology – IP data networks (wired/wireless/mobile)
• Main projects (large IT / audio visual influence)
– Offices and data centres
– Schools, colleges, universities – Hotels, sports venues
Cundall sectors
Critical Systems Education Government Healthcare Industrial
Lifestyle Masterplanning and infrastructure
Sample Projects
Sussex Coast College,
Hastings and Ore, United Kingdom
New Street Square (Deloitte HQ)
London, United Kingdom
Lingfield Park redevelopment
Surrey, United Kingdom
Porto Dubai Island
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Deloitte London Campus • ENI Saipem
• Antofagasta
• Sussex Coast College • Sevenoaks School • Lycee Francais School
• One Hyde Park • Smart Home • Porto Dubai
• Confidential clients • Cobalt Data Centre • Kingfisher
• Twickenham Stadium • Lingfield Racecourse • Dubawi Island
• Northern Ireland Telephony • Hospices
• The London Clinic
Workplace Education Residential
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Setting the scene
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Setting the scene
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Setting the scene
• Consumer Led trends
– e.g. Facebook, Apple iCloud etc
• All about data (mobile, connected, immediate) • Recent significant corporate deal:
– BBVA Spanish Bank -110,000 staff (26 countries) switch to Google apps
– “To move to the future, you have to leave the past in a box”
– “We want to start from scratch, we don’t want to carry across old behaviours”
Companies:
• Revenue growth is static, profits are being made by
fixed cost reduction:
– People, IT, property
• Business continuity – not locking
people/property/data together
• Traditional IT approach - Capex intensive (pay
upfront)
• Opex – Pay as you grow
– Ramp up/down – Cost visibility?
• Virtualisation driving the business model
• Leading to modular design (pay as you grow)
Virtualisation – creation of a virtual (not physical) version of something (Server, network, storage, etc)
Some cloud computing statistics:
• $150 billion market 2013 (Gartner)
• 60% server workloads virtualised 2014 (Gartner)
• 7/10 companies using cloud services will move new
applications to the cloud (Mimecast)
• 54% IT professionals concerned about security
(LinkedIN survey)
• 57% IT professional believe cloud can enhance
security (Mimecast)
• Cloud computing – outsourcing of IT services to an
internet based provider. Opex model, you don’t own but lease.
• Services:
– SaaS – Software as a Service
– IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service – PaaS – Platform as a Service
“IaaS”
Infrastructure-as-a-Service host“PaaS”
Platform-as-a-Service build“SaaS”
Software-as-a-Service consumeTypes of clouds - services
• Cost of network (and resilience)
• Legacy equipment (not suitable for cloud) • Technology lifecycle (asset write off)
• Licensing, hidden costs
• Ownership, regulation, audit • Data security
• Legal (data access, boundaries, data protection act) • Multiple cloud providers (one provider can’t do
everything)
• Technology lock-in
• Economics – do they really stack up?
– Cost / benefit ratio 5 to 10 (CFO wants) – ROI 12 to 18 months (CFO wants)
The extent of cloud adoption will depend on the size/type of an organisation and their technology lifecycle Start Up Corporate SME
Adoption models
• Workplace strategy (JLL research) – survey 350
occupiers
– 2 out of top 5 topics are technology related
• Approx 50% of existing building stock in London
dates from 1990 or before (refurbish / knock down?)
• Cloud could:
– Shrink IT footprint in a building (suitable for refurb) – Lower power/cooling density (suitable for refurb)
• Will people design new buildings differently? (BCO)
– Place a greater focus on availability, speed, latency and resilience of telecoms and mobile coverage
• Changing data centre market? • Tier 3 or more Tier 1 to 2?
• Issues with dynamic load in a data centre from
virtualisation
• Data protection/EU law – Need to build in Europe
(EU) but difficulty in making economics work:
– For a cloud provider
– For a data centre operator
Commercial property
Virtualisation – Dynamic load Data Centre Floor Plan Storage Network Servers Medium load
Very high load
Low/load medium Blade Servers Blade Servers VIRTUALIS E D Blade Servers PODS (Dynamically) (Dynamically) Storage Network Network Topology
Commercial property
• Business critical (keep in their own tier 3 data
centre)
• Non-business critical – outsource to cloud (Tier 1-2)
– Require less Tier 3 space (make do with what they have) – Cloud providers want modular scale
• Roll out of laptops / tablets (desktop dead?),
significantly reduce heat
– Ultra-thin laptops with 8 hour battery life commercially available
– Wireless is getting faster…
• How many of today’s school leavers have
desktops?
• Lower IT foot print/power consumption in buildings
• IT brokerage houses
– Multiple cloud providers – brokerage? – Experience
– Relationships
– SLA’s (service level agreements) – Cost savings?
– Vested interests / commission?
• Role of IT department changes to vendor
management, security and data management
• No desktops or servers in offices, wireless?
(achievable today for some organisations)
• Cloud computing is a technology shift but it
impacts commercial property
• No one approach fits all!
• Cundall can help clients understand the property
implications of cloud computing
